Show off your Peas!

[casportpony]

 
@DylansMom
 , for your eggs I would use my best broody, she's a bantam Cochin!

-Kathy

All right then! Let me go back and see what the weight on my box to OK was and I can figure up what this will cost. I'm thinking I could ship next week and I highly recommend Express shipping. My Bronze BS is in with Fred my green, she laid her first egg yesterday, I might slip one of those in too if she continues to lay( this is a big "if" considering how irregular the others have been), the chick would be a spalding split to BS and split to Bronze. I have to leave for an appt. soon, but I'll pm you when I have the details worked out. 

Wow, I'm so eggcited! If you have a printer and a way to weigh the package at home, we could email you a label, we'd just need weight, dimensions and your address, then we can log onto USPS, print the label to PDF and email that to you. If not, we could PayPal the money or send you a check. Whatever works best for you...

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

Candle lighting them. It's not hard. The only deformities I've gotten was the toe thing were the toes are constantly curled up but I know how to fix that because of you guys.

 

[zazouse]

Candle lighting them. It's not hard. The only deformities I've gotten was the toe thing were the toes are constantly curled up but I know how to fix that because of you guys.

So you telling me you can candle a fresh egg and tell if it is fertile?
Can ya tell if it is a male or female also?

 

[casportpony]

No way to tell fertility by candling (Zazouse, I know you know this )?

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

So you telling me you can candle a fresh egg and tell if it is fertile?
Can ya tell if it is a male or female also?

I can tell if it's fertile no I can't tell if it's male or female. But why not have a little fun and just take guesses and see who is right. I say this egg will be male. Who else wants in just to take guesses just for fun?

 

[casportpony]

Incubate 4-7 days, sure,no problem, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

You *cannot* tell if it's fertile unless you have some special candler that I don't know about, lol.

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I use a spot light and a toilet paper roll to direct all the light through the egg. Why would this method work with chickens but not peafowl. They are both aviaries and the spot light can shine through the egg.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

I can tell if it's fertile no I can't tell if it's male or female. But why not have a little fun and just take guesses and see who is right. I say this egg will be male. Who else wants in just to take guesses just for fun?

I'm opening a cold bottle of Reggae Splash and kicking back until I see how this is done. Really? You can see a white bullzeye surrounding the circumfrence of a yellow egg yolk thru the eggs shell and the egg white? Another lesson to be learned here. And you know exactly how to get the egg yolk in the proper position so if there is a bullzeye it is closest to the side your viewing from? Do show and tell cause if you have this gift you should be working for Welp,Cackle or McMurray hatcheries right now and the skies the limit on what your salary could be.

 

[DylansMom]

I use a spot light and a toilet paper roll to direct all the light through the egg. Why would this method work with chickens but not peafowl. They are both aviaries and the spot light can shine through the egg.

Birdrain92, are you talking about being able to tell a freshly laid egg is fertile or an egg that has been in the incubator for several days? Because in your original post you said she laid her first egg and its fertile, but you cannot tell if it is fertile until it's been incubated for several days, unless you know a secret the rest of the world is unaware of. ???? I can usually tell at day 5 but no earlier.