Surviving Minnesota!

[holm25]

Oh and I didnt learn anything... I still do an eggtopsy on egg that die or dont start just for the heck of it!

 

[jerryse]

I am scared of an explosion... I had an explosion once... I was candling eggs under a broody duck... I couldnt figure out why she kept kicking out the same three eggs so I candled them and they were dead so I tapped one on the edge of a bucket and poof... I thought I was going to die. The smell... It was so gross. I smelt that for three days... If that happened in our house... U would never hear from me again... But I am taking your advice. No more candling till day 18

Duck and goose eggs are time bombs .

 

[KlopKlop]

I was ready to move my tractors around and get breeding pens set up this week until we got this darn snow!

 

[holm25]

Duck and goose eggs are time bombs .

This was an EE egg! I had a duck brooding EEs since it was her first time sitting and I had set all the eggs she laid in the bator.

 

[jerryse]

The difference should be the crest and the recessive white with the blue eggs, shouldn't it?




For Legbar it would just be white Legbar . The poultry standards only recognize white as a color the genetics behind it are not specified .

 

[Bogtown Chick]

And there you have it. Thank you Lucy.




Back to the coop for breakfast & social hour.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Thank you Ivie and Kloppers. I'm out of Ovations again. On this thread...I see no reason to be conservative. Pretty nice posts you all make on here. Informative and most of all funny. But when I run out I've got to thank you this way and it's not as much fun as racking up eggs. I know.

Yes Ivie. I love living where I do. It's the best. Although...I will admit since getting chickens a few years back I do enjoy a late late fall and early early spring. Nothing does my heart good like seeing chickens on grass. This Minnesota winter could be a bit shorter for my own taste and for my sympathies with chickens in a run and coop all winter.

Kloppers. I got a bang out of her this Morning too. She is a neat bird. Neat personality. Friendly & Curious as a chick. I'm a Wyandotte fan. I have to say. I've had two and their egg laying reliance and longevity has impressed me.

 

[KlopKlop]

Thank you Ivie and Kloppers.  I'm out of Ovations again.  On this thread...I see no reason to be conservative.  Pretty nice posts you all make on here.  Informative and most of all funny.  But when I run out I've got to thank you this way and it's not as much fun as racking up eggs.  I know.

Yes Ivie.  I love living where I do.  It's the best.  Although...I will admit since getting chickens a few years back I do enjoy a late late fall and early early spring.  Nothing does my heart good like seeing chickens on grass.  This Minnesota winter could be a bit shorter for my own taste and for my sympathies with chickens in a run and coop all winter.

Kloppers.  I got a bang out of her this Morning too.  She is a neat bird.  Neat personality.  Friendly & Curious as a chick.  I'm a Wyandotte fan.  I have to say.  I've had two and their egg laying reliance and longevity has impressed me.  

Is she your BLRW?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Is she your BLRW?

Yes she is. I got her from a kindergarten class hatch project my friend does every year. Eggs provided from Minnie. What luck to get that hen!

 

[KlopKlop]

Yes she is.  I got her from a kindergarten class hatch project my friend does every year.  Eggs provided from Minnie.  What luck to get that hen! 

Fun! My mom is a 2nd grade teacher at a STEM school and wants me to help her hatch eggs for her class but they have a very strict no animals in the school of any kind rule so she can't
The principal even nixed her idea to have kids from the high school ag program come and present about animal care and life cycles because they wanted to bring some small animals (chicken, duck, rabbit, etc)

I know why they are that way, Makes me sad for the kids that they won't get to experience that. I remember very well about hatching quail eggs in elementary school.