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[Fentressfarmer]

Good Morning!

My DH and I are celebrating 31 years today!! 

Lisa

Congratulations!!!!!! That's a long time, I hope you make it another 31 years!!!

 

[Tamma]

Quote:
that's the thing with defective glands.. they do start out "hit or miss".. if it gets worse as time goes by then just keep an eye on her for issues

Usually it's no big deal.. just a little warning sign that things may be a bit amiss
Hi everyone from Adkins (near San Antonio). I am new to chickens. Just started Feb 2012. I have 3 red sex link hens I raised from day-olds. One of the hens eggs is not like the others. It is paler brown and kind of rough all over. It is also elongated. This hen has laid eggs like this from the first day she laid. I think maybe I have a hen with the defective gland. I have been eating them from the beginning and they are no different than the other eggs to me. Opinions? Thanks!

there are a few possibles.. if you had pics I could narrow it down.. but here they are: (I'm tending to think it's just a young bird with an immature gland.. but you can tell more since you've actually SEEN the eggs)


Pimpled Eggs
Small lumps of calcified material
appear on the egg shell. The severity
of pimples depends on the foreign
material present during the
calcification process.
Causes:
• Bird age
• Strain of bird
• Inadequate nutrition

Corrugated Eggs
These eggs are characterised by a very
rough and corrugated surface. These
are thought to be produced when
there is an inability to control and
terminate plumping.
Causes:
• Inherited
• Newcastle disease or infectious
bronchitis
• Excessive use of antibiotics
• Excess calcium consumption
• Copper deficiency

Calcium Deposits
White colour irregular shaped spots
deposited on the external surface of
the shell.
Causes:
• Defective shell gland
• Disturbances during calcification
• Poor nutrition, e.g. excess calcium

Misshapen Eggs
A misshapen egg is an egg that
differs from the normal shape and
size is too small or large, round
instead of oval or has major changes
in the shape.
Causes:
• Immature shell gland
• Disease: Newcastle disease,
infectious bronchitis,
laryngotracheitis, Egg Drop
Syndrome 76, etc.
• Stress
• Over-crowding
VERY interesting! I guess there is a lot that can go wrong. Here is a pic of subject egg in the middle. Sometimes they are more elongated than other times but always more pale. What you can't see in the pic is the surface is duller and feels a lttle rough all over. My hens are 14 months old. I have been eating them all along and they are delicious!!

 

[Texasmja]

Good Morning!

My DH and I are celebrating 31 years today!!

Lisa

Congrats to you both! We will be 26 this year.

 

[NickyPick]

Any one in Houston?

I'm in NW Houston - Cypress! Welcome!

 

[Cockle-Dood]

I'll take you up on that ;-) Expect to be getting bugged often by me about them, if you do, though. I am not going to want to ruin the line after you put such hard work into it.

BTW....you want to see a bird that is absolutely NOT a silver laced but absolutely gorgeous? If I could figure out how to replicate the mess they tossed together at the hatchery, I would so work on this:




I can never get her to pose for me with her chest facing the camera. I wish I could. Her chest is solid white. The hackles are beautiful. The rest of her is black spangled white. She's truly growing out to be the prettiest of our birds.....and, she's a complete and total mutt.

almost looks like some brahma in there....minus the leg feathers.

 

[NickyPick]

Well, I've decided to give incubating another try. It's too late to get anything from Sandy - that last incubation was my last chance of any replacement chicks from her as she was taken by a fox. Can anyone point me to instructions as to how to do a dry incubation with a Genesis 1588?

 

[yinepu]

Good Morning!

My DH and I are celebrating 31 years today!!

Lisa

Congrats!

Quote:
looks a lot like the little EE I had hatch out a few weeks back! (and I know without a doubt that my EE is a mutt!)

Quote:
that's the thing with defective glands.. they do start out "hit or miss".. if it gets worse as time goes by then just keep an eye on her for issues

Usually it's no big deal.. just a little warning sign that things may be a bit amiss
Hi everyone from Adkins (near San Antonio). I am new to chickens. Just started Feb 2012. I have 3 red sex link hens I raised from day-olds. One of the hens eggs is not like the others. It is paler brown and kind of rough all over. It is also elongated. This hen has laid eggs like this from the first day she laid. I think maybe I have a hen with the defective gland. I have been eating them from the beginning and they are no different than the other eggs to me. Opinions? Thanks!

there are a few possibles.. if you had pics I could narrow it down.. but here they are: (I'm tending to think it's just a young bird with an immature gland.. but you can tell more since you've actually SEEN the eggs)


Pimpled Eggs
Small lumps of calcified material
appear on the egg shell. The severity
of pimples depends on the foreign
material present during the
calcification process.
Causes:
• Bird age
• Strain of bird
• Inadequate nutrition

Corrugated Eggs
These eggs are characterised by a very
rough and corrugated surface. These
are thought to be produced when
there is an inability to control and
terminate plumping.
Causes:
• Inherited
• Newcastle disease or infectious
bronchitis
• Excessive use of antibiotics
• Excess calcium consumption
• Copper deficiency

Calcium Deposits
White colour irregular shaped spots
deposited on the external surface of
the shell.
Causes:
• Defective shell gland
• Disturbances during calcification
• Poor nutrition, e.g. excess calcium

Misshapen Eggs
A misshapen egg is an egg that
differs from the normal shape and
size is too small or large, round
instead of oval or has major changes
in the shape.
Causes:
• Immature shell gland
• Disease: Newcastle disease,
infectious bronchitis,
laryngotracheitis, Egg Drop
Syndrome 76, etc.
• Stress
• Over-crowding
VERY interesting! I guess there is a lot that can go wrong. Here is a pic of subject egg in the middle. Sometimes they are more elongated than other times but always more pale. What you can't see in the pic is the surface is duller and feels a lttle rough all over. My hens are 14 months old. I have been eating them all along and they are delicious!!



Personally.. she's young.. I wouldn't worry about the eggs.. it's not nearly as bad as some I have seen!

Well, I've decided to give incubating another try. It's too late to get anything from Sandy - that last incubation was my last chance of any replacement chicks from her as she was taken by a fox. Can anyone point me to instructions as to how to do a dry incubation with a Genesis 1588?

easy peasy

1) don't add any water at start (ignore hygrometers)

2) monitor air cells or egg weight if you can't see the air cells

3) add water if they start to lose weight too quickly or if the air cells get too big too fast

4) at hatch I usually wait til i see the first internal (or in some cases the first external) pip before adding water to raise the humidity high for hatch

edited to add pics:


line under the number is where the bottom of the air cell should be on that day of incubation

 

[jnntefend]

Good Morning!

My DH and I are celebrating 31 years today!!

Lisa

Congrats!

 

[StelleKitten]

Good Morning!

My DH and I are celebrating 31 years today!!

Lisa

Congratulations! You got married the same year I was born, lol! I hope my DH and I get to be together 31 years.

Nope. If it had said mixed, I probably wouldn't have bid....ok, that's not true. They had the right size chicks to keep Lucky company, so I would have.

And, I have one (not the one in this photo) that looks like a Wyandotte coloured Modern Game. Down to the pointed instead of rounded flight feathers and legs longer than its body.

None of my hatchery girls look the same. But, I know what you are saying. I didn't get these guys for any reason other than I had a loan hatch and didn't want her to be solo for three weeks while waiting for my incubator to provide her company....

And, I still want some of your birds, Texasmja....I'm totally in lust with them

We had our building inspection this morning for The Broken Yolk. They are making sure everything is as it should be before we move on to the next stage in construction:

Did they find any faults and fine you? I would imagine the fine would be payed out in meal worms.

almost looks like some brahma in there....minus the leg feathers.

You are right, that looks like maybe they mixed slw with a white brahma. Either way it's a gorgeous bird!


Did anyone see this article this morning? I am not happy with it. You could trace food back to the farm before, why do they need tags?

 

[Cage Free Mom]

Hi there! I'm new here Forgive me, but I just can't read all 1115 pages of this thread to get to know everyone Haha!

I currently have 6 2 week (approx) chicks in a brooder, right on the TX/LA border (Bridge City, to be exact). We're excited to be new chicken owners!