What are the dark eggs from @Peep_Show?
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I will be getting back into quilting once the weather turns cold, as well as watercolor painting. I just hope it will hold off until i can finish my hoop coop! I figure a week tops and i should have it done.
Have a great hatch!
Dark eggs are often hard to candle
I usually candle my Welsummer eggs in a closet with the door closed. Hard doesn't even begin to describe candling them.
The dark ones are purebred Welsummer eggs, the rest are Welsummer crosses. The pb's are not as easy to candle as the light(er) eggs, but -- I swear -- Marans eggs are an impossible guessing game. (They are in my 3rd wave of hatches coming up and I still don't know if anybody's home.)
These eggs are from a friend's flock here in NM. At our high altitude the pores are bigger on the eggs and makes candling a little bit easier on the dark ones. These eggs all had good strong veins showing early, so knew they were viable.
One thing about high-altitude hatching is you need your vents on the incubator wide open to get enough oxygen in to the eggs. This means really dialing in the humidity and checking often for water replenishment as the H2O dissipates quickly in our thin air. It's a real challenge with dark eggs because too much humidity and they don't get enough oxygen transferring through the pores and smother (especially with eggs laid from near sea level elevations.) Hopefully, the Marans eggs from 2500' fare better than other batches' hatches.
These eggs are from a friend's flock here in NM. At our high altitude the pores are bigger on the eggs and makes candling a little bit easier on the dark ones. These eggs all had good strong veins showing early, so knew they were viable.
One thing about high-altitude hatching is you need your vents on the incubator wide open to get enough oxygen in to the eggs. This means really dialing in the humidity and checking often for water replenishment as the H2O dissipates quickly in our thin air. It's a real challenge with dark eggs because too much humidity and they don't get enough oxygen transferring through the pores and smother (especially with eggs laid from near sea level elevations.) Hopefully, the Marans eggs from 2500' fare better than other batches' hatches.
By hatching out your own, there is a lot less risk from contaminating your flock, like there is when you get hatchery, or feed store chicks.
Hi everyone!
Just playing catchup again.
Ron; I bookmarked your struesel recipe. Going to give it a go this week.
The comment about finding quiet getting harder, not here, thank you Lord.
Well, we are officially in the "Tween" season up here. Saturday was in the low 70's and gorgeous, Sunday was in the 60's and wet, today we probably won't get out of the 40's after hitting the mid 20's overnight. rain and wind overnight Saturday took down the last of the leaves so on the drive to town yesterday the only colors left were the deep golds of the last turning Tamaracks and the dark winter green of the pines. Still kind of pretty and it was nice to be able to look thru the woods now and see the brightly colored blanket of wet leaves laying at the foot of the trees. (Not on our property sadly. We are mostly Spruce, Pine and Tamarack springs with a splash of color down our back lane from the wild cherry trees and the oaks and apples DH and I planted around the top 25 acres over 20+ years ago).
We call it the tween season because it can last up to two 1/2 months some years when it's no longer really autumn because all the color and "harvesty" things are gone and you're now kicking the ice out of everything in the morning but not yet cold and white enough to be officially called winter.
As for my baking, I will be putting a pan of my old family recipe southern style (no sugar, yuck) skillet cornbread in the oven I always make in my cast iron chicken fryer to go along with a big batch of boiled cornbeef and cabbage (and lots of root veggies thrown in of course). It's a perfect day for it. We have another weather front moving in. The temps are dropping, the winds are picking up and by dark it will be howling with the rain most likely turning into snow so this supper will be good to warm the house and us as well. Might have to make the chooks a batch of warm oatmeal before dark as well. This rapid change from record highs to back to normal October is a little hard for the littles to adjust to and down right uncomfortable for my poor moulting older girls. They're perched on the bench against the house out of the wind with what feathers they have left fluffed up so much they look like feather covered bowling balls
Just playing catchup again.
Ron; I bookmarked your struesel recipe. Going to give it a go this week.
The comment about finding quiet getting harder, not here, thank you Lord.
Well, we are officially in the "Tween" season up here. Saturday was in the low 70's and gorgeous, Sunday was in the 60's and wet, today we probably won't get out of the 40's after hitting the mid 20's overnight. rain and wind overnight Saturday took down the last of the leaves so on the drive to town yesterday the only colors left were the deep golds of the last turning Tamaracks and the dark winter green of the pines. Still kind of pretty and it was nice to be able to look thru the woods now and see the brightly colored blanket of wet leaves laying at the foot of the trees. (Not on our property sadly. We are mostly Spruce, Pine and Tamarack springs with a splash of color down our back lane from the wild cherry trees and the oaks and apples DH and I planted around the top 25 acres over 20+ years ago).
We call it the tween season because it can last up to two 1/2 months some years when it's no longer really autumn because all the color and "harvesty" things are gone and you're now kicking the ice out of everything in the morning but not yet cold and white enough to be officially called winter.
As for my baking, I will be putting a pan of my old family recipe southern style (no sugar, yuck) skillet cornbread in the oven I always make in my cast iron chicken fryer to go along with a big batch of boiled cornbeef and cabbage (and lots of root veggies thrown in of course). It's a perfect day for it. We have another weather front moving in. The temps are dropping, the winds are picking up and by dark it will be howling with the rain most likely turning into snow so this supper will be good to warm the house and us as well. Might have to make the chooks a batch of warm oatmeal before dark as well. This rapid change from record highs to back to normal October is a little hard for the littles to adjust to and down right uncomfortable for my poor moulting older girls. They're perched on the bench against the house out of the wind with what feathers they have left fluffed up so much they look like feather covered bowling balls
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Sounds like a perfect time of year!Hi everyone!
Just playing catchup again.
Ron; I bookmarked your struesel recipe. Going to give it a go this week.
The comment about finding quiet getting harder, not here, thank you Lord.
Well, we are officially in the "Tween" season up here. Saturday was in the low 70's and gorgeous, Sunday was in the 60's and wet, today we probably won't get out of the 40's after hitting the mid 20's overnight. rain and wind over the weekend took down the last of the leaves so on the drive to town yesterday the only colors left were the deep golds of the last turning Tamaracks and the dark winter green of the pines. Still kind of pretty and it was nice to be able to look thru the woods now and see the brightly colored blanket of wet leaves laying at the foot of the trees. (Not on our property sadly. We are mostly Spruce, Pine and Tamarack springs with a splash of color down our back lane from the wild cherry trees and the oaks and apples DH and I planted around the top 25 acres over 20+ years ago).
We call it the tween season because it can last up to two 1/2 months some years when it's no longer really autumn because you're now kicking the ice out of everything in the morning but not yet cold and white enough to be officially called winter.
As for my baking, I will be putting a pan of my old family recipe southern style (no sugar, yuck) skillet cornbread in the oven I always make in my cast iron chicken fryer to go along with a big batch of boiled cornbeef and cabbage (and lots of root veggies thrown in of course). It's a perfect day for it. We have another weather front moving in. The temps are dropping, the winds are picking up and by dark it will be howling with the rain most likely turning into snow so this supper will be good to warm the house and us as well. Might have to make the chooks a batch of warm oatmeal before dark as well. This rapid change from record highs to back to normal October is a little hard for the littles to adjust to and down right uncomfortable for my poor moulting older girls. They're perched on the bench against the house out of the wind with what feathers they have left fluffed up so much they look like feather covered bowling balls
I have zero experience so far with hatching eggs so I just wish you lots of luck and will sit back quietly and learn 
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