Urgent! Chicken Egg, No Incubator!

[Hopefully]

Oh! Haha... sorry!
Well, thanks!

I hope something comes pecking its way out of them soon...although holding multiple eggs in one bra cup is going to take some getting used to.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Here are some of my pictures of the chicks I have hatched out. The first on is a few pictures from the current batch
The next three are from the last month and then I threw in a picture of my ducks and one of my geese I hatched out.
Hopefully you will have some of your own soon. Three weeks goes by fast.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

You can double click on the picture to make it bigger.

 

[Hopefully]

oh my goodness they are adorable!!! I can't stop looking through them! Thank you so much for showing me these! All of them are absolutely beautiful... I'm becoming even more desperate now! You are one lucky person!

I can't stop smiling!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

I forgot the one of my peachick. I hatched her out and she almost died on me.
She is doing fine now and thinks I am her mom. All she does is peep and peep until I pick her up. She rides on my shoulder and tries to snuggle into my hair (and that tickles bad) She is my favorite of them all. I will have to get one of her to you soon. But first I had better go make dinner or I am going to feel very guilty for all the time I have spent on the computer today.

Talk later.

 

[Hopefully]

aww so she's like your little girl

I look forward to seeing pics of her as well!

I guess we can talk later then

I've also got to make dinner. My mom and I are spending quality time making dinner today.

 

[dancingbear]

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I have brown eggs and green ones, and one or two that lay a creamy colored egg. Sometimes, the brown and green ones will have some extra pigment deposits that aren't very dark, and are very easy not to notice, until I wash the eggs. Then, when the egg is wet, they show up better.

So my guess is that your speckled egg has these extra light freckles, but when it's been next to your skin a long time, they absorb a little moisture. Then the freckles appear darker, and it looks as if they just appeared.

I candle brown and green eggs a lot, and if your light is good and bright, they aren't too hard to see into. Green and blue eggs are harder to see into than brown ones, oddly enough. Except for the really dark ones, like Marans and Barnevelders. You might not see things as clearly as you would in a white egg, but you should be able to see the dark speck, which is the embryo, and veining around it, as well.

And, if you're lucky, you'll see it swimming back and forth! Just this year, for the first time, I started seeing movement, and I've been hatching eggs for years. I think the reason I never saw it before was that my lights weren't bright enough. My eyesight's not so great either, I'm sure that didn't help. I hope you get to see the swimming embryos on your very first hatch. It's very cool to see!

There are links to sites that show good pics of candling eggs, I think there may be some in the stickies at the top of this section. I'll see if I can find some.

 

[dancingbear]

Ok, here ya go! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=48726
The second post on that thread has some links.

Hopefully, I hope you have high speed, because it takes forever to load these pics on dial-up. There's more, but I'm getting tired and don't want to look tonight. If you do a BYC search for "candling pictures" or "candling photos", I'm sure you'll find more links.

 

[Hopefully]

So are things going well if this speckled egg happened to absorb moisture from my skin?

Thanks for the sites, I'll be sure to take a look at those when I candle my eggs on Friday. Swimming embryos would be very cool to see!

And a few questions that are bugging me.
In school, say I succeed and the chicks begin to form. Is there a possibility that my classmates might hear them peeping while still in the eggs?

And when I run in Gym, is there a chance that the eggs will be OK if I keep them as secure as possible?

And how long does hatching generally take?

And when I put on steamy shower and put them in the corner of bathroom, would that be a shock to the eggs from all the moisture or would that be just perfect?

Thanks! Just mainly things to avoid and what I should expect! And things I should know if an egg is going bad.
I'll also keep reading around

 

[Katy]

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