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[Chicken Rustler]

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Rushing to get to overpass to trhow nasties at Mr Chickielady as he passes.

 

[Chickielady]

That is MrChickieman !!!

Here is the Kerr Link:

http://www.freshpreserving.com/home.aspx

I have sooooooooooooo many tomatoes, I am going to be canning all sorts of sauce and salsa for months.........

Have to store the cases under the bed so they do not freeze...........

Unless we get the house sort of done, at least enclosed..............

 

[Kaneke]

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awwww ---

is the crack small enough that you can seal it up with wax? or did the membrane break too ?

if it's salvageable (and I've read of several people on BYC that did manage to hatch live chicks out of cracked eggs)
you could candle it to see if there is any development --- I think usually people say "Day 10" but maybe things would show by now

--- the grandkids didn't eat nearly as many eggs as I was expecting, so I *do* have many more that could be incubated ...
by the broody or in the electric incubator

Illia was telling me that the only real way to tell if my roo is Dominant White heterozygous, or Columbian gene-patterned, is to hatch out enough eggs

from what I understand, if we get yellow chicks that grow up to be white, he's carrying White (he himself was brown-black as a chick, then gradually developed white-bordered feathering on black; then his adult feather pattern came in totally different, so his wings are mostly all-white; breast and lower body mottled black and white; with gold-bordered teal/black hackles and saddle feathers)

if the chicks instead are brown and white, or brown and black, or your basic standard duckwing EEs like the mamas ... then he's probably Columbian .... but it might take another generation, backcrossing the females with him, to be sure

 

[Chickielady]

I used a tiny piece of duct tape on an egg that had a crack..worked fine.
Gotta make sure the egg is kept warm !
Go ahead & duct tape it & put it back.
Having it out from under mama hen may kill any embryo..
Just the tiniest piece of duct tape.

 

[SadieSue]

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I won't be home until late tonight to inspect the egg. I'll call DD and see if she thinks the crack is small enough to seal and put back under the broody.

If this hatch is successful and the broody looks like a devoted mama, I thought I'd let her raise the chicks until they are big enough and strong enough to be re-homed or returned to you Candy. However, I do know someone who is moving to Tacoma who has already expressed an interest in raising chickens and is very excited about the possibility that I may have available chicks if you want them to go to a new home? I know these folks, (from the theater) and they are very nice, have young kids who would love these chicks.

 

[SadieSue]

awwww --- hit

is the crack small enough that you can seal it up with wax? or did the membrane break too ?

Just called home. Doesn't sound like the crack is sealable. There was leakage so membrane is broken too.

Still have 9 eggs in the nest though. She is very serious about sitting on those eggs! I may wait until dark and see about doing a switcheroo with the adolescents and the broody though. That way the broody will have a private enclosure to

hatch those babies.​

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Either the Wyandotte coop changes shape according to temperature (which???) or three people measuring the same thing three times each and coming up with the same number can make exactly the same mistake. Because the piece of hardware cloth cut to fit the east end of the coop is a solid few inches too short.

Oh, well. Not like it'll go to waste: I have to reinforce the bottoms of all my windowscreens so the kittens don't dig holes through them. That'll be fun.

ETA There is also the chance that the piece of wire I was trying to use is one that was miss-cut earlier, I forgot about that little oopsie.

 

[RustyHen]

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Very cool!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Put it on VERY early in the morning it will be bigger then.

 

[Kaneke]

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I won't be home until late tonight to inspect the egg. I'll call DD and see if she thinks the crack is small enough to seal and put back under the broody.

If this hatch is successful and the broody looks like a devoted mama, I thought I'd let her raise the chicks until they are big enough and strong enough to be re-homed or returned to you Candy. However, I do know someone who is moving to Tacoma who has already expressed an interest in raising chickens and is very excited about the possibility that I may have available chicks if you want them to go to a new home? I know these folks, (from the theater) and they are very nice, have young kids who would love these chicks.

yes, that sounds like a great plan !

basically I suggested the eggs be hatched, primarily to get clues as to the rooster's gene pattern ... certainly I'm not set up to double the size of the flock ... right now I can call them "my pets"; add more and they'd become "livestock" which the HOA has outlawed

actually it may be that my flock will need a new home too, come the first of the year, when we will be gone for a couple of months -- with no one (that we know of, now) to take care of them

will just have to wait to see what DS can arrange ... if he's back here, they can stay; if he isn't, they most likely cannot

if that arrangement falls through, I am sure we can find a family for them, since my pullets seem to be prolific layers, starting about as early as any (18-22 weeks) -- I have been getting four to six eggs every day from the six girls --- on the rare day that I have fewer, there is an extra-big egg the next day, which, opened into the pan, proves to be a double yolker....

they go through about three cups of feed a day for the seven of them, seems relatively efficient to me ! supplemented by a cupful of black oil sunflower seed, and a couple of hours of general pasture-weed grazing ...