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hmmmm...... Maransacaunas ????? New Breed?....
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We are getting ready for some very bad weather heavy thunderstorms...and my bator is next door in the shop....
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means I cant be running over every little while to check the bator....and the first night out for my last hatch which is now 28 days old....and yes they are secured ....its just me Mama Chicken here getting nervous....
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poor babies...loud thunder and heavy rains....
 
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Well I've heard them called that before
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Just a bit more specific than 'Olive Egger' right??
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Brown gene roo over blue gene hen = Olive egger (6)
Marans roo over Ameraucana = Olive egger (half dozen)
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Poor babies in the storm... I am also an habitual incubator checker! I feel temp anxiety ALL of the time.... 2 degrees=death!!! Ahhhhh!!! The pressure!!!
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no no, do not add the "maran" in front of that breed...Marans is a different breed, Americauna is another....how cute though

ahhhh I just read your Roo is "maran"
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DS - This is perfectly normal and from my understanding the eventual lack of oxygen causes them to have a spasm (sp) that makes them pip the shell.

Have they pipped yet?

And now that they are in the air cell - step away from the bator!
 
Oh yeah - is my broody on lockdown now? Her surviving egg would have started incubating the 18th. If so - then I need to keep an eye out for the chick and put them in a cage. I have a day-old chick killer somewhere in my bunch of hens. If they can survive the first day and bond with mom - then the hens leave it alone.

I think it's one of my mille fleur d'uccles.
 
ok, have a question heard this from an ole timer...use to raise chicikens...and am told he knows alot...he said that you can tell a Roo egg from a Hen egg....

The Roo egg has more of a "pointy" end and the hen more of a "rounded end"...

feed back???

also he said away to fatten your chickens up is boil some rice, when your going to feed your chickens add dog food to the rice, and to the feed and it fattens them up real good. He has some healthy fat chickens!!!
 
The part about pointy versus round eggs has been totally disproven. If it were that simple wouldn't hatcheries do that? My hens lay eggs that are a consistent shape to each hen, not the sex of the chick.

Although the last two days I apparently have two new layers and one of them has a really wonky shaped egg. It's lopsided. Hopefully that will straighten out.
 

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