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I remembered learning about those little black spots on your yolks in candling class. Here is what it says:

[Meat spots or blood spots] are caused by the rupture of a blood vessel on the yolk surface when it’s being formed or by a similar accident in the wall of the oviduct… Eggs with blood spots and meat spots are fit to eat.

As an egg ages, the yolk takes up water from the albumen to dilute the blood spot so, in actuality, a blood spot indicates that the egg is fresh.

So, yes, you can eat those eggs. If you don't like the idea, just pick out the spots.
 
Well daddy was from west, Mormon family so like you I found someone from outside the country. Then I did a Mtdna study and found out my maternal lines originated in this region. But any genealogists will tell you we're all related somehow lol.
 
So it's official - my one sumatra is definitely broody! As rare as it may be, she's guarding that nest like a hound dog (to include pecking at me when I reached in for eggs). So I have two eggs due to hatch today and stuffed one under her. I don't mind that she's broody and not laying. But I need to stop her from sitting on all of the other eggs, so I can sell them off and/or put them in the fridge without getting partially-developed embryos.

So far I've stayed on her nest every day, taking out all fresh laid eggs. But I don't want to skip a day or two, and mail someone eggs that never develop because she sat on them for 48 hours straight, and THEN they got cold.


But it will be interesting to find out how well she takes care of a baby chick, too.
 
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ChickDancer said:
Good morning everyone! Coffee is brewing, but I already have bad news to report.


The screen arbors that I got for the EE's and Silkies/Frizzles, are definitely a no-go. This morning a raccoon tore a hole right in the screen, let himself in, and helped himself to a leghorn mix hen - full grown and laying. Skeeter was in the pen and clearly fought off the intruder - there are feathers everywhere. But I guarantee Skeeter won. Aside from missing feathers, there isn't a single thing wrong with him! But it was too late. The raccoon got away with the hen. VERY few of her feathers are left in the pen.


While I didn't see any of it, I know it was a raccoon because his little muddy paw prints are all over the outside of the screen - including those little thumb-like fingers out to the side of the others.

So starting April 25th, I'll be building pens for all of the chickens, from scratch, like most people. I guess the challenge now is to find out how big I want each one to be, whether or not I want them connected, and how I want them to be built. Thankfully, I think Tractor Supply still has their chicken wire on sale, so I can save a lot of money that way. And while it's not as strong as other materials, I'm thinking PVC pipe for the frame, like abmaddox's hoop coops.
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Oh no! Sorry the racoon got one of your hens. What type of sreen was the racoon able to get into? Was it hardware cloth?
 
Mornin' y'all :caf *yawn*
I am aware it is after noon, however I was up until 2am crappie fishing.

The brahmas spent their first night in the big pen last night. The SLWs are now in the tractor. They will join the brahmas in about 2 weeks. Then the last chicks will go in the tractor.

It's raining, and I just want to go back to bed.
 
valleychicks said:
Oh no! Sorry the racoon got one of your hens. What type of sreen was the racoon able to get into? Was it hardware cloth?
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No, it was just plain fiber screen, like they use on windows. I should have known it wouldn't protect against raccoon. But I really thought the raccoon would go for the bait in the trap before they went for the live ones in the pen. I was wrong.
 
ChickDancer said:
It's treated 4x4's. That's the only way they sell 4x4's anyway.
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Home Depot sells untreated 4x4s.

Flowerbh said:
I remembered learning about those little black spots on your yolks in candling class. Here is what it says:

[Meat spots or blood spots] are caused by the rupture of a blood vessel on the yolk surface when it’s being formed or by a similar accident in the wall of the oviduct… Eggs with blood spots and meat spots are fit to eat.

As an egg ages, the yolk takes up water from the albumen to dilute the blood spot so, in actuality, a blood spot indicates that the egg is fresh.

So, yes, you can eat those eggs. If you don't like the idea, just pick out the spots.
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Roboduck has been eating blood spots for a while now and he's...


















You know what, you might want to pull those out just in case.
 

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