YO GEORGIANS! :)

[LingaB]

You are storing your eggs upside down! The fat part is the top where the air sac is. Storing them with the pointy side up will cause the air that is naturally in the fat side to travel upwards (as air will rise) this will scramble your egg before you crack it the air will go to the point right thru the yolk!

Thanks! I thought it was the other way around. Stupid chicken newbie.

 

[Flowerbh]

Thanks! I thought it was the other way around. Stupid chicken newbie.

Go get a flashlight and candle one in the dark. Get a view of the inside. When you start incubating eggs, you will learn how to tell if your humidity is right by looking at the air sacs.

 

[abmaddox1981]

Will the food coloring really work??  I did read the other day that someone put lipstick on their chickens vents. 

1. I don't have that many shades of lipstick
2. I would NEVER use lipstick again. 

If the food coloring works. I'll do that.

I've used it, and it works! You have to really coat the feathers around the vent as well as the vent itself.

 

[Chiquey]

Post Office called at 6:45 this morning to say my chicks had arrived. I got them home asap and found all 13 looking great. They've spent the day in the home made brooder eating, sleeping, chirping, chirping some more. They're adorable! I'm almost afraid to go to bed tonight for fear of finding something sad in the morning. Is that odd?

 

[ChickAdee317]

Cuteness

 

[ChickAdee317]

my first time hatching lost a few

white butt babies

good momma....will come right in our house for the babies.

 

[valleychicks]

Sitting here listening to the roos (5) ages 5.5 to 8 weeks making purr, chirp, peep sounds in the brooder. Keeping my grand Silkie roo chick for our daughter (@locoschicks ) and SIL this weekend. It is so nice just listening to the young birds before they go to sleep. They will all be moving into the big coop this weekend.

 

[RoboDuck]

Will the food coloring really work??  I did read the other day that someone put lipstick on their chickens vents. 

1. I don't have that many shades of lipstick
2. I would NEVER use lipstick again. 

If the food coloring works. I'll do that.

I've used it, and it works! You have to really coat the feathers around the vent as well as the vent itself.

Did it taste weird the next time you put in on?

 

[GAMarans]

Or duct tape a bag to their butts and catch the eggs at the source.

You just ain't right.



On another note ... got my first duck egg today! Woohoo!! It would be nice to know who laid it but not a chance in h*ll that I am putting makeup on my ducks' butts.

 

[abmaddox1981]

@GAMarans was it white? The Pekin I gave y'all was laying