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carcar80 said:
Guys I have Lavender Orps for sale if anyone wants any. English Orps. They're beautiful babies!
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Toeby said:
We went and picked up 2 Gold Laced Wyandottes and now I have a few questions lol. My other ladies have a certain spot they lay, so when the new comers arrived it is obvious when it is there eggs, as it is in a new place. The other day we were making breakfast and cracked open and egg that looked like it had something growing off the side of the yolk and had some blood (red) in it. I am assuming this was the baby developing..? As I don't have any roosters, and it came from a different laying spot, I am assuming it was the GLW's egg. At any rate, IF that was a baby developing.. why was it? We gather eggs everyday before 9pm, put them in fridge and we have never had this happen before. #baffledbeyondbelief

On another topic, I have been googling crosses and such. I have some RIR's and a friend is giving me an EE roo. I am looking to make hens that lay colored eggs but don't want the the frequency of eggs to take a dive. Any ideas what I will be getting color, egg production and egg color wise?
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The blood spots you are seeing are not baby chicks developing. They often occur in young hens who have just started laying. They are just where some blood vessel popped and other than not liking the looks has no effect on the egg. They are safe to eat. If you don't like the blood, just remove it.

Here is what the Dept of Agriculture says about it"

Ovulation is the release of a mature yolk (ovum) from the ovary. Each developing yolk is enclosed in a yolk sac in which many blood vessels are profusely distributed. These blood vessels carry yolk building substances to the developing yolk. One particular area of the yolk sac is free of blood vessels (stigma or suture line) and it is normally here that ovulation or release of the mature yolk takes place. However, the rupture of the yolk sac and release of the yolk sometimes occur at sites other than the stigma, with the result that one or more blood vessels are ruptured and blood spots occur on the yolk, or the white becomes bloody.
 
Oh, and providing the EEer carried the blue egg shell gene, a cross between an EE and a RIR should result in some shade of light green. But, an EEer could also carry a recessive white shell gene and if that is the case, only half of your chicks would just lay brown eggs.
 
carcar80 said:
In my opinion, not yet. I've had lots of Marans pip low (the eggs tend to be very round) and it does take them longer than even normal hatchers. But I've had some that I've felt certain would NOT hatch, hatch just fine on their own.

Just do your best to keep temp/humidity stable and keep hands off. If after 24* pipped they have made no progress then you might intervene.
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But that's just my opinion. We all do things differently. I just had a bad habit of helping too early bc I'd get nervous and it never ended well. It's easier to clean up a cemented chick because you waited a bit long than to lose one because you helped out too early.
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So the OE is out with minimal help, (Humidity turned up + wrapping in a wet paper towel softned up the membrane, but she wouldn't zip, just kept trying to squeeze out the air hole and peeping frantically. So I 'zipped' it for her and left her to kick out on her own) but the Orp seems to be glued in place. We're at 30+ hours past pip. She's breathing just fine and had zipped almost halfway before she got stuck so she has plenty of room to breathe. wet paper towel+humidity up hasn't softened the alumin (sp?) at all though and it looks like rubber cement?
Time to help or keep waiting?

Since I had it open I candled the rest, no internal pips yet but I'll keep waiting and hoping.
 

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