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carcar80 said:
Guys. Our chicken railroad: Does it run near Buford?
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I am generally over that way about once a month - although I've lately been cutting up through Jefferson/Commerce instead (I drive to Anderson, SC twice per month.) I will likely not be going in April though.

@mrsdszoo - Update on the eggs in the incubator. They are going into lockdown tomorrow. Candled for the first time tonight I have 2 definite quitters and 2 probable quitters - but I saw movement in 9 and the other 3 all had veining visible, but I didn't see movement. 100% fertility though! :)

We will see what Tuesday brings!

Tomorrow I'm picking up a 2 day old crested cream legbar cockerel. This is to put with my 3 week old pullets. I will likely sell off my existing cockerel as he gets bigger. I don't like his chick coloring... We'll see what he grows into though.

My husband took off work today and worked on the new coop. Hopefully he'll have it finished on Sunday and we can get the red rangers out into it then. They will be just over 4 weeks old but are pretty much feathered and are quite large. And they are making a huge mess in my basement LOL
 
Just candled the 4 duck eggs I threw under my part silkie broody hen. 2 are good for sure. The other two don't look right. I had washed two duck eggs to eat, but then decided to put them under the broody. The other two were not washed. So I am wondering if the two that may be early deaths are the ones I had washed before I decided to try to hatch them. If I get another duck egg soon, I will put it under my other broody hen who is sitting on plastic eggs. I think it is weird that this other broody is a hen in the middle of molting! I guess I wouldn't have thought they would go broody while molting, but she sure is!

Advice: My friend wants me to hatch some Golden Cuckoo Marans eggs she ordered off ebay. My DH said I could, of course all chicks go straight to her as soon as they hatch! But, yea! I get to hatch eggs! Here is the problem......she ordered eggs from California. She ordered 12 eggs, they sent 18, but 4 were totally smashed and dried up all over the box. I'm not concerned about the broken eggs as the eggs were wrapped in bubble wrap and she said the other eggs were clean, but I hate that these eggs may be so shaken up that all the air sacs may be detached or scrambled and the eggs are too dark to even see in! I have never hatched Marans eggs, wait, I hatched one wheaten marans that someone at the Newnan show gave me last year....their chicken laid it in the coup and she gave it to me! I have heard they need extra humidity because the shells are harder. Is that right? Is the extra humidity all during the whole hatching process or only at the end? Is there any special way to see into the dark shell to candle them? I am thinking to go ahead and put them in the bator but not turn the turner on for a day or two to let the air sac 'heal' or would it be better to let them sit first before I put them in the bator. I have heard of both ways.....anybody have experience with this? I hope my friend won't blame me if not too many hatch. I DO know how to hatch eggs.....but, sometimes the eggs are just too damaged. So any advice on hatching Marans eggs would be wonderful! Thanks!
 
Flowerbh said:
Just candled the 4 duck eggs I threw under my part silkie broody hen. 2 are good for sure. The other two don't look right. I had washed two duck eggs to eat, but then decided to put them under the broody. The other two were not washed. So I am wondering if the two that may be early deaths are the ones I had washed before I decided to try to hatch them. If I get another duck egg soon, I will put it under my other broody hen who is sitting on plastic eggs. I think it is weird that this other broody is a hen in the middle of molting! I guess I wouldn't have thought they would go broody while molting, but she sure is!

Advice: My friend wants me to hatch some Golden Cuckoo Marans eggs she ordered off ebay. My DH said I could, of course all chicks go straight to her as soon as they hatch! But, yea! I get to hatch eggs! Here is the problem......she ordered eggs from California. She ordered 12 eggs, they sent 18, but 4 were totally smashed and dried up all over the box. I'm not concerned about the broken eggs as the eggs were wrapped in bubble wrap and she said the other eggs were clean, but I hate that these eggs may be so shaken up that all the air sacs may be detached or scrambled and the eggs are too dark to even see in! I have never hatched Marans eggs, wait, I hatched one wheaten marans that someone at the Newnan show gave me last year....their chicken laid it in the coup and she gave it to me! I have heard they need extra humidity because the shells are harder. Is that right? Is the extra humidity all during the whole hatching process or only at the end? Is there any special way to see into the dark shell to candle them? I am thinking to go ahead and put them in the bator but not turn the turner on for a day or two to let the air sac 'heal' or would it be better to let them sit first before I put them in the bator. I have heard of both ways.....anybody have experience with this? I hope my friend won't blame me if not too many hatch. I DO know how to hatch eggs.....but, sometimes the eggs are just too damaged. So any advice on hatching Marans eggs would be wonderful! Thanks!
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I have only had one hatch and I had a dozen black copper marans and 8 cuckoo/bc marans. I ended up with 8 of the BCM and 6 of the cuckoo/bc that hatched. I did a dry hatch and my humidity during lockdown was 55-65%. I expected them to hatch late, because I had heard that about marans - but the cuckoos hatched early and the BCM hatched on time. As far as the air cells - I had detached aircells on my Welsummer eggs and despite leaving them upright in a carton for several days, including their first couple of days in the incubator - they never reattached and they didn't develop at all. Of 8 shipped eggs, I got one live chick and 2 that were developed, but didn't make it out of the shell.
 
ChristyinGA said:
I have only had one hatch and I had a dozen black copper marans and 8 cuckoo/bc marans. I ended up with 8 of the BCM and 6 of the cuckoo/bc that hatched. I did a dry hatch and my humidity during lockdown was 55-65%. I expected them to hatch late, because I had heard that about marans - but the cuckoos hatched early and the BCM hatched on time. As far as the air cells - I had detached aircells on my Welsummer eggs and despite leaving them upright in a carton for several days, including their first couple of days in the incubator - they never reattached and they didn't develop at all. Of 8 shipped eggs, I got one live chick and 2 that were developed, but didn't make it out of the shell.
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Thanks. That is what I am afraid of. Too much damage is, well, there just isn't anything you can do about it. So, you hatched the others at about the same way I like to hatch my eggs. ok, well, I will do my best and just see what happens!
 
Flowerbh said:
Thanks. That is what I am afraid of. Too much damage is, well, there just isn't anything you can do about it. So, you hatched the others at about the same way I like to hatch my eggs. ok, well, I will do my best and just see what happens!
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Mine also shipped when we got hit with that snow storm and instead of taking 3 days to get here, they took 5 days - and who knows WHERE they sat during that time. They came from Arkansas.
 
I'm currently waiting on activity from 3 goose eggs that arrived with detached air cells. As of yesterday, two had internal pips, but all three were rocking and had visible movement. They are not due until Sunday, so we will see!

But I also had five more sent to me that were detached, and the insides scrambled. I have a funny feeling that's most of what you'll have in those, too. Scrambled eggs never hatch.
 

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