YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Flowerbh]

Seems the more you hatch the more you learn as in where they are supposed to be, I candled my eggs again and I have one light green egg that is very dark, I couldn't see any veins, but I have another light green egg that I can see in ok, so do you think the dark one is dead? I guess when I go into lock down and I candle again I will be able to tell. What do you think?

If you can see thru them and they are clear, they probably weren't fertile. Pull one of your eggs from your refrigerator and candle it. Any egg in your bator that looks like the ones from your refrig. are not fertile. The dark ones usually have chicks growing in them, especially with colored eggs that are hard to see thru. You can go to you tube and key in 'candling chicken eggs' and there are some really good ones that will show you what to look for. They usually have day 7, day 10, etc.
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[Flowerbh]

@katsdar when is your hatch date? I can't remember when you said you set them. I just set mine yesterday and just figured if I didn't wait too late that my hatch date should be Friday the 13th. Also how many did you set? I set 33, 12 are from Flower, 4 are Turkens and 17 are from my hens.

@Flowerbh are Turkens and Naked Necks the same? I tried looking up Turkens and it comes up Naked Necks on google.

Y'all were talking about how to determine if you have rooster chicks, well one thing my DH and I have noticed is that the chicks that sing like song birds tend to be roosters.

Yes, Turkens are the same as Naked Necks. They are adorably ugly. If you got one of mine, it will lay blue or green eggs. And, Friday the 13th was a wonderful day for me! I had a son on Friday the 13th.....after 3 daughters, I call that pretty lucky!

 

[valleychicks]

Oh good! I will let you know if one hatches from your eggs. I also bought 4 Turken eggs from "The Quail King" at the swap. That was all they had left. Their Turken rooster was huge but the eggs are tan. Must be a different type of Turken.

Actually 13 is our families favorite number. There have been many 13s in our lives. Both of our children were born the week of Friday 13 in different years. Everytime the children were assigned a number in school it was 13. The first part of our address is 13.
Etc...

 

[katsdar]

@Flowerbh , That one egg I candled is just dark inside compared to the others all the eggs I got at the swap are fertile (your eggs). How many egg types were in your hatching eggs? and where do you get your fodder seeds?

@valleychicks I set my eggs the afternoon of the 14th when I got home from the swap, so hatch date should be March 7th in the early evening, I'm sure I will be up all night didn't think that one through when I set those eggs, and I only set 15, 12 eggs I got at the swap, the nice BCM, green eggs, light green eggs, a white egg and then 3 of my RIR's so I'm not sure of all the chicken breeds I may end up with.

@carcar80 no more baby pics?

 

[carcar80]

Friday the 13th was a wonderful day for me!  I had a son on Friday the 13th.....

Me too!!!

@carcar80
  no more baby pics?

Of course! Still waiting for full-potential fluff, which didn't happen for the later hatchers last night. LOL

Speaking of, some of my chicks lately seem SUPER wet at hatch. Is it something I'm doing or am I just imagining it?

 

[Cknldy]

These 2 were very lucky miracle chicks! White Leghorn and the dark brown one is Ameracauna. I call them Chocolate and Cream. They were in the 'dead' box- half of the order was d.o.a. My son said But it's still moving. They were already prone and cold only occasionally a wing would slowly move. For son's benefit I held it in my hand massaging its chest while rotating it under the heat lamp. It started coming back! When it was sitting up in my hand dh came in, sarcastically said That one's moving too. You gonna bring it back to life? I handed it to my son and showed him what I did with the first one. It worked!! Total Green Mile! These 2 are the biggest chicks and you'd never know they were almost frozen. I know they are hatchery, Ameracaunas ordered as a distinction from their EEs, but isn't the dark AM considered a chocolate AM?

 

[Cknldy]

The chipmunk and rusty colored ones in the front are an AM and a RIR. The weather was NOT forecast to be this way when I placed the order! And since I didn't want to order more to meet the minimum in order for them to send replacements they just gave a refund, no problems. TSC chick days are in my future for the WL and RIR that didn't make it. Yall be easy mentioning interesting breeds cuz dh said I'm not getting 500 chickens again;-)

 

[Cknldy]

Had one out of seven olive eggers that didn't hatch.. I opened it up and I'm guessing it was malpositioned?? Its beak looked to have been in the correct position to have internally pipped, and I assume it did because the entire area that WAS air cell was filled with baby. Its neck/shoulders were squished up into the fat end of the egg.

I've had a few RIR chicks do that. Too big to move and be able to zip. Big healthy chicks are great but I tried switching up parentage so it didn't happen again. No idea why they do that.

 

[CliffB]

WOOOOOHOOOOOO he found me a frizzled turken pullet!!!

 

[carcar80]

These 2 were very lucky miracle chicks! White Leghorn and the dark brown one is Ameracauna. I call them Chocolate and Cream. They were in the 'dead' box- half of the order was d.o.a. My son said But it's still moving. They were already prone and cold only occasionally a wing would slowly move. For son's benefit I held it in my hand massaging its chest while rotating it under the heat lamp. It started coming back! When it was sitting up in my hand dh came in, sarcastically said That one's moving too. You gonna bring it back to life? I handed it to my son and showed him what I did with the first one. It worked!! Total Green Mile! These 2 are the biggest chicks and you'd never know they were almost frozen. I know they are hatchery, Ameracaunas ordered as a distinction from their EEs, but isn't the dark AM considered a chocolate AM?

The saying, "you ain't dead til you're WARM and dead," comes to mind.

WOOOOOHOOOOOO he found me a frizzled turken pullet!!!

Oh wow! Look addit!!