YO GEORGIANS! :)

[ShadesofSable]

Augggh! What is going on! Broodies! Broodies! Broodies everywhere! I don't want broodies! I want eggs! I have 4 broodies now! Two in a crate I'm trying to break and now two more! Is my coop just too comfortable????

If you find out what's causing it, let me know! Mine all keep taking turns on who gets to be broody this month.

 

[Tabasco Jack]

Incubating without a shell ... early stage development (need to do more work on the photograph quality):
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And I thought you were trying to do blood spot art like those fancy coffee pourers in the city.

 

[Tabasco Jack]

If you find out what's causing it, let me know! Mine all keep taking turns on who gets to be broody this month.

Me too. I've been dunking their rear ends in cold water but they just shake it off and climb back in the next box.

 

[brucifer]

A happy hen is a broody hen.

 

[livhatcher]

Good times. Going to do the float test on my last eggs.

Seriously? I can only spot movement in two, but all 5 are doing the same thing in the float test. I give up.

Hi, my name is Liv and I'm going to post on eleventy threads about this so I don't have to be alone. I have a problem.

 

[GAMarans]

Plastic wrap, clear plastic cups, cotton, etc.

 

[missy1971]

Plastic wrap, clear plastic cups, cotton, etc.

omg that is so cool!! I wanna try that!!

 

[livhatcher]

This is the black SB (Isbar) pullet that we were worried wasn't a pullet. She's 11 weeks old now & I think she's gorgeous--pretty like a marans, but a bit more petite, very curious & cuddly. It probably helps that my 3 year old has treated it like his baby from day 1!

 

[brucifer]

Plastic wrap, clear plastic cups, cotton, etc.

It's a cool technique, but the video is dishonest in that the Chinese students were not the "first in the world" to hatch eggs "out of the shell." That is blatant plagiarism. Snopes debunks it as well: http://www.snopes.com/chicks-hatched-without-eggshell/
The technique has been used many times for nearly half a century.

A high-school student at the time, Bruce E. Dunn was the first person to perfect the method in 1973, and he presented it as a science-fair project. The results and the method were published in a number of scholarly journals. I did an online search and found this book chapter (See Introduction, p. 106):
http://ableweb.org/volumes/vol-5/8-fisher.pdf
Here's a link to Dunn's article abstract where the technique was first published in Poultry Science in February, 1974:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...hell-Less_Culture_of_the_72-Hour_Avian_Embryo

It's nice to know that the kid grew up to be productive researcher and scholar:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruce_Dunn2/publications

 

[livhatcher]

It's a cool technique, but the video is dishonest in that the Chinese students were not the "first in the world" to hatch eggs "out of the shell." That is blatant plagiarism. Snopes debunks it as well: http://www.snopes.com/chicks-hatched-without-eggshell/
The technique has been used many times for nearly half a century.

A high-school student at the time, Bruce E. Dunn was the first person to perfect the method in 1973, and he presented it as a science-fair project. The results and the method were published in a number of scholarly journals. I did an online search and found this book chapter (See Introduction, p. 106):
http://ableweb.org/volumes/vol-5/8-fisher.pdf
Here's a link to Dunn's article abstract where the technique was first published in Poultry Science in February, 1974:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...hell-Less_Culture_of_the_72-Hour_Avian_Embryo

It's nice to know that the kid grew up to be productive researcher and scholar:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruce_Dunn2/publications

Also that's he's a "Bruce" probably doesn't bother you. ;-)