I was extremely gentle when candling so did not turn the eggs upside down but air cells looked completely detached on a few of them. We will see. Day 2 over here. I will candle at day 4 to check what things look like but at this point I’m thinking of a once or twice a day rotation after that...
I have received a very squashed box of hatching eggs yesterday - due to the amazing job of internal packing by the breeder no eggs were broken - with scrambled eggs (a bit of an exaggeration). All but 3 (which have a partial/saddle attachment) air cells are completely detached. I let the eggs...
I have just found this thread. I’ve been hatching my own eggs for around 10 years so my recent shipping experience has me a little nervous (my eggs got lost in the post and 8 days later have arrived. I am going to give them 12 hours. I will take pics of air sacs and keep this thread updated with...
Good morning all. I lost my very precious Marans Rooster last night to a raccoon that got into my cage!!!! So mad!!! Does anyone have an adult Marans that is looking for a home? Based in South Florida near Sarasota, FL
LORDY!!!! I hate autotext - what the frik is that "╔╦╦╦═╦╗╔═╦═╦══╦═╗ ║║║║╩╣╚╣═╣║║║║║╩╣ ╚══╩═╩═╩═╩═╩╩╩╩═╝" .... you see it just did it again. I literally can't type W E L C O M E (I had to put a space between each letter) without it doing that crazy stuff!!!! :barnie
╔╦╦╦═╦╗╔═╦═╦══╦═╗ ║║║║╩╣╚╣═╣║║║║║╩╣ ╚══╩═╩═╩═╩═╩╩╩╩═╝! I'm a stalker on this thread at the moment .... I will bet setting more eggs in a week or so, what you hatching?
@gimmie birdies Do you feel like trading some of your grey colored eggs for some BCM or selling me some? I LOVE those grey colored eggs of yours :drool
Hellllllo my lovelies!!!! Oh my word between editing wedding photo's, hatching baby chicks (with issues) and all of the other of life shenanigans I have not had a mo to get on here. Sooooooo here's the skinny :
All of the OE's did GREAT, with only one needing assisting. Out of my 5 Marans...
OH MY WORD GUYSSSSSSS!!!!!! I just came back from changing water in the pens and loooooookeeee here!!!!! OMG ..... from a pip at 11pm last night to this at 11am ....... OMG OMG OMG OMG :jumpy:yesss::wee
Oh my WORD ..... I wish this was me. I noticed one little pip at 11pm and now this morning most eggs have pips but no real movement and two are pipping at the wrong end of the shell!!!!! YIKESSSSSSSSSS Am I going to have any chickies I wonder :barnie
Oh Lordy. I’m sitting in the living room (so not to wake my lovely Sweet) - my bator is in my closet. I can’t hear any cheeping, but my bator fan is VERY loud . Before I went to bed last night (day 20) I was staring at the eggs laying their in all their stillness- aaaaaaaggggggh, I just wanted...