My Noir Marans hen just layed her first egg (yay)! I thought Noir Marans were supposed to lay dark chocolate brown eggs but this one is very light brown. Any chance her eggs will darken as she continues to lay or is this the color they'll be forever? Thanks!
This may seem like a silly question when you see my chickens and which breeds I am discussing here.
Buff Orpingtons, Polish (unsure if bantam or large fowl), and an Easter Egger.
This afternoon’s egg haul. The brown ones are my SGs. Bottom one is my 1yo KC duck’s. Top white egg is the one...
I had some much fun hatching the duck eggs for a friend and got three beautiful ducklings! So now I am hatching my own chicks for fresh eggos!
Questions....
Do u mist chicken eggs and cool like ducks?
How and when do I find out if they are male or female? Also any idea on how to candle a...
I’ve got a pekin duck (Wally) and a khaki Campbell duck (Loretta) and I’m not sure what sex they are!
I’ve been getting eggs and I think they might be Wally’s but not sure.
Loretta is a lot quieter than Wally so I suspect she might actually be a male and Wally is female.
I’ve attached a...
Hello I am new to this and need some advice.
I have three duck eggs which are all growing perfectly - apart from the air sacs.
Temp has been 37.5°c since day one and iv had issues with humidity but it's steady now between 50-55%.
Out of the three duck eggs I have one with a normal sac, one...
I have a baby Turkey with no egg tooth, it pipped and lost the egg tooth at some point. Can it finish hatching, it has a relatively large pip. Definitely missing egg tooth. I think the hen I had it under had something to do with that, but it’s in the incubator and seems fine now.
Edit: here’s...
Hey all! My hens started laying about two weeks ago and I want to implement a form of tracking at the exact two week mark. Reasons being I am super curious, chicken health, and for fun. :}
I have 5 Wyandotte chickens, they are just starting to reach egg laying age. These are our first chickens, so it is all new. We have had 3 small eggs in the past week. I have one chicken that is acting strange, she has been very vocal, keeps separating herself and laying down in secluded spaces...
I am SO excited one of my australorps finally laid an egg!
I feel bad since they are still on chick crumble due to budget and All Flock being harder to find where I live. I am going to switch them over as soon as I can find a bag and supplement with some form of calcium (oyster shells are also...
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I have been incubating duck eggs for the first time. I placed 6 eggs in the incubator, 4 were fertilized and 2 were not, and then later one of the 4 died, so I am currently left with three eggs.
Yesterday was day 28, and all the eggs still didn't do internal pipping yet. I also realized...
I’m just so excited that I had to share! I’ve raised this chicks from two day old babies and finally, after all the hard work and turmoil and money well spent, I finally got my first egg! Its little and just so cute— I’m ecstatic! So proud of my girls! 🥰 (brown egg is a large-sized egg from...
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I have four hens (pharaoh coturnix) who I believe are all laying regularly now. I've noticed dramatic differences in egg colouration and texture - the ones with an almost solid brown covering are a bit rougher and less shiny that the speckled eggs. I have been assuming this is just...
The left two eggs are laid by the same chicken. She lays these odd shaped eggs every day. The right one is one of the regular shaped eggs in the same aviary. Just a quirk or what do you guys think? It’s been months since she started laying and they are always similar
Hi folks, does anyone have any idea why eggs from a 6 year old Emerald Spalding hen were laid unfertilized?
I only added them to my group about a year ago, with 2 roosters and another 3 hens.
In the same aviary I have a 2 year old peach hen with the same problem, she is still young so I can...
Hi All,
I have a big broody Orpington/Brahma and she's super keen to sit on eggs. Been trying to break her for a good week, she's currently sat in chicken jail and I just feel terrible for her so having second thoughts about maybe putting some eggs under her to hatch.
I was going to order...
All the rest have hatched while we were on vacation )we had someone watching them.) except this one. We figured it’d hatch out by now we collected these all about the same time. But to me it kinda looks like it stoped growing but I’m not too sure how to tell and the dark kinda blood spot on...
One of my girls laid an egg and it’s the oddest one I’ve gotten. The egg itself seems totally normal in the spots I can see the underlying eggshell. On top is a sort of coating - it’s dried & wrinkly and feels sort of like if someone coated the egg in wet paper and let it dry.
This egg took a...
Just a random poll: what is your favorite egg color that chickens lay? There's a wide variety of colors and breeds that lay them. Choose your favorite!
I have a hen ( Greasy) and this is her first time hatching any babies. She's approximately 3-4 days away from hatching the eggs but the only problem I just found out is that she doesn't have any hay under her eggs. I don't know if this will affect the egg hatching or will prevent them from...