Straub’s search for colored eggs

[Tstraub]

I have a broody here as well. Smoky has decided she wants more chicks but she hasn’t settled down into just one nesting box so I don’t trust that she will sit on the eggs I want her to hatch.

 

[wrathsfarm]

I have a broody here as well. Smoky has decided she wants more chicks but she hasn’t settled down into just one nesting box so I don’t trust that she will sit on the eggs I want her to hatch.

Has she sat before?

 

[Tstraub]

Has she sat before?

She sat on golf balls in March but didn’t always return to the same box. Then she happily accepted and raised chicks after sitting for 3 weeks

 

[LaFleche]

The incubator is loaded. 12 White Bresse from a local guy I found on Craigslist. The rest are from my flock. I’m hoping to get start a Bresse line to keep separate from my egg layers. If this hatch goes well I’ll have to thin down on some of my older birds this fall.

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Fingers crossed!

 

[Tstraub]

I removed 2 eggs from the incubator because the automatic egg turner had two broken egg cups and when they tipped to the side the eggs fell out. The eggs were just a couple from my flock. They didn’t break so no mess to clean up. I just felt the best solution was removing the eggs and not bothering to try making any repairs to the egg turner. 39 eggs remain 12 White Bresse and 27 I am calling barn yard mixes since 8 cockerels have been in the flock this summer I can’t be sure who might be the sire of any of these eggs.