Posted October 18, 200519 yr Dam it. I was cleaning the nest box this afternoon. I took all the eggs carefully out and them cleaned the box. (i've done this soooo many times) when I put the last egg in my thumb press against another egg and broke it. Tonight when I got home I found another egg out of the box on the bottom of the cage. It wasn't broken and I think it might have gotten some yoke from the boken egg on it and got stuck to the feathers of either the hen or one of the chicks currently fledging. I placed it back in the nest box. Hope it will be okay. :mellow: So now I only have 4 eggs. Edited October 18, 200519 yr by daz
October 18, 200519 yr The eggs are so small, I can imagine like Julie said, it's not hard to do. So sorry.
October 18, 200519 yr Author The thing was that I was trying so hard to be careful with the egg I was holding that I didn't carefully look at the eggs below. The egg had only yoke.....I hope that this means it was the 2nd last egg to be laid. I only marked the 1st egg. I hope it doesn't mean that the eggs are infertile. I am now worried about candling them. The 1st egg is due to hatch on 26th October, thats next wednesday. This morning there was the 4 eggs still in the nest so I hope every things going to be okay. Edited October 18, 200519 yr by daz
October 19, 200519 yr Author Maybe it was infertile anyway Daz? If it was just yolk, no start of a baby? Yes lin that's what I am hoping. Just got a call from the wife. one egg thrown out and broken and one eaten in the nest. The one thrown out was also all yoke. The eaten one was ???? I now don't know which ones they are. Clutch of five is now two
October 19, 200519 yr They might all be infertile Daz, after all that's what happened to Gypsy 3 times in a row! And one of my hens in the aviary, her first clutch were infertile. So, maybe she knows something you don't? She will lay more now, so fingers crossed.
October 19, 200519 yr aww Daz sorry to hear that :(MAybe witht he two bubs around Bluey and Spanlges hasn't been able to find some quiet time yet
October 19, 200519 yr I cracked one of the eggs in Buzz's first clutch and then she smashed all the rest. I hope the remaining eggs are good.
October 19, 200519 yr Author Spangle is something else. I got home expecting to see no eggs and I found she had laid her 6th egg in this clutch. So now I am back up to 3. I don't know what egs were broken so I don't know when these ones will hatch?
October 19, 200519 yr Assuming she's sitting on them Daz, I would restart your calculations from today, that way you won't accidentally throw out a good egg. Congratulations to you and Mummy
October 19, 200519 yr Author Thanks Lin i'll reset the clock Edit: I rest the clock and put the first 3 eggs as the ones that were brocken and it has the 1st November as the 1st hatch date. Thats 2 weeks yesterday. ................................................................................ ............................. 1st November Update. An other egg has been thrown from the nest. I now have two eggs. That should hatch by Sunday... I hope. Edited October 19, 200519 yr by daz
November 2, 200519 yr Author Thanks guys. One is due to hatch tomorrow and the other on Sunday. I hope they will be okay. It will the last time this year that Bluey and Spnagle will be breed. They gave me two beautiful Chicks. Tiny and Chirpy
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