growing and learning

team bettendorf?

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09:30 AM, Friday, March 28, 2008 .. Posted by Jonash2004

There is a link in my right sidebar - nope, shoot, just checked it and it's not working. The site has been taking longer and longer to load and yesterday I noticed a problem when it did load.

I'm sorry, I think you are just going to have to wait. :( Let me know if you want to check if I have the info you need tucked away in the old noodle somewhere - if not, I understand. :)

Ashley

Eggies ....

09:41 AM, Friday, March 28, 2008 .. Posted by Jonash2004

Oh, and I wanted to try to answer some of your questions about eggs. :)

Nearly all eggs can go on to be a baby . . . whatever. However, nothing starts to grow until the mother hen/goose/duck/dove/robin . . . etc, has sat on the egg for several days.

Probably 99% of the eggs I get from my mom are fertile. If she didn't have a rooster, they would look about the same. Sometimes with a fertile egg you *might* get a tiny speck of blood in the yolk - old timers call it "rooster sign" - it is a tiny imperfection where the egg was disturbed. I just pick it out with a bit of egg shell if it's my egg, LOL. Once the eggs is cooked it' not visible anyway. In a dozen eggs I might see it two or times but it varies.

The reason that eggs don't do anything when you gather them every day (or even miss a day) is so that a hen can lay and egg on Day #1, #2, #4, #6, #7, #8 and then sit on them all starting #9 and hatch them ALL on the same day 28 days later. Otherwise chick #1 might starve or go wandering off on it's own before chick #8 hatches 7 days later.

I wonder if duck eggs are re-absorbed by the momma ducks body if they aren't fertilized? That might be the case and might explain why they don't lay without a drake - but even then I would be suprised if that is the case. It might just require the presence of a drake to make them "feel" like laying or to get them to even cycle if that makes sense. Ducks are a completely different area - I mainly know chickens though we've had geese/ducks/chickens/peacocks/turkeys over the years and hatched them all.

HTH.
Ashley

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11:26 PM, Saturday, April 5, 2008 .. Posted by naughtydebbers

I got there yesterday by going to http://teambettendorf.com/ . :-) Hope that works for you!