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| Duck egg at 6 days of incubation |
Welcome to Harvest Monday, sponsored by
Daphne's Dandelions, this is a great blog hop to share you garden with others from around the world.
This week has been all about eggs. I have some duck and chicken eggs in the incubator and Friday was day 6 for them. The duck eggs are big and white and easy to see into when you candle them. Here you can see the red blob that is the embryo, with the spiderweb of veins that supports it.
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| Chicken and duck eggs from 2/22/13 |
I have several breeds and mixed breeds of chickens which are beginning to lay now. The big white eggs are from the Muscovy ducks and the slightly smaller ones are from the Welsh Harlequin. The green and blue ones from the Easter Egger chickens, the brown ones from my Buff Orpingtons, Welsummer and Welsummer crosses.
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| eggs from 2/23/13 |
On Saturday my third Easter Egger started laying, a tiny bluish egg, there in the center. The Muscovy girl seems to have rolled her egg through the mud.
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| eggs from 2/24/13 |
Today another new girl started laying; a mix between a Cochin and a Rhode Island Red. That tiny egg at the top center is her first one. I am really excited to have such fun eggs! I'll be selling chicks pretty soon and I'll have eggs to sell at the farmer's market this summer.
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| Snow! |
The weather has been really crazy this week. It snowed on Wednesday. Then yesterday it was so warm I was working outside in a t-shirt and this morning it snowed again!
As you can see not much going on in the garden outside right now!
Lovely mix of eggs you are getting from your wide assortment of hens (age and breeds) and the duck embryo development is very interesting to look at. Our hens are backing laying with a vengeance after taking a decided break from it over the winter months.
ReplyDeleteBLECK... yup. Now I remember why I put up with our sauna like summers! Love the egg basket.
ReplyDeleteHow nice you will have eggs to sell. Wearing a T-shirt and then snow!!! What crazy weather! Nancy
ReplyDeleteWhat pretty eggs! I would love to live somewhere that it snowed (not much chance of that in Australia!) but could imagine not much would happen in the garden over winter!
ReplyDeleteGreat that you participate in the farmers' market, lucky shoppers who get your fresh eggs and produce. Do you sell your chicks at the farmers' market too?
ReplyDeleteOur farmer's market doesn't allow live animals, so I'm not able to sell chicks there. Our community has an animal page and a yard sale page on Face Book so I advertise them there when I have them.
DeleteWhat is the egg that looks like cracked paint?
ReplyDeleteThe brown one with dark speckles? That is from a Welsummer or a Welsummer cross. If you mean the white one next to it that is a duck egg that has scratches on it. Eggs have coating called 'bloom' which is very thick and waxy on the duck eggs, especially the Muscovy. It is wet when the egg is laid, drying in a few minutes. That egg must have been scratched around after being laid, while the coating was still damp.
DeleteYour eggs are beautiful, but that duck egg?! That is an amazing shot! Love it!
ReplyDeleteThank you, but the duck egg was actually easy; they have white shells and are big eggs, easy to see into them.
DeleteWow, I am truly impressed... I am just beginning to make my first chicken coop for two birds...
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