Rainbow Eggs

19/09/2023

Just some lovely eggs

01/09/2023

Some Miniature Chicken

01/09/2023

And tow lots of Herero chicks

01/09/2023

Herero chicken

01/09/2023

Some Silverblue Marans now 5 months old

09/04/2023

Yesterday these Herero Chicken were added to the chicken family. I love their plumage, beards, caps and they will add some pale eggs to the basket.

05/12/2022

18/11/2022

Love those eggs among the seed pods

11/10/2022

MAIL EGGS



The strongest eggs (shells) and chicks are those from hens aged 2 years or older. A 3-year-old hen has proven to be healthy and her calcium metabolism is optimal. A hen extracts the calcium for egg shells from her bones. Through feed and egg-laying breaks, she replenishes it. The older the hen, the bigger and stronger the chick in terms of disease resistance and the amount of nutrition contained in the egg. 
Ask for eggs of older hens.

A few tips for better results:

1. To get best possible hatches: Ask the owner of the eggs to 'start' the eggs by incubating them for 24 hrs prior to shipping. This is an old trick done in the 19th and 20st century for hatching eggs (transport by cart, truck, train was rough).
The early cell division stops when the temp goes down and starts up again in the incubator at its destination. You can let started eggs travel for 1-2 weeks hatch rates are better than without starting them.

2. Are the eggs going to fly by plane? Ask owner to put the eggs in an airtight Thing: Weck jars, biscuit-tin taped airtight, etc. All to keep air pressure the same.

Common damage: detached cords (yolk), air sack rupture, micro or maxi cracks.

3. Candle the eggs before you incubate to see if the air bubble is still fixed. If not, forget it (my experience). Some manage to hatch hundreds!!! of eggs with detached air cells, upright position, find those magicians.

4. Micro cracks can be repaired with with nail varnish or latex-based photo glue. Some use candle wax, you have to have candles then, which also applies to the aforementioned things. Most importantly, no moisture can escape. Only do it on the cracks, so as not to suffocate the embryo.

5. The cords that normally hold the yolk in the centre can break due to rough transport. You cannot fix this, one way to tackle is not turning the egg the first 4 days of incubation. After that turn very careful by hand a bit to left and right. The point is that the membranes do not stick together. If you manage till hatching time when cords are detached, birth can be a problem due to the chick laying in breech.

6. Switch off auto turner. I had mail eggs never in the auto turner when damaged.
Any damaged eggs are best to be incubated upright, air cell up. If you have an incubator where eggs are on their sides, make a construction or 'hammocks' between the dividers.


7. If some eggs do not hatch but there is a chick inside, put the egg in a glass with warm water and see if it moves. If the rest of the chicks have already hatched, you can peel an egg with a moving chick.



8. Peeling too early leads to a lot of blood loss. If you see that the blood has not yet withdrawn from the membrane, put the chick back in the incubator. Try again a few hours later. A little bit of blood loss won't hurt.

9. It is a fable that chicks that do not hatch themselves are weak, with transported eggs the chicks are already at a disadvantage. So helping them can't hurt. If the chick is not well formed, it will keel over later.

GREAT TIP FROM ANN DOUGLAS: write 'Bee embryos' ⚠️ Handle with Care on the box with eggs. Handling may be more gentle 😂

www.chickencolours.com

17/01/2022

So pleased to see these hatchlings

16/01/2022

A NEW YEAR!! New colorful eGGciting dreams🥚 New beautiful babies. Hope and strength 🙏🏻 May 2022 be a BLESSED year for each and everyone. We will do our best to keep the Rainbow on our side EEGstremely colorful with new announcements to follow soon in the next few weeks 🐣🐣🐣

16/01/2022

25/12/2021

Best wishes for the festive season

03/10/2021

16/09/2021

https://www.facebook.com/542916482/posts/10158472164731483/

28/07/2021

Beautiful Nature Colored Eggs Now available at Delicios at Ferreiras Nursery, Pionierspark, Windhoek
For the pan …..or a perfect gift for that someone who has everything or nót everything or just to say thank you….or for the child who struggles to get down his breakfast 😀

27/07/2021

Sönken ❤️

27/07/2021

This is Moritz amongst his Olive egger henns

26/07/2021

Watch this space………we will soon be anouncing the shop that will stock these beautiful Cackelberries 🙃❤️

26/07/2021

Little Cotton…..Nature’s one little incubator ❤️

21/07/2021

The mixed crowd

21/07/2021

My young girls stated to lay and what lovely eggs we find! Check out those speckels❤️❤️❤️

31/05/2021

Some of our crescent chicken.
They are young and will hopefully start laying soon

25/04/2021