Today I culled two eggs so far. One was "Surprise #1" and the other was the pure Easter Egger egg. The EE egg ended up not fertile, go figure (that is why I culled it) and the surprise egg was fertile, but it did not develop at all. The reason I culled it was because while candling it, I noticed some cracks on the egg that seemed to have been formed while the egg was formed. After I gave it a chance, it didn't develop at all - So, I culled and inspected it. It looked exactly how a day 0 egg would look.
Otherwise, my 2 fetuses are still doing well, and growing oh so fast! The other two siblings to those are also coming through, but I don't see any fetus or veins. As for the rest - I still have hopes for about 4 others, and not sure on the rest.
The pure Easter Egger egg I tried hatching - Her mom had a really rough day yesterday. Tufted, my "Bearded Babe," always lays enormous eggs. We're talking double-yolker sized eggs that aren't actually double yolkers. Well, for a couple weeks they have been so big and hard for her to squeeze out that they come out lumpy, mountainous, and sometimes even all scratched up like a meteor. (pics coming soon!) Yesterday, though - She tried squeezing a monstrousity out for three hours! In the end, I gave her lots of water, all which she drank so needingly, and she only had a long, thin wrapping of crushed up shell come out. Along with a lot of viscous liquid and other matter, probably the yolk and white of the egg with whatever else. It was a horrible day for her, she was not feeling well after that, and today I'm cutting back her layer pellets and making her just feast on whatever is in the pasture. . . Because at first, huge eggs are amazing, but once they get like this - It is torture for her.
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