Comments on: What To Do With Cracked Eggs http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/ Your Philippine Online Guide to Everything Finch Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:01:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gsas http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Gsas Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:35:36 +0000 http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/#comment-249 just got a call from Albert informing me that canaries never throw away their eggs. What he does is to provide the birds with nests that are a little deeper and more concave. This way the birds will be forced to sit on their eggs and will ensure that all eggs are being sat on because they all stay in the center. just got a call from Albert informing me that canaries never throw away their eggs. What he does is to provide the birds with nests that are a little deeper and more concave. This way the birds will be forced to sit on their eggs and will ensure that all eggs are being sat on because they all stay in the center.

]]> By: Gsas http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Gsas Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:23:29 +0000 http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/#comment-246 Haha. Para pala silang chocolates ni Forrest Gump: "You'll never know what you're going to get." I don't know if I want that many zebras like you.. pero kung magkaganun man, ipamimigay ko yung mga hindi ko kayang alagaan dito sa barangay namin, tsaka sa mga pinsan ko, basta ba aalagaan nila ng maayos. And yup, this is just the second clutch of my first pair. I'm trying heavily to get another pair, pero wala kasing source dito sa Batangas. Hopefully makakabisita ako sa iyo kay Benji next year.. ehehe. Haha. Para pala silang chocolates ni Forrest Gump: “You’ll never know what you’re going to get.”

I don’t know if I want that many zebras like you.. pero kung magkaganun man, ipamimigay ko yung mga hindi ko kayang alagaan dito sa barangay namin, tsaka sa mga pinsan ko, basta ba aalagaan nila ng maayos.

And yup, this is just the second clutch of my first pair. I’m trying heavily to get another pair, pero wala kasing source dito sa Batangas. Hopefully makakabisita ako sa iyo kay Benji next year.. ehehe.

]]> By: seonadancing http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-243 seonadancing Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:02:36 +0000 http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/#comment-243 Ibig sabihin nililibing nila yun bad eggs with nesting material instead of throwing it out. And yeah, I leave them alone until chicks come out of the nest, then after awhile, i see the unhatched eggs on the cage floor. The great thing about zebras is that you don't really know what you're going to get until they finish moulting, parang buying a pack of basketball cards, you don't know what special cards you're going to get. I have a Jumbo fawn pair that produced 3 jumbo BCs on their first clutch. I think anything below 3 eggs in a clutch only happens when it's the first clutch and usually the parents don't know better than to sit and fly, this is the reason why the eggs don't hatch. I have a pretty good hatch rate, the most that I had in a clutch was 7 and I currently have a jumbo fawn pair that has 5 chicks. On the average I think I get 4 chicks in a clutch. Ibig sabihin nililibing nila yun bad eggs with nesting material instead of throwing it out. And yeah, I leave them alone until chicks come out of the nest, then after awhile, i see the unhatched eggs on the cage floor. The great thing about zebras is that you don’t really know what you’re going to get until they finish moulting, parang buying a pack of basketball cards, you don’t know what special cards you’re going to get. I have a Jumbo fawn pair that produced 3 jumbo BCs on their first clutch.

I think anything below 3 eggs in a clutch only happens when it’s the first clutch and usually the parents don’t know better than to sit and fly, this is the reason why the eggs don’t hatch. I have a pretty good hatch rate, the most that I had in a clutch was 7 and I currently have a jumbo fawn pair that has 5 chicks. On the average I think I get 4 chicks in a clutch.

]]> By: Gsas http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Gsas Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:49:41 +0000 http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/#comment-242 My zebras are currently sitting on their 3 eggs now. The first clutch consisted of only two, and they also sat on it. Normal lang daw yung 2 eggs per clutch sabi ni Kurt.. my first pair came from him. hi benji! yep, kinandle ko naman yung first clutch.. after two weeks nga lang. i'll just have to wait 3 days more to candle this next clutch. By the way, hindi talaga candling yung ginagawa ko, kundi "cellphoning." Yung mini-flashlight ng Nokia 1100 ang ginagamit ko! hehe. and i think it works. seona, anong ibig mong sabihin with"they could just bury the eggs underneath" at "I just let them go through every clutch without bothering them." Hindi mo na na rin inaalis yung bad eggs? I'm actually planning to do the same. Truth is, ok lang naman sa akin if they have bad eggs. I'm just thinking that they infinitely know better what to do with their eggs than I do. One more thing, the first clutch was both infertile. so i think, kung hindi ko inalis yung mga itlog, baka hanggang ngayon, inuupuan pa rin nila yung first clutch. hehe. My zebras are currently sitting on their 3 eggs now. The first clutch consisted of only two, and they also sat on it. Normal lang daw yung 2 eggs per clutch sabi ni Kurt.. my first pair came from him.

hi benji! yep, kinandle ko naman yung first clutch.. after two weeks nga lang. i’ll just have to wait 3 days more to candle this next clutch. By the way, hindi talaga candling yung ginagawa ko, kundi “cellphoning.” Yung mini-flashlight ng Nokia 1100 ang ginagamit ko! hehe. and i think it works.

seona, anong ibig mong sabihin with”they could just bury the eggs underneath” at “I just let them go through every clutch without bothering them.” Hindi mo na na rin inaalis yung bad eggs? I’m actually planning to do the same. Truth is, ok lang naman sa akin if they have bad eggs. I’m just thinking that they infinitely know better what to do with their eggs than I do.

One more thing, the first clutch was both infertile. so i think, kung hindi ko inalis yung mga itlog, baka hanggang ngayon, inuupuan pa rin nila yung first clutch. hehe.

]]> By: seonadancing http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-241 seonadancing Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:26:07 +0000 http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/#comment-241 One problem with taking away infertile eggs is that it would induce the breeding pair to lay more eggs. It is true that some zebras don't sit on a clutch of 3 eggs or less so if you have a clutch of 4 eggs they will end up abandoning the 2 fertile eggs if you take out the 2 infertile ones. For me, I just let them go through every clutch without bothering them. One problem with taking away infertile eggs is that it would induce the breeding pair to lay more eggs. It is true that some zebras don’t sit on a clutch of 3 eggs or less so if you have a clutch of 4 eggs they will end up abandoning the 2 fertile eggs if you take out the 2 infertile ones. For me, I just let them go through every clutch without bothering them.

]]> By: seonadancing http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-240 seonadancing Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:19:41 +0000 http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/#comment-240 I used to check on every nest with the 40 breeding zebras that I have, candling every one of the 100 eggs every month is a tedious process and it doesn't result to getting all the fertile eggs to hatch, there are times that the parents throw the eggs or chicks so I saved myself the trouble and just let them be. Zebras also know when they have infertile eggs, but they throw these eggs after the fertile ones have hatched. If they have ready nesting materials available, they could just bury the eggs underneath. You can use masking tape to indicate the date of when your zebras first laid their eggs and that should help you track the dates for candling and hatching. Zebras usually lay one egg every day so depending on how many eggs you see when you check the nest, you can pretty much calculate when the first egg was laid. As for your question regarding what to do with cracked eggs, i usually just throw it away because that thing could really smell after a few days. Believe me, your zebras is going to lay more than enough eggs for you to be worried about a cracked egg. I used to check on every nest with the 40 breeding zebras that I have, candling every one of the 100 eggs every month is a tedious process and it doesn’t result to getting all the fertile eggs to hatch, there are times that the parents throw the eggs or chicks so I saved myself the trouble and just let them be. Zebras also know when they have infertile eggs, but they throw these eggs after the fertile ones have hatched. If they have ready nesting materials available, they could just bury the eggs underneath.

You can use masking tape to indicate the date of when your zebras first laid their eggs and that should help you track the dates for candling and hatching. Zebras usually lay one egg every day so depending on how many eggs you see when you check the nest, you can pretty much calculate when the first egg was laid.

As for your question regarding what to do with cracked eggs, i usually just throw it away because that thing could really smell after a few days. Believe me, your zebras is going to lay more than enough eggs for you to be worried about a cracked egg.

]]> By: benji http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-239 benji Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:12:35 +0000 http://www.finchme.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-with-cracked-eggs/#comment-239 pag aralan mo mag egg candling bro para di sayang ang araw nila sa pag incubate ng bugok o clear eggs pag aralan mo mag egg candling bro para di sayang ang araw nila sa pag incubate ng bugok o clear eggs

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