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thomas--bombadil · 1 year

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Eggs of all colors, from pure-white to dark-brown.

These eggs were laid by many different types of hens.

#midwest #springtime #eggs #egg #chicken eggs #foodpics #food photography #country eggs #farm photography #farmcore #foodcore #rainbow eggs #country living #farm #Easter #original photography #original photography on tumblr

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birchsapfaerie · 2 months

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#farmcore #farm aesthetic #homesteading #homesteading aesthetic #eggs #chicken eggs #preserving #self sustainability #cottagecore #comfortcore

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takemetotheastralagain · 8 months

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if you vote for the sucks ass option elaborate. Askew seems to think it sucks but she won’t tell me why I brought in branches from her bush AND all of her eggs

askew also

#voloposting #chickenblr #pet chicken #chicken eggs #pet poultry #poultryblr #hold on HOLD ON SHES TOUCHING THE EGGS #gonna post anyway this is for liveblogging now

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thatsbelievable · 1 year

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#Did You Know?#facts #trivia #eggs #chickens #chicken eggs #unreality

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randofics · 7 months

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Transformers + hfy headcannon

One thing the bots had trouble understanding about you specifically was just how caring and protective you were towards your animals. So much so that when you walked into base with a lump over your abdomen tucked into your leggings, they didn't know what to think.

The fabric of a towel hung from your waistband as you nonchalantly walked towards the staff lockers, setting your bag inside and coming back with your clipboard. The lump still sat over your abdomen. When you squeezed by some other staff members, you placed your hand over it protectively so as not to bump it.

The bots' curiosity was starting to get the better of them, and finally, when you moved to talk to crosshairs, he bluntly asked what you had tucked in your waistband.

"Oh, it's just some of my little ones!"

Now, they were even more confused. Human babies weren't anywhere near that small, and you'd insinuated that there were multiple. Plus, when did you even start dating, let alone having "little ones"?

"Wait, what do you mean, little ones?"

You chuckled and pulled the bundle from your waistband, gently supporting them as you unwrapped them. Five round objects were cradled in your hands on the towel. Crosshairs knelt down to get a better look at the small round things in your palms. Some of the other bots stood around you, observing as you gently rolled them over, revealing numbers written with crayon on their surface.

They watched as you looked down lovingly at the miniscule to them objects.

Ironhide was even more confused than before. "Are those rocks?"

"No, no, these are eggs. Specifically, chicken eggs, and they're two weeks from hatching."

Optimus noticed the group forming around you and walked over butting into the conversation. "Earth birds and most reptiles reproduce via eggs. Were your birds not able to incubate them?"

"Oh, they can it's just that I'm not currently allowing them to, nor are any broody at the moment. I had them in my incubator, but the power company is working on my street right now, so it isn't running."

"Ah, so you're stepping in as a surrogate mother of sorts."

"Yes, exactly! They won't hatch unless they have the right temps and humidity."

"Why are you even trying to hatch them?"

You gently tucked them back in your leggings and held them against your abdomen for a moment. "To keep my flock going. I do this once every year or so to keep fresh genetics going. Sometimes, I buy day-old chicks to add to the flock as well, but I also enjoy the incubation process. I find that way they'll attach to me more as a mother hen than some stranger that feeds them."

With that all explained, no one had any more questions, and you continued with your work while keeping your eggs safe. The bots still thought it was strange that an intelligent species would go out of their way to care for a non-sentients young of their own volition, but then again, humans domesticated dogs, so this wasn't much different.

#fanfic #transformers fanfiction #transformers prime #tf bayverse #transformers headcanons #chicken eggs #hfy #humans are weird #headcanon

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natureisthegreatestartist · 16 days

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Did you know that some chicken breeds lay colored eggs? How delightful!

#Animals #colored eggs #chicken eggs #hens #easter eggs

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autumncottageattic · 1 year

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lifeonsweetlyfarm

#farm life #country aesthetic #country living #chicken eggs #spring aesthetic

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carnivorousous · 2 months

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#food #carnivore #eggs #chicken eggs #quail eggs #quail #chicken #wooden basket #farm

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omg-snakes · 2 years

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Hi I just want to say I love your blog and your snakes are so freaking cute!! I also had a question if you have time to answer it. I really love reptiles and would like to get into reptile keeping (probably not for a year or so as I have one more semester of my bachelor's degree and then will probably be moving). I've been doing a lot of research in preparation for bringing one home in the future. However, I've been wondering, do people ever sell fertilized reptile hatching eggs for people to hatch? I don't think this is something I would do if any breeders offered it because I don't have much experience, but I do breed chickens and people do this all the time with chicken eggs, so I was wondering if it is something people do with reptiles too. I imagine shipping would be harder with reptile eggs than chicken eggs bc of how soft they are, but I was still curious and thought it might be worth asking!

Hi there!

Okay I LOVE this ask. I think about this sort of thing a lot and while it's definitely not a thing I often wish it could be.

The very short answer is that for most reptiles, selling a fertilized egg to hatch at home is not feasible. It's definitely not possible to ship fertilized reptile eggs with any hope of hatching them, but in a few rare cases you could possibly sell one in person, in an insulated container, and if the buyer went straight home and got it into an incubator it would probably be okay.

There are a few reasons why reputable reptile breeders don't do this.

Consider that chickens have a fast rate of maturity, relatively fast incubation, regular and predictable breeding cycle, and eggs can rest for a bit before they're incubated for hatching. All of this adds up to eggs that are relatively abundant, inexpensive, forgiving in terms of being jostled since the eggs are designed to be turned during incubation, a quick turnaround from purchase to enjoying your new pet, and within a year, if you hatched a hen, you'll be able to make more eggs. As a domesticated species bred for hardiness and responsiveness to human care, healthy chicks will start eating and displaying normal chickeny behaviors right away.

Corn snakes, for contrast, take up to 4 years to mature, they only breed once per year and lay a relatively small number of eggs per breeding season compared to an average chicken, their eggs take 65-ish days to incubate, and the embryos adhere to the top of the egg very soon after the eggs are laid so they can not be turned or the embryo will be smothered by their own yolk. Once hatched, a corn snake neonate will not eat until after their first shed and sometimes a bit after that! This can be a harrowing, delicate time in a baby snake's life and they need an experienced keeper to help them thrive.

Furthermore, chickens come in specialized breeds where corn snakes are an undomesticated species. Reptiles come in color morphs but they don't have defined breeds with expected size, color, temperament, health expectations, or fecundity the way chickens do.

So if you were to, say, buy buff orpington hatching eggs, you'd reliably hatch buff orpingtons, with orpington personalities and characteristics. If you bred two hypo corn snakes, you'd definitely get hypo corn snake babies but you might also get other color morphs depending on the genetics of the parents. Unless you know very well the specific genes, temperaments, sizes, and health histories of the parents you won't have any idea of what's going to hatch. And even with all that information, it's still quite variable!

Finally, corn snakes cost a lot more than most chicken breeds and the price of a snake is in part determined by the genes they carry. Two snakes in the same clutch might vary significantly in terms of color expression, so you could have a $50 snake and a $200 snake in the same clutch! Since every egg carries a risk of failing to hatch, sellers don't usually price their snakes until they're alive, eating, and thriving. If a seller were to price their eggs, knowing the genetics of the parents that produced said eggs, they'd either be taking a huge loss on the value of a potentially valuable snake or asking their buyer to incur a significant loss should an expensive egg fail. If a breeder were to go this route, they'd probably only offer eggs that they know are low-dollar-value or have low desirability, and then we have to ask why somebody is breeding snakes they don't think are desirable...

All said and done, it's probably a safer idea to contact a local breeder and ask them to tag an egg for you, allowing you the first right of refusal on whomever hatches. They'll insure that "your" egg stays safe and if for any reason it does fail, you won't have invested anything in it except hope.

I hope this helps explain and that I didn't crush anybody's dreams.