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McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / Brooklyn & Hurricane
Rose:
Re: Hurricane and her eggs'
2009: she laid 4 eggs that all hatched and the chicks fledged perfectly and all migrated. (no camera)
2010:She laid 4 eggs and according to Dan (conservation) 2 eggs disappeared but remaining eggs hatched. (no camera)
2011:She laid 4 eggs that all hatched but due to torrential rain storms 2 chicks died.(camera)
2012:She laid 4 eggs that all appeared normal until hatch time three hatched and one didn't hatch, reason unknown.(camera)
2013:She laid 4 eggs, 3 that appear normal and one that was blighted and discarded.(Camera)
Now we wait until hatch time and like the Radisson nest hope for good weather. :)
The Peregrine Chick:
Weekend Weather Forecast for Brandon
Friday
* Day - Overcast with a chance of rain in the afternoon. High of 20C. Breezy. Winds from the ESE at 15 to 25 km/h.
* Night - Overcast with rain, then a chance of rain after midnight. Fog overnight. Low of 8C. Breezy. Winds from the ESE at 10 to 20 km/h. Chance of rain 80%.
Saturday
* Day - Overcast with a chance of rain. High of 18C. Breezy. Winds from the East at 10 to 20 km/h.
* Night - Overcast with a chance of rain. Fog overnight. Low of 10C. Winds from the ESE at 10 to 15 km/h.
Sunday
* Day - Overcast. Fog early. High of 17C. Breezy. Winds from the ESE at 10 to 20 km/h.
* Night - Overcast with a chance of a thunderstorm and rain. Fog overnight. Low of 10C. Winds from the ESE at 10 to 15 km/h. Chance of rain 50%.
Monday
* Day - Overcast with a chance of a thunderstorm and rain. High of 20C. Winds from the ESE at 5 to 15 km/h. Chance of rain 50%.
* Night - Overcast with a chance of a thunderstorm and rain. Fog overnight. Low of 13C. Winds less than 5 km/h.
moka:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on May 24, 2013, 14:36 ---
--- Quote from: moka on May 24, 2013, 12:24 ---I'm so sorry for the confusion, I meant the eggs she discarded, one last year and one this year. They both had dents in them, or something that looked like dents to me.
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I checked out the video of the egg being laid and it doesn't look like it was damaged at hatching and it wasn't until hours later that I noticed that there was debris sticking to the egg - it was a few hours after that the "dent" appeared and then the egg was crushed very quickly after that. From lay to discard was about 30 hours and most of that time, the eggs were on their own, incubation didn't begin until after the egg was discarded so it didn't take much for Hurricane/Brooklyn to crush the egg when they were in the box with it. And they didn't do it on purpose, they were being their usual careful selves around their eggs.
So what does this mean? It may just be that she's a three egg bird or that her system needs more time between egg 1 and 2? She's healthy and her surviving eggs look great and her previous years' offspring are all fine, so it may just be her unique nesting quirk. It's also not something we can do anything about so we will be happy with three eggs and hopefully three chicks each year. ;) ;D
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Thank you so much for your patience. Also, your information always gives me insight into these situations.
I love her even if she's a 3 egg mama.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: moka on May 24, 2013, 12:24 ---I'm so sorry for the confusion, I meant the eggs she discarded, one last year and one this year. They both had dents in them, or something that looked like dents to me.
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I checked out the video of the egg being laid and it doesn't look like it was damaged at hatching and it wasn't until hours later that I noticed that there was debris sticking to the egg - it was a few hours after that the "dent" appeared and then the egg was crushed very quickly after that. From lay to discard was about 30 hours and most of that time, the eggs were on their own, incubation didn't begin until after the egg was discarded so it didn't take much for Hurricane/Brooklyn to crush the egg when they were in the box with it. And they didn't do it on purpose, they were being their usual careful selves around their eggs.
So what does this mean? It may just be that she's a three egg bird or that her system needs more time between egg 1 and 2? She's healthy and her surviving eggs look great and her previous years' offspring are all fine, so it may just be her unique nesting quirk. It's also not something we can do anything about so we will be happy with three eggs and hopefully three chicks each year. ;) ;D
moka:
--- Quote from: moka on May 23, 2013, 16:10 ---Tracy, this makes two years in a row that Hurricane lays an odd shaped egg. Could this have something to do with her small size, smaller than normal? I imagine she would be more uncomfortable too carrying those eggs.
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--- Quote from: RCF on May 23, 2013, 17:11 ---Hurricanes three eggs look normal to me, they don't look odd shaped. ??? From looking at Tracy's video's, even the egg she discarded didn't look odd shaped even though it did look collapsed.
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--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on May 23, 2013, 17:34 ---If an egg looks "odd" I think it is just the way it may be sitting in the scrape or the way the light/shadow is lighting it up. I think by definition, eggs are egg-shaped, and no I'm not being facetious, I mean that is the way they form/have to form during the process of getting from point A to point B before being laid.
What makes you think the egg looks "odd"? I've been through recent recordings of shift changes and they look fine to me ... :-\
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I'm so sorry for the confusion, I meant the eggs she discarded, one last year and one this year. They both had dents in them, or something that looked like dents to me.
From TPC: hey Moka, tweaked the layout of your post just to make it a bit easier to read ;)
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