INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

Scovy Momma said:

AWWWS! Thank you! They are so pretty!! I just love the white all mottled in the colors! Those have always been my favy & I am so happy the one that made it ended up having that look!
I'm curious when you get the shipped eggs. Has it been too many days already? I think I might take a break on hatching...or whatever it is I was doing, because they weren't actually "hatching" except for my Poe.
I opened the three eggs & it made me sad. A white chick & two black ones. They were completely developed. I knew they were moving as of day 19 so they should have been fine but they didn't pip. One of the black ones was smaller than the other & instead of his beak under wing it was in the yolk sac & seems to have broke the yolk. The other two looked perfect but for the yolk not being absorbed. I am very new so I can be absolutely wrong, though.

Maybe because the bagel Bator is so small with jury a thin plastic dome top it can't keep them warm? I don't know, I had the bator covered with sweats trying to keep it warm. It stayed pretty consistent temps around 99, but I just couldn't get it to stay over that very consistently. Maybe my house was too cold. Can anything be determined by these pictures of what I did wrong?

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temp and humidity are the two big killers.

chickendreams24 said:

Anyway back to why today was a bad day. If you could all please keep my family and my Grandpa in your prayers. Today it was decided that Tuesday my Grandpa will be going to live in an Alzheimer's care home and we are not taking it well. It's a local place and seems like a good one, but my great grandfather died shortly after being admitted to a similar but nicer place. My mother is a nurse and her and I lived with my grandparents for over three years to try and keep him at home, as she made him that promise when he was horrified after being diagnosed with the horrible disease. However it has become clear that it is no longer safe for him to live at home despite the many safety measures we implemented. He is also to the point that he frequently doesn't recognize even my Grandma and most of the time doesn't know where he is. My Grandpa is like a father to me as my own has fallen horribly short. Please pray for my mother's, grandmother's, and family's peace during this awful time, and please pray that we can salvage this Christmas in spite of how bleak things feel today. Thank you guys.

I have fallen behind again with the weekend and will try to keep up tomorrow but we are planning to go out to Grandma and Grandpa's so no guarantees. Thank you all for keeping us in your thoughts or prayers.

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My prayers are with you and your family I understand how hard it is me and my family had to make that choice to but it gets to a point where it is best.

chickendreams24 said:

Anyway back to why today was a bad day. If you could all please keep my family and my Grandpa in your prayers. Today it was decided that Tuesday my Grandpa will be going to live in an Alzheimer's care home and we are not taking it well. It's a local place and seems like a good one, but my great grandfather died shortly after being admitted to a similar but nicer place. My mother is a nurse and her and I lived with my grandparents for over three years to try and keep him at home, as she made him that promise when he was horrified after being diagnosed with the horrible disease. However it has become clear that it is no longer safe for him to live at home despite the many safety measures we implemented. He is also to the point that he frequently doesn't recognize even my Grandma and most of the time doesn't know where he is. My Grandpa is like a father to me as my own has fallen horribly short. Please pray for my mother's, grandmother's, and family's peace during this awful time, and please pray that we can salvage this Christmas in spite of how bleak things feel today. Thank you guys.

I have fallen behind again with the weekend and will try to keep up tomorrow but we are planning to go out to Grandma and Grandpa's so no guarantees. Thank you all for keeping us in your thoughts or prayers.

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Sorry to hear that. Alzheimer's is horrible, especially when people stop remembering the ones closest to them. I send my prayers.

This incubator... Okay so I put three different thermometers in. I have adjusted the settings of incubator up 2 degrees, it was that low.
The thermometers read:
Top Left- 99.2
Bottom Left- 98.1
Right- 98.6

Should I keep going up?

So one Vorwerk (golden lakenvelder) hatched tonight while I was at work... The other two... nada. Will leave them all in there for another day or so before giving up hope. Put the 9 SFH in lockdown in the genesis. Last batch of hatching eggs for quite some time.

speney said:

So ya'll want to hear a gory incubation story? It starts with a young woman who didn't have a clue ( now that I think about it that's how most of my stories start lol) and her first eggtopsy. She didn't date her eggs the first hatch and notice one was leaking so she candle it and it was dark so she decided to open it to see what was in it. Well I took the egg in one hand and the sharpest knife I had in the other standing in the middle of my kitchen I was going to score the top and go from there. So i started sawing at the top all of the sudden there was a big pop I closed my eyes first I felt the heat of something sticky hit my face the egg flew and then the smell hit me something like sulfur and rotting flesh but so much worse. I couldn't scream I couldn't open my eyes since my face was covered in god knows what and I blindly ran to the bathroom trying to hold down my supper and dove in the shower I jumped in clothes and all turned it on which was ice cold it almost made me scream again but there was no way in hell I was opening my mouth I quickly scrubbed down and was finally able to open my eyes and mouth so all of those fun curse words could come pouring out got dried of and went to look at the kitchen. Let's just say walking into a massacre would have been less traumatizing gore coated my ceiling, cabinets, walls, and stove I didn't know one egg could hold so much ick. But where had the egg gone I was looking around and didn't see it and that when I realized I had left the silverware drawer open when I got the knife I thought no way my luck can't be that bad so I slowly crept closer hoping for the best but expecting the worst. When I was finally close enough to see in the drawer there lay the egg slightly shredded from exploding and a completely formed half rotted chick. At that point I gave up and cried a little but I learned a very good lesson always date your eggs kids. At the time it wasn't funny but I can laugh about it now.

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WOW, thank you for sharing. I sure do not want to ever experience that, lol.

Scovy Momma said:

AWWWS! Thank you! They are so pretty!! I just love the white all mottled in the colors! Those have always been my favy & I am so happy the one that made it ended up having that look!
I'm curious when you get the shipped eggs. Has it been too many days already? I think I might take a break on hatching...or whatever it is I was doing, because they weren't actually "hatching"

except for my Poe.
I opened the three eggs & it made me sad. A white chick & two black ones. They were completely developed. I knew they were moving as of day 19 so they should have been fine but they didn't pip. One of the black ones was smaller than the other & instead of his beak under wing it was in the yolk sac & seems to have broke the yolk. The other two looked perfect but for the yolk not being absorbed. I am very new so I can be absolutely wrong, though.






Maybe because the bagel Bator is so small with jury a thin plastic dome top it can't keep them warm? I don't know, I had the bator covered with sweats trying to keep it warm. It stayed pretty consistent temps around 99, but I just couldn't get it to stay over that very consistently. Maybe my house was too cold. Can anything be determined by these pictures of what I did wrong?

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chickendreams24 said:

Anyway back to why today was a bad day. If you could all please keep my family and my Grandpa in your prayers. Today it was decided that Tuesday my Grandpa will be going to live in an Alzheimer's care home and we are not taking it well. It's a local place and seems like a good one, but my great grandfather died shortly after being admitted to a similar but nicer place. My mother is a nurse and her and I lived with my grandparents for over three years to try and keep him at home, as she made him that promise when he was horrified after being diagnosed with the horrible disease. However it has become clear that it is no longer safe for him to live at home despite the many safety measures we implemented. He is also to the point that he frequently doesn't recognize even my Grandma and most of the time doesn't know where he is. My Grandpa is like a father to me as my own has fallen horribly short. Please pray for my mother's, grandmother's, and family's peace during this awful time, and please pray that we can salvage this Christmas in spite of how bleak things feel today. Thank you guys.

I have fallen behind again with the weekend and will try to keep up tomorrow but we are planning to go out to Grandma and Grandpa's so no guarantees. Thank you all for keeping us in your thoughts or prayers.

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My heart goes out to you Sending prayers up for you Grandpa, you and your family.

mornin

Good morning sally

chickendreams24 said:

Anyway back to why today was a bad day. If you could all please keep my family and my Grandpa in your prayers. Today it was decided that Tuesday my Grandpa will be going to live in an Alzheimer's care home and we are not taking it well. It's a local place and seems like a good one, but my great grandfather died shortly after being admitted to a similar but nicer place. My mother is a nurse and her and I lived with my grandparents for over three years to try and keep him at home, as she made him that promise when he was horrified after being diagnosed with the horrible disease. However it has become clear that it is no longer safe for him to live at home despite the many safety measures we implemented. He is also to the point that he frequently doesn't recognize even my Grandma and most of the time doesn't know where he is. My Grandpa is like a father to me as my own has fallen horribly short. Please pray for my mother's, grandmother's, and family's peace during this awful time, and please pray that we can salvage this Christmas in spite of how bleak things feel today. Thank you guys.

I have fallen behind again with the weekend and will try to keep up tomorrow but we are planning to go out to Grandma and Grandpa's so no guarantees. Thank you all for keeping us in your thoughts or prayers.

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awww sweetie I will certainly prayers for Grampa and for you and the family @chickendreams24

Brat Flock said:

Ok I feel like crud and need some advice.... I am at the end of day 22 with no pips on my last two eggs. The Ameraucana eggs have been hard to candle so it is hard to tell how the chick is doing... I gave up pulled the shells and two remaining eggs and put them in a bag as trash. I started washing out the hatcher bator when I heard chirping from the bag...

I grabbed out the two eggs, one clearly complaining, and put them in the incubator with the turner until the other could warm back up. The one egg has been quiet and has a loose air cell, don't have much hope for it but the other definitely has a live chick in it. I tapped on the shell and broke a small hole but the inner membrane looks pinkish and I was afraid it would bleed if I broke the membrane, so I put it back in.

NOW WHAT?? I know I should have left them alone.,,

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at that stage they can get near froze and still be fine and hatch @Brat Flock give them a chance let us know how its going! always follow the assisted hatching guide, tap first and listen and then follow that guide. Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching - BackYard Chickens Community

perchie.girl said:

Course you will have to get one with wheels because mine is a

ROLLATOR.... duh duh duuuh haven't popped a wheelie yet but watch out.




deb

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dang... ok I will need to cash in some bingo winnings and cigars and trade up I guess @perchie.girl looser gets doubles at beer pong though I'll bring the depends

chicapee said:

2 pippers peeping!

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@chicapee you always pop on when I am not!! dang it! and I dont believe you!

kwhites634 said:

Put me down in the "I do" column...last time I said that I got in trouble, too

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when arent you!

Ur-ur-ur-urrr said:

Little did you know that "I do" meant "I used to do"...

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RoxysAnimals said:

Geez... I get off this thread for an hour and read everything... You guys are funny!

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welcome to the thread it wasnt even that bad last night was it?

tao chick said:

Hi.
Umm. Four eggs are in my incubator. I think I'm just testing fertility as my new cockerel has been busy. Shhhh. Don't tell anyone.

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@tao chick oopsies!!! just four! dang jumpin beans!!! what you put in? you peepin tom you!!

venymae said:

But Kansas is better

Right, @fire370 ?

Btw how do you store all that meat?!? Those geese alone would fill a freezer or two! And can you eat that cat?!?

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oh thats right!! and my venymae is there too!!!

Peep-Chicken said:

I hope that didn't crack, those things are pretty fragile sadly. I hope they hatch for you! What day are you on?

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I put them in on Thurs so Sun is day 4! @Peep-Chicken they have a death wish though you know unless they are lucky enough to hatch out one male and the rest females. then they may have a chance for survival to create a few hatching eggs for meat

fire370 said:

We have plenty of freezer space. All of the Canadians and snow geese are ground up and turned into jerky. Specklebellies are filleted and grilled/seared to MedRare. Ducks are grilled/seared to MedRare as well. I have a processing station in the shop with grinders, vacuum sealers, saws, running water, etc. We process and package everything from cows to chickens. Not a business, just doing what I grew up doing. My kids can all process too.

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I think its awesome to see my older boys following and getting their own foods and enjoying the outdoors and keeping in touch with the real world @fire370 makes me proud to follow through with what my dad took the time to teach me, and I am thrilled that he took the time to do so even back then when it was more unseen to do so for a female. I love getting images like this in text from my boys

venymae said:

Water in the brooder spring a leak, you should have seen them mob it when I finally found it and filled a new one.

In other news Dad went to hospital today, was coughing blood. They are sending him to Topeka. I knew he should have gone yesterday, but he's so stubborn.

He gives me such worry I tell you!

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oh @venymae I pray for him awww

RoxysAnimals said:

I process my meat all the time. I love elk meat. We have 5 huge box freezers in our garage, and I process for other people for a small charge. We farm sheep and rabbits too, so I process them too.

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I wish i could do rabbits dang girl! I am tough, I hunt but they have a soft bunny soft spot in my heart lol

generaldsherman said:

Good luck with your dad!




On a lighter note, my little hen just decided to go broody. Gave her two eggs that were cooking in the bator that I won't be crushed if they don't make it.

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Sherman!!! a broody!!! you got another bator!!!!

fire370 said:

Deer fat is disgusting. We grind all of our deer and then add pork fat to it. We only use deer in chili, veggie soup, spaghetti, summer sausage, etc. Way better eating cuts of meat out there than a deer. By that, I mean you will never ever see a deer steak cooked in this house. Lol

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@fire370 FINALLY someone else that hunts and actually admits this!!! get out of town!!! I will fry up those backstraps loaded with salt and pepper but the rest is ground with pork, and I will argue till my death bed any hunter who claims a deer steak better than a beef steak.. I cant tell you how many head shakes I have given in my life already at people who say they love deer meat I cant eat a deer burger unless it has pork in it!

MotorcycleChick said:

I am driving myself nuts! I keep opening (non-incubating) duck eggs, and seeing no bulls eye. I PMed the original owner, and she assures me that she's seen fertility with these two. So I opened another. Finally, I opened a chicken egg. People, I am not new to this. I am telling you though, I feel like I am. No bulls eye!

So maybe I am going blind, and I just can't see bulls eyes ('cause they are waaaaaay up the hill!

) or veining.
8 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes for the ducks. 1 day, 11 hours... and 46 minutes now for the chicken eggs. It's gonna be a loooong month!

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so you candled and see nothing???? @MotorcycleChick

speney said:

So ya'll want to hear a gory incubation story? It starts with a young woman who didn't have a clue ( now that I think about it that's how most of my stories start lol) and her first eggtopsy. She didn't date her eggs the first hatch and notice one was leaking so she candle it and it was dark so she decided to open it to see what was in it. Well I took the egg in one hand and the sharpest knife I had in the other standing in the middle of my kitchen I was going to score the top and go from there. So i started sawing at the top all of the sudden there was a big pop I closed my eyes first I felt the heat of something sticky hit my face the egg flew and then the smell hit me something like sulfur and rotting flesh but so much worse. I couldn't scream I couldn't open my eyes since my face was covered in god knows what and I blindly ran to the bathroom trying to hold down my supper and dove in the shower I jumped in clothes and all turned it on which was ice cold it almost made me scream again but there was no way in hell I was opening my mouth I quickly scrubbed down and was finally able to open my eyes and mouth so all of those fun curse words could come pouring out got dried of and went to look at the kitchen. Let's just say walking into a massacre would have been less traumatizing gore coated my ceiling, cabinets, walls, and stove I didn't know one egg could hold so much ick. But where had the egg gone I was looking around and didn't see it and that when I realized I had left the silverware drawer open when I got the knife I thought no way my luck can't be that bad so I slowly crept closer hoping for the best but expecting the worst. When I was finally close enough to see in the drawer there lay the egg slightly shredded from exploding and a completely formed half rotted chick. At that point I gave up and cried a little but I learned a very good lesson always date your eggs kids. At the time it wasn't funny but I can laugh about it now.

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Scovy Momma said:

AWWWS! Thank you! They are so pretty!! I just love the white all mottled in the colors! Those have always been my favy & I am so happy the one that made it ended up having that look!
I'm curious when you get the shipped eggs. Has it been too many days already? I think I might take a break on hatching...or whatever it is I was doing, because they weren't actually "hatching"

except for my Poe.
I opened the three eggs & it made me sad. A white chick & two black ones. They were completely developed. I knew they were moving as of day 19 so they should have been fine but they didn't pip. One of the black ones was smaller than the other & instead of his beak under wing it was in the yolk sac & seems to have broke the yolk. The other two looked perfect but for the yolk not being absorbed. I am very new so I can be absolutely wrong, though.


Maybe because the bagel Bator is so small with jury a thin plastic dome top it can't keep them warm? I don't know, I had the bator covered with sweats trying to keep it warm. It stayed pretty consistent temps around 99, but I just couldn't get it to stay over that very consistently. Maybe my house was too cold. Can anything be determined by these pictures of what I did wrong?

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@Scovy Momma you need to run hotter