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

Ur-ur-ur-urrr said:

Had to spend a little time this afternoon to run electrics to my coop. Was only going to do it to have power for the bird bath de-icer I am going to install in my water container before the really cold weather gets here. Don't relish the thought of having to lug buckets of water every day. I think I'll also install a light on a timer to see if I can get an extra egg or two now that the days are getting short. Almost wish I'd rented a ditch witch, but I pecked away at it with a shovel until the trench was done. I'm just glad it was only 50 feet!

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LittleLakePhil said:

Yeah he got his Master in Nursing today.

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Ur-ur-ur-urrr said:

Had to spend a little time this afternoon to run electrics to my coop. Was only going to do it to have power for the bird bath de-icer I am going to install in my water container before the really cold weather gets here. Don't relish the thought of having to lug buckets of water every day. I think I'll also install a light on a timer to see if I can get an extra egg or two now that the days are getting short. Almost wish I'd rented a ditch witch, but I pecked away at it with a shovel until the trench was done. I'm just glad it was only 50 feet!

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kwhites634 said:

Days only getting shorter for 2 more days, why bother?

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FridayYet said:

LOL, stressed because I have to go to a fancy holiday party and I'm not the cocktail and chit chat kind. I'll survive though.

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TJChickens said:

Hi everybody.

I had a hectic few days and missed several pages here. I hate not keeping up!

Any fertile eggs yet @Sally Sunshine ? I have to use mostly my mid size Serama roos for good fertility. The little ones don't do as well but I do get a few fertile eggs from their girls. It does take forever incubating lots of eggs just to get a few that work.

I finally got my shipped Serama eggs today from a different breeder. Out of 12 eggs 4 have loose, (jiggly, not completely detached), but almost normal size and shape aircells. One was broken. One has traveling air bubbles and a completely detached cell. All the rest have loose saddle cells.

They are upright in the R-com...and oops, 4 of our eggs are in there now too.....wouldn't want the hatch to be a total bust, right?

Candled my NYD HAL eggs that are in the mind reading bator. One was clear but the other 6 are developing very nicely! This incubator is holding it's temp really well. Even with our house temp dropping drastically at night. Humidity works well other than if I needed to lower it, I would have to syringe water out. Not usually the problem here since it's so dry.

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Ur-ur-ur-urrr said:

Had to spend a little time this afternoon to run electrics to my coop. Was only going to do it to have power for the bird bath de-icer I am going to install in my water container before the really cold weather gets here. Don't relish the thought of having to lug buckets of water every day. I think I'll also install a light on a timer to see if I can get an extra egg or two now that the days are getting short. Almost wish I'd rented a ditch witch, but I pecked away at it with a shovel until the trench was done. I'm just glad it was only 50 feet!

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LittleLakePhil said:

Yeah he got his Master in Nursing today.

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Bubbles12345 said:

You have what in your coop???? electricity???? I am sooo jealous, I lug jugs of water out there all winter long... This year I got waterproof gloves. Last year was misery... Ducks emptying out the water as fast as I could fill it!!!

Oh what I would give for electricity in the coop....

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