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

casportpony said:

@daxigait
 , have you felt the keel of all the birds in the pen where you found the worms? 

-Kathy

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huh??!

Got 40 out of 42. Aussies, Buff Brahmas, Ameraucana and Barred Rocks and Sex Links I think,. I really should have marked the sex link eggs.Now I have no clue whats what. And I have two other hatches like this. LOL.

Good morning, all!

I screwed up quoting, so I will try to do this from memory:

@daxigait - yeah, I had an ankle injury like that, torn ligaments, super technicolor. Took a while to heal, but totally fine now. I'd love to say it happened while I was saving a baby in a stroller form an oncoming 18 wheeler... but I slipped in the parking lot.

{{{{{{{healing vibes}}}}}}}}

Thanks for the several of you who gave input on the hanging waterer. It's too hot here to rely entirely on nipple waterers in the summer (at least that makes me nervous - so I always like to have a second water source).

Whoever it was who said that they were timing their next hatch to occur DURING work, so that it would happen on its own (and less risk of wanting to do something) - I think you're on to something. I may try that once I get my temps and humidity corrected (and don't have all the malpos).

Shellee (sp?) thank you for sharing the wonderful story about your father.

@Sally Sunshine , I'm glad you're feeling better.

Benny, now I'm hungry for spaghetti and meatballs!!! But it's 10AM!!!

Thanks for the get well wishes for my foot - it truly is mostly inconvenient/irritating, rather than severely painful, and I was just grumping about it. I rested a lot yesterday, but had chicken chores this morning that HAD to be done. I have the day off, and so I really need to take the opportunity today to get the lumber for the growout pens/tractors that I will be building. Once the lumber's here, I can do the sanding sitting down. While one will be a growout pen (so I have a couple weeks), one needs to be finished ASAP because I have some Speckled Sussex at 17 weeks who are in a little coop that is now too small for them (they roam in a paddock all day to mitigate this, but LOVE to escape!). They need a forever home and a boyfriend - Tank the Naked Neck (who stays in his paddock all day long) now escapes to roost on top of their coop (to watch over them) EVERY SINGLE NIGHT now. So there's some urgency to get this done.

Sourdough bread for the week is on second rise. Once done, I'll go on my lumber run. I also have to set up the NN paddock today. I have the egg eater in a crate in the NN coop for the day while I try to nail down who's laying what (thin-shelled-wise), running out to check nest boxes frequently (in case any of the others get bad ideas). So much to do...

Happy happy day, all!



- Ant Farm

NestingHillsSC said:

Got 40 out of 42. Aussies, Buff Brahmas, Ameraucana and Barred Rocks and Sex Links I think,. I really should have marked the sex link eggs.Now I have no clue whats what. And I have two other hatches like this. LOL.

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very nice

@Sally Sunshine asked my to explain how I setup the auto turner in my homemade incubator. It should have been quite simple, I bought the part for $133 from Dickeys Incubators. It included the silver metal arm you see here, and the (crucial) gold colored cam directly behind it (you can only see a sliver of the gold piece in the photo. It has a timer motor built in that you can't really see here. The timer motor completes a revolution about every 2 hours and triggers the main motor that runs until the cam hits a switch to turn it off. The outer metal arm moves up or down with each cycle of the motor, pushing or pulling the trays with it.

The problems I had were with adjusting the height of the motor relative to the shelf and trays. I ended up using spacers that make the whole thing move when the trays shift and sort of jars the eggs in the trays. I'm not happy with it yet and need to redo it all at some point

I found a chick dead

daxigait said:

casportpony said:

@daxigait
 , have you felt the keel of all the birds in the pen where you found the worms? 

-Kathy

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huh??!

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How many are in the "sick pen"? Have you felt the breast (keel) of all the birds in that pen? I'd be willing to bet money that the worms you found came from the thinnest of them. Does that better sense (haven't had my coffee yet)?

-Kathy

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How old was it?

Yay! Can't wait to see how they feather out! My incubator crapped out. I think I lost ccl. I don't see movement but I'm going to give a few days to make sure. They are really hard to candle, blue shells. Do you have any that are white that don't have silkie legs @Sally Sunshine ?