EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

Chicken wha? :hmm

People have different definitions of "hobby". I think a few hundred birds kept to provide sufficient stock to breed from and sell can still be a hobby.
CHICKENOLOG! Like a vulcanolog but with chickens! :lau
Hobby is somthing that is appendix to your real life, that give you satisfaction and pleasure, it's usually in most hobbies, absorb money and not producing it, but the most important is that it doesn't take from you time that you need to invest in your "real" life and family, treatment of 160 chickens daily is not a hobby, it is a pseudowork.
 
CHICKENOLOG! Like a vulcanolog but with chickens! :lau
Hobby is somthing that is appendix to your real life, that give you satisfaction and pleasure, it's usually in most hobbies, absorb money and not producing it, but the most important is that it doesn't take from you time that you need to invest in your "real" life and family, treatment of 160 chickens daily is not a hobby, it is a pseudowork.
See this
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chickenology
 
CHICKENOLOG! Like a vulcanolog but with chickens! :lau
Hobby is somthing that is appendix to your real life, that give you satisfaction and pleasure, it's usually in most hobbies, absorb money and not producing it, but the most important is that it doesn't take from you time that you need to invest in your "real" life and family, treatment of 160 chickens daily is not a hobby, it is a pseudowork.
If you say so. For me, chickens and other critters are my real life.
 
Well, I "rested my eyes" for a good long while - I needed that. Hands are BOTH numb, but at least not hurting. Sitting here drinking coffee, waiting for my hands to work well enough to head out and do chores.

He's adorable and very small, its a mission to keep him warm. I really hope he makes it.

Yep, Wildlife career... I have raised a good lot of joeys :)

:fl Please continue to share pics - I would love to watch him grow up. :love

You need to buy you or make you one of those automatic defeatherer flotchies for in a drill motor. Chaos & Joey both use ones they made (sorry; can't get tags to work).

Well, I was just being stupid and bullheaded about the dry plucking thing. It IS easier to pluck after scalding - dry plucking takes more force. I should have known better after the issues I had with my wrists after building. :he

Hello! I wanted to quickly ask for some advice here

Ok so last week one of my dearly beloved pet chickens went broody and has been sitting on 10 (that was the last count I have a feeling there's been more sice then) eggs and been faithfuly sitting on them sice sometime last week. It may seem like everythings going fine but I'm sad to say it's not! I also have 2 white chantaclairs (I probly spelt that wrong) who ALSO what to sit in the same nest as Rainbow (the chicken mentioned at the start) I've been trying to keep the two hens away but it's getting insane what thier doing to Rainbow (BTW in my profile pic the black chicken on the right is Rainbow). Now another problem, Rainbow is a disabled chicken she lost use of her right leg sometime last year in a mating acsedent with one of our aggresive roos (Who died for the crime) Rainbow has troble properly sitting on the nest as well as getting in and out of the nesting box (When she is kicked out or has to go for food and water) whenever I'm out by the coop I always check on her.

Do you guys have any advice on this for me? I really would aprechate any help I can get since this is only my 3rd time with a broody and Rainbows first time doing this.

There is a REALLY good thread on BYC that is the "broody" version of this thread. VERY good advice over there, active enough that folks usually answer questions after not too long:

Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

I've read that you should give the broody a private place to sit if other chickens are interfering with the nest. Some people rig this inside the coop so that re-integration of the broody and chicks isn't as hard. You will also need to make sure that all the eggs are the same "age" and new ones haven't been laid (or be ready with an incubator when mama leaves them to tend the earlier chicks).


:plbb Thanks. I think.

80 are dinner.

You know, I was so pleased with the bodies of the birds I culled that I'm already planning new hatches for the Fall. I was going over different breeding options my head during all that plucking...


I hate this - I quoted this, but now can't see what image I'm quoting, so I don't know what I wanted to say... :he

Edit - It's your pip photo:

:clap Remember I had those eggs that lost like 25% weight and there seemed to be no room? All of them hatched early and healthy. So I'm pulling for these little ones. :fl

Very long night! I don't have the energy to give coffee. :oops:

:hugs:hugs:hugs

Hi everyone! Chickens get their summer bath this week. Then a dose of ivermectin for any parasites. Am I the only one who bathes their birds who doesn't plan on showing them?

Yup. If I bathed all my chickens I'd be sitting at the bin scrubbing 'til the tomatoes get planted.

Interesting that you bring this up, because I was actually contemplating the same thing, at least for the GNH boys. They have normal poops, but because they have big fluffy butts, there's some poop there. I want to clean it (to make sure no risk of fly strike) and also give them a good once over check while doing it. They're so big that I think I need to buy a utility sink though...

Hi, I'm back can I some help with a problem?

Well, spit it out, girl, what is it? You know that's what we're here for.

No one can answer if you don't ask - ask the question in the same post. :rolleyes:

Well, I've got bread dough rising, and my hands are starting to feel more normal (I can close them and am less worried about dropping things). So I'd better get to it.

After I finish this cup of coffee...

:caf

- Ant Farm
 

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