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Thanks for the offer.  I'll candle again before lockdown.     I think I may order one depending on the cost. 

Most of the eggs I had to pull were cochin and Aussie/Cochin cross.  Looks like I need to do some feather plucking to improve the fertility.

CJarvis...Love the pictures.  Is the first pair the Opal?   The Birchens are looking NICE!

LOL Yes Guy there was one, he got a $10 bid and POed him, said he wouldn't take less than $40 for him, everyone laughed!!! The sold chicks and baby guineas for 3-6 dollars, sold quail size chicks for 85 cents to 1 dollar each, some baby muskovies brought  up to $6, call babies $6, did not see the adult ducks and geese and coternix quail sell, game pullets brought $3.50 to $6, roosters were anywhere from 50 cents to $3, a cage brought $11, Tomatoes in soda flats brought from $6 to $24!!!!! medium watermelons brought $5 to $11, sorry didn't see the rest, they had, cukes, peppers, okra, butternut squash, yellow squash, zukes, and some eggs!!! Lots of rabbits from babies to fryers to breeders, several kinds, had 6 Lion heads!!! One hen and chicks brought $24  It wasn't a bad sale, there was a lot to choose from, definitely a buyers market today!!!  Lynn

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Originally Posted by NanaKat 

Thanks for the offer.  I'll candle again before lockdown.     I think I may order one depending on the cost. 

Most of the eggs I had to pull were cochin and Aussie/Cochin cross.  Looks like I need to do some feather plucking to improve the fertility.

 

CJarvis...Love the pictures.  Is the first pair the Opal?   The Birchens are looking NICE!

 They are Opal, the cockrell will show all over the country this year starting in Alabama, then making the rounds

Nana, my husband got me a Redline by Nebo flashlight, it says it's got 220 lumens at 150 yrds. I know I  can see veining after 2 days of incubation in 75% of the eggs I candle. By Day 4 I can tell 100% which ones are growing and which aren't. Although I usually wait til Day 7 to toss. This thing is *bright. It was about $25. I thought of getting one of the Brinsea candlers but they were around $70.

Guy if they come in the hen house at night, then lock them in and don't turn them out until around noon, until they start figuring out where the nest are, and of course put some golf balls or fake eggs in the nest as training props!!!  That's what I would do!!!  Lynn  

We zip tie the shade cloth to the fencing and when it is over an area that doesn't have a solid base (like over an open top of a pen) we take cord and zig-sag it across the top of the shade cloth, so it doesn't catch the wind and become a parachute. 

On another note - we were heading to OKC this evening from Texas, along I44, when Jaxon called to see where we were.  Hubby told him we were close to where where Jaxon used to go to the (Fletcher) chicken auction with me.  Jaxon got it in his mind that we were close to Newcastle instead, because he called about 30 minutes later to see if we were home yet.  Some families explain things in distance or time, we explain them in relation to chicken auction locations