Search results for query: *

  1. arwenreborn

    Pipped wrong end what should I do?

    So I had a few that pipped wrong end this time. One hatched no worries, one I attempted to assist as he pipped but didn't break the membrane so I left it awhile then nicked the membrane. He was cheeping happily, all seemed OK but then next day no movement etc. I didn't break the egg open to see...
  2. arwenreborn

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

    That gif had me in absolute hysterics. Poor unsuspecting victims!
  3. arwenreborn

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

    No ducks unfortunately =( 14 chicks, I think the other eggs were marked with an X which meant I didn't think they'd hatch. Folks will be super happy, and the kids are chuffed to have some new chicks to cuddle!
  4. arwenreborn

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

    I have found somewhere I can get them here in Oz, but they are a fair bit pricier than a bulb BUT look better. Thanks! Finally caught up on the thread. Another chick hatched overnight with two more unzipping this morning. Looks like the two that were unzipping yesterday have died, made no...
  5. arwenreborn

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

    I'm a mean mum. I operate the washing machine (it's brand new and my baby LOL) but the kids (3, 5 and 7) have to do their own laundry plus help me with the family laundry. I do the towels and sheets as those are hard for the kids. Each kid puts their clothes in, I do the operating of the...
  6. arwenreborn

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

    How many do you usually hatch out at a time? I know, but man I was not prepared for how sad I was when that chick died. Good learning experience though!
  7. arwenreborn

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

    Have you seen these? Are they any good? My last hatch I had 6 successful chicks, but one died about two weeks later - I was devastated, it had been cold so we'd lit a fire, I'd checked on them before I went to bed and all was good but then they got hot and when I checked them through the...
  8. arwenreborn

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

    Awesome, was hoping not to have to make another trip out there! I'm guessing they can huddle together if they need to, we do have a smaller little box in the brooder with hay etc. that I see them in sometimes. I think I need to figure out a better heating system, especially if these bulbs keep...
  9. arwenreborn

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

    Bahahahahahahaha!!! Another question - I've got 5 chicks over at the folks farm, still in a big brooder box in an enclosed machinery shed. They are just over 4 weeks old, have had the heat lamp still "technically" on but not very close to the box at all. I've had to use this one for my day old...
  10. arwenreborn

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

    But they are so cute!!!
  11. arwenreborn

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

    We are up to 8 chicks! I went out to take the girls to gymnastics and came back to some extra chicks than what were there when I left home, always a nice surprise!
  12. arwenreborn

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

    Oh man they are so cute!
  13. arwenreborn

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

    She is so strong willed, trying to channel that stubbornness into a positive direction LOL. OK great, they are all snuggled up on my heat pack at the moment but hopefully my heat lamp will arrive soon and I can whack that on them. I seem to have terrible luck with these things, my last one...
  14. arwenreborn

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

    OK so hold on, you chop their necks with the pipe cutters?
  15. arwenreborn

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

    Thanks! My two oldest ones, we were doing a maternity shoot for a mare that is due end of this month/early November. She's carrying my dream horse in her tummy, when we got her pregnant last year the girls and I came up with the idea to do a maternity shoot for her. So we braided her mane and...
  16. arwenreborn

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

    I should have known they would end up as food considering we named them Lamb Chops and Mint Sauce. I thought it was a joke. Joke was on me! Interesting about your friend! Chicken and dumplings sounds amazing! And sounds like a fantastic way to be brought up. I wish we could afford land to be...
  17. arwenreborn

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

    My folks did it to a few roosters awhile back and said it wasn't that bad, they ate them and are still alive so I'm taking that as a good sign. I have horror memories of being a teenager and walking into the mud room of our farmhouse at the time, they'd slaughtered our two pet sheep and were...
  18. arwenreborn

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

    I thought mine was going to pass out considering at 36 weeks pregnant I found him on the ground with a cut toe, he'd taken one look at it and flaked out. He also cut the cord on all 3 babies, I'm a little jealous though as I'm desperate to cut one of those suckers. :oops: Anyway, overnight I've...
  19. arwenreborn

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

    Exactly, cute cuddly chicks so I don't bawl my eyes out over my lovely little turkeys getting slaughtered. A lady I got some Araucana eggs off of had turkeys and gave me three - over here no-one eats turkey, not like a full blown turkey roast. You get turkey sliced, but never the real thing...
  20. arwenreborn

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

    Glad to know, humour keeps you young (or so I am told!) hahaha! Hi! Tiffany, new to incubating and hatching but finding it all very addictive. 3 little girls, we homeschool so we've been anxiously watching all day for our babies to hatch! Currently also have 3 turkey eggs in a separate...
Back
Top Bottom