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Off topic!! I started a thread asking about what you consider your chickens to be, I am finding the answers very interesting and enlightening. This is the first thread I communicated with others on BYC with, so I kind of consider you guys my friends, I would value your responses to...

2 ducks???? I thought you just had one? Cute birds though...... BTW I have found my wife's limit on birds, While we were watching chicken TV, I mentioned I was thinking of cleaning out the one shed, a 40x100 all steel Quonset building with 10 inch concrete floor for heavy equipment...

Just click it It applies here. The slime will be better explained..

I just need a clarification, The males that made a run at you, were geese and not other school kids , right?

I bet you were a hit in school, Puddin, and think of the bright side, no other kid would "mistakenly" take your shoes after gym class. I wrote a thread a little over a month ago on the geese. I must apologize I said 8 geese, it was only 6, but they seemed like a lot more..... Here is...

The spousal unit here was anti-goose to the 9th degree. I could have lived with them, I could not have lived with her, if they lived here. I put a small kiddie pool in the ground 150 yards from the house, I set up a old topper in a nice portable fence for them to live in. They did not like...

I was thinking the same thing,,,,,BUT I thought 8 geese were cute too at that age! Thank God, some one was foolish enough to buy them from me!

Beings we are on spouses, I am like meep. My wife let me try to hatch two batches in the dining room. I then moved it to the basement, because I thought the air conditioner was drying out the eggs. ( it was my bad thermometer). She helps me candle eggs and even uses her stethoscope to...

When you reduce by fluff, and for using shipped eggs, add in a bonus for using a poor or homemade incubator, I am thinking your one chick will get you around 147% hatching rate..... I think I finally have this chicken math down!!!!

QUICK open the window and claim they are outside birds that just flew in!

That is straight forward, it cannot be chicken math.... But I like the day two thing. I just used those that lived 3 seconds outside the egg.

Quote: Originally Posted by Alaskan me, I am ecstatic! I have an over 50% hatch rate on my shipped quail. I Would like to know the computation method used to get 50%. I understand these were shipped eggs and that is a different numerator or denominator than eggs you raise yourself...

There is one going, I have Ethel's eggs in it.. I just wish I knew the number, and could candle them. Just sitting out while she sits on them is killing me.

I have a question. What's a DH?

Whether the pictures will be accepted depends on whether they are indoor or outdoor chicks, after all this was Alaskans thread.

Amazing how different each bird is. I would have bet she would have taken the new ones as her own. Of course, when I think about my trying to get Myrtle to adopt babies it did not work so well. But I just blamed it on Ethel kidnapping the babies. Maybe she only succeeded in kidnapping them...

Let me do some chicken math on this... 45% 75% 17% Totals.......157% Wow you blew my 130% out of the water!

Bumme, I feel for you, having just had my first hatch of the year, I know how you feel. I wish I had just sold my first 82 eggs I tried and bought beer.

Ethel was back at noon for noon treats. I went in the house for less than 10 minutes she was gone. I walked through acres of poison ivy and mosquitos and did not find her or her nest. I have been trying to figure out which way she is going or coming from, but she is just too sneaky.... So...

She was gone this AM, came back at noon and if gone again.. She has never been successful. She thinks incubation periods are daylight hours and no more than a week at a time...