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  1. Jessimom

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

    Hello! I've been away a few years. Good to see everyone!
  2. Jessimom

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

    Hi All!!! Just a quick hi. I miss everyone! My computer crashed, and am finally getting back online. Lots of changes.....Lost my job after 16 years, have been hopping temp jobs, but finally started a permanent one. Just need to work here for 2 more years, then I'm LEAVING CA, for TX...
  3. Jessimom

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

    Hi!!! I am really sorry about your chicks! :hitI once lost about 25 because they decided to sleep AWAY from the heat and IN the spilled water from a broken water dispenser. It shows that they really aren't very smart. We've had more rain than usual, but NOTHING near what everyone else...
  4. Jessimom

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

    We regularly get temps well over 100, and we use Misters. We also chop up veggies and fruit and put it in an ice cube tray, fill it with water and freeze them. We give them frozen treats. You can set up a kiddie swimming pool and put in tiny goldfish in. My girls like to stand in front of...
  5. Jessimom

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

    That is true, and I don't know if the water dropped copters do scoop from the ocean when it's close. We do have a few desalination plants out here, but they are expensive to operate, and are on PRIME real estate. I think there are 2 that might still be operating (Carlsbad and Santa Barbara)...
  6. Jessimom

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

    Congrats on the hatch. I just finished my LAST HATCH for the year - it has to be. Out of 23 eggs, only got 12 chicks, one of which I had to cull. A week ago, I hatched eggs for a friend, and her's all hatched between day 20 and 21. Same incubator for both sets, other than the 4 days of the...
  7. Jessimom

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

    What's sad is the Chaparral and most Pines need fire to generate new growth. So, after everything burns, and we survive the mud slides, then everything grows back and goes through another cycle.
  8. Jessimom

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

    Hi everyone!!! I agree, all this talk of rain!! We need some down here as well. I really hope your brother is safe. Have they evacuated him yet? I heard about some new evacuations this morning. No fires around me, thankfully there isn't much left to burn after the Thomas fire. We've had a...
  9. Jessimom

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

    Hi BullChick!!! I've missed everyone!!!
  10. Jessimom

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

    I live in a valley, on one of the highways leading in to the valley goes around a bend, that opens to gaps on both sides. We have what they call Santa Ana winds. These can hit 60 mph, and during those winds. As you come around that bend with high mountains on both side, and hit that gap, the...
  11. Jessimom

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

    My heat lamp does not seem to be making the little chicks that just hatched very happy. What does everyone think about putting the day old chicks in with 2 week old chicks?
  12. Jessimom

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

    I have a regular cool down that I set on my incubator, but I turn that off at lockdown. I've never knowingly lowered the temps at lockdown. But, that tiny temp change certainly can't hurt. Make really good notes about this hatch, if things weren't perfect, try something different on your...
  13. Jessimom

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

    Hi All! Things have been busy, haven't spent much time on BYC. Winds - always an issue around here, but it's been somewhat quiet lately, just colder than normal. I hope that the trees stay up, and the coops don't get blown down for everyone! Good luck on your hatch Farmer Connie!! I have...
  14. Jessimom

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

    Yes, but when you throw 8 tomatoes into a coop with 6 chickens. They all attack the tomatoes, but ONE chicken runs off with ONE tomato, and 5 chickens chase her. One smartens up, goes back and eats 7 tomatoes while the other 5 chickens fight over the 1 that the chicken ran off with.
  15. Jessimom

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

    I took a little wire mesh and made separate areas for mine in my Brinsea, but in my incuview I used those green baskets my strawberries came in.
  16. Jessimom

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

    WOW, that basically says there are weasels everywhere! I have heard that Mink can get into a seriously secure coop and they just kill for fun. I do have a serious gopher problem, but have never seen a weasel, and I hope I never do. They look ugly. As for predators, here is what they list for...
  17. Jessimom

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

    https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/producers-pride-defender-chicken-coop?cm_vc=-10005
  18. Jessimom

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

    I got this as a "prize" for a farm Co - OP item. We all bought "chances", and I lucked out. But, I've seen them at Tractor Supply. I basically want it for the fencing as well!
  19. Jessimom

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

    To this particular coop? That would be nice. Last one I got from them, had 1 closing door, but one that didn't close. We covered it, and moved the ramp to the door that did close. At the top of the coop it was open - totally. We added some wire mesh to close it up. So, lots of ventilation...
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