100% hatch rate on shipped eggs!

[new 2 pfowl]

We have so much fun here that sometimes we get to wanderin' off track!

 

[AugeredIn]

It's all good. We ought to have all the chats and conversations, but I can't help but wonder if the lack of concise threads is one of the reasons we have lost a few of the bigger breeders and a lot of the technical conversation. I know for sure that two have found greener pastures. Maybe it is the proliferation of Facebook groups that has done it.

I think that people that are looking for good information search the forums and if the threads are not concise they just give up and go elsewhere. I have said it before and I will say it again, I will never open the "Show off your Peas" thread ever again. It is worthless because you cannot keep up. You don't see the chicken guys doing that. There are threads for jubilee orpingtons, gold laced orpingtons, chocolate orpingtons, etc, etc. Wouldn't it be better to have a hundred page thread on Spalding Purple peafowl?

I find myself hitting the site less often and quite frankly looking for the posts from one or two people, usually like Kathy and her pursuit of medication information.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Not to go further astray, but: I understand your points and completely agree that we don't want anyone to miss out on the help they need, or not want to spend time here.

However, I'm here quite often and in my own experience:

1) If I am looking for specific information, it is easy to find using the search function.
2) If I have a problem not already addressed, or that I can't locate by searching, I always get a helpful response right away.
3) In general, any efforts I have ever made to keep a thread on track - for example, suggesting that someone who has posted some random question on an unrelated thread just start a new thread, etc. - are usually ignored. (Or someone gets bent out of shape.)

I think that this forum just is what it is, for better or worse.
It's kind of an organic thing, and it's shaped daily by the people who come here to ask questions and share experiences, tell about their tragedies or show off their new babies.

Just my own opinions and experiences, of course!

*Thank you for your patience.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread on 100% hatch rate on shipped eggs.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Well, I don't post a lot, but I do turn to google to hunt answers a lot and I gotta say, BYC posts always seem to pop up for any poultry questions I have. I find myself skipping google more and more and just coming here instead. So I'd have to say BYC members are doing something right.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Grats on the awesome hatch rate btw! Adorable little ones!

 

[Sylviaanne]

Okay, i'm not saying anyone here would do this, but what's to stop an egg seller from marking their eggs with a false date or selling eggs that they know aren't fertile?

-Kathy

I think that it would have to be a pretty greedy, desperate and mean/cruel person to do that. That thought never even entered my mind until I read it. Not for me to do it or that a breeder would do it to me. I think that sometimes I am very naïve and gullible, even at 60 years of age. I like being as honest as I can be and feel that being honest brings good things to me.

 

[Cindysid]

Hatching is so addictive I don't even go to casinos anymore it seems like all gambling impulses are satiated at home.
Definitely post the BS and update as their markings develop that is why they are my favorite pattern.

Here are some pics of all 14 hatched this week. 10 IB's 1 white, and 3 black shoulder. Even the little weak one has perked up. I had to tape a couple of feet and legs, but nothing major. Still waiting on those Javas. They are internally pipped, so maybe today.

It's really difficult to take a pic of 14 chicks, but I did my best.

 

[Cindysid]

Here are some pic of my Spalding, Spike, who is 3 1/2 months old,my 2 month old India Blues, and some month old ibs and bs.

 

[zazouse]

I think that it would have to be a pretty greedy, desperate and mean/cruel person to do that. That thought never even entered my mind until I read it. Not for me to do it or that a breeder would do it to me. I think that sometimes I am very naïve and gullible, even at 60 years of age. I like being as honest as I can be and feel that being honest brings good things to me.

You honesty is what crooked people prey on, seen many cons on e-bay, folks selling turkey eggs for pea eggs is just one of them, misrepresenting a color and taking others pea photos to represent their own birds

and what can you do if you fall into their web? NOTHING cause them eggs ain't never gonna hatch and they know it, then it is your fault for not incubating them properly or just blame it on the shipping.
There have always been cons out there and now that the population is enormous and the web is here it is only logical that it has become a way of life for may people, hard to take a person to court if they are in another state or even 200 miles away cause by law you have to go to the state or county they reside to file a suit.

 

[zazouse]

Well, I don't post a lot, but I do turn to google to hunt answers a lot and I gotta say, BYC posts always seem to pop up for any poultry questions I have. I find myself skipping google more and more and just coming here instead. So I'd have to say BYC members are doing something right.

Yep you are right, we all work together here for the benefit of our birds and do our best to provide accurate and helpful info that can easily be found. there are some nice facebook with peafowl but the problem is topics and questions get buried so easily in just a day or two and then folks get tired of posting the same answers to the same questions over and over and over again sure we get some of the same post but there is always someone here to help you find the info you seek by finding the topic

Other website just never seem to keep it going but then you get one like this that just clicks and you find yourself where you need to be

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