6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[carcar80]

Oh- nm, durr. It's digital. Meh, I do okay with my regular one now, I figure.. And this won't be my incubator for the long run. It'll just be a hatcher once I get my fridge bator, which will have digital control.

That sound better, if it's just a hatcher? I figure I'll always set to where here on hatch day..

 

[Amberjem]

Wing dings and cat nuggets!!! Had to bust some out after this. Gotta love the DW for the sugestion after I told her we are chatting about it.

I like to bread the catfish and fry then in a cast iron pan with onions red taters mushrooms and sometimes bell peppers

 

[chickkrakidd]

Before.....

Mmm. Got a decent mess of blue gills there.

After

Yummy. We always cut the head& tails off along with the back& belly fins.

Kinda like a fish pork rinde.

Probably lol I don't like pork rhines either

Sure ya can it's called a refund

LOL

I like to bread the catfish and fry then in a cast iron pan with onions  red taters mushrooms and sometimes bell peppers

that sound delicious
Edited to add: Im so glad I finally caught up!!

 

[Aliciahess]

I wanna see also

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Well, color me worried. Maybe this cooling thin isn't for me, lol. We got home earlier and were going out again for a short bit.. (Follow me a minute here)..

Since I just put new eggs in earlier that do NOT need cooling, I just took the others OUT of the bator and put them on the shelf and left. Had my timer on my phone set for 1.5hr but when it went off I was busy so I reset it for another 20 min.

Well of COURSE, while replacing eggs on the turner you're touching them anyway, right? Right.

So, a quick candle and I see barely any movement in most of the eggs.

Now, I remember the power going out once toward the end of a duck hatch and I remember when the eggs were so cool, there wasn't much movement. But all turned out in the end.

So I'm trying to tell myself that was the issue. But I'm SO afraid I've messed up. :cry

My hen would get up for a while..all her babies turned out fine. Don't worry, eggs r amazing with adapting to temp.

 

[hennible]

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My hen would get up for a while..all her babies turned out fine. Don't worry, eggs r amazing with adapting to temp.

Hey, joke, send it to me too please...

 

[carcar80]

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My hen would get up for a while..all her babies turned out fine. Don't worry, eggs r amazing with adapting to temp.

Thanks! Yeah, mine did too but our temps are so hot in summer.. I thought of how cool it is where I sat the eggs (less than 70*) and thought, maybe that wasn't good. They do adapt though.. I reckon that's why the cooking is supposed to strengthen them..

ETA and hens brood in cool weather too I guess.. They still have to get up, lol.

 

[Amberjem]

Thanks! Yeah, mine did too but our temps are so hot in summer.. I thought of how cool it is where I sat the eggs (less than 70*) and thought, maybe that wasn't good. They do adapt though.. I reckon that's why the cooking is supposed to strengthen them..

ETA and hens brood in cool weather too I guess.. They still have to get up, lol.

I dont suggest cooking them if you want them to hatch but I hear ppl do find them tasty

 

[LemonMeringue]

Last time my husband went fishing he brought home some pretty big fish. As I was staying WAY back from the nasty fish cleaning I was wondering if we could use the skeletons with all the bits of meat left on them for anything. When he was done I had them take my pressure canner/cooker pot out there and load up as much as would fit. No guts, scales or skulls. Just the rest of it. I added water and pressure cooked for.....awhile. When it was cool-ish we ran it through the food mill. All the bones were surprisingly so easy to crush, even between fingers. They just disintegrated. I took all the ground fish/bones and made them into patties and froze them. Every once in awhile I would thaw one and use it when I mixed up a "treat" for my chickens. Ingredients like ground flax seed, ground toasted pumpkin seed, whole oats, scrambled eggs, vitamins.......whatever I had to put in it that day. I used water to add moisture and then mixed in some of their laying pellets once I get out to the barn. Holy fish patties! They eat that stuff like they are starving! I learned really fast not to hand feed that stuff to them, that's for sure. I used my Tupperware hamburger press to make the patties, Hahaha! They needed to be uniform in size

 

[FeyRaine]

Ohhh okay. Well they didn't have the digi at TSC! I'd have been all over that!

The only other one was the Farm Innovators(?) that is identical to the lg except more expensive.. And it had the shallow tray like the old lg so I stuck with the frugal one.

I've got an ancient LG 9200 & the one I bought at TSC a few weeks ago, which is the "new" 9200, it is a different shape, the lid fits much better & it is holding temps nicely.
The thermometer that came w/ is about 1 degree low, but so is the original ancient one, which I figured out was low over about 4 hatches of disaster.

Anyway, I was GLAD it was not digital! Our rural power surges & has brown outs & flickers practically daily, so I figured a digital unit would get trashed much faster by that.
I know the nob is annoying, but after learning to deal w/ it on the old bator its kinda like an artform now ;P

I will say the old LG did MUCH better hatch rates when I had a working auto turner (which I didn't have at first or more recently, only for about the middle 6m of hatches) honestly I think the heat the auto turner created in its little motor was helping the LG keep temp which is kinda wrong if you think about it too much, but anyway, so far so good w/ the new type 9200, time will tell...

 

[carcar80]

I dont suggest cooking them if you want them to hatch but I hear ppl do find them tasty

I was like, cooking! WTHeck is she talking about, cooking!?

As for deep sea fishing, anyone ever caught Wahoo? My hubby caught one this summer and WOW. I've never had better fish. Ever.