California - Northern

[MrsMoonCat]

Driving to Palm Desert...Computer plugged into the car for charging! Ipad and iphone nearby....webinar in 30 minutes...what a funny way to travel.

Meanwhile at home my hens will be very angry that they don't get to free range for 5 days! We have a renter that takes care of the birds while we are gone but I don't the idea of them being out without me being there. Big mother hen..

I'm such a ding dong...

I set eggs right after the Stockton show which means they are hatching this monday...and I won't be home... She's handled a hatch before...and really it's up to the chicks to do their job, she just puts them in the brooder after a day or so!!

That is hard to be away from home during a hatch. I worry more about all of my critters when I'm gone than anything else around here. I definitely hear about it when I get home

Safe travels!

 

[ronott1]

Now that there are no eggs under Betty= should I love her be, try to break her...or shove a couple eggs under her? LOL I have 2 goose eggs...lmbo!

Normally they stop when the chicks hatch. It is not good for them to be broody too long. They do not eat correctly when broody.

 

[zooweemama]

Normally they stop when the chicks hatch. It is not good for them to be broody too long. They do not eat correctly when broody.

Oh I was totally tongue in cheek about the goose eggs. They take over a month! Poor thing. Maybe I risk 2 chicks lives and put them with her? I will give her black ones so they look like her...She's still on the nest despite the fact there are no eggs. Hmm!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: x 2! So glad to hear.
So glad everything went well! I had a friend that had a double masectomy at 32 and had the full reconstruction. She is very pleased with the results. She only had cancer in one breast, but it was a very aggressive cancer and they told her there was a 95% chance of it going to the other breast - so she had the double masectomy done.

Oh I was totally tongue in cheek about the goose eggs. They take over a month! Poor thing. Maybe I risk 2 chicks lives and put them with her? I will give her black ones so they look like her...She's still on the nest despite the fact there are no eggs. Hmm!

If you give her chicks, do it at night in darkness. Otherwise they freak out and try to kill the babies.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Here's my Almond Joy cake I made last night - It's delicious but super rich!

 

[liz9910]

Here's my Almond Joy cake I made last night - It's delicious but super rich!

Oh wow that looks awesome! Yum yum

 

[WildflowerJLH]

Here's my Almond Joy cake I made last night - It's delicious but super rich!

My husband would LOVE that! Recipe?

 

[HighNDryFarm]

OK, I need to buy an incubator. I have too many chick orders to rely on my broodies, although I have 2 that I'm pretty sure will commit in the next couple of weeks, the orders are getting more and more so if I want to do this right I need to bite the bullet and buy one.

I had a Little Giant with a turner but it needed constant attention to keep the humidity correct and during lockdown it was a nightmare! As soon as the last chick hatched I cleaned it up, put it on Craigslist and within an hour it was gone! Swearing I'd never incubate again....after getting up in the middle of night to check on chicks, fell and broke my knee but went back to bed, woke up in writhing pain but couldn't remember a thing about how it happened I was so tired from babysitting that incubator for a week!!!

So I want a more reliable, less fussy incubator. I want to have maybe a capacity of about 36????

I'd like all and any opinions on this. Like, what's your favorite incubator for about 3 dozen eggs (if that's a size they make) and why? What is your favorite size incubator and how many eggs do you normally set at a time. I don't think I'm interested in staggered hatches so is it better to have 2 sizes of incubators or run a not full one? What size would you recommend?

AND....do you or do you know anyone who has one for sale? I went to the Brinsea site but it looks like they're incubators are all for smaller batches? I'm going to go back and look but wanted to get this question on here.

Thanks ahead of time!

 

[Happy Chooks]

So I want a more reliable, less fussy incubator. I want to have maybe a capacity of about 36????

I'd like all and any opinions on this. Like, what's your favorite incubator for about 3 dozen eggs (if that's a size they make) and why? What is your favorite size incubator and how many eggs do you normally set at a time. I don't think I'm interested in staggered hatches so is it better to have 2 sizes of incubators or run a not full one? What size would you recommend?

AND....do you or do you know anyone who has one for sale? I went to the Brinsea site but it looks like they're incubators are all for smaller batches? I'm going to go back and look but wanted to get this question on here.

Thanks ahead of time!

Brinsea is the easiest I've found to incubate in. I'm hatching in it now, but I also have a hovabator I can hatch in if I want to do a staggered hatch, or hatch a lot of chicks. They make a new incubator that holds more eggs, the Octogon 40 I think it's called?

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: I'll post it soon