California - Northern

[lawatt]

Ya I'm excited. They're barnevelders and Isbars. And Monday or Tuesday my ayam cemani eggs should come!

i'm hoping for some hatching isbars soon, too -- these are the ones that spent a day or so in the malfunctioning incubator, at too low of temps (~85 most of the time?), then sat out at room temp for another day, and THEN went in at the correct temp on august 27 -- that makes today day 19, but i'm not sure whether the day of being at 85° might have gotten any early development going, so i switched the egg-turner off on thursday, and am now keeping an eye on them... just in case...

 

[Chickengirl1304]

i'm hoping for some hatching isbars soon, too -- these are the ones that spent a day or so in the malfunctioning incubator, at too low of temps (~85 most of the time?), then sat out at room temp for another day, and THEN went in at the correct temp on august 27 -- that makes today day 19, but i'm not sure whether the day of being at 85° might have gotten any early development going, so i switched the egg-turner off on thursday, and am now keeping an eye on them...  just in case...

Omg! I remember that :/ good luck! I hatched more than I had expected when I found that my inubator was at 96 the whole hatch!

 

[ronott1]

This is Funny!

 

[chiqita]

i'm hoping for some hatching isbars soon, too -- these are the ones that spent a day or so in the malfunctioning incubator, at too low of temps (~85 most of the time?), then sat out at room temp for another day, and THEN went in at the correct temp on august 27 -- that makes today day 19, but i'm not sure whether the day of being at 85° might have gotten any early development going, so i switched the egg-turner off on thursday, and am now keeping an eye on them... just in case...

did you candle at all laura? just wondering if there is anything in your eggs. That was the crazy hatch of madness. Or the start was

 

[lawatt]

did you candle at all laura? just wondering if there is anything in your eggs. That was the crazy hatch of madness. Or the start was

i did, but it was hard to tell what's going on in there -- they all have wonky-shaped air cells, but six SEEMED to be developing, while the other seven (one is a Daisy Jr. egg) i wasn't as sure about... but since this is the first time i've ever used an incubator, and they were shipped eggs, i'm not counting on having a huge success rate?

(although a friend has a chicken who's just gone broody & wants to borrow a few chicks for her to raise! will see what we get...)

 

[lawatt]

and hey, a flock of wild turkeys just wandered through the yard past the (closed) coop -- why doesn't the bobcat eat THEM instead of my chickens?

 

[chiqita]

and hey, a flock of wild turkeys just wandered through the yard past the (closed) coop -- why doesn't the bobcat eat THEM instead of my chickens?

because they fly! But I think it does when it can get them, the wild turkeys had been disturbed on the day our attack happened and I think some were missing...

 

[chiqita]

i'm hoping for some hatching isbars soon, too -- these are the ones that spent a day or so in the malfunctioning incubator, at too low of temps (~85 most of the time?), then sat out at room temp for another day, and THEN went in at the correct temp on august 27 -- that makes today day 19, but i'm not sure whether the day of being at 85° might have gotten any early development going, so i switched the egg-turner off on thursday, and am now keeping an eye on them... just in case...

as long as it looks like ther eis chick in there, they developed and there is hope! Ill take hope!

 

[OR4-hmom]

because they fly!  But I think it does when it can get them, the wild turkeys had  been disturbed  on the day our attack happened and I think some were missing...

They fly more than a little even! Coming home one evening I came up behind a group of 8/10 walking down the middle of the road, they finally decided to get out of the road and flew at least 20 feet up a pine tree along the road. I was not expecting that height from them.

I hope to take your words of wisdom regarding skunk spray removal from human hair. Since I'm running across them in my nighttime walks to the coops it is just a matter of time I fear.

 

[GallusGirl]

Ack, it has been so long since I went on vacation! I'm so behind on BYC NorCal! I'm not sure if it's a good thing (lots of great reading to do) or a bad thing (all those hours of reading BYC when I should be doing productive things like...unpacking from my last 3 trips)!

Most importantly: The friend that was petsitting my 3 hens while I was away on vacation has a beautiful big empty chicken coop, and is now addicted to fresh eggs. Is there anyone who has 4 extra laying hens of various shapes and sizes and colors that they would like to rehome? I know there are some serious hatching addicts around, and I'm happy to pay decently for lovely BYC quality hens! I haven't looked on Craigslist yet, but there's always that option if there aren't any excess hens around.