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[TheKeeper]

So excited!
I just candled my latest batch in the Brinsea:
- 8 of 8 chocolate orp eggs fertile (active embryos)
- 7 of 8 silkie/sizzle eggs fertile (the 8th was cracked and I sealed with wax to try but didn't expect anything)
100% fertility as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks Jeff @PapaBrooder.

 

[SpringPeeper]

Copy and paste works...



-Kathy

So cute at the gangly stage!

Hello Spring Peeper,
This is a riot if I was the source for the ear lobe assertion. I really don't remember initiating the comment although I could have well passed along something along those lines by way of a reference that I found and did not read closely for all the fine details. I still don't know the answer to the relationship of the red ear lobes to success. I'm glad we are not taking each other too seriously as this is truly a fun forum. LOL all over the place on me! I'll go back and carefully read the citation you so rightly provided. I apologize for any oops I may have made. Wait until you get old; you might do something like that too! Getting along in age can be fun, at times…
Neal, the Zooman

Wait til I get old? Pffft, I'm halfway there already. I blame having kids. I swear pregnancy brain is real and it never goes away again.

It was a quote from what you linked her to, not what you wrote yourself.

 

[Audio51]

Quote: Driving anything in the Bay Area scares me to death. I moved here 28 years ago from San Jose and that was a big part of the reason. I may DH drive when we have to travel anywhere with heavy traffic.

Hello all!

Had hopes of reading through past posts but... Things really pile up when I'm gone all week.
Round Robin was terrible! DD is a weeper on the best of days but her second species was swine. The swine judge told her she had no business in the pig ring since she did chickens, that set her off. The 1500+ steer dragging the kids all over the ring and stepping on her foot twice was tough. The part that really hurt her was when they announced she finished last after her 3rd place finish last year. I've got a year to try and convince her to do her best and not tank it like she keeps telling me she is going to do.

Good to read your wife is doing well and coming home so soon Ron. She's braver than me for sure!

Hope everyone is doing well in the heat. I lost a basque hen yesterday, probably a combination of things that did her in sadly.

My basque too went to fair this year, so guy was teasing him through the cage and Hans got his finger. Wasn't pleased with me when I took the chickens side since he hadn't bothered anyone who hadn't bothered him first!

Fairs can be tough and often are not "fair". A lot of them seem rather political. My daughter was in 4-H for 2 years showing market lambs. The first year went well and she had a good experience, but the second year....quite the opposite. Her lamb took a purple ribbon, which always gets higher bids when they go into the auction ring. When we went to find out when she needed to be ready for the auction, whoever made up the list put her down as having a blue ribbon. Another kid who had actually only taken a blue was getting credit for Jen's purple ribbon. That kid happened to be a niece of the family that runs the livestock competition and auction. Blue ribbons mean less money for your lamb so I pointed it out to the staff in the office and they said I would have to talk the the guy in charge. The guy in charge was a complete jerk and had no intention of doing anything about their mistake. He said it didn't matter and they couldn't (he meant wouldn't) fix it. I told him it DID matter because she was awarded a purple ribbon and those lambs sell at a higher price. I was making such a fuss about it he finally said that if the lamb sold for less that the other purple ribbon ones he would personally pay her the difference out of his own pocket. When it sold for $300 less I approached him so he could fulfill his promise. He basically told me to "F" off and if I continued to make a stink about it Jen would never show another animal at that fair again.

Quote: I think it's great when they can learn how to handle all sorts of animals.

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Polycarb is great stuff! I use the corrugated panels on my outside bird flights in winter to protect them from wind and rain. The old plastic would only last 1 or mayby 2 seasons before they would crack and become unusable. The polycarb ones are on their 5th season and still have lots of life in them.

Quote: Is that for eggs or meat...or both?

Quote: I just use my foot to lift my very young guy that was charging me (at about 6 weeks!). A few days of that and now he runs away from me,.

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It was! They hatched at the beginning of March so they are about 20 weeks now.

So excited!
I just candled my latest batch in the Brinsea:
- 8 of 8 chocolate orp eggs fertile (active embryos)
- 7 of 8 silkie/sizzle eggs fertile (the 8th was cracked and I sealed with wax to try but didn't expect anything)
100% fertility as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks Jeff @PapaBrooder.

Were yours shipped? Mine from him had 0 development in the second batch, but we are thinking the Post Office has a lot to do with that. I may try again next spring. I really wanted some BLRW, but only ended up with 2 chicks from the first batch...a splash and a black laced....but the splash died at about 4 weeks for some reason and the black laced is feathering out weird. I will have to post a picture tomorrow

 

[bantammenace]

If my embryo doesn't turn in the egg am I pretty well screwed?

 

[ronott1]

If my embryo doesn't turn in the egg am I pretty well screwed?

Maspostitoned is usually more of an indication of when an embryo died, Usually before day16. The chick is usually head up in the big end but the head is tucked in the wrong place.

Head in the small end will still hatch and many of them will hatch without help. Chicks that hatch from the wrong end should not be used for breeding.

 

[ronott1]

Lots of people are having problems loading and many pictures have disappeared.

-Kathy

My pictures are in my album, but I cannot post them. I is a huge database scripting failure on the site.

Who's in charge of tracking the bugs?


-Kathy

If you see a bug, click on the flag icon and post the bug. And Admin will get it and they will then pass it on to the Tech support for the site.

 

[TheKeeper]

No, I picked mine up in Redding on the way home from a road trip.
I wonder if the crazy heat had something to do with it too. He was up around 105 for some time.

I have to learn not to post later at night - I can't count.
I actually have 10 of 10 chocolate orp egg set developing & 9 of 10 silkie/sizzle egg set developing. <forehead smack> Duh.

 

[1zooman12]

Whew ! That was a close one. For a minute there I thought I was losing it. Thanks for the clarification.
What kind of birdies do you support?
Are The Keeper and Lisa one and the same chick?
Neal, the Zooman

 

[CackleJoy]

I hatched quite a few sex linked chicks this year using my Pita Pinta cockerel and my Cream Legbar hens. The cockerels were barred and the pullets were mostly solid black. The oldest pullets have just started laying beautiful green eggs. Here is a pic of one of them when she was younger. In a couple days, I'll post pics of the eggs and the pullets at POL.

Really pretty!

UofA blue by Crele Penedesenca too. Makes a nice Olive green egg layer.

Probably pretty birds too

 

[CackleJoy]

Maspostitoned is usually more of an indication of when an embryo died, Usually before day16. The chick is usually head up in the big end but the head is tucked in the wrong place.

Head in the small end will still hatch and many of them will hatch without help. Chicks that hatch from the wrong end should not be used for breeding.

That is interesting that the malpositioning could be genetic. One more reason not to assist at hatch. Oh that sounds cruel. I'm known to get a shrink-wrapped chick unstuck and let them finish but I try not to mess with them otherwise. I figure the shrink-wrapping is usually my fault for opening the incubator anyways. I'm doing much better with this wooden incubator. The trick is to not open the door until the hatch is totally complete.