CALIFORNIA The Whole State thread

[mycutekitties]

It's official. I crossed the line into crazy town today.

So I'm hatching eggs in my class and 21st day was Wednesday. The 1st chick hatched Monday morning and the others Tues & Wed. Somehow after I left yesterday one of the kids in the afternoon class somehow turned the incubator knob all the way to make it colder. When my co-teacher came in the incubator was at 70 this morning! The babies were alive but huddled together to keep warm. I turned the incubator up hoping to warm them up quickly. Then this morning the family that was taking the chicks came in to take home the babies (6 of them).
There was 2 eggs left in the incubator and I thought that they didn't make it. And I was ALMOST going to toss them and I hear faint churping from a very small Silkie egg. HOLLY COW!! It's still alive and starting to hatch. I knew my incubator temp was way off so what did it do???
(I can't believe I am going to admit to this!).....

I stuck the egg IN MY BRA and took it to my house where I have another incubator running. I only live 5 min from school. So I can't believe I did it but I knew my bra was worm and close to 99 degrees.
The baby hatched today around 10 a.m. and is doing great!

Don't worry! I put him back in the incubator after this picture.

 

[the Pollo Loco]

so I guess your now a mommy!!!

 

[UncleTommy]

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so....cute.....want. I had decided a while back that I didn't want silkies, but they're so cute....maybe next spring

 

[SunnyDawn]

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If that's crazy then there are a ton of crazy women here on BYC. Believe it or not that is not an uncommon story around here. LOL Guess you are hanging with the perfect crowd for your kind of crazy.

Oh and FYI chicks can take up to 25 days to hatch and I've heard tales of even longer.

Congrats on the great hatch!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Check it out!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7872226#p7872226

 

[mycutekitties]

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If that's crazy then there are a ton of crazy women here on BYC. Believe it or not that is not an uncommon story around here. LOL Guess you are hanging with the perfect crowd for your kind of crazy.

Oh and FYI chicks can take up to 25 days to hatch and I've heard tales of even longer.

Congrats on the great hatch!

I hatch year round and I know this but I was still kinda surprised since mine usually hatch early not late. Crazy!

 

[sewandgrow]

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That should be fine Taylor. I have a busy morning & early afternoon today but have no plans for the week end. Just give me a call. I have been selling birds this past week but just a drop in the bucket compared to what is here..........LOL

 

[sewandgrow]

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Whoa Sarah,..............you soooooooooo sound like me. That is definetely comething I would do & my kids would be the first to tell everyone even if I did keep my mouth shut, which I don't know how too anyway......LOl Good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wolftracks]

Good work Sarah. I'll be right over to pick him up.

I turned a light off on the 4 feedstore last night, because when you turn my oven on the whole house get so hot, that the chicks get too warm. I feel alseep in my chair and woke up to them chirping their little heads off. The light's been on for a few minutes now and they're just starting to quiet down.

I'm so cold this morning I went out to feed Isis and Dusty and Haven't started on the other animals yet. I also haven't done anything to may yard since I planted the bird seed in the area I'll be putting the newer coop in. I keep thinging maybe I need to mive things I have here down when the see starts and then build back towards where everything is now, but between the heat this summer and the cold here already I'm hurting out there. Thing is if I'm cold I have to make sure all the animals aren't, soooo. Between some running and this horribly cluttered house, looks like I'll be busy today.

I bought 9 quail at the auction the other day. I was in a hurry and just started snatching them out of the cage, plus almost 20 minutes of chasing one with a couple of the workers after it got away from me. Got home to put them in a cage and I'm only 2 blocks from the auction, so I know that had nothing to do with their health and when I went to put them in the cage 2 feel over when I set them down. They were all very skinny. Most were picked at and one had one eye and another didn't have any. This is what I get for not being able to go in and talk to the people from the Ag office first and look at them. I lost two right off and two the next day. The others are puffed up, but eatting and drink A LOT! Thing is there have been eggs in there, but I've tossed them. I don't want to contaminate any eggs in the incubators. I've been misting them with Oxine and a couple of them are looking better, but how anyone could sell these birds is beyond me. I also have a little bantam that has been sneezing, so not sure about here either. You can go there for a long time before you get something that's sick, but I think my luck over the past year with auction birds has been more than just bad luck. I've found birds there that were from nice lines and some that were just a whim amd Iwanted them, but I think I'm just concentrating on what I have from good breeders. I'll still buy supplies there and sell my own birds, but I'm hoping I don't break down and get soft again, cause it's sad when you realize they aren't well. I wouldn't sell someone sick birds that way. I felt bad enough when I had Olive Egger chicks and a Silkie caught in a gunky end of a brooder and could tell they hadn't eatten for at least a day. I gave them to a BYC member, but had called and told him what happened and if he didn't want them that was ok. He got them fattened up again, but if I have a sick bird, I'm not risking making someone else's birds sick. It's like you don't want to not make a profit, so just sell them to someone else and make your money.

OK that was my auction rant. And yeah I'll probably buy other birds, but I'm going back to when I would find something before it started and then as the Ag people what they thought.

Guess I should get up and get moving.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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If that's crazy then there are a ton of crazy women here on BYC. Believe it or not that is not an uncommon story around here. LOL Guess you are hanging with the perfect crowd for your kind of crazy.

Oh and FYI chicks can take up to 25 days to hatch and I've heard tales of even longer.

Congrats on the great hatch!

I hatch year round and I know this but I was still kinda surprised since mine usually hatch early not late. Crazy!

Yea, that will make a really cute story to tell the grandchildren someday!