Call Ducks or Bantams...Crazy Animals Around the Farm

[BantyChooks]

@ViolinPlayer123
Totally ask WV or Banty for help. I can help although I'm limited to my experience..Easy peasy and I'm great...

I've set under 200 eggs total. I think anyone that turns to me for advice is either really desperate or delusional. My average hatch rate last year was 43%.... so yeah, stick with WV. That lady's got more information in her head on hatching than just about any book you can possibly pick up.

 

[chickens really]

I've set under 200 eggs total. I think anyone that turns to me for advice is either really desperate or delusional. My average hatch rate last year was 43%.... so yeah, stick with WV. That lady's got more information in her head on hatching than just about any book you can possibly pick up.

......

 

[chickens really]

@WVduckchick
Are your ears burning?...

 

[WVduckchick]

Pauly is beautiful!
This is what is says regarding cooling.View attachment 1270095

Interesting. I never noticed the differentiation between still air and fan forced. Thanks!

@WVduckchick
Are your ears burning?...

Maybe.

Very sweet Banty, and I appreciate the vote of confidence. But I'm not that good. We all have bad hatches on occasion.

 

[chickens really]

Interesting. I never noticed the differentiation between still air and fan forced. Thanks!



Maybe.

Very sweet Banty, and I appreciate the vote of confidence. But I'm not that good. We all have bad hatches on occasion.

I sure have been having bad luck..Your excellent with helping others..

 

[BantyChooks]

Interesting. I never noticed the differentiation between still air and fan forced. Thanks!



Maybe.

Very sweet Banty, and I appreciate the vote of confidence. But I'm not that good. We all have bad hatches on occasion.

Right now I am battling CAM issues, so my hatches are consistently bad, LOL. Not just occasionally bad. Sometimes I only have a sad and silent batch that all died at lockdown. Yes, shipping does a number on them, but I wasn't having these last year half as much (even with similarly shipped eggs) so I'm trying to find out why. There's annoyingly little research on it. I tried switching turning methods to see if that'd help. Next I'm going to try letting them rest for different amounts of time.

I find it difficult to grasp how shipping can mess with development of a secondary membrane. Air cell, sure, but CAM?

Eggtopsies are all normal except for sometimes almost half the egg being blocked off by said membrane. I have very high development rates on shipped (100% once) but a good 70% quit at the end most times and the CAM is all I can think of. Some of that's just normal loss from being jerked around the mail system but I can't help thinking there's a way to get the rates up overall. Occasionally I will receive eggs that look entirely undamaged but they still end up with the same issues.


I'll be sure glad when I can hatch home eggs again; shipping is a bear and not a nice panda bear either. I think it's been a year and a half since I set non-shipped.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

View attachment 1269728 My Calls are these ones...Casanova, Penelope, Poppy and Pandora...

So calls come in different varieties?

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

That stinks. When the lady from the health department came to evict my chicken children she said that she wants my stupid little town to license chickens stupid town!

Those restrictions and permits are all about the extra revenue the town can make. If the local govt can find a way to make mo ey without too much of an uproar, they will. A few years back, I heard talk of getting oermits to pain the inside of your house.
I will do as I please regarding the inside of my house. Thank you very much.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

@Brahma Chicken5000 and @MillersFarm isn't MypetChicken just a middle man for other hatcheries? So then, which hatcheries are actually offering the debeaking and dewinging, etc?

 

[BantyChooks]

@Brahma Chicken5000 and @MillersFarm isn't MypetChicken just a middle man for other hatcheries? So then, which hatcheries are actually offering the debeaking and dewinging, etc?

Mypetchicken is not a middle man, at least for chickens. They share facilities but that is the extent of the relationship. They own their own flocks.

They do also offer eggs from individual breeders. I don't know if you consider that to be drop shipping.