Consolidated Kansas

[Trish44]

I just posted this on the Kansas Poultry Swap, I saw it on Craigslist a few minutes ago. I sure wish I were closer, it sure has possibilities. http://wichita.craigslist.org/grd/2848075340.html

 

[shotah]

yeah, I just sent an email. I kinda had to lowball an offer though. But this would be PERFECT for my Yokohamas!

 

[Hawkeye95]

Neurotic mom?

Hey, maybe we all just need to relax and enjoy the process. I swear Hawkeye is going to be raising some NEUROTIC CHICKENS! (No offense, Hawkeye!)

relax... relax... relax... go to your happy place...let your body float................

Yoga for baby chicks..."Stretch your wings...stretch your neck... move your tail to the left...move your tail to the right... stretch your legs.... NO NO NO NOT SPRADDLE LEGS! BRING THEM TOGETHER! STAND UP STRAIGHT! ATTENTION! oh HEEEELLLLLLPPPP!!!

Funny Ivy! I will for sure be having me some neurotic chicks. But probably not this time around. I'll give them a couple more days and see what they look like. I don't want any exploding eggs in there.

I am thinking about giving Zorro a bath to clean up his vent area. sigh. But I'll wait a bit longer for the weather to warm up. I wonder how he would do with a hair dryer??

 

[Hawkeye95]

yeah, I just sent an email. I kinda had to lowball an offer though. But this would be PERFECT for my Yokohamas!

hope you get it! But looking at all that lumber and crown molding on top, etc.. it's probably worth every penny of that $200. Looks like it has tile in the bottom of it?? What are yokohamas?? Is this a chicken? Off to google them! hehe!

 

[Hawkeye95]

Are yokohamas seagulls??? I can't find anything on them! That is weird!

 

[HEChicken]

I don't want any exploding eggs in there.

I seriously wouldn't worry about them exploding, especially if there are no bad odors emanating from the incubator. My first hatch I didn't want to take any chances that due to inexperience I'd missed something, so I left the eggs in the whole 3 weeks even though they appeared to be clear. They didn't hatch but they didn't explode either.

 

[Hawkeye95]

I seriously wouldn't worry about them exploding, especially if there are no bad odors emanating from the incubator. My first hatch I didn't want to take any chances that due to inexperience I'd missed something, so I left the eggs in the whole 3 weeks even though they appeared to be clear. They didn't hatch but they didn't explode either.

Thanks! Okay, good to know. Nope, nothing is stinking. ....yet?? Okay, I might be a bit neurotic!

 

[patricia]

Sorry, no pun toward you, I was just referring to difference between my first and second pregnancy. I was the same with my first eggs. Checking the book, looking for weight differences in evaporation so on so forth. You wouldn't believe my first hatch. A foster child who lived down the street from me came by to visit one day and was holding an egg. It was a wet rainy day in the spring. I asked her where she got it and she said it was on the sidewalk at the park. I told her it must be a duck egg. I had bought one of those incubators from a garage sale the year prior, (looks like a spaceship with an 8 watt bulb). You actually are instructed to put a piece of foil in there with the egg. I went and got it out of the basement and started it up. We put the egg in. Didn't think anything of it and started looking up info on the internet trying to figure out how long to wait. That is where I read about candling. By the time I read this, the egg had been in the thing for about a week. We had put the due date on the calendar. We took a small flashlite and took it to the basement and we saw veins! We were so excited. We watched that egg like it would hatch any minute. We even set up a nursery, ie Wal Mart tote with a light fixture over it. The whole time my husband is telling me I am crazy... Well I was working in Topeka and my husband pages me and excitedly tells me that it is alive and pecking on the shell (now who is crazy). I get home late that evening and it is coming out of the shell. I am like OH MY GOSH and the thing rolls out and I am dumbfounded! It is nasty, wet, and shaped like an egg. I think I hadn't planned on it hatching and I couldn't find anything on the internet, as this must have been in 99 or so. So what do I do? I get a wet cloth and clean it up and blow dry it. Since it can't stand up I seriously think it is deformed and think about putting it out of it's misery. Since it is in such bad condition (in my mind), I find Dannon vanilla yogurt in the frig and try feeding it. Finally I put it under the light as it was nearly 3 in the morning by then and when I get up, I'm hooked. It is a perfect little duck.

 

[chicken danz]

Yeah you worry a bit too much but some of us don't ever get over it entirely. I would just leave those eggs until about day 19 and then check them? What 's it going to hurt. If they are going bad you will definitely notice it.
I just took the cutest pictures. This is for those that think cats just eat birds. My 15 year old cat who is still a great hunter, and a little duck that hatched yesterday were bonding on my computer chair. He is such a good boy. He is the same cat that found an escape chick from the incubator and meowed over it until I came and got it. The last picture he is giving him a look cause the duck pulled on one of his whiskers.

 

[chicken danz]

Yes Patricia I definitely want some of those eggs. It's still early but I do believe I have a hen or two. I haven't been doing much of the feeding since I've been sick but I'll check tomorrow to be sure and let you know.