Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[AmericanMom]

I would never trust our dogs anywhere near our birds even with training. Our chicken "coop" is 100% dog proof, and when I let everyone out to free range (only a couple of hours every other day) the dogs are put into dog crates inside of a dog kennel. If the dog crates fail, then the dog kennel will hold them. The day we first brought chickens home (6 years ago), our lab chewed through the thick metal wire on the dog crate and managed to get out. The chickens were safely penned, but knowing that she has this strength worries me. She'd do anything to get one of those birds.



We had a lab that not only tore a hole in the chain link fencing ,but also tore threw the chicken wire of the hen house itself... He really liked chicken dinner

 

[sumi]

if it were only legal, my daughters would have never needed hairspray!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Random question, awhile ago some of you were talking about frizzle genetics, my father in law has a frizzle roo, if I were to cross him with my brown leghorn would they have frizzle babies? My brown leghorn is my favorite chicken, so I want more but I think a frizzled brown leghorn woukd be fun.

 

[loveourbirds]

you will get some frizzles, it will take at least 3 generations to get the full frizzle effect.

 

[lizanne]

I walked outside this afternoon to find our gentle giant of a dog snapping the neck of one of my Partridge Penedesenca chicks. This is the second one killed in a week - and I never would have suspected he was the one doing it

All the other dogs were circled around the Alpha male waiting for their scraps They are now penned in the old goat area. While they are now fairly useless as guard dogs, it's better than the alternative of shooting or re-homing them. They are all rescues and I'd hate to put them through that again assuming I even could find homes for them. And 3 of the 4 have earned their keep protecting us, killing snakes, etc. Hopefully it will be effective. It is radio fenced as well. So far since I first got chickens in April I have lost a total of 14 birds and now I am pretty sure it was them the whole time - and that includes 2 CCL chicks, 4 Kraienkoppe chicks, 3 RIW hens, 1 white leghorn chick, 2 partridge penedesencas, 1 Egyptian Fayoumis chick, and a blue Marans chick. All these chicks will impact the breeding I planned for next year too

I'm sorry.

. I would never trust my dogs with the chicken. I have 2 Choc. Lab/Shepherd mixes. Our older one, Duke, is around 7 or 8 and is fat and super lazy, but if we bring a chick or hen inside he just stares and drools. I know if he were to get in with the chickens he would eat one (or 5). I have a smaller back yard, so I have my "chicken side" fenced off (with a regular 6ft wood fence) from the rest of the yard. The dogs can't get over there.

 

[ozexpat]

My hatch has begun.

Included in my hall was a pile of Coturnix. There were standard Pharaoh, jumbo Pharaoh and Texas A&M. As of around 5AM SoCal time we had around 60 hatch with more zipping away from the Pharaoh groups. There were 20 pips from the A&M.

I am hoping by sunrise Philippines time (3PM here) we will have a hundred of the little blighters.

 

[cochins1088]

My hatch has begun.

Included in my hall was a pile of Coturnix. There were standard Pharaoh, jumbo Pharaoh and Texas A&M. As of around 5AM SoCal time we had around 60 hatch with more zipping away from the Pharaoh groups. There were 20 pips from the A&M.

I am hoping by sunrise Philippines time (3PM here) we will have a hundred of the little blighters.

That's awesome! How many quail eggs did you set?

 

[TweetyNPetey]

I would be more talkative...
There just hasn't been much to talk about...
The only thing going on is a new baby bunny, but OMG HE/SHE IS SO ADORABLE.

 

[ozexpat]

That's awesome! How many quail eggs did you set?

I set 300. One of the shipments was sent to me in error a week early so they were more than 2 weeks old. I was going to be overjoyed with 50 hatching. At 100 its amazing. If it gets much higher I will panic. We are half way through building a 3 level Quail condo with each "floor" being 10ft x 32inches. We may have to have a second one.

 

[galgo98]

Also, I am questioning the humidity reading of my gadget. I took it out and have it sitting on the counter next to the one that has the probe and it took for ever to adjust, and still reads 5 points higher on humidity. I have this one in the hatcher since I have to monitor the humidity http://www.walmart.com/ip/AcuRite-Digital-Humidity-and-Temperature-Monitor/16888914

I use the probe from this one in the incubator since I am dry hatching and know the humidity in the bator is usually about 10 degrees less than in the room.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Acu-Rite-Indoor-Outdoor-Thermometer/896347


Does anyone have experience with this one http://incubatorwarehouse.com/incubator-remote-thermometer-hygrometer.html

Or is there one you can recommend that measure humidity well?

I know this is a little late.. but I was using the Incubator Warehouse therm/hygrometer this past season. I wasn't sure about the reliability of the hygrometer, because several different brands were reading completely different %. A friend of mine who has a cigar collection recommended that I do the "salt test" on the hygros. I did it this weekend and Incubator Warehouse was dead on! I too had several other brands that were 5-10% off, so they were "culled". I will definitely be using it again next year, and I'm thinking of buying another.