EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[lovechicks1293]

Banty, I looove your profile pic

 

[mlm Mike]

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ya, going to my granny's house and I have a basketball game tonight! what about you?
Sounds fun. I have a meeting at 11:00, and move some hay this afternoon.

 

[BantyChooks]

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@heatherfeather7

 

[BantyChooks]

Banty, I looove your profile pic

Danke

Mornin sophie!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

you bet!!! @Frindizzle

@daxigait I agree he will be fine, you have a wide enough roost bar he can cover his feet, you know I had read that it may be better in extreme colds to not offer roost bars! to make them stay on the thick shavings in the coop, my bars dont come out though. You can look into frostbite prevention for combs and wattles, never use the alum feeders or whatever they are in the winter, it really does the roos in having them dangling on that stuff.

how do the nips not freeze?

Horizontal nipples have the seal on the inside of the water reservoir. Unlike vertical nipples with the seal external to the water supply. If you heat the water, the horizontal nipple should still function down to some extreme temperatures.

Good thing I didn't take that question the wrong way.

Yeah, there's a season on them. Darn .22 only fires when it wants to. I must've extracted close to a dozen cartridges before I got one to fire, and I missed. The ammo's old...real old. I hope that's the problem. I keep forgetting to buy a new box to be sure.

I've shot .22 rimfires that I know were 30+ years old. No failures. Unless yours were wet, I'd check out the rifle.

Had pups on a pillow on my lap attempting to keep them sleeping so I could take some snapshots, needless to say I took images of two pups only

What breed are they?

I read the horizontal nipple does not freeze like the vertical ones. I have a heater in the one. We will see. For the cock I am going to use one of my waterers from the brooder for a while on a heat pad that came from an outdoor cat bed. I heat it in the morning and put it underneath it. It will stay till evening when I remove it till morning and repeat the process. It worked for me last year even in the single digits.

Be careful not to use anything that will cause their wattles will dip into the water.
I used to use rubber feed tubs with bird bath heaters in them. It always worked till I had penedesenca roosters and their wattles turned black from being soaked in zero temps.
I now just use horizontal nipples or heated water founts. They can't get their wattles in them.

That's not all that old for a box of .22 shells. I've got some that's probably twice that old and it goes hang every time I pull the trigger.
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Same here. I think I finally used up all the .22 ammo from when I was a kid.

I'm incubating eggs for the first time. I've been candling them every few days. I had been noticing their air cells hadn't changed much so I made sure to make a dark outline the last few times. Well, now I'm seeing charts and it looks as though they should be a bit larger. I'm on day 15- day 16 tomorrow. I have reduced the humidity because I read somewhere that it would help. I plan to increase the humidity at lockdown in 2 days. Is this correct? Also, all of my eggs look good, plenty of movement, great veins, but I wouldn't necessarily say that the chick is filling the egg at this point, is that normal? Thanks for any info or tips! I appreciate it!

I would remove any source of humidity till you get to day 19 or early 20.
Perhaps even run a dehumidifier in the room if you're still not happy with the air cells.

Hey all I need help

Please don't do that.
We don't mind helping but we're not going to play that banter game where getting more information is like pulling teeth.

The egg is leaking stuff from the aircell end

It's done. Leakers don't hatch and sometimes explode.

well I got a rooster that is poor and got a hurt leg but he is gaining weight but slowly but I don't know what else to do

Poor, as in, no funds?

It would help if we knew why he was poor and how his leg was hurt.
It could be a dog attack, jumping down from a roost, etc.?

Thank you. I'm sure it will. He actually hurt it at work. I'll be glad when he's all healed up. He's the type of person who gets bored easy and doesn't like to follow doctor's orders *insert eye roll here*

If it was rotator cuff, he better follow orders or he'll never have good use. The physical therapy is critical to keep scar tissue from locking up the shoulder.
The only time I was ever seriously hurt while skiing, I did a series of jumps and on the last one I flipped and tore the rotator cuff. It was about 3 months of rehab therapy. It works perfectly now that I can't even remember what shoulder it was.

This is the sleepingest bunch I ever did see!

I want the return of the "old days" of these threads, when you could jump on here any time of the day or night and find a few people around.

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And when one couldn't keep up.

@Sally Sunshine

Are those Legbars or Jaerhons?

Not all of us are awake at 4 AM

I was up at 3.

They are the bacteria responsible for the last stage of your compost pile if it is working right.

It's probably a different variation of the bacteria but still very much part of the temperature of the compost cycle.

Thermophilic bacteria thrive at temperatures ranging from 113º to 160º

I finally bit the bullet and bought a compost thermometer. It is really enlightening to see how the pile heats and where it heats based on what is added.
http://www.thermoworks.com/RT610B-24

 

[Chaos18]

Colder with some wind. How's things out your way? The flocks and goats doing ok?

Things aren't to bad. Supposed to be kinda chilly the next couple days. The flocks are slacking in the egg laying department and the goats are doing well.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: I'm not seeing many eggs either, but they are not getting electric and lights in a coop.

 

[BantyChooks]

If it was rotator cuff, he better follow orders or he'll never have good use. The physical therapy is critical to keep scar tissue from locking up the shoulder.
The only time I was ever seriously hurt while skiing, I did a series of jumps and on the last one I flipped and tore the rotator cuff. It was about 3 months of rehab therapy. It works perfectly now that I can't even remember what shoulder it was.

Yeowch.... Glad you recovered!

I had a little riding accident a few years ago & lost arm function for a bit, my guess something in rotator cuff?
Probably shoulda gone to PT for it, but oh well.... Hey, it works 99% of the time

 

[Chaos18]

I'm not seeing many eggs either, but they are not getting electric and lights in a coop.

Mine don't have lights either.

 

[mlm Mike]

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