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

[dan26552]

I felt like Sanka this morning it was only 29

 

[daxigait]

I wish I could share the joy of watching my month old kids run jump and play as they were let out in one of the goat pastures with the others for the first time with you guys. It is a joy to watch their joy.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Good morning all! Just got back in from feeding the flock (I'm a bit slow this morning). We have a wonderful 20° today so I'm freezing lol. When I opened the run door, the closest to the door came flying out but then panicked when they saw the snow and were afraid to land (though, that's inevitable). The ones that weren't first out the door put on the brakes really quick lol. Everyone is back inside for the day. The ducks were the only ones that didn't care about the snow but I herded them back in too. Gotta keep all my fluff butts warm! You know, except the turkeys. They could care less how cold it is it how much snow is on the ground lol

 

[Akrnaf2]

First hatching is going to be some eggs from my Buff O hens. Roosters will be either Buff O, Welsummer or crosses. I have Welsummer hens but last summer I had fertility problems with some of them. The hens were beating up the roosters. No kidding. Saw it with my own eyes. My Buff O Welsummer cross chickens are robust, friendlier than the Welsummers and lay nice large brown eggs. Then I would like to try to hatch some bantam chicks for myself and a friend. She and her husband have been very kind to my husband and myself and their OEGB rooster just died of old age. I thought I would try to hatch some OEGBs if I can find eggs near by. If I can't I'll try to hatch more of our Amish neighbors OEGB cross eggs. My husband once got thrown out of a mall for taking pictures. He was a photographer and just taking pictures of people for fun. That was 40 years ago.

Are your Welsummers laying dark eggs? Mine were very dark but I got a real surprise when I crossed them with the extremely dark line of Penedesencas. The offsprings' eggs weren't dark at all. Complicated genetics. I was worried about the pictures but I saw 3 others taking pictures. The place is quite a sight.

[@=/u/72519/ChickenCanoe]@ChickenCanoe[/@]Are you saying I sound old The waterer is a a Bar Bar A if you google it. I have the wire hung and burried, I am just not comfortable with the GF outlets and the breaker box. My friend is too busy not lazy.

Whoa there Nellie. I was afraid it would come across wrong. I don't think you sound old. It was just a perception of the summation of all your writings. Lets say they were - maturation. I also wasn't implying that your friend was lazy, I meant I was because I haven't finished my electric projects.

Chickencanoe, what you need is a smaller camera! DH buys cameras that are less than an inch in size to use in his FPV airplanes. He's telling me how easy it would be to run a wire up you sleeve and nobody would know the difference. My Dad was Pennsylvania Dutch. Pickled tripe was one of his favorite snack foods. I could eat it as long as I didn't think about it being cow stomach. It was sorta kinda like calamari only chewier....definitely an acquired taste.

Assuming it is an acquired taste. I don't like when my calamari is chewy so chewier than that could be a problem.

State of confusion I don't post my location on the 'net, sorry... I do have OEGB, but as my flock has a nagging respiratory illness that might be MG, I don't feel right shipping eggs to people who might be MG free. :/

They couldn't find you anyway.

I've wondered, since first hearing the term, just what are essential oils? Essential for what?

Not essential for something, essential, as in the essence of something.

... Purely Poultry actually sells Silkie broiler chicks for raising for meat... I thought about getting some, but I already have an order in for 25 Naked Necks from Dunlap plus planning to hatch some of my own. That's PLENTY for this year... @FaerieChicken , Brinsea sells an incubator cleaner/disinfectant concentrate that I bought when I got my Brinsea incubator. Not all that expensive, will likely last nearly forever... ...

I guess at $11 for a 2 pound bird, it may be worth raising them for meat if one has an Asian community nearby.

Yeah, that's what I couldn't make sense of. I successfully raised chickens through the winter in this same coop last year, no issues at all (in fact, they were the Naked Necks). And Tank has a big comb... It just occurred to me - there is a tarp over hardware cloth as the roof, and the roof is slanted on the sides - I wonder if he's roosting nearer the side and his comb was touching cold HW cloth overnight? That's the only thing I can think of. The Naked Necks slept on the floor in a pile (weirdos...) - Ant Farm

Are you in the panhandle? If not, you have your nerve calling what you have - WINTER.

See this One of uses of Hydrogen peroxide is killing biting parasites!

Thanks. Interesting. I use it a lot.

And did he lose the points? I just went out with the red headlamp to double check how they sit on the roosts and the ventilation. Ventilation is as expected, very good, BUT - their tractor coop is one of the first I built before modification to add the roosts, and the roof is set a little lower than the other tractor coops, so less headroom. And indeed I found Monkey on one end of the roost - comb not touching the HW cloth when I looked, but easy to see how it might when he raised his head. I think this is what may have happened, comb touching very cold metal of HW cloth overhead. I think I may lower their roosts a couple inches. Meanwhile, wondering how the comb will look tomorrow. It would be great if I got a "heads up" in this before any major stuff. (I don't care about appearance, but I'd rather him not be in pain or injured if avoidable.) - Ant Farm

It has just gotten into the mid teens and no damage to huge combs yet.

A vet told me food grade hydrogen peroxide is good for water tanks too. [@=/u/162672/Sally-Sunshine]@Sally Sunshine[/@][@=/u/371240/BantyChooks]@BantyChooks[/@] We should add the hydrogen peroxide to the list for dealing with mites. Thanks Benny

I'll try that for the tanks. It would be better than bleach.

Can anyone help me all three of my thermometers are showing different temps including the incubator that I need to calibrate what should I do?

I've been through that. You can compare them to an oral thermometer but I opted for a guaranteed accurate thermometer. I love this one. http://www.thermoworks.com/RT301WA A Brinsea Spot Check is a good one too. After I got those, I threw away all the others.

It's freaking cold out... I got 8 degrees.... Time to book the heat lamps up for my ducks. My flock of AC's are in a heated cage..... Bet they are happy about that right about now.

It's cold here now too. Is it pricey to heat your coops? How do you do it?

I LOVE THIS KIND OF PLACES! all this wonderful fresh ingredients! I see some nice meals there! Steamed Tilapia with soy sauce and lemon grass and thin slices of Lyme Hot fish soup Grilled trout BBQ sardines over charcoal grill with garlic, sylantro and lemon sauce Ect, ect...... good place!

 

[Akrnaf2]

 
Break out the ice fishing equipment 

How'd you fare in the deer hunting arena? Our rifle season ends tomorrow, and I've yet to drop the hammer on a single deer. Seen plenty, more than ever before, actually, but nothing worth spending a bullet on...all young stuff from the Spring. If I'm going through gutting, skinning, and cutting up a deer, I'm getting more than a sandwich out of the deal.

Yes, bullets are so expensive.  

DYK that the Chinese government, after an execution, charges the family of the executed for the price of the bullet?

Yes I knew that.

 

[BantyChooks]

They couldn't find you anyway.

"Better safe than sorry"

 

[BantyChooks]

I LOVE THIS KIND OF PLACES! all this wonderful fresh ingredients! I see some nice meals there!
Steamed Tilapia with soy sauce and lemon grass and thin slices of Lyme
Hot fish soup
Grilled trout
BBQ sardines over charcoal grill with garlic, sylantro and lemon sauce
Ect, ect...... good place!

You're making me hungry!

 

[microchick]

Thank you all for the condolences.

Here is where people understand the depth of the paw prints our animals leave on our heart.

 

[daxigait]

Morning all.

We lost our sweet dog, Bunny last night just a little after 11PM. Towards the end she was unconscious. I don't think she suffered too much. I'm convinced that she had a massive heart attack. She was a good, smart girl who loved her dog cookies and would bark at you until she got what she wanted. When she was just a year old I taught her how to ask for treats by sitting in front of the container and giving a little bark. That was all it took. Soon we were holding 
'conversations' with one another. My dad was living with me at the time and his dementia made him sleep a lot so she was my company. It didn't take her long to learn that the louder she asked the faster she got what she wanted.

So many memories are flooding me right now. I just told my husband that it just didn't seem right that God gave us such a wonderful companion animal and then gave them such a brief walk upon this earth.

I am one eight Cherokee Indian, the last generation that can claim legal tribal status, although my Great Grand Mother Alice never enrolled. The Native Americans have a legend about the dog. When the Great Spirit made the heavens and earth and all things that lived upon it, he made man last and told him from that day forward man would forever be separated from the animals. To prove that, a deep chasm opened in the ground between man and all the creatures of the earth. At the last moment before the chasm grew to deep and wide, dog jumped over it and set down beside man.

Rest in peace, Bunny.

I understand your pain and can only offer heart felt condolences. I still listen when I open my car or house door for the whinny I know can't come, but my heart longs for. I agree their time is heartbreakingly too short for the one that truely grabs our heart.

Forever my pretty boy, I miss you every day, and I still think/sing in my heart my version "Dreamed I went to heaven, you were there with me we walked upon the street of gold and rode beside the crystal sea...". You don't know the story, but Corsario is in my avatar on his last day just an hour before I had to put him down.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I LOVE THIS KIND OF PLACES! all this wonderful fresh ingredients! I see some nice meals there!
Steamed Tilapia with soy sauce and lemon grass and thin slices of Lyme
Hot fish soup
Grilled trout
BBQ sardines over charcoal grill with garlic, sylantro and lemon sauce
Ect, ect...... good place!

You're making me hungry!

30 family members for breakfast today!