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

[Phage]

These are the calmest chicks I've ever met.

Cute!

 

[timperkins]

I built a cabinet incubator (thanks for the info specially sally). Test runs are great but having no luck with humidity. Any tips? tried various pan arrangements with wicks. I'very started a cooler hatcher project as well and hope to be full go by the end of January but no luck getting any humidity whatsoever. Doesn't help I heat with wood and it's winter

 

[dan26552]

Cute!

 

[Phage]

I have a confession to make.

I was just on the Metzer website. And I just added an American Buff pair of geese to my cart. Then I threw in some Cayugas and Welshies ducklings to round it out. Got as far as picking shipping dates before I closed the window and backed away from the keyboard... 



My name is Ant Farm, and I... have a problem.

(But I want a gooserz SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!) 

You are not alone........

 

[Phage]

Anything exciting happen in the last few weeks?

Did we ever find out why CH was going to "reform school"?
Hope he is going to be OK.

 

[meltel]

Anything exciting happen in the last few weeks?

Did we ever find out why CH was going to "reform school"?
Hope he is going to be OK.

He got fish instead....

 

[meltel]

I may or may not have loaded my MPC shopping cart with over 20,000$ of stuff before sighing wistfully and closing the tab.....

was the $12,000 coop with the chandelier in it like mine????

 

[BantyChooks]

was the $12,000 coop with the chandelier in it like mine????

Yeah

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Came back from travels with tales of chicken woe -how stinky the chicks are, how they eat so much and that the garage is over run by rats, and how the rooster crows day and night.

DH is not a fan of chickens.

Well there may have been a rat in the garage (there was food all over the floor) but none have been caught in the trap (rat zapper -never fails IF there are rodents present). The garage was stinky, but outside the rooster only crows for about 3 minutes once at dawn and once at dusk so pretty good in my book!!!

PLUS there were 4 eggs in the coop (ayam cemani) and the lone hen has laid an egg every day since I got back so there are 7 ready to go into the Bator!!!

Planning on setting the eggs tomorrow. Seems a waste to set maybe 8 eggs in a cabinet bator.

Now there are now NO CHICKS IN THE GARAGE

The cemani youngsters that went outside 2 weeks ago look really great.
The new chicks that just went outside to the baby coop refuse to go up into the coop space and huddle in the mud outside

They are mostly trader joe chicks - sweet but SO not smart

I only have 8 eggs in the cabinet bator lol

 

[meltel]

Yeah