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

[kwhites634]

Quote: Don't tempt me; I'm getting weaker. I have 3 of them, plus a heavier deadfall hammer; may have to put one of them to work soon. I was following along the instructions pretty well 'til what it was showing wasn't matching what I was seeing. Things went south at that point.

 

[kwhites634]

I'm packing it in for tonight; maybe things will straighten out tomorrow.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm packing it in for tonight; maybe things will straighten out tomorrow.

Night; and good luck

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Hi everyone! I now have everything battoned down for our incoming ice storm, and am reading back. Brb
@hippiestink Hi. I am glad you stopped in, and sorry I missed you.

@mlm Mike @Pensmaster @Fire Ant Farm @kwhites634 AND anyone else who has a suggestion.
I want to build a kind of combination of a stantion and a working/ squeeze chute for my Boer goats. I thought I would make it lower to the ground than the dairy goat milk stand, but up enough to help me work, or with a ramp. I have not come up with a good way to make it squeeze though, and am open to suggestions. The other thought was to make the head gate and feed pan along with one side solid. Since I have not figured out squeeze maybe the second side could be like a crib that comes up to enclose the second side with a butt strap. I figured it could bolt in place unless someone can give me another idea. Thanks guys!

Good luck with the ice storm!!!!

I know nothing about goats except that they're super cute. And I sorta didn't understand more than a couple words in your post. So.... I'm thinking Mike might be better help.

Quote: I often will calculate it two ways. But yeah, as long as I'm confident that a clear is really a clear (i.e., infertile), I'l take that out of the calculation. As long as it's not an early quitter because I messed up early on...

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Well, golly, maybe it's just me, but if I had someone special, and they didn't want me looking at the incubator when the miracle of chickie life was happening before our very eyes... well, they probably just wouldn't be that special any more.

Just taking a break - trying to get more work done. Paying the price for interruptions earlier to ooh and ahh over the sweet chickies.

This has to be the most playful, hysterical group of 1-2 day olds I've ever seen. When I come into the bathroom, they all come pouring out from under the MHP to come see me. Now that they've figured out how their legs work, they love zooming across the brooder at full speed furiously flapping their tiny little wing stubbies.

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Well, golly, maybe it's just me, but if I had someone special, and they didn't want me looking at the incubator when the miracle of chickie life was happening before our very eyes... well, they probably just wouldn't be that special any more.   
- Ant Farm

....X2

 

[daxigait]

Hi Dax, hope everything survives the ice storm well. I've never worked with goats so I won't be much help on this one.

Yes, but you build. I essentially need to figure out away to make a side that can 'hook/bolt/?' in place after they are in the head gate to hold them in place and let me work. I wonder if I could do it with grooves or varying holes to make it 'squeeze' in a sense? Then how do you make it stable?

 

[daxigait]

I have, but never had need of a squeeze chute.

I am just interested in the construction end. Ideas for how to have a side that can be put easily, but solidly in place after the goat is there. Maybe spaced bolt holes so it could be dropped in? But how would I make it stable?

Night

 

[hippiestink]

Mornin' y'all! And morning to you @daxigait

Time for coffee

 

[Akrnaf2]

Hello everybody!
I'm a first time incubator, and already fretting like the proverbial mother hen... worried I may have botched my first batch of eggs.
Last night after turning my eggs I forgot to wrap the incubator back up in its little homemade insulating sweater, and didn't notice till morning. The incubator was about two degrees cooler than it normally is for about 8 hours, though it didn't drop below 98 in the incubator at any point.
The eggs have only been in the incubator for five days, so my guess was that they're at an especially temperature sensitive stage? What's the prognosis guys? Late hatch? Dead embryos?

Don't worry

 

[Chaos18]

Mornin everybody