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

[mlm Mike]

GOOD MORNING, WALMART SHOPPERS! TODAY WE HAVE A SPECIAL ON COFFINS! BUY TWO, GET THREE FREE! WE EVEN HAVE THE PERFECT URN FOR THAT SPECIAL PET!

Hello MC!

So check out my new apron for feeding the hens and housework:

Sweet!

 

[BantyChooks]

So check out my new apron for feeding the hens and housework:

Sweet!!

 

[Lucky Lemon]

GOOD MORNING, WALMART SHOPPERS! TODAY WE HAVE A SPECIAL ON COFFINS! BUY TWO, GET THREE FREE! WE EVEN HAVE THE PERFECT URN FOR THAT SPECIAL PET!

Thank you beautiful!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Not likely, all the girls I know are in collage.

you put them all in a collage! they let you do that??!!??

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!

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You could make another stand similar to your milk stand. On your milk stand the head gate has one solid side and one side that probably pivots at the bottom. Could do something like that. Have one solid side going the length of the chute and one side that simply pivots at the bottom. Come up with some way to hook the tops together once the goat is in the chute so that it get's squeezed.

@daxigait i like chaos idea, just use a mobile panel on one side that you squeeze the goat, and use a chain slot latch to secure tight

How do you determine your hatch rate? I had 16 eggs set, ended up tossing 5, total of 11 chicks successfully hatched!

depends on the 5 you tossed were they inferts or DIS, blood rings, if inferts you have a 68.75%
hatched/number set

So many eggs today!!

DH joked to me that the full moon would give them light to lay. Looks like he was right.

All my EEs are laying. Reasonably certain that the bullet eggs are from the HRIR. I don't have eggs from the CCLs or project pullet, that I know of. @Sally Sunshine

pretty eggs!

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Story time...

About 2 miles down the road from me is a family who raises goats, chickens, rabbits, not sure what else they have. Anyway, their house burned completely to the ground, nothing left. They got out of the house safely, no people were injured.

The cause of the fire turned out to be a floor heater that they put outside on their back deck, to keep chicks and goats warm that they had brought up for the night because of our unusually cold weather that hit. So sad, all those animals died in the fire. The best guess is that the wind knocked the heater over.

Just sharing as a reminder to be safe with heat sources.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Story time...

About 2 miles down the road from me is a family who raises goats, chickens, rabbits, not sure what else they have. Anyway, their house burned completely to the ground, nothing left. They got out of the house safely, no people were injured.

The cause of the fire turned out to be a floor heater that they put outside on their back deck, to keep chicks and goats warm that they had brought up for the night because of our unusually cold weather that hit. So sad, all those animals died in the fire. The best guess is that the wind knocked the heater over.

Just sharing as a reminder to be safe with heat sources.

thats so sad, glad all the people are ok

 

[Chaos18]

Story time...

About 2 miles down the road from me is a family who raises goats, chickens, rabbits, not sure what else they have. Anyway, their house burned completely to the ground, nothing left. They got out of the house safely, no people were injured.

The cause of the fire turned out to be a floor heater that they put outside on their back deck, to keep chicks and goats warm that they had brought up for the night because of our unusually cold weather that hit. So sad, all those animals died in the fire. The best guess is that the wind knocked the heater over.

Just sharing as a reminder to be safe with heat sources.

Bummer about the fire but glad they are alright.

 

[mlm Mike]

Story time...

About 2 miles down the road from me is a family who raises goats, chickens, rabbits, not sure what else they have. Anyway, their house burned completely to the ground, nothing left. They got out of the house safely, no people were injured.

The cause of the fire turned out to be a floor heater that they put outside on their back deck, to keep chicks and goats warm that they had brought up for the night because of our unusually cold weather that hit. So sad, all those animals died in the fire. The best guess is that the wind knocked the heater over.

Just sharing as a reminder to be safe with heat sources.

How awful, glad the people got out of the house safely.

 

[dan26552]

That's one of my favorite movies!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Something like that, although I didn't hear of any accident while I was in "the home"