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

[BullChick]

can you put an extra dose of 'whatever" in mine today

Yes, ma'am!

 

[meltel]

Yes, ma'am!

as a matter of fact-load it up!!!

 

[Pensmaster]

Just don't make the same mistake that others have made. You cannot sit on them yourself. It results in a very messy chair and bottom. 

Morning Abi

 

[BullChick]

as a matter of fact-load it up!!!

I will do that for you!

 

[BullChick]

Morning Abi

Oh, baby, that's what I like!!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Thanks! I can't get any until at least next year, and already maybe sorta have myself on a waiting list for Buffs...

Does anyone remember those paper thingies called "maps"?????

Meeeeeeee!!!!

I like having maps on my phone or computer because it saves all the folding, etc., but I always work out the route and the landmarks when I'm heading somewhere unfamiliar. I will only rarely use the function on the phone that acts like a car GPS thingie - and only if I'm already familiar with the route enough to detect if something goes wrong.

When it rains in San Diego it really rains!!
On day 2/5 of storms and already we are on alert for flash floods.

Roads are impassable. Trees are falling on cars (and kids apparently).
House is shaking.
Good job it is the weekend as this should help keep people off the roads.

The main chicken coop only has a solid roof and two sides (rain not usually a problem) so the poor Chooks are on mud/wet straw due to horizontal rain. May have to take the wettest ones in to dry off and find something to make and elevated floor.

We do need the rain though.

I have this same issue - it rains infrequently, and heat is the primary issue, so all the coops have tons of ventilation, and with the horizontal rain, the bedding near the open side gets wet. The Naked Necks roost in the open air part, they just get wet. (Cold winter time I have plastic sheeting blocking the wind and driving rain partway up the wall of the coop).

It's sort of hard to build for both.

My daughter is having her birthday party tonight, almost a month late but still. My house is overrun with little girls. I promised her that she could have a slumber party for her 10th birthday. I don't know if this will happen again. 8 little girls doing makeup and nails and screaming over each other to hear each other is tough! I feel like Miss Hannigan on Annie lol. I may be having a glass of wine!


In other news, I contacted a lady on ebay that I got silkie eggs off of last year. The babies that hatched grew in to beautiful, decent quality birds. I knew she had lavenders but she always sells in multi colored groups so I asked her if I could get strictly lavenders off her. She set things up just for me so it looks like I'm going to get some lavender silkie eggs next week

Should help make the lavender show girl project easier

That's AWESOME!!!!!

I spent the first part of the evening (before all the light went) working on re-fencing the new paddock area for Monkey and the Eggplant girls. They've been locked up in that little tractor coop for a week now (getting acquainted, as I do whenever there's a new boy), and they are now dying to get out. Their paddock was a wasteland because I got swamped and didn't switch it soon enough. I''ll finish the fencing and tacking down tomorrow morning and let them out. Meanwhile, I've been putting together the second brooder, and will do the third next. I'd rather have all that done before moving chicks over there (so as not to stress them out by using power tools around them) - I'm moving this little group of hoodlums when they are about two weeks old or so (in the next few days, if the brooder is set up and ready).

Speaking of the little hoodlum group - looking at all of their legs, it looks like I MIGHT have only 3 or 4 pullets in the whole group of 14 (two of them olive eggers). I'm only keeping girls. Good grief!!!!!

OK, break over, back to brooder assembly!

- Ant Farm
How large are your tractors? I need a way to let 8 LF out of their 4x16 run during the day w/o exposing them to predation, plus being able to move them from place to place before the totally decimate the vegetation in one spot. Down to 6 pullets from an original 14. I think my biggest problem will be transferring them from run to tractor & vise versa; they ain't big on being caught.

 

[daxigait]

Very good!
Me too, as Forrest Gump said " s...t happens "

I must have skimmed that, what happened? The didease?

 

[BantyChooks]

I must have skimmed that, what happened? The didease?

Flood; I think

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I don't know about Superior, but Michigan looks like a tent city at times!

 

[Pensmaster]

How large are your tractors? I need a way to let 8 LF out of their 4x16 run during the day w/o exposing them to predation, plus being able to move them from place to place before the totally decimate the vegetation in one spot. Down to 6 pullets from an original 14. I think my biggest problem will be transferring them from run to tractor & vise versa; they ain't big on being caught.

I never found the tractors to work too well here. The ground is too uneven and they are too heavy to move. I am able to get them to go where I need them by putting feed in front of them guiding them in the direction I need them to go. After a couple days of this guidance they would follow me and the food bucket straight to their feeding area. At night the same process back to the coop. There were those that could fly out of the fenced areas but I figured they could take care of themselves if they could fly. I'm going to have to fence more off for them as the areas that are fenced now are becoming well mowed. Moving fences is easier than the tractors and they have access to larger areas that way.