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

[jwlpoultry]

Hello to everyone

What up JW?

Hey Chaos!! I see you finally got out of that ravine with garlic in it.

Hi Liz!! How are you?

 

[BullChick]

Not but that is a great movie. I've seen it many times.

Then you have to focus. You can't just incubate random eggs. You have to strive to improve each generation. To do so, you'll have to start with the best stock you can find, hatch often and cull hard.
Culling hard means you have to eat extras or pass them off to someone else cheap. At best, you'll break even on those.
If you don't have desirable birds, you'll never make real money.
Having a big mixed flock, you'll never make more than enough to buy feed - no profit.

If you don't eat your birds and/or remove non-productive birds, you'll never make money.

Those colors are fabulous.

Unless you take the advice that others have given on the medical thermometer or the suggestions I gave you, it doesn't matter which one to get.
None are guaranteed to be accurate enough for incubating.

Gramm[COLOR=FF0000]a[/COLOR]r Nazis.
As am I.

Good advice.

What's wrong with that? The probe goes into the air hole and it can lay on top of the eggs.

PayPal?

Where did you get the white Legbars?

It looks to me like that bird needs appropriately sized grit. Looks like food isn't getting fully ground in the gizzard. Some probiotics would help too.

Me too.

What kinds of roosters do you have running with your flock.

I don't think cutting off circulation is the answer.

There's a Feb 5-6 setting and another from February 13-15.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1146509/2017-zodiac-hatch-a-long

So true.



Blame whoever you want. We all know who the real culprit is.

The dog!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Hey Chaos!! I see you finally got out of that ravine with garlic in it.

Hi Liz!! How are you?

lol, i am well, very busy but thats normal
how have you been?

 

[BullChick]

Hello to everyone

I'm so happy to see you!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Ok so my mom does have a credit card witch one do we order

 

[jwlpoultry]

Hey Chaos!! I see you finally got out of that ravine with garlic in it.


Hi Liz!! How are you?

lol, i am well, very busy but thats normal
how have you been?

I am well. Hoping to find some hatching eggs soon as I have condensed down my flock numbers a lot.

Hello to everyone

I'm so happy to see you!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Ok so my mom does have a credit card witch one do we order

IMHO, your main goal is accuracy.
If that's the case, then the same ones I've recommended many times.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...osts-bantychooks-and-more/28630#post_17993167

 

[jwlpoultry]

Hey Chaos!! I see you finally got out of that ravine with garlic in it.


Hi Liz!! How are you?

lol, i am well, very busy but thats normal
how have you been?

I am well. Hoping to find some hatching eggs soon as I have condensed down my flock numbers a lot.

Hello to everyone

I'm so happy to see you!

And I accidentally pressed the wrong button and posted before replying to Mc. I am happy to see you too.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I am well. Hoping to find some hatching eggs soon as I have condensed down my flock numbers a lot.

what breeds do you have now?

 

[Akrnaf2]

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Ugh!
It was supposed to get to 36 here today. It is 29. I now have 5 frozen water founts and a frozen hose.
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Thanks! I got it from Premier 1 when I was ordering something else - I had my eye on it for a while, and finally decided to get it. A bit of a fancy solution to fresh egg storage, I know, but I have so many pretty colored eggs, and when I walk by this, it makes me smile. 
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Yeah, there are a lot of complaints on the Cream Legear threads (which I don't follow anymore) about CLs being billed as a "blue egg layer" and many of the eggs are blue-green. I chalk it up to managing expectations, as I happen to find their eggs lovely. I personally find saturation more valuable than actual shade (see how saturated those more blue green eggs are on my egg skelter?). 

You are doing the exact right thing, Ralph, in selecting for egg color. I think early on people got CLs and some didn't do a lot of selection (or selected for feather color/pattern and not egg color), leading to the variations in egg color. Same issue with Marans - if you don't select for dark egg color, you will lose it - FAST. 

(Maybe some day I'll get some hatching eggs from you - I recalled that you have CLs for all the different imports, or at least pre- and post-Rees, right?)
Yeah, those are everyone's favorites. 

- Ant Farm

I really like the egg spiral but haven't bitten the bullet on one yet. Other priorities.

So true on the egg color.
When selecting to improve a breed, an old saying is to build the house first and then paint it. Meaning to get the shape and size right, combs, legs, etc. and then the feather color.
However, with unique egg colors, like with CCLs, Araucanas, Marans, Penedesencas, Barnevelders, etc., I feel that egg color is part of the house that must be selected for first.

 
i bet he puncuates gud through

True dat.

 
@chicken hawk 33
 I have to say, people here are being very patient with you and trying to help you. It just seems like you have an excuse for every answer. If you don't have the right equipment to hatch, do not set the eggs. Eat them! With 60 chickens, there will be more eggs to set when you are able to save money and can order the thermometer you need. Nobody here got the flock or quality birds they have overnight. Save the money you will waste on a thermometer that will work.Also, look into getting a paypal so you can buy things through amazon, ebay or things that you can't get locally. You won't make money off of mixed egg chicks-you are already down $10 if you bought a thermometer that isn't going to work. I think if people saw you making better decisions and staying focused and not going off in every direction and taking they time to learn and improve instead of asking for advice and then doing the opposite, you would get more help to accomplish your goals.

That, plus asking the same question that has been answered over and over.

CH33, it is extremely difficult to make money on chickens. If you have a mixed flock of 60 birds that aren't contributing to profit and that you won't eat, they will suck off any potential profit you hope to achieve.

No not at all, tgat should be Pocahontas!

Ye know more about our history than many of us.

I am very interested in the Native American, I prefer to call them Indians, history since I was a boy, all the beautiful books of Fenimore Cooper karl may, Jack London, all the comix of Tex willer, al the westerns I LOVE IT! I see alot of films at You tube about old technology and cooking ect.