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

[BantyChooks]

Eggs are in LOCKDOWN. One egg looks like it has drawdown starting.... :yiipchick

 

[dan26552]

It's at the very beginning

 

[Chaos18]

Eggs are in LOCKDOWN. One egg looks like it has drawdown starting....

Don't worry, ducks take a really long time to hatch

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Next time out to birds I'll take a picture of what I thought would be a great way of giving the hens a pasture to graze. At the rate they go through it I'll need 12 pens just like it. They have been in it for a little over three weeks and it's flat mostly eaten grass that was 30 inches tall. I forgot the measurements but I think it's 30 feet wide and 80 feet long. Who needs goats!!!!!

It's all about the stocking density and what forage is available. I find that some grasses like turf type fescue are among chickens' least favorite forage. If I leave them in a paddock till its mostly wiped out, the only thing that remains is grass.
I buy seeds in bulk from Hummert's for reseeding. Alfalfa, clover, ladino, beets, radish, 7-top turnip, flax, and in summer - buckwheat, for winter - Austrian or some other pea.
If you can get the alfalfa well established, it will come back.

nope, my guess is western chicken turtle

Western Chicken Turtle

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Pascagoula Map Turtle, Graptemys gibbonsi

or a slider
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they look just like a red eared slider but lack the red ear

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I think it's a box turtle, based on a tiny one I caught crossing the road. Will confirm when I release it.

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hmmm, i thought box turtles had taller 'boxier' shells?

no idea, i am NOT a turtle expert

but i am good at google LOL

My first thought when I saw it was a mud turtle.

 

[BantyChooks]

Don't worry, ducks take a really long time to hatch

I know that, and am depending on you all to keep me sane through the hatch.

 

[Chaos18]

I know that, and am depending on you all to keep me sane through the hatch.

Ain't gonna happen.

 

[BantyChooks]

Ain't gonna happen.

There are a few sane among us whom I will rely on.... Not you.

 

[Chaos18]

There are a few sane among us whom I will rely on.... Not you.

There is?

 

[BantyChooks]

There is?

Yup

 

[Chaos18]

Yup

I don't believe you.