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

[daxigait]

Vet texted back and said peroxide.
@mlm Mike

 

[5Sons Coop]

Have fun

Guessing a young pullet tried to roost on the light. Tore it down and burnt out the bulb. Should have been an easy fix, but what it is with young boys fascination of dissecting flashlights. Kind of hard to hold a cordless drill at half trigger to keep the light on. Plus I think I missed a rooster when we butchered last weekend. Have to check it out in the daylight.

 

[microchick]

My 11 chicks are all doing well, eating, drinking and already little poop machines. In a perfect case of irony, true to my prediction, my Welly pullet is broody. After dissuading her a couple of days, I came home after being gone all day to find her pancaked down on goodness only knows what besides the three ceramic eggs in the nest for the new layers, staring blissfully out into space and screaming like a banshee at anything that had the bad judgement to go near her. She is 8 months old. I guess tomorrow I'll see if I can get some more bantam eggs from my neighbor and swap out the fake eggs and whatever else she is parked on for the bantam eggs. I'm at capacity with 22 layers now so I'm not doing any incubating or brooding of standard sized chickens this year.

To increase the irony, I went in the coop to also catch one of my 6 month old OEGB pullets as flat as a pancake on 3 more fake eggs and two Welly eggs. She was off the nest 15 minutes later so I pulled the fake eggs and gave them to broody Dolly who immediately tucked them under her and went back into her trance.

Like she couldn't have done this this three weeks ago. Silly hens, that's why God made incubators.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Which reminds me (why, I don't know); I saw a mounted police in D.C. this afternoon....just the one......perhaps he made a wrong turn in St. Louis.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Took some egg pictures yesterday

And were is the white egg?

 

[5Sons Coop]

Oh I feel it is time to roost.

 

[dan26552]

Found something interesting to day, an anole tried to cross the electric wire.

 

[Phage]

 

She told me to just slip over the border undetected

I'm still waiting for ya. Did you get stopped by the dog?

Sorry; should have told you...had to travel 2 hrs each way to have the heart surgeon tell me I ain't going nowhere notime soon, at least not from a bad ticker.

Awesomeness!!!!

 

[Phage]

Yes, this just happened: Three kids born, two bucklings and one doeling, the black one is the doeling. @daxigait

Congrats!!

 

[kajira]

Are your does first time kidders? I hope you got some does.

So far, both does have produced males. lol I have 3 more pregnant does, all due over the next few weeks, and I'm hoping I get some females. The one I really WANTED a female from, gave me a male.