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

[duluthralphie]

I that link I just read this:

I am thinking these people have never met my Polish rooster. He has 4 brain cells and cannot remember what happens to him when he attacks me as I feed him from day to day..

Or that throwing himself against the wire to attack me fails everytime...

 

[BantyChooks]

I think that, like people, there are smart chickens and stupid chickens... I have both kinds.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I that link I just read this:

 
INTELLIGENCE
The proverbial “bird brain” has been re-labeled by neuroscientists to better represent the cognitive capabilities of birds, which reflect those of mammals.  Chickens recognize each other as individuals – they can recognize over a hundred other chickens and remember them over time – and learn from each other.  Chickens remember past favors, can problem-solve, and day-old chicks understand object-permanence months before human infants can.  They have also shown the ability to add, subtract, and understand other basic mathematical concepts.

See this

[VIDEO]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I decided AGAINST getting any more geese since I have the best one I could have ever asked for, I wont push my luck!

so I ordered my ducklings instead! muwahhahhahahahaaaa

With so many animals and kids, how do you keep the gravel from migrating over the barriers and all over the grass?

Perfect!!

I have a whole coop filled with free-loaders. At least the basement chooks are paying their way. Suppose being out of the negatives helps their rate of lay quite a bit, LOL.

One of my coops is comprised of mostly malingerers. The young birds that hatched before September are kicking out a lot of nicely colored eggs.
At least I don't have basement chickens.

i cant wait to get my 10000 acres, lol, i keep looking i actually just left a message for someone that has a 110 acre piece down the road from me
i want a driveway a mile long

I wanted a big place like that when I was younger. My plan was to raise bison and elk.
I grew up with a 100 acre farm where we raised cattle, hogs, horses, pheasant, occasionally corn but mostly hay fields.
We had another 3 acre property with huge gardens and chickens.
The bigger farm had a driveway about 1/3 mile long - field on one side and woods on the other. I never got around to lining the drive with evergreens. It was a dirt drive.

that i can understand, but i want more animals, cows, maybe another horse, and trails in the woods for the 4 wheelers and dirtbikes/jeep/sidebyside, etc

All those mechanized things are hard on the soil and erosion. Go for horses.

I totally forgot about the EHAL. I've had my roosters separated for over a month. I just put my brahma hen in with my brahma rooster and my choc orpington hen with that rooster. Do you think their eggs will be fertile in time to set on March 26th? Sure hope so.
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Heremail is the unknown bantam at 1 week.
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Here are the 2 brahma babies that hatched Jan. 21st. A boy and a girl

After mating, they should be fertile by the third or fourth egg at the latest. If they're not frequent layers, they'll be fertile by the second or third.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I wanted a big place like that when I was younger. My plan was to raise bison and elk.
I grew up with a 100 acre farm where we raised cattle, hogs, horses, pheasant, occasionally corn but mostly hay fields.
We had another 3 acre property with huge gardens and chickens.
The bigger farm had a driveway about 1/3 mile long - field on one side and woods on the other. I never got around to lining the drive with evergreens. It was a dirt drive.

All those mechanized things are hard on the soil and erosion. Go for horses.

i would love to have beefalo bison/hereford crosses

thats another reason for wanting lots of land
horses kill plants too, unlike cows horses rip out roots and will eat soil if they are lacking vitamins in their diet, they can turn a field into a wasteland very quickly unless you carefully rotate them
my husband doesnt want to get another horse because if we get another horse they no longer consider them a pet but now it is a farm

and taxes/insurance goes crazy

 

[casportpony]

@Akrnaf2 and @kwhites634 , guess what I got? It's pretty darn accurate.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

But what do you do when you get this???



A degree or two might not make a difference when you are decided whether to wear a jacket or not, but it can make a heck of a difference when you're incubating eggs for 3 weeks. And yes, they were calibrated (they just didn't STAY calibrated) using the ice and water method - well, all except one that I didn't get the plastic bag sealed up well enough and it met an unfortunate demise by drowning. <sigh>

bahahhahhaaaaa too funny!! although I must admit I sure do have my own collection but only use a few now

Quote:

Quote: lmao ok Blooie, we need that prayer written and at the top of all articles on incubation....

"the hatchers prayer"
By Blooie

 

[daxigait]

Do I get an award for keeping my mouth shut when my dispatcher who comes in at seven thirty and leaves at five tells me that he knows I don't like to start too early (usually start 5-5:30), but he needs me to be an hour and forty five minutes away by six in the morning. Especially, when I am still working and likely won't be off before six???????

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Animals are not an issue with the stone, 2A driveway stone is not kicked up by birds, its the children who kick it all over the place and have to play with it other places in the yard. I will again have to remind the kids to keep the stones where they are or be put to work finding stones in the grass and putting them back come spring again.

This is not MomMoms bootcamp for no reason mind you..... muwahhahhhahhahaaaa

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@Akrnaf2 and @kwhites634 , guess what I got? It's pretty darn accurate.

75.6 74.35 you incubating dinosaur eggs?