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

[Beer can]

One really has to wonder what your google search history is like

I think it usually goes by that but I swear I've looked up nothing cattle or the other. IDK? :-D

 

[Chaos18]

Well I had not really thought of that, do I need to?  They will be in the yard beside my dog yard, with my duck and goose (pond side).   I could also enclose the bottom of my daughter's club house for them and put a door on that to lock them in at night.  Since I'm so new to goats, I'm just trying to get all my research done and figure out what I need to do for them.  My daughter is making good on her end of the deal so far.  I have until Christmas basically to figure it out.  LOL

I think it greatly depends on what kind of predators are running around. Stray dogs and coyotes would love to snack on a goat. I lock mine up at night and they get let out every morning when the chickens get let out.

 

[daxigait]

I think it greatly depends on what kind of predators are running around. Stray dogs and coyotes would love to snack on a goat. I lock mine up at night and they get let out every morning when the chickens get let out.

After breeding season I shut mine in a small pen with their shelters and the Llama to give him a smaller area to guard at night. After weaning in the summer I usually leave them out with him in the bigger pasture

Like Chaos said, it depends on the predator situation.

 

[kajira]

I think it greatly depends on what kind of predators are running around. Stray dogs and coyotes would love to snack on a goat. I lock mine up at night and they get let out every morning when the chickens get let out.

This.

We don't lock our goats up, but we have big horses on one side, one of which is a pony who HATES small animals like dogs, so he'd stomp anything that would come in uninvited.

We also have our great pyr sleeping between our chicken coops and goat pens, and she doesn't like predators, either.

 

[ocap]

I live on a dirt road, but I like your thinking!

dirt road dragging works better than any other surface!

 

[Pensmaster]

I think it usually goes by that but I swear I've looked up nothing cattle or the other. IDK? :-D

Your on the chicken line. I get that one quite often.

 

[campingshaws]

I live on a dirt road, but I like your thinking!

dirt road dragging works better than any other surface!

Sanding as I go!

 

[Pensmaster]

I think it greatly depends on what kind of predators are running around. Stray dogs and coyotes would love to snack on a goat. I lock mine up at night and they get let out every morning when the chickens get let out.

Yep neighbors lost 4 sheep one night when they didn't lock them up.

 

[catsndogs4us]

Now Mama Silkie has been teaching her chicks all about the outdoors and dust bathing.

What a fun surprise to see my mama and chicks picture on Facebook today , It was so helpful to have the article when our chicks were hatching. I was relieved to have somewhere to turn for all these questions. We never planned to hatch out chicks but our broody silkie had other ideas. How did it all turn out, just those two cuties hatched. I was especially glad to have read that I should put an egg that didn't hatch into baggies before trying to find out what went wrong. What went wrong with the final egg led to a big POP, yes the final egg was just a rotten egg, no chick development at all, If I hadn't chipped at it within a double baggie that rotten egg would have gotten everywhere! Thanks so much for the helpful articles and tips. Now we are on to the new adventures of Mama Silkie teaching her chicks about the outdoors and dust bathing and such. What a great experience this is.

 

[ocap]

I think it greatly depends on what kind of predators are running around. Stray dogs and coyotes would love to snack on a goat. I lock mine up at night and they get let out every morning when the chickens get let out.

snack is right, worst story I ever heard was coyote eating the udders off all her goats, left a bunch of screaming, wounded pets for the owner to put down.