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

[BantyChooks]

It is a sunny fifty two headed for sixty one. Beautiful, if a bit too warm for early March. It only encourages the trees to come out early, these are the years I lose all my fruit because it will still freeze or snow or ice before winter is really done. Several years now it has cut my trees just as they are in full bloom. Personally, it is good weather for chores.

I'll take 20 or so of those degrees

 

[Akrnaf2]

Directly to th Onc....... department on the local hospital!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Hello again Banty! Good to see everyone again - old & new!

I'm so itching to hatch eggs again - so am just re-reading & re-learning.....but I suppose it's like riding a bike, right?

welcome back!! set all eggs, most importantly!
and let us know if you dont have enough, we can help out!

I think I found a kitty.... just trying to figure out how to get it. LOL

Yayyyy~~

I'm in trouble here...




I knew nothing about this before today. I buy 2, 100lb bags of feed every 2 weeks here. So, now I have my first slip for 10 CX and by my calculations, I'll be there at least 3 more times for feed before april 15th, which means about 40 CX lol

this is great!! maybe get a few and try to raise them to laying age too, i wish they did this around here

ummm did you know that your cat has a hairball on its back, you may want to brush it

My tablet loads each page so slow it would take half the night to catch up to all the posts I missed. I read about 1/2. Meeting my sister-n-law tomorrow. She picked up those eggs for me. 36 black copper maran and 2 f1 and 1 f2 olive eggers. Cost me $40 plus I will give a few to my sister-n-law if the hatch goes well.

Question since I am personally handling the shipment should I let them rest as you do with shipped eggs?

yes let them settle still, cant wait to see

Do they realize this is no different than handing out free beer at an AA meeting?

Howdy - I tried to read back, but can't quite finish. Yes, indeed, it is Emma's fault that I adopted two cats today - I found them when looking at other San Antonio cats for adoption for her. They are quiet, adult cats who both have had a very hard time finding homes. I went to meet them - they are quiet and a bit standoffish, but honestly, that's sort of what I'm looking for (I don't have it in me to manage a kitten right now). You can see them here - I'm getting Opal and Brooke.

https://sahumane.org/services/adoption/adopt-a-cat

I will pick them up tomorrow - I got home and took a critical look around. It's been a few years since I've had a cat, and my house is not in great shape for new cats at all, so I've been tidying up, moving breakable things, etc. I'm wiped out, though, heading to bed now.

Oh, chick update - I found another dead chick this evening, and there are two or three more that may not make it. It was a really rough trip for them, poor things, and this fits about the number that I was worried about when I first took them out of the box. But some are doing just fine, so at least there's that (when it took so long for them to arrive, I was worried that I'd pick up a silent box of dead chicks at the post office). I won't relax until losses are over, though.

OK, I gotta crash. More tidying tomorrow, and selection of locations for littler boxes and cat trees. (Plus all the chicken stuff to do). This weekend just got a lot busier...

- Ant Farm

awesome!!

I just checked - they took Opal and Brooke down (duh - because I adopted them!). Here are some photos I got at the Humane Society - they were in the same living area:




Brooke has been at the shelter for almost a year (was a stray), and Opal has been there 6 months (and was also there for a little while in 2014 as a kitten - she was adopted, then her owner moved, and she's back). They had photos up of them on the wall of the lobby in little hearts and everything. They wanted me to do a photo op with them because it was a really big deal for them to find homes - but I escaped having to do that since I'm picking them up tomorrow. (I can't wait to have them here!)

OK, NOW to bed...

- Ant Farm

Congrats! i think its great that you rescued them

It was in the seventies, then it snowed the next night.

3* this morning and its snowing very dry snow right now, and its windy, so windy

EXACTLY!

I was totally flabbergasted last night when hubby got home. I told him about it. I expected him to say something like, you don't need that many, but instead I got a "better stock up on feed now then". What?! We're going to have a lot of meaties!

LOL< i like your hubby!!

I set 53 eggs last night (and I think 34 last week). I hope people are ready for chicks around here in a couple weeks lol

Good morning, MC!!!! It's an amazing shelter - no kill. Fantastic people, great conditions for the cats and dogs, and they are well cared for, they are appropriately careful who they adopt to (without being obnoxious about it). They have an entire building that is an Education Center - they strongly believe in prevention, regarding owning and caring for a pet, so the pet isn't brought back or abandoned. They talked to me very seriously about what to expect with new cats even though I had already had cats before. I'll try to get more pics to show how amazing it is today when I pick them up.

(I have some folded clothes that need to be put away, and I need to clear the floor in some areas and run the vacuum - these girls are shy, and I don't want to be running the vacuum while they're adjusting. And there's the matter of cleaning up the bathroom that held the brooder. Ugh!)

Having coffee, about to go tend all the chicks. I'm dreading what I may find in the S&G brooder. It's a little bit easier because I knew when they came out of the box that they were in bad shape, but it's still so sad to find a dead baby chick in the brooder.

sorry

That was a test to see if anyone was paying attention; only Bubbles passed

She's the onliest one who loves me

Too bad the ground's frozen, or I'd go eat worms.

i was still reading sorry

Well Garsh. Looks like i got a coffee cup.

. Thank you. I will need it today, appears as though something happened to the central unit last night and the heat aint working. Morning all.

that stinks

It is a sunny fifty two headed for sixty one. Beautiful, if a bit too warm for early March. It only encourages the trees to come out early, these are the years I lose all my fruit because it will still freeze or snow or ice before winter is really done. Several years now it has cut my trees just as they are in full bloom. Personally, it is good weather for chores.

i cant wait for summer!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Come here and get from it as much as you want!

 

[kwhites634]

Wind took the plastic off the window last night, despite me using a whole rack of staples to secure it. Hope the littles are okay outside, mite breezy for them... Wouldn't worry much 'cept I'm now paranoid of Maple's siblings getting frostbite too. Don't wish to do that again.

Staples no good...not enough surface area...pull right through the plastic.

Staple just enough to hold in place 'til you can nail 1x2's on all four edges; that'll keep it in place.

 

[kwhites634]

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Hi Whites! Sleeping any better? Itchy spot gone?

.Sleeping's fine; still itches like crazy, though....'specially at night.

 

[mlm Mike]

Today is my wiener's 11th birthday!!!! Happy Birthday Sassy!! My angel

Happy belated birthday, Sassy!

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But I thought you wanted more children????

My tablet loads each page so slow it would take half the night to catch up to all the posts I missed. I read about 1/2. Meeting my sister-n-law tomorrow. She picked up those eggs for me. 36 black copper maran and 2 f1 and 1 f2 olive eggers. Cost me $40 plus I will give a few to my sister-n-law if the hatch goes well.

Question since I am personally handling the shipment should I let them rest as you do with shipped eggs?

I would candle, if the air cells are good, I wouldn't wait 24 hours, I don't think waiting would hurt either, they should be fresh eggs.

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Thank you kindly! First time using an incubator, usually use broodies. I have a GFQ Styrofoam still with a turner. I had gotten shipped eggs from fellow BYCer but the shipment was delayed, so we both expected poor viability. That was correct, none of them developed. I also included four of my own girls' fertile eggs in case we had a lone hatch from her stock. Mine have all developed well, and tomorrow is lockdown, day 18.

I just candled the eggs this morning, and the air cells don't look big enough. I was a jerk and didn't weigh them before I put them in, so I don't know the weight difference.

It's not a big deal if they don't hatch, but I'd like to at least learn. Is there anything I can do now? I had been running the humidity at 35%, but sometimes it got up to 40%. Our house is pretty dry right now.

Original post above. Pictures below are what I just took. Any advice welcome!






I think they will hatch fine. The air cells don't appear too, too small.

Lost one of my brahma babies today from a dumb mistake I made. I have the housed in a cage and when I fed everyone yesterday I apparently didn't latch their cage and they got out. My adult birds killed the little room but the little girl managed to find herself a hiding place and survived unscathed. Other than having s*** scared out of her. I imagine literally too. Poor girl! She was sure happy to see me. Good thing I decided to hatch more for the EHAL. I need me another rooster. Glad the girl survived though, think she's gonna be a beauty.

Sorry. I've accidentally left birds open too.

Howdy - I tried to read back, but can't quite finish. Yes, indeed, it is Emma's fault that I adopted two cats today - I found them when looking at other San Antonio cats for adoption for her. They are quiet, adult cats who both have had a very hard time finding homes. I went to meet them - they are quiet and a bit standoffish, but honestly, that's sort of what I'm looking for (I don't have it in me to manage a kitten right now). You can see them here - I'm getting Opal and Brooke.

https://sahumane.org/services/adoption/adopt-a-cat

I will pick them up tomorrow - I got home and took a critical look around. It's been a few years since I've had a cat, and my house is not in great shape for new cats at all, so I've been tidying up, moving breakable things, etc. I'm wiped out, though, heading to bed now.

Oh, chick update - I found another dead chick this evening, and there are two or three more that may not make it. It was a really rough trip for them, poor things, and this fits about the number that I was worried about when I first took them out of the box. But some are doing just fine, so at least there's that (when it took so long for them to arrive, I was worried that I'd pick up a silent box of dead chicks at the post office). I won't relax until losses are over, though.

OK, I gotta crash. More tidying tomorrow, and selection of locations for littler boxes and cat trees. (Plus all the chicken stuff to do). This weekend just got a lot busier...

- Ant Farm

Emma should be there helping you!

GOOD MORNING, LOVERS OF THE COLD! WINTER HAS RETURNED! DRINK YOUR COFFEE, AND GO FEED YOUR FLOCKS!

Hello MC!

 

[mlm Mike]

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Hi Whites! Sleeping any better? Itchy spot gone?

.Sleeping's fine; still itches like crazy, though....'specially at night.

Hopefully it stops itching soon.

 

[kajira]

Happy belated birthday, Sassy!

I would candle, if the air cells are good, I wouldn't wait 24 hours, I don't think waiting would hurt either, they should be fresh eggs.

I think they will hatch fine. The air cells don't appear too, too small.

Sorry. I've accidentally left birds open too.

Emma should be there helping you!


Hello MC!

Only if she comes and helps me clean my house first.

My cats stack all their little "finds" on my desk/chair and under my computer desk.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

that means its healing, keep taking that benadryl!