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

[The Duck Ladie]

I'll be away Thursday night till Sunday morning... I have someone who will turn the eggs and take care of it all, but still, I can now sympathize with a broody hen taken off her nest...

 

[5Sons Coop]

Still 30-40 mph winds

 

[5Sons Coop]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1155048/double-yolk/10#post_18155252

Been following this thread. Double yolk due to hatch Sunday.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: This would be a good avy:

 

[The Duck Ladie]

This would be a good avy:

 

[BantyChooks]

This would be a good avy:

And if I can have "him" post a dramatic confession of his love for dux, so much the better...

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Thanks, Banti! (Campingshaws - DO ET!!!!). Opal is sitting on the futon right now as I type. IN THE OPEN. It's a miracle. Brooke stared at me for a few minutes WITHOUT RUNNING AWAY. I've also started using the "turn your back" tactic - if I catch one of them out in a room, and they look like they may want to run depending on whether I come in or not, I keep coming slowly, but turn my back to them and do it sideways. With my back to them, I don't look like someone about to grab them, I think...

Chuck is old, almost 11. He's inside/outside and I know his days are numbered.





He's lived with us in four houses across three states. He hates everyone and everything, and it cracks me up.

He's not mean, just grumpy.

Morning all, Had the day off yesterday so I took the opportunity to process some excess roosters. First time experience but I made it through it and have meat in the freezer. Mixed thoughts at this point in time but we will see how they taste to see if it was worth the effort.

It is a lot of work, but I get a certain satisfaction from it, and I feel better doing it myself than giving to someone else to do. (But everyone's different...)

I am SO not ready for all these new babies coming in the next couple weeks. got 15 turkeys. (going to sit out side TSC and try to sell 90% of them for a few bucks a piece, they already told me I could. haha)

I got my sebastapol geese, and 4 new ducklings coming in, and 4 more babies in the incubator due to hatch around the 20th.

I need to butcher, and get crap ready for spring.... all these new baby goats, too. I need to go to the goat auction and sell off all my pgymies so I can replace them with nubians.

Yeah, my whole spring is like that - not ready for anything. I finally got the tractor moved to the new location for the oldest chicks (which was a back wrenching experience since it's on a slope), but lost the light before I could finish the rest of the set up. They are 8 WEEKS OLD tomorrow - way past time for them to move outside. I may try to take a couple hours before work to see if I can get some of it accomplished before leaving the house...

Here's the tractor during the move (I was taking a break):


Here it is in its new location.


I still need to tack down the aprons, cover with a tarp, put the roosts back together, put sweet PDZ under the roosts, fill with bedding, add a feeder and waterer (and fill them), and then move the chickens. Whew!!!

I am sooooooooooo ready for the time change this weekend. I wish we would just stay on Daylight savings time year round. I like light when I home in the evenings.

That's this weekend?! I'm sooooooooo glad - it has been so hard to get anything done at home after work, and I have a LOT of building to do

Quote: THE HEAT NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY.

Hi everyone!!

So I did it , the ol Bator is plugged in.... Getting it all set up and ready to go thinking in a few days when it even outs I'll get some eggs going and we will see what happens.

Quote: What I like about having cats as companions is that if you've met one cat, well, you've met one cat. They are all so different. My last cat LOVED the water (had to sit on the rim of the tub when I was taking a bath, playing with the water - she even fell in once), came running to the door like a dog when I came home (immediately dropping and rolling so she'd get belly rubs), and was actually reasonably friendly with my greyhound Froggy. (Froggy followed me to the bathroom and would just stand there and stare at me - I think she was afraid I would fall in or something.

)



I like these two shy kitties already - they're just quirky in their own way.

Hubby got ALL the stuff to help me butcher the ducks, and my two cochin roosters. Who are ********. They are beating up my EE hens, and even my female ducks they are trying to force-mate with them.

I feel NO guilt about them going into the croc pot.

Woohoo!!!! So glad to hear! (They sound like jerks...)

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Quote: JACKET. WEATHER.

I was up early this AM because I had a professional meeting/breakfast downtown at the Menger Hotel, right beside the Alamo. In case anyone wants to know what the BACKSIDE of the Alamo looks like:



I am yawning uncontrollably (and it's only 8:45pm). I think I need to head to bed. Maybe Brooke will come visit me again.

- Ant Farm

 

[kajira]

Thanks, Banti! (Campingshaws - DO ET!!!!). Opal is sitting on the futon right now as I type. IN THE OPEN. It's a miracle. Brooke stared at me for a few minutes WITHOUT RUNNING AWAY. I've also started using the "turn your back" tactic - if I catch one of them out in a room, and they look like they may want to run depending on whether I come in or not, I keep coming slowly, but turn my back to them and do it sideways. With my back to them, I don't look like someone about to grab them, I think...

It is a lot of work, but I get a certain satisfaction from it, and I feel better doing it myself than giving to someone else to do. (But everyone's different...)

Yeah, my whole spring is like that - not ready for anything. I finally got the tractor moved to the new location for the oldest chicks (which was a back wrenching experience since it's on a slope), but lost the light before I could finish the rest of the set up. They are 8 WEEKS OLD tomorrow - way past time for them to move outside. I may try to take a couple hours before work to see if I can get some of it accomplished before leaving the house...

Here's the tractor during the move (I was taking a break):


Here it is in its new location.


I still need to tack down the aprons, cover with a tarp, put the roosts back together, put sweet PDZ under the roosts, fill with bedding, add a feeder and waterer (and fill them), and then move the chickens. Whew!!!


That's this weekend?! I'm sooooooooo glad - it has been so hard to get anything done at home after work, and I have a LOT of building to do

What I like about having cats as companions is that if you've met one cat, well, you've met one cat. They are all so different. My last cat LOVED the water (had to sit on the rim of the tub when I was taking a bath, playing with the water - she even fell in once), came running to the door like a dog when I came home (immediately dropping and rolling so she'd get belly rubs), and was actually reasonably friendly with my greyhound Froggy. (Froggy followed me to the bathroom and would just stand there and stare at me - I think she was afraid I would fall in or something.

)



I like these two shy kitties already - they're just quirky in their own way.


Woohoo!!!! So glad to hear! (They sound like jerks...)

I was up early this AM because I had a professional meeting/breakfast downtown at the Menger Hotel, right beside the Alamo. In case anyone wants to know what the BACKSIDE of the Alamo looks like:



I am yawning uncontrollably (and it's only 8:45pm). I think I need to head to bed. Maybe Brooke will come visit me again.

- Ant Farm

Sleep well sweetie!!! Mozey is finally warming up to us, but he's not so sure about the dogs. LOL

 

[The Duck Ladie]

And if I can have "him" post a dramatic confession of his love for dux, so much the better...

And that he actually has a bunch in the backyard....

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Thanks! I wondered about that - the advantage I have with these two shy girls is no dogs, no kids, and a quiet house.

Off to collapse...