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

[BantyChooks]

@Sally Sunshine We ended up with 3 little chickys from 4 eggs. (There is also a teddy bear in the pic.) Thanks for your help!! I referenced your articles frequently!

WOOHOO!!

 

[BantyChooks]

Liz, not quoting that, but thanks for notifying me about Kathy's post that I missed.

Might just have the neighbour shoot her, not worth the time and money to get her healthy and then give her away. She's a real horrid layer too.

So, I had to get feed today. I should NOT have stopped at the chick bins.
They don't actually have babies yet, buut I may or may not have picked up a special order list. They're apparently doing the special order again this year!!
They've expanded breeds and sexes available by leaps and bounds.

Also, they now have a HUGE selection of ducks available, including runners in all different colours and welshies. I'm doomed.
My resolution is now to resist as long as I can rather than resist entirely.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Liz, not quoting that, but thanks for notifying me about Kathy's post that I missed.

Might just have the neighbour shoot her, not worth the time and money to get her healthy and then give her away. She's a real horrid layer too.

So, I had to get feed today. I should NOT have stopped at the chick bins.
They don't actually have babies yet, buut I may or may not have picked up a special order list. They're apparently doing the special order again this year!!

They've expanded breeds and sexes available by leaps and bounds.

Also, they now have a HUGE selection of ducks available, including runners in all different colours and welshies. I'm doomed.
My resolution is now to resist as long as I can rather than resist entirely.

lol, i thought you might have missed it

 

[kajira]

the cold got to it??

they sound awesome, you make me want NNs more everytime you talk about them

tha always happens at the worst times!!!

Glad you had fun! that is so neat!! LOL

cant wait to see the chicks!!

there there, it will get done
dont worry about reading everything, just jump in when you can

Pretty! and Happy Birthday!!!!!
you need to flush it, and look in her mouth to see if anything is stuck, Kathy also posted to you just after you posted this, you may want to go back and see what she said

LOL, i'll take 'em!!!
my husband hasnt shot a deer in over 12 years!!! and for some reason he keeps getting tags
LOL, congrats!! sounds about right!

Pretty!!! i love it, wheres the gun?


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so cute!! sorry about the doeling you lost

LOL, honorary goat, is it time to find a bunch of baby goat and goose pics??

theyll get there

ROFL!!! good luck!

is benadryl your best friend?

glad the kitties are settling,

is the hatchery doing anything for the losses?

gorgeous birds benny!!! was he not able to save some of the Brahma eggs after the initial flood? thats so sad
i hope he can rebuild
WOOHOO!! lol i cant wait for the broody bug to hit mine, then i can tell my husband they just wanted to be mommies, i had to give them eggs
lol, good luck

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die grinder with cutting wheel

Sorry to hear this!!! i hope that you just missed them!
Holy cow!! Good luck getting them!!
PB mixed with borax, but the problem with that is if an animal ate the dead rat it would die too
as far as engine compartments DRYER SHEETS, dont aslk me why but my husband is a mechanic and they keep a box of them in the shop to put in customers cars
WOOHOOOO!!!! Congrats!!! is it super translucent and waxy?
awww he's pretty!
lol, you are so funny
they should still be little enough just give the babies somewhere to hide
i used a whizzer, like a die grinder with a cutting wheel on it

cause you are lucky but you totally just jinxed yourself
concrete shoes
glad to read about the kitties, what ever happened tou your fruit cake?

agreed! LOL

that is really cool!!

good luck with the cets visit, though i am surprised the shelter let them leave while needing shots, thats weird and not allowed here
ROFL!! love this picture!!

Good for you!! i hope they taste good!!

ROFL!!! nice one!
Me too!! i want light at night!
i can understand this, lol, and they probably know what the birds are fed and how they are treated
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youre mean!!

i will never click on either of these two links, never.
good luck on the processing!!!

pretty eggs! and i like this picture!

LOL, sounds about right!!
LOL, what if it had been something more adult-like
chug! chug! chug! chug!

so sorry that there was no progress but at least you are FINALLY getting a TENS unit!!!

EVERYTHING!!!
i wish i had sound
sounds like you already got good advice so GOOD LUCK!!!
thats great that you can use the CAE milk now!!
did you calibrate everything?
So happy that it didnt turn out worse!!!

heat pumps have come a LONG way in the last 10 years, they cost a lot to purchase but are SUPER efficient now, my little brother in law put one in, and we are thinking about putting a couple in

do you know where he ran across it???

He said he'd give me all the info later he said he'd researched all sorts of methods, and it just happened that he found an easy-2-minute-feather remover/plucker method that wasn't mentioned anywhere else.

 

[campingshaws]

Just came ftom work and discovered that I have a wall-student in my class! I sometimes get more frustrated than normal, when I discover that all my efforts, time and energy that I invested in teaching a subject is usles! Sometimes people can be EXTREMELY stupid!

On behalf of the math/science challenged, I apologize. I gave tons of good teachers awful headaches because of my inability to get it. But it wasn't for lack of effort. I also failed a media law class because I couldn't keep dates and cases straight. Luckily my study partner vouched for me, so the prof knew I was truly trying and not just unprepared.

ok I give up, I cant read back its just too much

what I miss?

Me!

 

[Yemimah]

Thanks for the help everyone. I only lost 3 out of the 15. I really don't even like to lose one! But at least everyone is doing well now. And I was able to get Nutri trench finally! I really like that product. I should have had it on him before the chicks came but I didn't have all of my chicks in a row!

 

[Yemimah]

I have a question..... I am anxious to integrate my young pullets in with my older birds. The older birds are 5 months - 2 hens and 1 rooster. Plus 2 guineas- breeding pair also juvenile. My pullets are 10 weeks old but only 1/2 the size of the older ones. When can they must be one flock. I am nervous because I have seen older birds kill younger ones but when is it safe.

 

[Yemimah]

I should add that the amount of pulleys is 15. There are 2 young rooster. Also I have 2 Cochin batsman in the coop in a cage. This is an integration attempt. How long do they need to stay caged inside the coop? It is a breeding pair also. The Cochin baby is so nice and crows. He is actually fast for a Cochin baby but does not have dew claws.

 

[BullChick]

I should add that the amount of pulleys is 15. There are 2 young rooster. Also I have 2 Cochin batsman in the coop in a cage. This is an integration attempt. How long do they need to stay caged inside the coop? It is a breeding pair also. The Cochin baby is so nice and crows. He is actually fast for a Cochin baby but does not have dew claws.

He won't get spurs for quite a while.
You can integrate slowly by letting the two groups see each other for a week, then put together at night. Considering that there are a lot of newbies, I'd trust it now.

 

[kajira]

lol, i thought you might have missed it

@Sally Sunshine

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the goats watched him butcher like "uhm............ wasn't that a chicken?"

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he used this for easy cleanup.

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and it's going on the grill.