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

[DwayneNLiz]

anyone on here have LF cochins and barred rocks?
i have a friend that want to hatch a few, and i dont have these

 

[Razadia]

GOOD MORNING, AND HAPPY HUMP DAY!

Morning!

itll get done

Today is as good a day as any!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1161826/byc-member-interview-bantychooks/0_20

That's awesome Banty!

 

[SidChick]

A Welsummer egg finally hatched last night! In all, I lost one cross due to bacteria..I had sealed a hole with wax and it failed. Another one I opened because I thought it was late, and i was wrong. One wellie egg wasn't fertilized, and two died somewhere along the way. But in the end, I have this Wellie cockerel, one wellie/rock cockerel, and three wellie/rock pullets. The kids are happy, and we will do better next time!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

A Welsummer egg finally hatched last night! In all, I lost one cross due to bacteria..I had sealed a hole with wax and it failed. Another one I opened because I thought it was late, and i was wrong. One wellie egg wasn't fertilized, and two died somewhere along the way. But in the end, I have this Wellie cockerel, one wellie/rock cockerel, and three wellie/rock pullets. The kids are happy, and we will do better next time!

Congrats on those hatched!
its definitely a learning process

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Day 7 now

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Quote:

For those of you who pray I would covet your prayers for the meeting tomorrow morning at 8 with my boss. I need to speak calmly and not get angry or defensive, and trust the Lord whatever the outcome. If they won't see my side of it I at least need the job until I find another one.

Serenity Now!
You'll do fine. Just remember that whatever happens, it's not the end of the world.

It got up to 83 today. Would have been great weather to work on my top bar hive and swarm box today, but no, I thought it was going to rain.

I'm months behind on this project for one reason or another and I have the feeling I'll be putting the hive away until next year at this rate. I want bees already!

...

How high in the air are you putting your swarm box?
Have you caught a swarm before.
I've caught a couple but that's a long story. I thought they were supposed to be about 15' or so in the air but every time I mount one high in a tree, the ants decimate it.

Can someone show me the baby bird food again

Google it.

Yum!
Perhaps you could put them in a blender.

I just realized that I'm taking a 2-year-old into TSC tomorrow. I hope she can restrain me!

Nothing like having an adult with you to bring reason to the situation.

BTW,, why are you candling turkey eggs at day 6 or 7? That is a waste of time. You cannot tell anything for another week,

I'm with you. I'm not a big candler.

First hatch, huh?... Watching is good helping is a no-no.

X2

We're trying to catch a swarm this year too but not too aggressively. We have our hives set up and baited with lemongrass oil. Haven't seen any action yet though. Good luck on yours!
I love how she's right up in the camera lol

I have a jar of lemongrass oil sitting in front of my keyboard as I write this. I got mine at whole foods.
I need to call my local beekeeping store to see if they have any extra packages that haven't been spoken for.

This was supposed to be my first year with bees but it's not looking too good. Plenty of bees hanging around from the hives down the road and they keep scouting my back porch. I got all my equipment, just haven't had help and a friend borrowed some of my tools a while back that I got back yesterday. Here's hoping I get my hive and box done and you catch a swarm!

Good luck!
I have so much equipment I need to keep this hobby going since I've invested so much. Chickens eat up a lot of time.I

@Auroradream26 @razadia

If you all were close to Mo. I would sure let you catch a hive. I have one in a tree that is about to split out. I'm alergic to bees so I give it a wide berth.

I'm in MO.

When you are young the world is much much less complicated almost everything is black or white, growing up on the other hand makes you understand that the world is almost entirely grey!

So true, and gets greyer all the time.

So the word on the street is Marans like to be incubated at 98.5 and not 99.5 like I did. Your thoughts?

In my humble opinion, chicken eggs are all the same regardless of breed. I can see where the size of the egg would make a difference but not the breed. They're all Gallus Gallus Domesticus.

That's what I first thought. But it had to be peeled off. No legs or parts of an insect.

Some type of scale?

@chicken hawk 33

You are so kind.

Setting eggs in my 4th grade class today! This is my 3rd year doing this project. I bought a new incubator this year, an IncuView all in one egg incubator. This is my first time using it. All eggs are from my own flock of Barred Rocks.

Is that the IncuView controller in the picture?

A friend of mine and I were thinking about a project of building a bunch of cheap but accurate incubators and loaning them to schools.

 

[Akrnaf2]

CC this is for you!


[VIDEO]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Perfect timing. Just came home, and it's a tad chilly out there; a hot cup of coffee & cinnamon buns will go down just right. Thank you

Ken this joke is for you.

Bowling ball humor

I worry about the germs in the holes of bowling balls. Nobody cleans those holes. There are years of impacted pizza fingers in there. Taco fingers. Chicken fingers. I'm amazed those balls still have holes. Ever smell a bowling ball hole? You think the balls are knocking down the pins? You're wrong. The pins are passing out from the smell.

CC this is for you!

Of all the people on here, it amuses me that you are the one that understood the reference.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I'm in MO.

Is that the IncuView controller in the picture?

A friend of mine and I were thinking about a project of building a bunch of cheap but accurate incubators and loaning them to schools.

probably not honey bees though

i think it is

our local cooperative/4h lends out incubators to schools

 

[ChickenCanoe]

probably not honey bees though

i think it is

our local cooperative/4h lends out incubators to schools

perhaps not
maybe yellow jackets