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

[daxigait]

Looks good, as usual.  Thanks

Are you feeling better? How did last year's hatchlings turn out?

 

[BantyChooks]

Where'd I get the idea you have several acres?

Ain't cleared, and I don't have the money for more structures

No Benny, the honor is for him. Maybe he'll grow up big and buff too and smarter than most.

Or maybe he'll be mean and you'll have to wether and eat him

 

[BullChick]

[VIDEO]

I've never watched that before. Duckling came down as I was posting, so we watched it. She didn't get it, but I liked it.

I am well, but tired. I have been thinking about the night job a lot. I am just not sure if I can do it, but I would like the raise.

I missed anything you posted, so I am taking a guess that you mean night driving. Don't do it. It might be easier to get a good spot when you stop for food and fuel, but those stupid four wheelers are half asleep on the road with you, and you know truckers are always presumed guilty in an accident.

 

[kajira]

I can't ship or really deliver.

You can ship, or can't ship? lol

 

[kajira]

I let my teenager in my bathroom last night and he unplugged my incubator. *faceplants* I was 4-5 days into 3 eggs I actually wanted to set. I love my bantam cochins.

Back to the drawing board I guess. Silkie and SilkieX cochin cross... if the eggs aren't salvagable. It was 72 in my bathroom but the eggs felt cold to the touch.

 

[BantyChooks]

I let my teenager in my bathroom last night and he unplugged my incubator. *faceplants* I was 4-5 days into 3 eggs I actually wanted to set. I love my bantam cochins.

Back to the drawing board I guess. Silkie and SilkieX cochin cross... if the eggs aren't salvagable. It was 72 in my bathroom but the eggs felt cold to the touch.

That little idjit!!

I hope some made it.

Do we have an update on the geese? Sorry if I missed it during my not-yet-awake readback.

 

[kajira]

That little idjit!!

I hope some made it.

Do we have an update on the geese? Sorry if I missed it during my not-yet-awake readback.

Ducks and Geese seemed okay when I went to bed last night. Haven't been in there room yet today. We are doing some serious remodeling/moving stuff around. We discussed the best way to use the space in our house... and he's giving me my old office back for the animal stuff... LOL

He's going to be building wall-bunk beds, for the kids in the TV/play room for the 2-3 of the kids until we can add on more bedrooms and build a new kitchen.

My EE astrid went broody, so we used marker to write on the two eggs we are letting her sit on. I don't know if she'll STAY broody, or abandon the eggs... but if she wants to hatch em, i'll let her have at it.
My white cochin is also broody, so I might possibly give them to her if astrid abandons them.... I just need to figure out the best way to make a broody nest for her, away from the other birds so they don't bug her and the eggs.

 

[BantyChooks]

Ducks and Geese seemed okay when I went to bed last night. Haven't been in there room yet today. We are doing some serious remodeling/moving stuff around. We discussed the best way to use the space in our house... and he's giving me my old office back for the animal stuff... LOL

He's going to be building wall-bunk beds, for the kids in the TV/play room for the 2-3 of the kids until we can add on more bedrooms and build a new kitchen.

My EE astrid went broody, so we used marker to write on the two eggs we are letting her sit on. I don't know if she'll STAY broody, or abandon the eggs... but if she wants to hatch em, i'll let her have at it.
My white cochin is also broody, so I might possibly give them to her if astrid abandons them.... I just need to figure out the best way to make a broody nest for her, away from the other birds so they don't bug her and the eggs.

Good news.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: 2nd shift (4-12, roughly), or 3rd (12-8 +/-)?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Feeling fine.
I have 7 of them; a few were dumb enough to get caught in the open, or forget where home was.
Getting 7 eggs a day from the young ones plus the 2 older RSL's.
One of the youngsters, a black one, is noticeably larger than all the others.