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

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duluthralphie said:
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I use the ones from Strombergs, because they come in several colors AND are printed with numbers (you can specify sequence). VERY useful when you are tracking and weighing a lot of young chicks that all look alike. I have a couple colors, and I change colors when I change out bands as they grow - helps me make sure I haven't missed anyone. You have to keep an eye on them, after a couple weeks the numbers can rub so that 8 and 6 are hard to tell apart, for instance (though a Sharpie can take care of that). If I were keeping more of the chicks I brought in or hatched, I'd consider wing bands, but I'm culling a lot. Once they are fully grown, I can usually tell them apart, and if not, I'll THEN tag them with different colored regular zip ties (no number). I like zip ties - they stay on, and are easy to remove and replace.

(You know, I bet you could use a sharpie on any light colored one to do numbers if you have a steady hand and good eyes. I weigh them every week - that's often enough to refresh any rubbed numbers.)
kajira said:
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This time around, I'm making the tractors in panels and able to be disassembled (because I want to be able to take them apart when I don't need them). It also lets me do some of the assembly on the (large) porch which is a better work area than just in the yard. Last night before bed I had moved the final tractor panel to the back in the dark with a headlamp (the last panel I had moved earlier freaked out the chickens closest to the way I had to walk, such that several flew out of the paddock and had to be rounded up, so I had to wait for the final one). It was generally uneventful, but on the way back to the house, I was focused on the ground, and I forgot the low hanging branch of the big mesquite and ran headfirst right into it. Heard a disagreeable crack in my neck (to be fair, it makes crackling noises a lot), and got a big bump on the head. Woke up this AM at about 3:30 with an achy neck, and couldn't get comfortable, so I just got up and started puttering.

After I get the tractor set up, next on the list? Cut down that G-D branch...
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ChickenCanoe said:
I couldn't agree more.
We're going to spend billions to build a wall on the southern border, even though the vast majority of undocumented aliens arrive by plane from Asia.
Meanwhile in Mexico -
http://i.imgur.com/6ueVt3I.gifv

I have a crazy hen I think I'm either going to sell or cage to break her broodiness.
She was broody each night, flattened out on eggs in a trance but come out of it during the day. I wanted a broody so I stuck her in another unit with just a rooster and kept them locked up. She stayed on 12 eggs in there and when I finally opened the door, during the day she flew the coop and joined her old flock.
I wasn't sure how here on and off nature affected the eggs so I put them in the incubator.
I only got one egg to hatch from them and it was 5 days late.
She spent the day today walking around foraging with her flock and right now she's flattened out on eggs in the nest box.
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Sounds like she just wants to mess wih you :P
 
Fire Ant Farm said:
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I use the ones from Strombergs, because they come in several colors AND are printed with numbers (you can specify sequence). VERY useful when you are tracking and weighing a lot of young chicks that all look alike. I have a couple colors, and I change colors when I change out bands as they grow - helps me make sure I haven't missed anyone. You have to keep an eye on them, after a couple weeks the numbers can rub so that 8 and 6 are hard to tell apart, for instance (though a Sharpie can take care of that). If I were keeping more of the chicks I brought in or hatched, I'd consider wing bands, but I'm culling a lot. Once they are fully grown, I can usually tell them apart, and if not, I'll THEN tag them with different colored regular zip ties (no number). I like zip ties - they stay on, and are easy to remove and replace.

(You know, I bet you could use a sharpie on any light colored one to do numbers if you have a steady hand and good eyes. I weigh them every week - that's often enough to refresh any rubbed numbers.)
kajira said:
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This time around, I'm making the tractors in panels and able to be disassembled (because I want to be able to take them apart when I don't need them). It also lets me do some of the assembly on the (large) porch which is a better work area than just in the yard. Last night before bed I had moved the final tractor panel to the back in the dark with a headlamp (the last panel I had moved earlier freaked out the chickens closest to the way I had to walk, such that several flew out of the paddock and had to be rounded up, so I had to wait for the final one). It was generally uneventful, but on the way back to the house, I was focused on the ground, and I forgot the low hanging branch of the big mesquite and ran headfirst right into it. Heard a disagreeable crack in my neck (to be fair, it makes crackling noises a lot), and got a big bump on the head. Woke up this AM at about 3:30 with an achy neck, and couldn't get comfortable, so I just got up and started puttering.

After I get the tractor set up, next on the list? Cut down that G-D branch...
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That, or watch where you're going
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duluthralphie said:
If that is the smallest size yes.
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I think it is, wasn't able to find any others...

ChickenCanoe said:
Harbor Freight has all kinds of colored assortment zip ties.
http://www.harborfreight.com/household/cable-ties.html?p=2
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Here's hoping their cable ties are better quality than their bench clamps.

MotorcycleChick said:
GOOD MORNING, EARTHLINGS! I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT DAY OF CLEANING COOPS, AND HATCHING
CHICKS!
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Morning Abi. Bedding is too frozen to clean the coop, so I get to skip out for a while longer.

Happy April everyone!
 

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