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

[BullChick]

 

[Chaos18]

Yes, I do!

 

[BantyChooks]

He's a very sexy devil.

 

[BullChick]

Poor Ralphie.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It would be nice if they could take care of all the dandelions.

They don't eat the flowers, just the leaves. It is weird to see all these flowers still standing with no greenery attached.
The roots go deep which is why they can't kill them. Once established, alfalfa roots go all the way to the water table.

Stories abound here like miners hiding their gold is cracks of rocks, much like the ones my chickens lay in, go to town and get killed never to get their gold again. I have spent my fair share of time looking.

When the dam broke down here people were searching for gold as it's the best time to look.
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I love those stories. When I was young, I'd check out every book at the library on lost gold stories.
I panned in Arkansas and had planned a trip to NM or AZ to pan but it never panned out.

No we don't have them in our area. Heard they could have leprosy?
Was going to try a opossum I shot in the chicken coop but the wife wouldn't help me skin it, told me to throw it over the bank and get my drunk azz to bed Lol! It was so ugly I don't think I could have. My oldest daughter got some good pictures the next day of a huge bald eagle eating it and entered it on a news channel online, they featured it that night on TV for the pic of the day.
Someone online asked her what it was eating, "opossum guts" Lol!

I'd consider eating a coon if in the wild. They are dumpster divers around here so - no thanks.
Opossums are nature's garbage disposal, cleaning up all sorts of bad stuff, so no thanks on them either.

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You guys are really making me want to take welding lessons...

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- Ant Farm

You should. I know a couple women that are very good welders. A friend that was in class with me was a lot better than I was. But her husband had already showed her how to weld so maybe that's cheating.

I just mailed/shipped 15 chicks to a person out west. It only cost $42 for shipping, padding and boxes.

I was amazed at the fees.


Considering how poorly we do with shipped eggs hatching. It costs $25 with packing boxes and sleeves to send a dozen eggs. If you get 50% on the hatch you do well.

If the eggs are $40 a dozen (my legbar egg price) it comes to apx $10.85 a chick.

If you buy 6 chicks at $15 each. Of course they get a portion of the shipping fees added on to them. Just seems more reliable to me.

Have any others of you tried shipping chicks? I was surprised how smooth it went.

Do you mean you thought the fees were high or low?

I was always surprised too at how much eggs were compared to chicks.
My chicks are $11 ea. plus shipping.
I have shipping boxes and excelsior pads for them.

How mutch cold I get for pure breed sizzles.and what do u call a frizzle crossed with a naked neck

I don't think chickens make it cold. That's a weather thing.

Sizzles aren't a breed. They are a silkie crossed with any bird with the frizzle gene.

That cross is a frizzled Turken.
But it is a mutt.

If you're asking what they are worth, they are worth whatever someone is willing to pay. If no one around you wants that cross, they are worth the meat on their bones.

She's got somewhere between six and twelve, she won't let me count them though so I'm not sure.

time will tell.

sizzle not frizzle

you said frizzle

Oh @ChickenCanoe why did i do it? I said i wasnt going to, that it wasnt worth it. Im feeling a bit like you did the other day. Maybe the same advice i gave you holds true for my post.

I'm a bad influence. It was well said though. Words of wisdom.

In other news one of my leghorns laid a massive egg today. Normal sized as compared to the monster. They've been laying a couple months now and seem to be in a regular cycle of 4-5 days straight with a day break. This was not after a break seeing as how I've gotten 2 white eggs since the weekend.

Very nice for a leghorn egg. Could it be a double yolk?

WOW all these women calling me all these nice things,, I feel young and good looking,,,or old and rich.

One or the other.

Ralphie edible???

true morel
edible
sauté it with eggs, some baby spinach in a mild tasting oil that won't overwhelm it and some saffron
Just don't overseason it. It is a very delicate flavor.

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@ChickenCanoe
Orioles Magic is alive & well in Baltimore tonight. They beat Toronto in the 11th on a walk-off Trumbo moon shot into the left field seats.

Bonus. Exciting. Sunday's game was very exciting too.
Strong chance the second and third game of the Cards/Cubs series will be rained out. We have tickets for tomorrow's game and it looks like rain all day.

nothing is a mutt.I'm talking pure breed silkie to pure breed frizzle

A frizzle is not a breed. It is a genetic defect that causes the feathers to curl backward. Any breed can have the frizzle gene. But a frizzle can't be mated to a frizzle.
A pure bred silkie to a frizzle is a mutt because you probably don't know what breed the frizzle was.
Therefor, a sizzle isn't a breed. It is a fad, like a cockapoo. People raise them but they are still mixed breeds - not pure.
A naked neck crossed with a silkie is a showgirl - but still a mutt. Another fad.

Here are the breeds recognized in the US.
http://www.amerpoultryassn.com/PDF Forms/APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties Sept2012.pdf

Somehow, I am thinking the gunfire wasn't for deer hunting like it always is around here.

The only gunfire around here is me shooting raccoons and mink. It is very disconcerting to neighbors that moved out here from the inner city to get away from the gunfire.

Heck we usually leave the doors unlocked.

I do too unless I'll be away a while. But I haven't locked the garage or basement in a long time.
And I live a very short distance from places like Ferguson.

I've only found them grown in groups also. Lone one seems weird. But IDK?
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I sometimes have a single or two morels behind the coop. It has been a couple years though.
I think if I can eradicate the invasive Japanese honeysuckle that suck all the moisture out of the ground, I would have them more years and probably more of them.

Thanks. I'll cut it in half tomorrow. There may have been more I was pushing dirt when I found it

If it has been on the ground for a bit, expect to find ants in it when you cut it open. You can rinse them out.

The hyphae filaments of the mycelium of a morel that are underground can cover many acres.
They fruit when the sap starts moving up into trees. They will also fruit when they are stressed by disturbing the soil, like from excavation like in your case.

Had thought of a long post, ever see how much $ dried morels cost? Reishi is profitable also if harvested wild with bark and green moss attached. Neither as profitable as ginseng but still worth it. Found out from a bud who pays his land tax every yr with ginseng $ don't sell ginseng, really old roots at way more $$ on eBay, the feds knocked on his door, guess you can't sell them across state borders without going through a licenced dealer.....
Enjoying oldest DD cooking right now, wow, so good, couple stuffed peppers with what I think is sorta chicken wing dip with jalapeños and topped with lots of cheese stuffed in green peppers.. her mom, DW hasn't ever made anything this yummy..

I'm out..

I inoculated some oak logs with shitake and oyster mushroom spawn last summer. Here's hoping they will fruit soon.

100 EGGS DUE TO HATCH ON THURSDAY. 3 different breeds. I hope I figured it out this time.

Good luck.

 

[BullChick]

@Auroradream26 You must have meant "yeah right!" about someone else. I know you know you are beautiful.

 

[BantyChooks]

The only gunfire around here is me shooting raccoons and mink. It is very disconcerting to neighbors that moved out here from the inner city to get away from the gunfire.

Only reason you oughta be skeered of gunfire here is if you're wearing a white hat and no orange during hunting season. And anyone doing that should probably be taken out of the gene pool anyway.

 

[BantyChooks]

Poor Ralphie.

He doesn't have any ducks. Of course he's poor.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie is edible if you are a Cannibal !

It seems like an overdue chanterelle

I have to disagree with your wise and reasoned position on this.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie handsome

Ralphie handsome

Thanks for the laugh!