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

[DwayneNLiz]

It works somewhat if you rotate horses, cows, and goats because of the different things they like to eat. At least the goats eat the brush and weeds helping better grasses make it.

this is why i am trying to get a cow, i keep getting shot down though

 

[mlm Mike]

Ugh, the janitor at the school unplugged my incubator yesterday afternoon and did not plug it back in.

They were unplugged roughly around 3:30pm, and my daughter went in to check water levels before school and noticed it was cold around 7:30 this morning. Ugh - 16 hours. I know it's possible they survived, hoping for the best. Going to go up and check for movement tonight after work.

Oh no, how awful. I hope they are ok.

 

[daxigait]

the poles will be well worth it in the long run

thats great! cant wait to see how well it works!

I am just having to get used to them.

 

[daxigait]

this is why i am trying to get a cow, i keep getting shot down though

Oh, but Yummy after they eat you do

 

[daxigait]

Ugh, the janitor at the school unplugged my incubator yesterday afternoon and did not plug it back in.   

They were unplugged roughly around 3:30pm, and my daughter went in to check water levels before school and noticed it was cold around 7:30 this morning.  Ugh - 16 hours.  I know it's possible they survived, hoping for the best. Going to go up and check for movement tonight after work. 

That is terrible. .

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Ugh, the janitor at the school unplugged my incubator yesterday afternoon and did not plug it back in.

They were unplugged roughly around 3:30pm, and my daughter went in to check water levels before school and noticed it was cold around 7:30 this morning. Ugh - 16 hours. I know it's possible they survived, hoping for the best. Going to go up and check for movement tonight after work.

that stinks! hopefully they are all fine

Oh, but Yummy after they eat you do

thats my thought, and my daughters

 

[Lucky Lemon]

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[Akrnaf2]

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[Akrnaf2]

 

Long day I am whipped and sore. Picking up chicks in the morning.

[@=/u/72519/ChickenCanoe]@ChickenCanoe[/@] thanks for the info on the tough grass. They will be in chicken tractors due to the amount of predators. There is years of tall dead grass that is basiclly straw. Hope they turn it into muclh like in there current run. Mainly it's an excuse to order a twice the meaties I normally do I will put all my current chickens out there over the summer too. The main part I want to do is 1/2 acre.

I have read in a book that I can't remember it name now, about a wonderful way of managing grass land for farm animals. The principal of it is like that:

The grass /wood land was divided to 3 parts

on the first they put cattle

On the second they poot chicken tractors

The 3rd was empty

After the cattle ate the grass ( not the all plant but only the first 50-60% of it!) .They were muved to the empty lot, the chicken were moved to the lot were the cattle was, and the lot of that the chicken were get to rest. And they repeated this over and over again.

In this way the grass feed the cattle which produces dung that is substance for numerous insects that feed the chicken and with the chicken droppings fertilize the ground for extensive grass growth that feed the cattle and so on .....

I think that this method could suit you!

Not surprisingly, that's what's known as Rotational Grazing, Benny. It was instituted many, many moons ago, in, I believe, New Zealand, for sheep. Works great for grazing animals; not so much for browsers. I tried it several years ago for goats; gave it up.

I assume it was some intensive labor to change the lots every several weeks!

 

[daxigait]

I assume it was some intensive labor to change the lots every several weeks!

I guess it depends on where they are. I am working to have four rotating pens in a square so you just herd one out and the next in. I will have three done next week just leaving one more dividing fence and two shelters to build.