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

[DwayneNLiz]

Um, they're accurate but dangerous - mercury exposure if broken, and REALLY important not to get in the water supply. That's why they were confiscated from all of our laboratories in the hospitals - because we have to call environmental safety for hazardous spill if one breaks. Don't you have kids at home? I wouldn't...

(Edit to add: You'll probably get crucified if you take them to the daycare incubator.)

lol, yes i know this and remember breaking one as a kid and playing with the mercury
the bator is in the basement, and it is in the bator, the spares are wrapped in paper towel and then a baggie in a safe place

All of us grow up with them all around, there was nothing else!
I don't know of ANYONE that have been hurt and HAVE NEVER heard of a poisoning! Do you know of such a case?
I think that causation is needed but to be panic about it is unnecessary.

i've never heard of one

My pig killed two of the baby chicks that I let my other broody cochin hatch.... so I had to move the pig away from the chickens to the Goat area. She didn't do it on purpose, but when she randomly charges around, and trips over the babies, it squished them.

the other cochin, has managed to keep her 11 chicks alive some how. LOL

All geese/ducks are doing good... and I have 15-20 turkey eggs, and 20ish more chicken eggs i'm waiting on hatch. A few are polish/crosses and then purebred silkies.

sorry

glad the others are doing well

I grew up on mercury thermometers too. My brothers and I loved the taste of the mercury. We would break them just to get at the yummy Mercury.

Look how normal I turned out, I doubt it really has any effect on people..

LOL

 

[kajira]

lol, yes i know this and remember breaking one as a kid and playing with the mercury
the bator is in the basement, and it is in the bator, the spares are wrapped in paper towel and then a baggie in a safe place

i've never heard of one

sorry

glad the others are doing well

LOL

I let her hatch some EE eggs that were about ready to hatch - so just 2 chicks. Wasn't a big deal that I lost them, just wish the pig hadn't squished them.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I let her hatch some EE eggs that were about ready to hatch - so just 2 chicks. Wasn't a big deal that I lost them, just wish the pig hadn't squished them.

how big is the pig now?

 

[BantyChooks]

My picture is from summer "sigh" lovely

What area of Canada?

I grew up on mercury thermometers too.  My brothers and I loved the taste of the mercury. We would break them just to get at the yummy Mercury.

Look how normal I turned out, I doubt it really has any effect on people..

Ralph, ol' boy, if we're judging the effects of mercury by you, it should be a permanently banned substance.

 

[Akrnaf2]

All of us grow up with them all around, there was nothing else!

I don't know of ANYONE that have been hurt and HAVE NEVER heard of a poisoning! Do you know of such a case?

I think that causation is needed but to be panic about it is unnecessary.

I grew up on mercury thermometers too.  My brothers and I loved the taste of the mercury. We would break them just to get at the yummy Mercury.

Look how normal I turned out, I doubt it really has any effect on people..

In your case it's a matter of genes not mercury!

 

[Sparkle110]

What area of Canada?

Ontario, Before the snowfall, during the break between one snowfall an dthe next, somthing elusive called "summer"

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Wasn't that Tuesday a week ago, about 3 PM?

 

[Akrnaf2]

What area of Canada?

Ontario, Before the snowfall, during the break between one snowfall an dthe next, somthing elusive called "summer"

The last time that we had some real snow here ( pleas don't lounge "real"=60 cm) was in 1950!

 

[BantyChooks]

Ontario, Before the snowfall, during the break between one snowfall an dthe next, somthing elusive called "summer"

 

[kajira]

how big is the pig now?

The size of one of my pygmies. She's not that big.