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

[mlm Mike]

Morning all...

You have to love the government.... I just sent in a 9-3 to report a sale of hatching eggs....(online)..


It was rejected and sent back to me because did not list the sex of the eggs....




I marked them all Female and it went through.... now

Hi ralphie!

Morning y'all.

Hello campingshaws!

When we first moved here I set up a multi-run kennel & picked up a few bird dogs to breed mainly for my own use, keeping the ones I liked & selling the rest. One year the state gov't decided in was in the kennel business, although I told them there was no way I was going to turn a profit breed one litter a year. They insisted I was still in business to make a profit, so I politely told them I'd play their silly game, and after 3 years of no profit they'd decide it was a hobby, not a business. So, for 3 years, I kept track of all my dog-related expenses; feed, vet care, self-administered vaccines, field trial expenses, even a 14'x30' concrete pad & 5 4'x12' chain link kennels to set on it. The state finally told me that since I' d not shown a profit for 3 consecutive years the kennel was not a business, but a hobby, which was exactly what I'd tried to tell them in the beginning.

Sure, you're a hobby once it was their idea.

Who remembers my chick that hatched with unabsorbed yolk? It's been in the hatcher for 3 weeks. The one time I tried to give it a friend it just beat up the friend relentlessly. The "yolk" had dried into a hard brown ball, about the size of a chickpea. Today I examined it again, it didn't seem attached to the skin. I worked it around a bit, loosened it from some fuzz, and it came off easily. This chick now has an "outie."


I gave it a drop of blu-kote and dropped it in the brooder. The others didn't react. YB does not know how to interact with other chicks, but I think he will figure it out.

Glad he's doing ok, hope he learns to get along with others.

 

[BantyChooks]

With my extremely amazingly vast    nowledge   (spellt jst for banty).....

And the help of wiki... Yep it is known as "extreme Warfarin"....

 

[Pensmaster]

I would be careful with the retiring too early. It will be much easier to get another job now, at 39, than finding out you need one in ten years. If your plan is to turn the farm into income producing that would count. There is also a mental aspect to it, your brain is used to spending time on the job, and it's time will need to be spent elsewhere, if that makes sense.

Lovely photos, the goslings look nice, what kind?

Good luck! 
 Sorry you are going through this. 

      Tractor Supply had ducklings marked down to 75 cents the other day, I was strong and came home with none.

 I've wondered about that myself, it would be very helpful.

Very nice, but the thing I first notice is the road being flat and straight.

 Yes, I'm not pleased with the forecast either.

Morning Mike. Don't like the forecast either. 91 this week. 70's next week.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Hi Pensmaster!

I'd take that weather!

 

[livhatcher]

What's new? I thought I'd pop in and say hi so it doesn't seem like I only come here when I'm flapping like a wet hen

over my hatch!! WHICH by the way is May 10th and I'm batting 100% right now except for some saddle cells, but hey, we've been there before!

 

[BantyChooks]

What's new? I thought I'd pop in and say hi so it doesn't seem like I only come here when I'm flapping like a wet hen :cd over my hatch!! WHICH by the way is May 10th and I'm batting 100% right now except for some saddle cells, but hey, we've been there before! 

Howdy doody

 

[mlm Mike]

What's new? I thought I'd pop in and say hi so it doesn't seem like I only come here when I'm flapping like a wet hen

over my hatch!! WHICH by the way is May 10th and I'm batting 100% right now except for some saddle cells, but hey, we've been there before!

Hello! Good luck with the hatch!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Is it that time already?
I didn't see Dilly Dally or Flub-A-Dub

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi all

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@DwayneNLiz

Not a clue when she is due

I am not as organized as the others YET! I was more worried the man wasnt doing his job. Now I know better In four days she doubled in size amazing