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

[ChickenCanoe]

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I am so grateful. I've been reading about the Fayoumis and just finished reading the description to my husband. Without hesitation, he said. "You've got to get some of those!"

Not this season. I have to let this settle down, see where I stand number wise and get a bird necropsied. But next spring I will buy me some Fayoumis.

You gave a heart sore old....er older woman some hope to hang onto.

God bless, Microchick/Becky

I was seriously planning on Fayoumis a few years ago but I don't have enough space for another breed.
IMHO, Mareks is everywhere and worldwide.
The Penedesencas are extremely hardy
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/90/mareks-disease/

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If you think that's flat & straight, you should visit central Illinois; just like that, minus the trees. A lot (if not most) of the roads there are laid out in sections; a section being a square parcel of a mile on each side. Being in the middle of the "corn belt", there was nothing in sight for miles in some cases except corn, soybeans, cattle pastures, or an occasional hog farm. This was back in the 50's, when we'd go out to visit my grandparents.

And Kansas.

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

My 9-3 forms has a checkbox for straight run. That's how I mark for hatching eggs.

Why would anyone move to the Vast Wastelands of North of their own free will?


I thought we were still using that as a penal colony.....And most prisoners being given a choice between hanging and being relocated to the Vast Wastelands of the North were choosing the rope...

I think that was Australia.

oh my!

Did I tell you I found a goose egg up on top of the wood pile? she never jumps up on anything weird! kids swear they are not messing with me!

Wait till they stick eggs in the rooster bachelor pad.

My grandma keeps telling my toddler she's going to throw him away in the trash. He's been getting super clingy with me and really thought she was going to throw him in the garbage. I had to tell her she was scaring him, because he didn't understand she was just trying to signal she was annoyed with his behavior.

:/ It's always bugged me that she's said that to my kids. I joke a lot with my kids, but telling a kid 20x+ a day that you're irritated and going to throw them in the trash while sounding mean, makes you start to believe it.

Some people just aren't good with kids.
They don't understand what that does to them long term.

YouTube pulls all vids it considers not "family friendly - their definition, not yours or mine) and has recently been known to shutdown channels or withdraw their monitization over "offensive" content - and slaughter/animal harvesting is at the top of their list. This is why content providers are strictly editing their videos

That's a shame. There were some great videos of processing chickens.

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thanks, it rained all night again though and it's still raining now. I am beginning to worry about my prom **** other than that my place is just soggy with lots of standing water. What have you been up to?

Yesterday was dry all day and it was a glorious change of pace. Sunny and about 60F but quite windy.
Today is a different story. It started raining at dawn and we're supposed to get 3-5" in the next 48 hours just as rivers were starting to crest.
There are so many roads closed and I lost track of how many towns have been evacuated. There's only one road left open to get from Jefferson County to St. Louis County. There are probably a couple hundred thousand people living in Jefferson county and areas south that work in St. Louis so it will be a nightmare for those people trying to get to work.
I-44 has reopened down by Lebanon but has now closed just west of St. Louis. I-55 southbound just closed and northbound will close in the next hour or two.
The school closures number close to winter storm closures. There's a hospital completely cut off and they're finding sleeping quarters for the staff.
We're up to 300 closed roads. The last record flood was just over a year ago in December 2015. This is breaking some of those records.

This kind of tells it all.

Interesting before and after comparison of various roads.

This is I-44

homes flooded

I lost my goose yesterday only to find her in the kid pen, was wondering why she stopped laying! ughhhh

I had a feral chick get out of his pen at about 15 days of age and refuse to return to his siblings. He went to an area with adult birds and I couldn't catch him. He wouldn't let me within 50' of him. He's faster, smaller and smarter than me. Especially since he's been living out there for 5 full days, he knew where all the hiding places and tiny holes in the fences were. I looked for him every night after dusk and couldn't find him. I thought he would either freeze, (it's been down to 40 at night a couple times and heavy rain for days) or get eaten by a raccoon each night only to see him return in the morning. This morning just at first light I saw him and as he ran for cover I caught him with a big goose catch net.

By sunshine, good luck at doc's.

Bye, not by. That would be an adverb meaning to go past or a preposition Identifying one performing an action or means of achievement.

My daughter had to have 4 frogs, who live in an aquarium in one of our rooms, now.

I loved having amphibians and reptiles when I was a kid. I used to go to streams and springs on our farm in spring, collect eggs, hatch them out, raise the tadpoles till they became air breathing frogs and returned them to the streams.

 

[BantyChooks]

2 just like your, excupt they are about 2-3 weeks old, and I might! ( I have shown Sparkle II once, but she was too young to win )

Though, I did show a white Chataclier( In fact he is the white thing in the background) and he won the catagory and best of breed, but I think he was the only of his kind there though!

By category do you mean the American class?

 

[BantyChooks]

Bye, not by. That would be an adverb meaning to go past or a preposition Identifying one performing an action or means of achievement.

That was a typo, apologies.

 

[kwhites634]

I lost my goose yesterday only to find her in the kid pen, was wondering why she stopped laying! ughhhh

Hey, Kid

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That was a typo, apologies.

Just messing with you, sorry.

 

[daxigait]

@ChickenCanoe Seneca looked like Fenton. Center Creek was over its banks all over down here. It finally stopped raining for the moment. It is a mess at the moment around here too.

 

[Sparkle110]

By category do you mean the American class?

Nope But I forgot what it was for but it was a show class

 

[duluthralphie]

Where are they going, freezer?

Nope, I found a foo.... I mean woman to buy them. ....

 

[duluthralphie]

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My 9-3 forms has a checkbox for straight run. That's how I mark for hatching eggs.

Mine does to and I use it for chicks. I find it a stupid box to require for eggs, So being kind of anti government I checked female just to see what would happen....

I am now waiting for them to call and ask me how I sex the eggs...My response will be easy, I claim 85-90% accuracy on some breeds, on eggs I claim 50% accuracy...

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Holy Toledo, I thought the rain was slacking off and was going to let the other 4 coops of chickens out. It started coming down in sheets. I don't know how much rain we've had because I went out to the gauge yesterday afternoon and since there was only an inch in it I decided not to dump it. Last time I went out it was overflowing so that is 5"+ since about 4PM yesterday.
I have 7" copper gutters, 8X13" conductor head and 6" round downspouts with debris shedding discharge on the downspout. Everything is overflowing.

I'm glad I'm on the top of a hill. There are streams running off in every direction.

scary!! hope it stops soon!!

I need to get one of those phone scope mounts. Try holding a gun and a phone in the right spot is difficult. Could have got a good video of it pouncing on mice on high power if I had the mount.
My chickens are usually in this field.

great image still!!

Today is the beginning of the memorial day of ouer fallen soldiers, 23,447 of them, some of them where my friends!

It is always hard, to see all the young men and women that have giving theit life for our freedom and independence.

I need some help here. This is just outside the kitchen door. Anyone know what it is?

California Kingsnake
http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/snakespics.html

Lookie here! Leghorns, giant cochin, guinea, and finally a banty cochin egg!!

Fun!!!

94 eggs set with with 8 different hatch dates. Marans, olive eggers, barnyard mix, Texas A&M quail, Rosetta quail, bronze broadbrest turkey (that have not been fertile with 3 toms???). 1/4 of the garden fence built. About 2 miles of beef fence up. Next projects are finish garden fence, rain days get very old redwood incubator cleaned up and running for use as a hatcher or incubator and use one of my current smaller incubators for a hatcher. With 12 dz eggs in the frig I need more room to set eggs or need to find more egg customers.

thats a lot of eggs, good luck!!

Well, I've been going non-stop since 15 hours, 25 minutes ago, since I last posted. Got a lot done, more still to do. Just came in from being on "possum watch" (sitting on the lounge chair and watching the CL coop until the auto door shut - fortunately, no baby possums two days in a row). Got really cold - was drinking hard cider and it was breezy and 73F - I was shivering (not kidding, chattering teeth). (Alas, it's not a "I'm from Texas" thing, and I have plenty of "insulation", it's a "I really overdid it today" thing - I don't thermoregulate well when I'm over-exhausted.)

Skipped weighing the Aloha NNs today. Too tired. I did manage to do brooder cleaning, a little coop cleaning and caught up with my mother on the phone, so at least there's that.

I'll read back, but I suspect that the best thing would be to go to bed. Stat.

- Ant Farm

looks great!!
you need to stop doing this to your self though!

I would not do this Candling and throwing early makes no sense to me unless you need the room in the incubator. At day 9 there is too much chance to misread the candling. I am in complete agreement with the toss the leaking and stinking egg crowd.

agreed

Morning all,,,Sorry, I missed that this morning..

I have a painful wood tick bite today, and Banty is refusing to come kiss it, to make it all better.....

that stinks, and why on earth are you wanting kisses from Banti?

mornin all

whut I miss?

that looks delicious
and EVERYTHING!!

Morning Sally!

cutie!!

Lots of flooding. The morning local news is amazing. Traffic snarls all around because of road closures. There are at least 40 roads closed in the area.
I-44 is closed for 60 miles in the central part of the state. That is expected to be closed the whole week. MODOT's suggested detour from St. Louis to Joplin would add about 100 miles to the trip.
This was the state road closure map from yesterday and many more were added today and more still in the next couple days.



A couple towns are begging for more sandbags and volunteers to stack them. Eureka is trying to save the downtown business district. The bags were stacked to protect from the last record flood that was only 1.5 years ago. They just learned this will be worse so they need to add a couple feet to the stacks. They ran out of bags and expect to need another 50,000 bags. Another town, Valley Park has announced mandatory evacuation of the whole town.
The water is still coming down from the hills and small streams so some of these rivers may be going up another 10 feet or so.
None of this has really hit the Missouri or Mississippi yet. That will be later in the week.

thats crazy!! i hope everyone is staying safe

I'm still alive guys, really, just going through a rough patch with my birds.

I've had two roosters die in the last three weeks and highly suspect I have an outbreak of Marek's going on as I have discovered three chickens with pinpoint unequal pupils and one with gray eye. My last rooster loss was yesterday when I found my 25 month old Welsummer boy sitting on his perch with his mouth hanging open and his comb and wattles blue. Sudden onset, he was fine 24 hours earlier.No other symptoms. No URI, he just couldn't get his breath and was near death. I put him down. 3 weeks ago I lost another yearly cockerel to strange neurological symptoms/seizure/wasting/blue comb then death. He died in my arms. Both of these birds were good, gentle roosters. I've lost birds to seizure activity, wasting and neurological problems over the past year. Checking the flock I have three more with the eye problems and two that are wasting in spite of eating well and recent worming. I'm looking into getting a necropsy done on the next one or doing one myself just to confirm my suspicions. I have no idea where this came from other than airborne or wild birds. I hatch my new chicks myself and have not brought outside birds into the flock since mine were 5-6 month old and those came from the same NPIP breeder I bought my flock from. None were vaccinated as they breed for resistance.

Well somebody isn't resistant....crap.

On the flip side, I have a hen sitting on 5 more bantam eggs but haven't hatched anymore in my Brinsea. I would love to but I have to see how this plays out first.

so sorry to hear this!!

It's been so wet here the chickens don't even want to come out.

Thanks for the condolences Banty and Sally. Yeah, it's a bite but not much you can do except dig holes and hang on for dear life. Hopefully when this runs it's course I'll be left with enough resistant birds to hatch resistant chicks from. Time will tell. I won't give up, just changing course.

glad to hear that you are looking ahead

good luck

Good Monday morning!

Chicks! The last one pictured randomly has feathered legs!

awwww

Morning all,In other news I'm trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up.

In all actuallity I'm trying to see if retiring at 39 is a realistic possibility. It seems as though majority of military that retire pursue some form of second job but I think with a slightly modified lifestyle we could make it work.

Wait who am I kidding I would still be working it would just be my farm, and my land.

On the topic of rotational grazing. Anybody familiar with Joel Salatin and his process. Spent some time this weekend watching youtube videos of his farm and methods along with Justin Rhodes and his farm tour. I think that lifestyle is well within my reach but haven't convinced the wife of it yet.

lol, you could look into an officer position? my brother was dumb and got out he only needed a couple more years and he could be in the same boat as you

Hi everyone! Just duping in to share some pics

Ana and Cocoa, both trying to claim the favorite nest

Pebbles adopted this older poult along with her 1 week old chick

These two decided to roost with the big birds though

Sunshine and Lollipop, being to go outside to play. They're getting so big already!

Ana won the battle for the fluffy duck nest lol

Cute pictures!! your geese are getting huge!

We put the Frontline on the dogs....if there's anything left over we rub it on the back of our necks.....well we're desperate! We've both been bit by bad ticks and we haven't grown extra legs yet or started scratching ourselves behind the ear with our foot or scooting our bums on the rug so I guess we are still okay......

Good point about the flea and tick shampoo though.

But have you ever wondered why they haven't developed Frontline for people?

it destroys the liver, and causes cancer
deet works against ticks, but it causes cancer

I love you. LOL I'll be 32 this year. I still get carded for alcohol pretty much everywhere........ but I know that's going to stop soon.

and you look fabulous!

hahha, thanks. I need some ego stroking, the "40" keeps looming in the back of my mind and I'm feeling old. I know 40's NOT that old........... but my doctor told me "your getting close to advanced maternal age" and I about had a heart attack.

I don't know if this is our last baby or not.

Ugh. okay, sappy me. Hubby poured me some vodka, since we triggered to night, (2 eggs, actually) and said "this is hopefully the last time you get vodka for the next year and a half or so.......................................................................

To be honest, i'm jealous of my husband, he's 45, and people think he's 30. I hope his genes get passed to our daughters. I want them to age well.

Edit : my teen decided he might want to be a massage therapist when he grows up. He rubbed my shoulders to keep me awake when driving that 6+ hour drive today on 3 hours of sleep and said "mom, this is kind of fun, I can get paid for this?" and we had a long talk about massage school. hahaha

Edited 2x : He said it was fun, because he'd find a knot in a muscle and push and make me say ow and it would crack him up that I was all knotty and old, apparently.

good luck, and thats great that your son is thinking like this, even though its because its fun lol

If you think that's flat & straight, you should visit central Illinois; just like that, minus the trees. A lot (if not most) of the roads there are laid out in sections; a section being a square parcel of a mile on each side. Being in the middle of the "corn belt", there was nothing in sight for miles in some cases except corn, soybeans, cattle pastures, or an occasional hog farm. This was back in the 50's, when we'd go out to visit my grandparents.

illinois is still like that, or at least was in 2008

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

i want some of these magical pre-sexed eggs

I want some of them sexed hatching eggs

ditto!!

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.

were you not able to push it back in??

@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

she got huge!!

but you skipped the 2nd part of that message

ummmm more than a hand full

she is going to school thank God!

glad to hear that she is a bit better

15 I think and day 4. I am not sure about the brinsea bator to be honest. I am not sold on its turning. it seems like it doesnt tilt them enough. and there is no hands on, like I am not doing anything but walking by it

think the fun left

LOL, its the lazy persons bator!! set it and forget it!

Another broody was found today. She was in the old duck pen on over a dozen egg, closer to 20.

you didnt notice you were missing a chicken?

My grandma keeps telling my toddler she's going to throw him away in the trash. He's been getting super clingy with me and really thought she was going to throw him in the garbage. I had to tell her she was scaring him, because he didn't understand she was just trying to signal she was annoyed with his behavior.

:/ It's always bugged me that she's said that to my kids. I joke a lot with my kids, but telling a kid 20x+ a day that you're irritated and going to throw them in the trash while sounding mean, makes you start to believe it.

that really stinks, i am sorry

I've got 2 out of 8 Ayam Cemani's so far!!!!

Congrats!!!!

The neighbors broody has finished 9 of 9 of the eggs I gave her.

Here's 8 the other just hatched.

Awesome!!!

Quail are hatching in an incubator I never used before. Hard to believe but I set to many eggs and had no place to hatch them. So I made a hatcher inside the incubator, I am turning eggs in and it worked! The quail eggs I am hatching are the first 7 eggs I got this spring. I want to greatly increase my quail population so MUST SET ALL EGGS. I will get a picture of my hatcher net time I open the incubator. I took a deli container poke a few holes in it, put a water soaked paper towel in the bottom, put a few straws on top of that to keep the eggs off the wet towel and went into lockdown on day 15. Today is day 18 currently I am 4 for 7 with 2 more working on it. I never thought it would work. Best part no incubator to clean, just need to clean a deli container or get a new one.

thats neat!! and a lot of eggs

I was at TSC yesterday. They now have a rewards program for all purchases. Unfortunately, I didn't go in sooner. They give a discount coupon for the month of your birthday.

If only I had gone Friday.

i didnt know about this, though i rarely go there, but good to know, thanks!!!

Hi.Thanks... Not giving up my dog, lol he's one of the family and spoiled rotten. I plan to start posting more. Been having college exams(went back to school late) so its been hectic.

Welcome!!!! he's a cutie!!

I lost my goose yesterday only to find her in the kid pen, was wondering why she stopped laying! ughhhh

LOL!!!

cant stay and chat, got to do critters and get ready for doc, have a great day yall

good luck!!!

I have a bladder infection. Man, this hurts like the dickens. Started antibiotics and i'm a little better this morning. We find out in about 10 days if we are pregnant. Infection couldn't have been at a worse time

ouch!!

My Condolences...

and on the same note....I have 6 guineas leaving today!!!!

Congrats!!!

Thanks Mike!

Holy cow!!! lookit what the cat dragged in!!!

HAPPY late BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

*missed... My cue to go to sleep. Bye everyone!

have a nice rest!

I was seriously planning on Fayoumis a few years ago but I don't have enough space for another breed.
IMHO, Mareks is everywhere and worldwide.
The Penedesencas are extremely hardy
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/90/mareks-disease/

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And Kansas.

My 9-3 forms has a checkbox for straight run. That's how I mark for hatching eggs.

I think that was Australia.

Wait till they stick eggs in the rooster bachelor pad.

Some people just aren't good with kids.
They don't understand what that does to them long term.

That's a shame. There were some great videos of processing chickens.

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Yesterday was dry all day and it was a glorious change of pace. Sunny and about 60F but quite windy.
Today is a different story. It started raining at dawn and we're supposed to get 3-5" in the next 48 hours just as rivers were starting to crest.
There are so many roads closed and I lost track of how many towns have been evacuated. There's only one road left open to get from Jefferson County to St. Louis County. There are probably a couple hundred thousand people living in Jefferson county and areas south that work in St. Louis so it will be a nightmare for those people trying to get to work.
I-44 has reopened down by Lebanon but has now closed just west of St. Louis. I-55 southbound just closed and northbound will close in the next hour or two.
The school closures number close to winter storm closures. There's a hospital completely cut off and they're finding sleeping quarters for the staff.
We're up to 300 closed roads. The last record flood was just over a year ago in December 2015. This is breaking some of those records.

This kind of tells it all.

Interesting before and after comparison of various roads.
This is I-44

homes flooded

I had a feral chick get out of his pen at about 15 days of age and refuse to return to his siblings. He went to an area with adult birds and I couldn't catch him. He wouldn't let me within 50' of him. He's faster, smaller and smarter than me. Especially since he's been living out there for 5 full days, he knew where all the hiding places and tiny holes in the fences were. I looked for him every night after dusk and couldn't find him. I thought he would either freeze, (it's been down to 40 at night a couple times and heavy rain for days) or get eaten by a raccoon each night only to see him return in the morning. This morning just at first light I saw him and as he ran for cover I caught him with a big goose catch net.

Bye, not by. That would be an adverb meaning to go past or a preposition Identifying one performing an action or means of achievement.

I loved having amphibians and reptiles when I was a kid. I used to go to streams and springs on our farm in spring, collect eggs, hatch them out, raise the tadpoles till they became air breathing frogs and returned them to the streams.

so scary, hope it ends soon and all stay safe, sending well wishes your way