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

[Fire Ant Farm]

I think that I am going to EXPLODE,!!

Tomorrow is the matriculation exam in biology, and my oldest will have to take it. 3 weeks I am telling him that he HAVE sest and learn with me a very important subject in genetic (20% of the exam )subject that I KNOW that he doesn't know very well. More then 5 time I have asked from him to seat with me but he always avoided, "I am learning "I will learn with friends " and all this B.S!
This morning I asked him again to seat with me but he preferred to learn with his friends, but his LORDSHIP finally agreed to seet with me this evening, when we set I understood that he doesn't remember even THE BASIC TERMS!! And he with his impertinence said "OK lets learn " he really thinks that we can cover subject that needs 3 days in a few hours!! I exploded and tell him that I can't help him, and he should go to his friends to learn! ST......,!!!

What a stupid age! He really think that they know everything!
But he just forgot the fact that the things that I have forgotten he didn't learn yet!

Quote: Teenagers!!

(Sorry you're so frustrated...)

Hey, I just thougtht I would say that I just put my eggs on lockdown

Note: I did not candle them

(Candling before lockdown can be useful to identify where the dip in the air cell is, so that you can have that facing up if your hatching horizontally. That being said, it should be fine. I am getting more and more hands off in my attitudes and practices as I go on in this...)

Quote: x2. It's stressful, but a lot of it at this point is up to the chick, and it will happen or it won't. Sometimes when they cannot hatch, it wasn't meant to be. We've got our fingers crossed for you - good luck, and let us know how they are doing.

@Fire Ant Farm I hope work wasn't too bad. Are your hands doing better today?

Hands are excruciating, thanks for asking.

(I was avoiding posting about it because I felt whiny and repetitive.) Yesterday evening I spent a lot of time doing the last of the pneumatic stapler work, and that's very hard on them, so I was up and down most of the night with bad pain. But I'm trying to have a "grateful" list everyday, and today I was grateful, in a twisted way, that my wrists wouldn't let me oversleep, since I had an early meeting this morning. Full day (started around 6am), but was able to leave early, mowed to clear the sites for the tractors, and got most of the panels moved to the back (which was quite the workout). Getting there... getting there... I surely won't get this many chicks with no housing again - chicken math can literally be painful!!!

Here are the completed panels, and the panels moved to the sites for three of the four. (Assembly and covering and roost platform next.) Zip ties haven't been trimmed yet because they can provide handles of sorts when maneuvering in place.

Quote: Ugh - so sorry - but glad she's now heading home, given the way she was speaking with your son.

on the pregnancy quest!

I'm bushed - I may not last long tonight.

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I need to get some planted. I am just not really sure I have time for any garden this year.

Yeah, I'm missing all my timing deadlines for planting, worried that the garden will either be miserable or nonexistent this year.

Quote: I finally gave up hiring help when I ran the lawn service. I was paying more per hour than they'd made elsewhere, but they didn't want to break a sweat to earn it. I cut my customer base back to where I could handle it alone; worked out just fine.

My experience exactly. "Never mind, I'll just do it myself" - I should get that on a t-shirt. Story of my life. (When I'm grumpier, including sometimes at work, I use a different version - " So, let me get this straight - I'm supposed to do my job AND your job?!")

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

I finally gave up hiring help when I ran the lawn service. I was paying more per hour than they'd made elsewhere, but they didn't want to break a sweat to earn it. I cut my customer base back to where I could handle it alone; worked out just fine.

They should have paid you.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

For all that like woid work

Thanks for posting this -love these videos!

 

[Akrnaf2]

I need to get some planted. I am just not really sure I have time for any garden this year.

Yeah, I'm missing all my timing deadlines for planting, worried that the garden will either be miserable or nonexistent this year. 

 

 

That I did, plus cut up a big branch that came out of a tree along the lane, and dropped 2 young Locusts before they became a problem

Good deal. Of course, I can't find young men that will work that hard. I had two guys come out to help unroll and hang my feild fence over my barbed wire fence. I paid them for two hours and told them thanks, but I would do it myself. They took longer with two of them than it took my by myself. Pathetic.

I finally gave up hiring help when I ran the lawn service. I was paying more per hour than they'd made elsewhere, but they didn't want to break a sweat to earn it. I cut my customer base back to where I could handle it alone; worked out just fine.

My experience exactly. "Never mind, I'll just do it myself" - I should get that on a t-shirt. Story of my life. (When I'm grumpier, including sometimes at work, I use a different version - " So, let me get this straight - I'm supposed to do my job AND your job?!")

- Ant Farm

The problem is that a lot of us have some perfectionism problem some way or another. IMHO good helper = paying 100% for getting 70% work . this is the minimum that I seeks less than that is unacceptable more is most welcome!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I hired a guy from a temp service that I'll never forget. Supposedly, he had experience, yet I had to show him how to use a string trimmer. He wanted to know when we ate. I told him when we had a lot of jobs we usually ate on the road between jobs. We showed up at the 2nd job, & he breaks out his Bible & spent the next 30 minutes reading, while two of us (an older friend & I helped one another a lot) were busting our butts. I called the temp co. & told them to come get him. I don't begrudge a man reading his Bible, but not on my dime when there's work to be done.

 

[BantyChooks]

I hired a guy from a temp service that I'll never forget. Supposedly, he had experience, yet I had to show him how to use a string trimmer. He wanted to know when we ate. I told him when we had a lot of jobs we usually ate on the road between jobs. We showed up at the 2nd job, & he breaks out his Bible & spent the next 30 minutes reading, while two of us (an older friend & I helped one another a lot) were busting our butts. I called the temp co. & told them to come get him. I don't begrudge a man reading his Bible, but not on my dime when there's work to be done.

Incredible. What is wrong with these people? How perzactly do they think they're gonna live if they won't work?

 

[duluthralphie]

Have you shipped older birds? My hona mentor has shipped adult birds before. I was thinking about practicing on some older chicks. I know they need a health form, I have a vet who can do that.

i did not think they needed a health form if coming from a NPIP or WEGBY flock. The 9-3 covers adult birds too.

 

[duluthralphie]

Uhh. The camera?
Svarthöna egg is what I used the fish knife on.

So no need for a 14lb hammer....

Hammer would have been better for all concerned...

 

[campingshaws]

Have you shipped older birds? My hona mentor has shipped adult birds before. I was thinking about practicing on some older chicks. I know they need a health form, I have a vet who can do that.

i did not think they needed a health form if coming from a NPIP or WEGBY flock. The 9-3 covers adult birds too.

The tester said it was needed and to make friends with a vet. Maybe because the Louisiana NPIP is basically just p/t? Anything else is not free. He discouraged me from additional testing even though I was willing to pay for it.