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

[daxigait]

@Akrnaf2Shalom, do you have a good goat cheese recipe for a beginner in cheese making? I have two gallons ready to make some things.

 

[BullChick]

Whatcha gonna break them with? I hear baseball bats and golf clubs work great.

That is probably what it will take! Though a T-ball bat will have to do.

 

[BullChick]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I've been in the kitchen, doing dishes and reorganizing. By the time the sun comes up, I'll be unmotivated to get the outside chores done.

Now I'm off to vacuum and do laundry!

I'm motivated to do outside chores but not much to do in the rice paddies. I bought a couple bales of pine shavings cause all the coops need to be cleaned but I have to run all the chickens out into the storm to do so. Most of the coops are quite small so I can get most of them done in about an hour each. The rain would have to slow down a lot though or the shavings would be all wet before I could get them into the building.

@Akrnaf2 Shalom, do you have a good goat cheese recipe for a beginner in cheese making? I have two gallons ready to make some things.

Hey, is it raining down your way?

Surprise, it's raining here. The local weatherman just said another 24 hours of moderate to heavy rain and we might dry out for a few days after that. I better get the grass cut this time.

 

[Chaos18]

That is probably what it will take! Though a T-ball bat will have to do.

Just make sure to keep a good grip on the bat so that they can't take it away from you.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That is probably what it will take! Though a T-ball bat will have to do.

How long have they been sitting on them?

 

[daxigait]

Looks a lot like our place. I thought I was walking through a rice paddy.
It's been an amazing run of weather hasn't it?

I think people around here are now calling it hell.

Good advice.  Especially the part about getting them to the PO early in the day.
However, I'd stay away from the 1 day 23 hour thing. Add 2 or 3 days in the mail to that could make for some pretty weak or dead chicks.
I always put the customer copy in the box.

You need it if you're going to ship anything.
I wonder why he asked about feed storage.

I can't handle one of those big rolls of fence by myself any more. It's tough for 2 people. I'm talking about a 4' or 5' X 100' roll of a good quality fence like RedBrand.

Still very frustrating.

If you lay the eggs on a flat surface, they'll roll to the point where the dip is on top. I put a line on the egg there and then set them in the hatcher.

Our tester discouraged me from additional testing too. Because of the rarity of the breed. If they test positive for AI, they'll do a more conclusive test. If that comes back positive, they'll destroy all birds on the property. That would be devastating since I wouldn't be able to replace them.
As I see it, an equally important point is they would be destroying the genetics of birds that are resistant.



That will depend on your state's rules. Your Ag Dept. should be able to tell you that.
You can't do your own here.

Well, the flooding is not as bad as 1992 that's for sure, but it sure is wet.
Yes, I am talking about Red Brand field fence 330 feet by 47 inch. I can unroll, hang, and clipped one of those and two hours, and those two men couldn't get one roll done with two of them in two hours.

 

[BullChick]

Just make sure to keep a good grip on the bat so that they can't take it away from you.

LOL! I have a mental image of the turkey chasing me with the bat!

How long have they been sitting on them?

This is day nine. The chicken has chicken eggs, and the turkey has duck eggs.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I don't know what Admiral hang is.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

LOL! I have a mental image of the turkey chasing me with the bat!

This is day nine. The chicken has chicken eggs, and the turkey has duck eggs.

I'd throw some eggs into the incubator so if their 2 eggs fail, you can quickly replace them with developing eggs or hatchlings.