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

[kwhites634]

Quote: Powder, from the store, with only enough sugar to kill the bitterness. How do you make it at home? Is there a way to sweeten it a bit w/o sugar....Doc said I'm pre-diabetic, & it's in my family (mother, sister, brother)

 

[BantyChooks]

Powder, from the store, with only enough sugar to kill the bitterness. How do you make it at home?  Is there a way to sweeten it a bit w/o sugar....Doc said I'm pre-diabetic, & it's in my family (mother, sister, brother)

Steeping the leaves/tea bag for 2-3 minutes. Don't know of any alternate sweeteners... I just use sugar.

 

[Phage]

Powder, from the store, with only enough sugar to kill the bitterness. How do you make it at home?  Is there a way to sweeten it a bit w/o sugar....Doc said I'm pre-diabetic, & it's in my family (mother, sister, brother)

Steeping the leaves/tea bag for 2-3 minutes. Don't know of any alternate sweeteners... I just use sugar.

Agave nectar - meant to Be healthier than sugar for diabetes

 

[BantyChooks]

I swear I keep hearing chicks pip. It's not even day 7 yet.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Agave nectar - meant to Be healthier than sugar for diabetes
I'll check it out....Thanks

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[daxigait]

Last baby is out. That makes a 100% hatch for Jace and Bella... 5 set, 5 chicks out. Wonder what their secret is

Congratulations. It is a good thing you didn't give them very many. I can't believe it has been three weeks already since she went broody.

@meltel I am so sorry this happened. What are you going to have to do career wise?

I got a steal today. After talking to a couple on the route we ride it turned out their twelve year old has goats, but doesn't want to take them to the sale barn. So I asked how much for the goats. Kid you not he said $25. I tried to tell him that was way low, but that is all he wanted. I took all six plus deposited on the three not weaned yet. They are boar kiko and while several are small they will improve with groceries. Sale barn prices are $3-4 a pound and all of these kids but one are over fifty pounds. I have never been lucky enough to get a deal like this before. There was one really nice buckling that was not weaned yet I hope to grow out. The rest I will put some weight on, and then decide who stays and who goes. I will profit either way

Boy though my two week old kids look much better. Here are three of my four.

@Akrnaf2Shalom. Here are the updated pictures I promised of the beautiful Nubian Benny. I just wish his beautiful red roan showed up better in the pictures from my phone.

Have a great night/day.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I had a dream about you. You were sending me pictures of NN chickens, defeathered, cooked, and decorated on a plate, and telling me how hungry you were............... ^.^

(Sounds about right...)

I'm still reeling from the fact that Kristin drinks!

The woman I thought she was a while ago is so not the person she is!

Of course I drink...

GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER DAY OF DRINKING RAIN
BOUNCING YOUR HEAD OFF THE WALL HATCHING!

Belated thanks! Helped rev me up for the day!

Quote: Well, because I keep alternating between freaking out and working until I drop, and then, well, dropping...

Quote: Or need to have had the kind of day I had had... (Rum fruit cake is all gone!!! Yum!!!!)

Popping in to say hi after a 600+ readback

Mel!!!! Missed you, been thinking about you.

Quote: How long do you wait between having the chickens over a bed and then planting it?

Quote: Oh no!!!

Hey guys. I am busy outside, but I just saw something on my roosters comb that was not there before and I am not familiar with. Would someone tell me what it is, and what I need to do?

Monkey's comb looks like that, though worse sometimes. I was thinking it was an infection, but I think the prob;em for me is that he for some reason roosts at the end under the lowest part and brushes his comb against the HW cloth. I've done silver sulfadiazine, and it got better, then it's back. I need to do it again. I may just bring him inside for a few days once this tractor building craziness stops (he's overbreeding his girls anyway).

@Fire Ant Farm Sorry I have not had a chance to answer you. I dug the eighteen inches next to the barn because of vermits. The rest of the sides and all the other coops have two feet of skirting. I used poultry staples and wire to attach most of it, but after two runs I switched to using a couple of staples and then screwing some scrap four foot boards I had to the base with the skirt with just a couple of staples in between. I figured this was not only easier, but would be easier to replace if needed.

I'm having a hard time visualizing -do you have it running underneath the floor of the run, or just dug down at the sides?

Powder, from the store, with only enough sugar to kill the bitterness. How do you make it at home? Is there a way to sweeten it a bit w/o sugar....Doc said I'm pre-diabetic, & it's in my family (mother, sister, brother)

Try stevia - natural (from an herb), best in liquids like tea (vs baking). Just don't add too much - using a small amount is perfect, no after taste or off taste, but overdoing it has a sort of Sweet & Low taste. I use drops - they seem expensive (are expensive), but last forever.

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Hi Kristin, how's my other favourite Texan doing?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Another full day of work. I really do need stock win zip ties. I only got one finished, but at least I was able to move the S&G boys (the messiest of the bunch) out this evening. Here are some photos (before I finished tacking the apron down). This is the cleanest this coop will ever look, of course. I moved them to the roost after dark. No idea how easy it will be for them to get up there - they may need a ramp. (Big boys!)






Three more to go. I worked on the next one until I lost the light. Then I gathered eggs by headlamp, finding Trinity (my black NN) trying to sleep in the nest box - I SO don't have time for dealing with a broody... Put her on the roost, put the S&Gs up on the roost, and then was so tired that I just had camping food for dinner (Mountain House Chicken & Dumplings). I don't think I've sat down since 7:30am... Too tired for a bath, but not an option. Heres hoping I don't fall asleep in there...

I'm actually seriously considering just waiting the conversion out rather than setting up on Bang Your Head... So much to do. (I also have to clean out the fridge - but not tonight.)

- Ant Farm