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

[kwhites634]

One of you Pennsylvania types needs to go by & wake up @MotorcycleChick

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning!!!!
How's life in CA today?

Great if it were a little busier it would be better.

Weather is awesome low to mid 80's for the next week. Great for setting tomatoes. Actually calling for rain mid week. Usually our rains have stopped by now starting back up in November.

 

[BantyChooks]

Hi Peter

 

[BantyChooks]

One of you Pennsylvania types needs to go by & wake up @MotorcycleChick

And Sally, s'il te plaît.

 

[kwhites634]

Been working on one of Kristen's chicken tractors. Will be interesting to see if it goes through the big door in one piece.

 

[kajira]

@kajira are they her puppies? They are super cute!

Yeah, those are Sugar's puppies.

Kaj, I'm going to steal them puppies.

We named one Knee sock (hubby calls him that) and I named the big female Mischka. We weren't planning on keeping any........ but knee sock and Mischka may end up being kept.

 

[BantyChooks]

Been working on one of Kristen's chicken tractors. Will be interesting to see if it goes through the big door in one piece.
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Beautiful! Let me know if you don't have room for it in your yard... I do

 

[duluthralphie]

Great if it were a little busier it would be better.

Weather is awesome low to mid 80's for the next week. Great for setting tomatoes. Actually calling for rain mid week. Usually our rains have stopped by now starting back up in November.

That's your idea of awesome weather???? Really??

 

[BantyChooks]

That's your idea of awesome weather???? Really??

Well, when it's 90° in February most years... I guess that's called nice.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Morning, everyone!

I can't figure out how to upload pics anymore... ugh lol okay, copy/paste off my blog it is.

Here's my little buddy. This is before the storm.



Here's all the birds that are seemingly, dead and goners. I was able to revive/save all of the ones you see in this picture, thank god for heat lamps. I put them on a metal grill, so it would heat them up from both sides.
Once they started drying off and getting too hot, they were moving.

I'm so glad my little guy made it. He loved me, and I would have been so sad to lose the little bugger. He's the only one who likes to sit on my lap.



As you can tell, they are a big hit around here.

Oh, WOW! The photo is even more impressive than your story - so glad you could rescue them! And s/he's precious! (I might try turkeys one day if the number of chickens goes back down - up to my eyeballs ATM.) Tell your oldest boy to leave him the %^&$ alone this time!!!!! Puppies are cute, too, as is that sweet little girl (tell her I said hi!).

Minks do sure make it so I'm never bored... That much I know.

Ugh. One of the reasons I have it set up so my bedroom windows look out of the chicken yard and are close to the coops is so I know if there's anything going on. Last night I woke up and heard a bunch of flapping in the NN coop (the one that's 20 feet from my window), so I got up and pulled on clothes and a head lamp and rushed out, but nothing - I think someone lost their balance on the roost and was flapping to get back in place. But I did the rounds in the yard for good measure. Just because my coops are built very securely doesn't mean I'm foolish enough to think that something might not get to them (or at least freak them out trying).

Great if it were a little busier it would be better.

Weather is awesome low to mid 80's for the next week. Great for setting tomatoes. Actually calling for rain mid week. Usually our rains have stopped by now starting back up in November.

Hey, Peter!!! We're getting rain here as well - I have tomatoes I really need to get in (at this point they'll be "fall crop" tomatoes). I really need to get back into a normal system for my garden - everything has gone sideways since the chickens.

Been working on one of Kristen's chicken tractors. Will be interesting to see if it goes through the big door in one piece.
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Looks good! Two questions: Did you flip F on purpose (did updated plans call for that)? In mine, F has the laps facing forward. It's not a disaster if you can't undo it - I actually have one of them I did this in by accident, it's just that the door is a little off kilter bottom to top.

Second question: Do the new plans make H (middle piece in the back) short like that, or was that your modification? I'm just curious, as mine has H going up part ways - not that it accomplishes anything, except maybe to attach HW cloth to.

I managed to get a lot of the chicken stuff done yesterday (not that there's not more to do - there's ALWAYS more to do), and today is a kitchen day, as I need to part up all my culled chickens and get them in the freezer (and possibly can some if the freezer is full). If I time it all right, I may do another big batch of stock today with the backs and necks, and then can it (if not, it'll have to be tomorrow).

One thing I like about the new BYC is that, for whatever reason, I am finding that it leads me to look at other active or new threads/articles more often (I used to just stick to my subbed threads) - I was reading something about the Purina Flock Block. Just curious, has anyone tried these? With my wandering escapees as well as the predators/hawks, I've decided that when I leave town, I'll just leave them in their coops for that period, and while they have enough space, I thought this could be a boredom buster...

OK, back to the kitchen - gotta get that boning knife sharp and the FoodSaver sealer set up.

- Ant Farm