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

[kajira]

We're missing a few of our regulars. I wonder where they got off too........ maybe their chickens ate them

 

[NaJoBeLe]

Morning peeps.

 

[kwhites634]

We're missing a few of our regulars. I wonder where they got off too........ maybe their chickens ate them

Actually, we're missing quite a few. Abi, Sally, ChickenCanoe, CanadaChicken, RIR roost, Camping, Runt, & probably a bunch more I can't think of ATM. 'Tis the season; after the bitter cold of Winter & before the blistering heat of Summer

 

[duluthralphie]

Yeppers, we are..... One thing about the new format it is boring and hard enough to use and so many "friends" are no longer here, that I am getting more work done around here. I am not addicted anymore to the site.

 

[Akrnaf2]

We're missing a few of our regulars. I wonder where they got off too........ maybe their chickens ate them

It seems that we are losing the battle here..... after the change we have lost ChickenCanoe, Jessimom, and now Abi, Chaos, Sally, and more good people!

 

[kwhites634]

Yeppers, we are..... One thing about the new format it is boring and hard enough to use and so many "friends" are no longer here, that I am getting more work done around here. I am not addicted anymore to the site.

There's a lot of truth in that, unfortunately.

 

[Pensmaster]

They arrived! And they're cooking.

Yes cooking after acclimating. Although these looked fresh as far as the size of the AC goes they were washed and 6 of the Dark Cornish Bantams were sweating, they are in a separate incubator with a couple of mine. Air Cells are loose.

I didn't know that Washington is a chicken breed! DC?

Dead Colombian?
Doctor Calls?
Doing Chores?
Deli Closed?
Didn't Chew?
........

These are some pretty good looking Dark Cornish Bantams if the picture is true to what I received

My broody hen, who's been camped almost non-stop on eggs for more than a week, quit the nest of 11 yesterday. She's been broody since well before then, but I kept taking her eggs.
I pulled all the eggs this morning & candled them. I saw ACs of varying sizes in 7 of them; nothing in the other 4. I checked Sally's notes & saw where the AC is formed shortly after the egg is laid, so I'm not expecting anything from the 4.
Temps were in the 50s overnight last night, & high 40s the night before.

I've tried to get mine to stop now for at least three weeks. It's starting to get through to them. In the pen that I've chose to leave alone there are now three broodies. Really not sure what kind of mess is going to develope in there.

We're missing a few of our regulars. I wonder where they got off too........ maybe their chickens ate them

One of the reasons I've not been around as much the chickens do eat time. but they are not to blame for all of my absents.

Morning peeps.

Good morning how are the kids? The real kids.

Well I'm off to work things are abnormally busy there and stress filled. Time to get this party started.

 

[daxigait]

Good morning! It is more annoying to me as I am mobile.
I agree @kwhites634 that it is chore season too while the weather is in between.

 

[daxigait]

Yes cooking after acclimating. Although these looked fresh as far as the size of the AC goes they were washed and 6 of the Dark Cornish Bantams were sweating, they are in a separate incubator with a couple of mine. Air Cells are loose.



These are some pretty good looking Dark Cornish Bantams if the picture is true to what I received



I've tried to get mine to stop now for at least three weeks. It's starting to get through to them. In the pen that I've chose to leave alone there are now three broodies. Really not sure what kind of mess is going to develope in there.



One of the reasons I've not been around as much the chickens do eat time. but they are not to blame for all of my absents.



Good morning how are the kids? The real kids.

Well I'm off to work things are abnormally busy there and stress filled. Time to get this party started.

Have a great day!

 

[kwhites634]

Yeppers, we are..... One thing about the new format it is boring and hard enough to use and so many "friends" are no longer here, that I am getting more work done around here. I am not addicted anymore to the site.

Being so slow as it is is costing me a lot of $$$
I get tired of waiting for something to happen, & start inventing new projects to start, plus some I need to finish, & most of them entail a trip to Lowes, or a visit to Amazon.