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

[kwhites634]

Or you go to eat dinner and go to bed and wake up to 487 over night and by the time you're caught up with the overnight ones, another 722 have been posted.

You have a good memory!

 

[Pensmaster]

Back in from work. Now for chores. Both incubators seem to be holding well.

 

[daxigait]

Before I head to bed since I have to be up at three I thought I would update you guys on Guy (ChickenCanoe).
He is okay, just busy. He said the sight was down, then his computer, and then between predator issues, family and friend health emergencies and the resulting time he is spending helping them, a rooster with bumblefoot, his son being in a wreck (car totaled but ok), working on his truck ball bearings next, etc., plus the hassle of figuring out the new platform....
He said hello!
@Akrnaf2

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Y'all get chloroformed?

Nope - after work I had a lot of chicken chores, and I had to spray paint a bunch of step-in fence posts green so they could dry overnight. Need to set up more paddocks this weekend. HATE HATE HATE the way the white posts look strewn all over the yard, found a nice dark green spray paint to use.

(Then I had to look up how to get spray paint off your hands. Used castor oil, worked fine. I have it in my hair, though. I think I'll worry about that later.)

Oh, and I got my first two pullet eggs from this year's NN hatchlings - I forgot how CUTE pullet eggs are! Of course, that means I should probably give them oyster shell and put in some nest boxes tomorrow.

I'm BEAT. Need to lock up the young ones in a bit - this weekend I'll also be putting in automatic doors for them. Then dinner. Then collapse. Up tomorrow, lather, rinse, repeat.

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Before I head to bed since I have to be up at three I thought I would update you guys on Guy (ChickenCanoe).
He is okay, just busy. He said the sight was down, then his computer, and then between predator issues, family and friend health emergencies and the resulting time he is spending helping them, a rooster with bumblefoot, his son being in a wreck (car totaled but ok), working on his truck ball bearings next, etc., plus the hassle of figuring out the new platform....
He said hello!
@Akrnaf2

If you talk to him again, please tell him hello and hugs from me!

 

[daxigait]

Since tagging him didn't work, I texted and then spoke to him on the phone. We don't talk often. I told him Benny and several of you had been asking about him.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I do suffer, my wife is the heir Apparent to wicked witch, in addition to her being lesser German and Scandinavian...How much more suffering do I deserve?

Imagine her name was "Donald "?

 

[duluthralphie]

Exactly.

Fast is getting up to go to the bathroom, and coming back to 50+ unread posts...

No, fast is when you have to skip more pages than you can read in a day.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Before I head to bed since I have to be up at three I thought I would update you guys on Guy (ChickenCanoe).
He is okay, just busy. He said the sight was down, then his computer, and then between predator issues, family and friend health emergencies and the resulting time he is spending helping them, a rooster with bumblefoot, his son being in a wreck (car totaled but ok), working on his truck ball bearings next, etc., plus the hassle of figuring out the new platform....
He said hello!
@Akrnaf2

Thake you for updating!
Tell him please, that I miss his educational posts!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

With my consciousness waning, I've been looking up recipes for chicken gizzards. Think I'm gonna boil 'em until tender, then fry them. Anyone have recipes/suggestions?

(I'm also thinking of making schmalz this weekend. And gravelax is also on the list. lots of cooking to do...)