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

[shawluvsbirds]

@shawluvsbirds
Here she is.
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Awesome!! That is one neat combination. I love that laced look to the feathers.

 

[dan26552]

Awesome!! That is one neat combination. I love that laced look to the feathers.

Yeah!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Wow! Scary - and glad you caught it! (Glad you came by - Sorry, I really should have tagged you when I used your picture. )



No, no thanks on the drive, but I'll catch you for one of them!



It's coming UP to 102-103 today... It's supposed to cool off next week, though. High of maybe 90 tomorrow.



I tried ice as well and they didn't care for it. But I have a "spare freezer" (a freezer I don't trust as it has failed a few times, but keep for non-spoiling stuff like ice and flour and the ice cream maker bowl), and so I try to keep some ice frozen in some bigger blocks in there for their water pans, and will probably put some gallon jugs in there, just in case. I select for heat, and when picking cockerels to keep, that's a deal breaker if they seem to suffer too much. But if it gets a lot more hot than they're used to I'd like to be prepared. I don't have the misters set up yet, but that's on the list. I might also try that frozen treat thing...



Through the 10th of July, although I have a few days I have to go back in in-between. I have all kinds of stuff that needs to be done outside - I just have to suck it up with the heat.At least it's supposed to cool off some next week.

Having breakfast, then heading out to try to get a bunch of stuff done before it gets too hot. And I have some shade cloth to rig on the fronts of a couple of those new tractor coops - direct sun shines in for an hour or two for some of them, and that's too much at these temps. They can go out to other shaded areas, of course, but still. And one of the girls in Khan's group is now laying - found an egg on the ground next to the water pan. So I need to get in some nest boxes and rig an egg door.

I mulched the apple trees yesterday - and of course, Puppy came along and "helped" (sigh). I wonder if anything will be left when I go out there this AM (she was at it again bright and early). I remind myself that at least it's better than the deer were.

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I also weeded around the blackberries (extremely overgrown), and need to also mulch them. I've sort of done the benign neglect thing with them, and there were so many tall weeds in around the thorned canes. Ow! There was also a hornet nest in there near ground level. I got lucky - threw a bucket over it and kept going, never got stung. Once I was done, I kicked the bucket over and ran. (I have what's called a large local reaction allergy to them - but I have a steroid pack in the medicine cabinet for that purpose.)

Hey I was wondering if the used pine shavings from my ducks house would make good much around plants? Don't know if I want duck poo splashing up on my vegetables but wouldn't it be ok around trees or just ornamental stuff?

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Rugrats, and sometimes puppies too.

It's the same here...

 

[duluthralphie]

Hey I was wondering if the used pine shavings from my ducks house would make good much around plants? Don't know if I want duck poo splashing up on my vegetables but wouldn't it be ok around trees or just ornamental stuff?

Dux Poo is listed as a hazardous material. You must notify the feds before disposing of it and then only at a federally licensed hazardous waste storage area.

They will charge you less if you turn in your dux at the same time.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have a gazillion blackberries covering a good acre in my pasture. If anyone wants to pick them we can do a 50/50 split.. I get 50% for owning the berries, you get 50% for picking them. You must supply your own DEET.

 

[BantyChooks]

It's the same here...

I have a gazillion blackberries covering a good acre in my pasture. If anyone wants to pick them we can do a 50/50 split.. I get 50% for owning the berries, you get 50% for picking them. You must supply your own DEET.

No, no... Come here, y'all will get 60% and I'll supply DEET.

Please?

I need someone to distract the mosquitoes here that evidently don't care about DEET.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Cute, Dan.

Kristin, why again are you cultivating blackberries?? I have about a couple million plants you could have... Pesky things....

Because blackberries are delicious.

Yes - I like to make blackberry jam, etc.

They're delicious, yes, but after them taking over your yard and hiding under grass for bare feet to step on, they get a bit tiring.

Shoes somehow go missing all the time. Barefoot is easier---you can't lose your feet.

I can't imagine not wearing closed toe shoes at all times (usual some sort of boot) - the weeds around here have much worse thorns than blackberries, and we have fire ants and scorpions. And you've got to be careful of snakes.

Hot one today, 101F now, and still going up. I spent the morning putting up shade cloth on the fronts of a couple of the tractors with the worst of the direct sun, and then when I was doing Khan's pen, I found THREE eggs of varying shades of green/olive (two under the roosts covered in poop, one under the shade shelter). So I had to stop doing that and get that nest box door put on and the nest boxes installed. I think I might have lost about a gallon of sweat in an hour. By then it was hot enough that it was time to start refilling pans and misting the ground. The big boys got sprayed directly (and they kinda liked it - used the mist setting). Others didn't like it much, but they cooled down. Also misted the tops of the tarps on the coops. The olive egger girls in Khan's coop (Botany Bay girls) have learned the joys of standing in the water pan, and all crowd around, and seem to take turns pretending they are ducks.

Now I need to head to TSC for feed - I think I might get more pans as well, thinking I might start having two of them in each paddock.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Speaking of thorns, Tank has a great big thorn impaled in his comb, poor boy. He didn't want me near him and it's too hot to stress him by chasing him - I'll have to get it tonight.

 

[BantyChooks]

Yes - I like to make blackberry jam, etc.





I can't imagine not wearing closed toe shoes at all times (usual some sort of boot) - the weeds around here have much worse thorns than blackberries, and we have fire ants and scorpions. And you've got to be careful of snakes.

Hot one today, 101F now, and still going up. I spent the morning putting up shade cloth on the fronts of a couple of the tractors with the worst of the direct sun, and then when I was doing Khan's pen, I found THREE eggs of varying shades of green/olive (two under the roosts covered in poop, one under the shade shelter). So I had to stop doing that and get that nest box door put on and the nest boxes installed. I think I might have lost about a gallon of sweat in an hour. By then it was hot enough that it was time to start refilling pans and misting the ground. The big boys got sprayed directly (and they kinda liked it - used the mist setting). Others didn't like it much, but they cooled down. Also misted the tops of the tarps on the coops. The olive egger girls in Khan's coop (Botany Bay girls) have learned the joys of standing in the water pan, and all crowd around, and seem to take turns pretending they are ducks.

Now I need to head to TSC for feed - I think I might get more pans as well, thinking I might start having two of them in each paddock.

You have to wear shoes because everything down there is trying to kill you....