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

[dan26552]

 

[Pensmaster]

If you have a problem with hay in the shirt, I have become quite adept at removing any offending hay, if you need my help...






Guess what? I think I might live, I spend most the day outside working today with just a couple breaks. I got my toads moved to their own pen,I am happy...

And I did not read the last 50-100 pages,,sorry...

Glad you're back. How's the toads doing?

 

[duluthralphie]

Hey Mike!

I just moved all 15 into one pen tonight. They have a building that is high and dry and a 30x70 foot pasture (real green grass on it). Hopefully they will be doing good, I have 30-40ish toad eggs in the incubator to hatch on the 11 or 12th. Hopefully some one will want them so I can mail them out. I should have 3 dozen or so in 10 days to go in too.

I have 2 tad poles that are looking god for 10 days or so old.
Along with a PC Cockerel ( I am afraid) and a bunch of Legbars, (Hopefully all cream and no red on them)...

I will post some pictures of the toads in their new pasture in a second...It is hard to get pictures as they just stand and stare at me as I stare at them. I have the 20 pound LP tank in the pen for size reference.

 

[Akrnaf2]

@kwhites634
Mare

Now I understand your post! This autocorect drive me crazy sometimes.

 

[Pensmaster]

Hey Mike!

I just moved all 15 into one pen tonight. They have a building that is high and dry and a 30x70 foot pasture (real green grass on it). Hopefully they will be doing good, I have 30-40ish toad eggs in the incubator to hatch on the 11 or 12th. Hopefully some one will want them so I can mail them out. I should have 3 dozen or so in 10 days to go in too.

I have 2 tad poles that are looking god for 10 days or so old.
Along with a PC Cockerel ( I am afraid) and a bunch of Legbars, (Hopefully all cream and no red on them)...

I will post some pictures of the toads in their new pasture in a second...It is hard to get pictures as they just stand and stare at me as I stare at them. I have the 20 pound LP tank in the pen for size reference.View attachment 1125846View attachment 1125847 View attachment 1125848View attachment 1125849

Nice bunch. How old?

 

[duluthralphie]

From 10 weeks to 3 years.

 

[Beer can]

Hi

 

[Beer can]

Read a couple good articles
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chicken-potraits-poultry-pinups

Started with reading this one,
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...sg=AFQjCNE19nz1h7PEdOP_LL2G0FlCxZc4WQ&ampcf=1
I've tried to replicate what we call state fair chicken sauce, (to save $$ make your own) I have made great marinades but never seems as good as salimidas. Didn't realize where it came from, says on the bottle Lol!

Lupos is also local, but Salamidas is superior IMHO.
Also says on the back of bottle in the ingredients that it contains egg....
Egg?!! Guess that's the magical ingredient that I've always failed to add! I'm taking some halves out of deep freeze to try it out tomorrow.

Pretty cool though both articles, history.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Wicked, I know that I am very un experience farmer BUT I am a good biologist (so they say ) And I know that proteins are made from amino acids and A.A are dependent on Nitrogen availability. What is the sorce of Nitrogen you give to your crops?

In that particular field, DH spread granular nitrogen with our new-to-us (but still pretty old) fertilizer spreader. It's on the far side of that section.

The quarters closer to the livestock facilities get a very nice covering of cattle manure from our corrals. We were running approx. 140 breeding females plus their feeder calves...but we knocked that down to less than half that when my husband had knee surgery. We've only got about 80 cows/heifers now so it's only a 2-3 day job now. We rotate the quarters that get the manure.

I didn't ask my husband (it's his department; mine's the genetic/vetting side of the animals..lol) but I believe a blend of granular fertilizer is incorporated with the seed when the air seeding is done. Not exactly nitrogen, but the chopper's on the combine in the fields I'm in right now and the straw is being chopped and spread so it's worked back into the soil in the spring when the air seeder makes a pass.

 

[Akrnaf2]

In that particular field, DH spread granular nitrogen with our new-to-us (but still pretty old) fertilizer spreader. It's on the far side of that section.

The quarters closer to the livestock facilities get a very nice covering of cattle manure from our corrals. We were running approx. 140 breeding females plus their feeder calves...but we knocked that down to less than half that when my husband had knee surgery. We've only got about 80 cows/heifers now so it's only a 2-3 day job now. We rotate the quarters that get the manure.

I didn't ask my husband (it's his department; mine's the genetic/vetting side of the animals..lol) but I believe a blend of granular fertilizer is incorporated with the seed when the air seeding is done. Not exactly nitrogen, but the chopper's on the combine in the fields I'm in right now and the straw is being chopped and spread so it's worked back into the soil in the spring when the air seeder makes a pass.

Did you ever tried the method of green manure? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_manure

If once in several growth cycles of cereal plants, you will plant legumes like beens, cheek peas, peanuts, green peas, or even Alfalfa or clover, you will win 5 times :
1. This family lives in a mutual symbiosis with a genus of microbes called rhizobia that help fixes Nitrogen from the air! So it enrich the
Soil with nitrogen, with no money!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation
2, you can use the seeds , for human or animal consumption.
3. If you leav the plants after you harvested the seeds and plow them into the ground you will get more nutrients after their decomposition
4. You reduce the risk of water pollution by not or less using of chemical.
5. AND you don't have to pay to Monsanto!