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

[Christinecam]

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Awe!!!! Cute

 

[duluthralphie]

I did not find the sow butt all that cute, myself......

 

[Lazy Farmer]

2 in 10 mins is an excellent sign.

lost natural light.. have solar charged LED lites on for avoiding trample fatalities. The heat is hard on sows in labor. most of our litters take place after hours when the mommy's are not overheating.
perfect timing temp wise. our winter would be too cold for piglets.. summer too hot. planed more or less = greater success.. mommy is only 450#.. less clumbsy as the berk was.
more pics coming.. and the egg project on the side to..

bizzy iz good

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I did not find the sow butt all that cute, myself......

 

[OneMountainAcres]

MY rhode island red, is queen of my goat's coop/flock... and she's very smart and capable of staying alive.

I don't know why the red sex links from TSC are dumb as doornails. They are always doing stupid things and getting themselves stuck in places that none of the other birds do.
Compared to my EE flocks, which I've lost 1, in the 2 years of having them and she just dropped dead in the coop 1 night, not because of anything killing her specifically, they haven't been killed. We butchered a spare rooster, but I have 2 EE roosters besides my alpha roo, who are smart as whips, and what's funny, is one of them is a RSL/EE cross, and he does just fine, AND gets along with the other roosters and male turkeys/geese. It's the oddest thing. It's just the RSL hens from TSC that end up in this boat.

My two RSL from TSC were wonderful girls. They were very smart and savvy. One even went broody and raised up a clutch of chicks for me! She passed away at 3 years old, or of nowhere. She was a very sweet hen and it was a very sad day. Her sister is still living with a lady that wanted a couple older, retired girls to keep a rooster that appeared at her house company.

The new RSL girls that I have now are nuts! These ones were from the local feed mill and we're a promotion (free chicks with bags of feed). I had 6 originally but 1 died before ever leaving the brooder. The other 5 spend their days climbing the trees in the woods and at the edges of the woods, exploring everywhere and twisting to go IN the coop at night to sleep even though they know very well that's where they belong. Definitely a different line!

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Congratulations on the bacon bits!

 

[BantyChooks]

I found RSL to be poor layers after a year, prone to falling dead, unthrifty on feed, and overly friendly to the point of aggression. Definitely not buying again no matter how strong the spring chick fever gets.

If, however, I was going to do all-in-all-out and process them after a year, they would be my first choice. Good amount of meat on them and they lack personality so easier to take heads off.

 

[venymae]

At first all I could think was "Why the heck is someone posting pictures of a dirty pig butt?!?" Congratulations on the lil smokies!

 

[venymae]

I found RSL to be poor layers after a year, prone to falling dead, unthrifty on feed, and overly friendly to the point of aggression. Definitely not buying again no matter how strong the spring chick fever gets.

If, however, I was going to do all-in-all-out and process them after a year, they would be my first choice. Good amount of meat on them and they lack personality so easier to take heads off.

HERESY!!!

 

[BantyChooks]

HERESY!!!

Did I mention they're a boring brown color? Plus they're a terminal cross so no hatching.

 

[ronott1]

I found RSL to be poor layers after a year, prone to falling dead, unthrifty on feed, and overly friendly to the point of aggression. Definitely not buying again no matter how strong the spring chick fever gets.

If, however, I was going to do all-in-all-out and process them after a year, they would be my first choice. Good amount of meat on them and they lack personality so easier to take heads off.

You can get fairly good Australorps from feed stores.