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

[Lazy Farmer]

If the water is gray, don't drink it today..

 

[ChickenCanoe]

If a chicken coop has 2 doors, what do you call chicken housing with 4 doors?




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A chicken sedan.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

What did the pirate say when he turned 80 years old?






I-matey....

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Fillet of Fruit Bat is a delicacy here, Very few restaurants have it on the menu. When I see I can't help myself I have to order a fillet.

And a side dish of guano!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I used the em dash for You!

I wasn't sure whether to like that or not! Em dash enabler!

online is where the cheap cartons are at! But you have to buy bulk.

which is probably a disservice to the chick.... this applies to most animal species

I don't have enough chickens for that many cartons. That could be rectified....but I may be overshooting my abilities there.

 

[BantyChooks]

I used the em dash for You!

You're in my good books now.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

If it is under a hen I would agree. However, there is nothing natural in an incubator...There the idea is to keep the germs down to a minimum...

Both systems are designed to keep the most germs from the chick. Bloom works somewhat under the hen. Does not work in the incubator. The incubator can actually make the germs on the outside of the egg grow and multiply like a huge petri dish.

BTW While hens make hatching easier. I find the incubator normally does a high hatch rate.

So Ralphie are you in Florida right now?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Great answer!

I bet you are getting much better at hatching though

Well, we might see this year. I might actually set fresh eggs! Imagine that!
At least at the beginning of the year.

Then I want to do some controlled studies on hatching cold eggs and very old eggs. I would like to see if I can hatch more eggs that are a month old when set, like my very first hatch. And I'd like to see how far I can push the time for started eggs left cold for X amount of days...and then continued with incubation. See if I can get chicks from eggs left longer than my 60 hour cold chick. She's doing very well!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

If it is under a hen I would agree. However, there is nothing natural in an incubator...There the idea is to keep the germs down to a minimum...

Both systems are designed to keep the most germs from the chick. Bloom works somewhat under the hen. Does not work in the incubator. The incubator can actually make the germs on the outside of the egg grow and multiply like a huge petri dish.

BTW While hens make hatching easier. I find the incubator normally does a high hatch rate.

I would put most any of my hens against you for that. You will not win.

 

[venymae]

I wasn't sure whether to like that or not! Em dash enabler!

I don't have enough chickens for that many cartons. That could be rectified....but I may be overshooting my abilities there.

Nah, we just need to all chip in and have a party to divide them up! Woot! Who is hosting?!?