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

[LilJoe]

Is anyone else tempted to set some eggs orsstick some under a broody?

 

[duluthralphie]

I have some set....10 turkey eggs....and 176 chicken eggs...

 

[LilJoe]

I have some set....10 turkey eggs....and 176 chicken eggs...

 

[Akrnaf2]

I have some set....10 turkey eggs....and 176 chicken eggs...

Only that?

 

[LilJoe]

I guess I shouldn't be gaping my mouth... I'll probably be setting at least 100 in 2018...

 

[daxigait]

QUOTE="Fire Ant Farm, post: 19306382, member: 350041"]OK, just finished a week read back. Wow - yeah, I'm going to have to figure out better time management or read faster if I'm going to stay on BYC...

@hippiestink: Sorry about the craziness with your customer. I missed the delivery of your baby – already cutting teeth! I REALLY feel behind now. So sorry to hear about his RSV bronchiolitis and hospitalization – glad he’s getting better relatively quickly.

@Razadia: So sorry about you needing to give up your chickens. Sending you lots of hugs, and hopes that you will soon be in the situation to comfortably have them again.

@Phage: Sorry for your chicken-less state as well.
@MotorcycleChick:

@dan26552: Always enjoy pics of your broody ducks!!!
@ChickenCanoe: Long time, no see! Congrats on the great hatch form the Executioner incubator! (It’s just setting you up for a fall, I suspect – it’ll kill all the eggs next time!!!)

@BantyChooks: Good luck with the impromptu winter fraternity house for your roosters. They could kill each other – alternatively, you could go out there one day and find that they’re having a kegger… In all seriousness, I always assume that cock birds will need to be separated solo-style absent the usual flock setup if they’ve ever spent any time separated. It’s a pain (and a deterrent to keeping too many boys). If they've been together in the big flock, well, who knows....

Oh, and I DID come back! BTW, the coop looks fantastic! I love the roost design – I may steal that idea…. Hugs to Jace! And walking a mile in my shoes, weather-wise? Preheat the oven to 400F, then open the oven door and stick your face in…

@Akrnaf2: Hi, Benny!!!!!
@Farmer Connie: Sorry for your rain/flooding related losses.

Re: weather – It snowed (!!!!!) here in San Antonio a week or so ago (same front that kajira dealt with when she lost her goats) – a whole 2 inches! It hasn’t done that since 1985, apparently. I looked out the window and it took me a full minute to figure out why everything was white…

Hugs and prayers to everyone in California. Scary times. AGAIN. (Didn’t we just do this?!)

@daxigait: Missed you!!! Thanks for your PMs – sorry I didn’t come back until now. Sorry about your animal challenges (weather, super glue, etc.) How have you been? Please send my hugs/vibes to meltel and let her know I’m thinking of her.

I want a lap turkey. I lurk on the turkey thread just to get my fix until I eventually get some.

@Christinecam: Update? Agree with @ronott1’s assessment/advice. (FWIW, once I had some juvenile Speckled Sussex that required multiple/more prolonged treatments to clear a very bad cocci infection, one needing an oral drench. All lived, but it was a much longer treatment period at the highest dose that got them through) You could try another course, along with the supportive treatment already suggested. Sounds like you’ve gotten some good suggestions.

Re: climbing goats – My Tractor Supply has a 2018 calendar called ‘Goats in Trees”. SOOOOO tempted…

@frizzlelove83: Not sure if you got a response, but post the photos. Don’t give up on them too soon based on candling (just my experience).

(I almost decided to leave BYC again for good when the subject o f Ralphie shaving his legs came up, but I struggled through…)

Whew!!! All caught up - and about time for bed!

- Ant Farm[/QUOTE]
Sorry I missed you. Crazy busy. I hope to catch you soon. Glad you are back!!!!
@kwhites634 Duh, that is a great point on the milk stand. That is how I do Boer feet. I built an extra stand for them.

@BantyChooks I hope Jace is ok. I saw this in an old book while reading on sheds. Ways to heat a poultry house.

 

[daxigait]

Catch you later today. I am going to bed. I heard a lot of crowing in the snowing and went to check. My boys we're just replying to the cocks about a quarter mile down the lane. The guy has game cocks tied by the leg on the blue barrels, and given the fact we had rain and sleet and then snow they are probably just flat miserable. Especially given the fact that it's Missouri and yesterday it was 68 degrees and tonight it is icy snowy cold and icky.

 

[BantyChooks]

Sorry I missed you. Crazy busy. I hope to catch you soon. Glad you are back!!!!
@kwhites634 Duh, that is a great point on the milk stand. That is how I do Boer feet. I built an extra stand for them.

@BantyChooks I hope Jace is ok. I saw this in an old book while reading on sheds. Ways to heat a poultry house.
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Now that's an interesting method. Jace is okay, still cold but not worryingly so. Temps go back to the -20s ish now so I'll likely have to bring her in again.

 

[BantyChooks]

Is anyone else tempted to set some eggs orsstick some under a broody?

I have been all year. I an making myself wait until spring.

 

[kwhites634]

Bubbles please remind him what you Inuits do to old people.

They respect their elders. for starters, you young squirt!