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

[campingshaws]

Goats love grapefruit trees.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Thank you

By request:


Tucker....He ain't big on closeups


#1 son up front....he ain't big on pictures at all! Only time he stood still long enough to get a picture at all.
The one in the rear is the one I thought was a cockerel 'til this morning.
@daxigait

what breed is the one in the back whites?

 

[mlm Mike]

That was mine, Sally. Can't remember which one.

I'm going to be Kathy this year! Spreadsheets! Calendars! Weights and charts! Grams! Milliliters! I'll be so organized.

 

[Akrnaf2]

By request: Tucker....He ain't big on closeups #1 son up front....he ain't big on pictures at all! Only time he stood still long enough to get a picture at all. The one in the rear is the one I thought was a cockerel 'til this morning. @daxigait

I am still think it's a cockerel, they sometimes are not close on their gender. ......

 

[mlm Mike]

Goats love grapefruit trees.

I would love a grapefruit tree!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Advice

To promote enhanced fertility in the flock:

• Give special attention to development and uniformity in rearing: a good start in the first week, harmonic, steady growth, maintaining body weight standards from the beginning of the chick’s life and especially at 11 weeks are essential.
• Synchronize the maturity of males and females. Many potential problems arise from differences in development between the sexes. Males tend to mature earlier and may behave too aggressively for successful breeding.
• Avoid stress by limiting factors like diseases, drastic changes of housing conditions, feed composition or quantity, temperature and other basic parameters. Stick to routines.
• Stimulate mating by sprinkling grain on the litter in the afternoons. Let the males play the role of landlords, so they have the chance to show their leading position in the flock.
• Never keep too many males in the flock. Quantity cannot replace quality.
• It is better to keep fewer good cockerels than many of varying quality.
• If possible, replace old cockerels with new, mature males after 45 weeks of age. Alternatively, introduce ’intra-spiking’: the exchange of males between different houses. This creates a new social order that encourages increased activity and renewed fights for social position. Replace or exchange at least 40% of the males in a house.

this is in our notes
Fertility:

• IS IT FERTILE? Many images see post #43324
• Campingshaw's double yolker with only one yolk fertile post #133264
• Egg with two fertile blastoderms??? post #138102
• Managing Fertility click HERE
• Several Reasons Why Your Hens May Stop Laying Eggs click HERE
• Winter Blues w/the Roos, why are my eggs infertile ugh starting post #1986
• Reproductive Physiology of the Hen post #40628
• HOW long does a ROO SPERM REMAIN IN HEN post #40628

• Polyspermy is typical in birds. Several sperm enter the germinal disc region post #40644
• Trimming vents for higher fertility post #154187
• Double fertilization spots? post #5991

Example 57 out of 126 were declared fertile.

Hatch Rates...

Example 50 of the 57 fertile eggs hatched the % hatch=

Goats love grapefruit trees.

yums!!! breakfast!!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Goats love grapefruit trees.

I would love a grapefruit tree!

I have 2! Come, You can have as much as you want!

 

[campingshaws]

Goats love grapefruit trees.

I would love a grapefruit tree!

They smell SO. GOOD. for one week of the year. Last year we had about 6 grapefruit but this year it's LOADED. We'll never get close to eating them all.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: I have 2! Come, You can have as much as you want!
Thank you!

 

[ocap]

Goats love grapefruit trees.

HANK THOMPSON


Orange Blossom Special Lyrics


ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL
Writer Ervin T. Rouse

Look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
Hey, look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
It's the Orange Blossom Special
Bringin' my baby back
Well, I'm going down to Florida
And get some sand in my shoes
Or maybe Californy
And get some sand in my shoes
I'll ride that Orange Blossom Special
And lose these New York blues
"Say man, when you going back to Florida?"
"When am I goin' back to Florida? I don't know, don't reckon I ever will."
"Ain't you worried about getting your nourishment in New York?"
"Well, I don't care if I do-die-do-die-do-die-do-die."
Hey talk about a-ramblin'
She's the fastest train on the line
Talk about a-travellin'
She's the fastest train on the line
It's that Orange Blossom Special
Rollin' down the seaboard line

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