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

[BantyChooks]

Yes, Mother

Good boy

 

[casportpony]

I saw your picture, it's very nice! Did you read the fine print of the contest? Beware, the product mentioned is not a de-wormer.

-Kathy

Wondering about that.

They have a very good sales/marketing team, and all of their literature is carefully worded so that when people read it they think they're deworming or preventing worms, but it doesn't do either. They also sell something called Oxy-E, which is just Oxine. So if any of you think this might be a way to deworm, don't be fooled, it's nothing but a supplement.

-Kathy

 

[kwhites634]

Quote:
Boy? How big do boys grow in your part of the country?

 

[BantyChooks]

They have a very good sales/marketing team, and all of their literature is carefully worded so that when people read it they think they're deworming or preventing worms, but it doesn't do either. They also sell something called Oxy-E, which is just Oxine. So if any of you think this might be a way to deworm, don't be fooled, it's nothing but a supplement.

-Kathy

Yah.... Hence why I refuse to spend money on it.

 

[BantyChooks]

Boy?  How big do boys grow in your part of the country?

Depends how long ya let them grow before picking

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Good point! Gotta get up early to get ahead of you

 

[ocap]

Depends how long ya let them grow before picking

 

[Brooke215]

I have a question. I just candled for day 14 and noticed that one of my five eggs has a very large saddle shaped air cell. It still appears to be developing and moving, is there anything I can do? or that I should watch out for?

 

[BantyChooks]

I have a question. I just candled for day 14 and noticed that one of my five eggs has a very large saddle shaped air cell. It still appears to be developing and moving, is there anything I can do? or that I should watch out for?

Nothing at this point, the CAM has already fixed in place... If I remember correct saddled eggs are more likely to be malpositioned, so keep an eye on it at lockdown.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I finally counted all my birds last night after clipping one wing on everyone and I have 61 total

Wow, almost as many as I have but I don't have a definitive total. Maybe after I get a few more cockerels butchered.
I think it is about 68.

You haven't seen any of that white stuff up there yet, have you?

In the mid 80s here today so no white stuff. It may be mid December before we get any. It may even be December before the first frost. That would be another record.
There's only been one year in my life that I was able to pick fresh tomatoes and peppers for Thanksgiving.
This is the first day in November that I thought it was too hot. Several mosquito bites today too.

I'm sitting here working on dinner. Quick and easy. Way to many birds to take care of, and horses, and pigs, and lions and tigers and bears ,oh my

@Beer can
Speaking if too many birds, had a stray blue Easter egger show up tonight...

I'm sitting here waiting for the thunderstorm to quit so I can finish locking up.

arrow points to shotglass of water, I fill when it runs out and will add more at lockdown...penny from before 1982 in side glass.

14 grocery store eggs in incubator, hen has 5 (up to 7 may be clear)

Store eggs labeled fertile?

You'd find most the state like that. Don't get me wrong, there is much to love about upstate, much of it similar to anywhere in the Appalachia (just much colder winter) if you like farmland and forest.
Majority of the towns and small cities are pretty rough. It's a pretty depressed area, dead state.
I was just mentioning it to dw this summer ridding around side streets in one historical town. 'Dang, can you imagine what this town looked like a hundred yrs ago?' Beautiful houses, run down and boarded up, some made into aapartment houses for 'low income'. Worse further towards the city where the taxes ramp up even more. Good jobs are hard to find, and they regulate the self-employed jobs so bad now, logging, bluestone quarrying, farming, etc.
So many people moving out most schools throughout upstate have merged two, three, four towns together.

Beautiful area. Too bad it is depressed economically.

They have a very good sales/marketing team, and all of their literature is carefully worded so that when people read it they think they're deworming or preventing worms, but it doesn't do either. They also sell something called Oxy-E, which is just Oxine. So if any of you think this might be a way to deworm, don't be fooled, it's nothing but a supplement.

-Kathy

I've never looked into it. I thought oxine was a way to fumigate incubators.