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

[BullChick]

I keep them warm (80-ish), they have company (they are very social!), the humidity is never below 75%, they have room to roam, deep sand/substrate, and they have the shell selection they need.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi, I am not necessarily new here, been MIA since 2014

I have since lost all my flock as they refused to go in there coop and they know roam free on another property They are basically wild birds now and I see them occassionally but were never very tame.

I have ordered this incubator, I am now looking for some fertilised eggs to start my flock as I want to be able to raise them to be friendly. We are also going to build a run for them, but I am also looking at prices of ready made ones and may even get them.

The breeds I am looking at are either the Plymouth Rock or the Barnevelder as they are the ones that are possibly the best for our family, are friendly and can be tamed to allow to be held and also do the best in confined spaces. Am open to any other ideas also, but they do have to have nice roosters that are not aggressive.

Welcome back! Have you asked in your local thread already? I cant help you out with those breeds. Russian orloffs are also very nice birds, the tamest birds I ever had to be honest!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I keep them warm (80-ish), they have company (they are very social!), the humidity is never below 75%, they have room to roam, deep sand/substrate, and they have the shell selection they need.

I never had deep sand either oopsies poopsies

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yeah, I’m still awake. Yeah, I am talking about “that” again.
Halloween crabs and Halloween hermit crabs are similar in some ways, but vastly different in one. The one called a hermit crab is an underwater crab. It’s confusing to understand the “why’s”, but that’s what it seems to boil down to.
Cool fact! The land crab digs about five feet down to molt. Other crabs their size only dig 4-6 inches.

Dang wish you were closer we could work on that insomnia issue together, was wrapping soap all day and all night, my neck and back hurt so bad, now I try to get on weebly to add the new ones and dang if it keeps crashing! Ill try again in the am, if I keep it up now I will throw this out in the rain!!

Here is what I tagged and shrink wrapped, about 30 of each some more some less. either way I hate wrapping, so time consuming. The new blue white one is cotton and amber, wow it smells so clean, I put one flower directly into the bathroom and Husband stole three for work! The chamomile with the momma and baby goat I made specifically for Campinshaw <3

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi, my incubator arrived today and I currently have it on and trying to remember how to calibrate, etc. I have three thermometers in it including the one it came with and not sure which one to trust. Do the mercury ones every become inaccurate? If not I will trust that one wholly. I cannot get the humidity right though as the machine is saying one thing and my portable one is saying another

YAY!!! see what MC errrr Bull posted! Hope you get it figured out!

 

[Cynthia12]

Cotton and Amber? . <<<< They need a smelling face.

 

[Cynthia12]

Sore throat, low grade fever, sinuses bad...no strep. Wait it out. I feel miserable. Hope I don't get the non stop coughing.

 

[Pensmaster]

Sore throat, low grade fever, sinuses bad...no strep. Wait it out. I feel miserable. Hope I don't get the non stop coughing.

Out of curiosity is there a fire in your area. You just described my summer last year. Really thankful there’s been less fires this year.

 

[Cynthia12]

We've had a lot of fires this year, but nothing like last year! And not close to us this year. We're seeing them from distance. They're getting them out pretty quick too.

 

[BullChick]

Sore throat, low grade fever, sinuses bad...no strep. Wait it out. I feel miserable. Hope I don't get the non stop coughing.

Funny, I’m dealing with the same with Duckling. Her fever was 102* when she arrived.