EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs
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it was actually your message to me that made me that reminded me to come back, I've just been like usual busy. I'm in a slight lull except for all the preparations, till I kid next week. Then it all starts again.
I am ecstatic about the kids this next week they are my AI breedings. I was successful getting a doe bred to the full brother to the two-time national champion who happens to be the full uncle to my buck. then I have three others that are ready to kid to My-Enchanted-Acres Leading Man who has received his Superior genetics Elite status. His son won the Junior and senior get of sire at the national show and had a first place winner. His maternal sister who's actually almost his total sister won reserve national champion. The only difference between them is the grandfather on the top side is a half brother.
So between those four and one live bred doe I have 5 due next weekend. It is a blessing no because these are the babies I have to raise anyway. I am trying to cut some numbers though. I sold half a dozen chickens, half my bucks, two does, and the last of my cows.
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so what have you been up to?
I have moved chickens and quail, lost all my ducks, redone the coops, yada yada coop work. I’m preparing to process my main roo as soon as his son is big enough to do too. Another six weeks or so.
What happened to your ducks?
One by one, four ducks, three pullets and a rooster went missing during the daytime. I let Steven out to free range because he’s in a small pen, and needs to stretch his wings. He’s no longer needed, and has survived every single attack over the years.
The new rooster and girls are kept in a run. I don’t think I will ever free range again.
The new rooster and girls are kept in a run. I don’t think I will ever free range again.
I had a long busy day yesterday. But about 10 minutes of it were most eventful.
Our mail carrier had his last day on the job after 33 years. I got him a card, gift card and a dozen of my eggs. As I was walking down the driveway to meet him, all of a sudden I heard all the chickens going crazy. I ran back there to find a huge coyote running amok. It was really beautiful and looked more like a gray wolf than coyote but we don't have wolves. Perhaps it was a coydog hybrid. It didn't get any because the birds are too alert and fast. However I have lost a couple roosters to coyotes in the last year. It has me revisiting how I can manage to put electric fencing in.
When I'm in my house I can't hear anything going on outside unless all the windows are open, even with 20 roosters crowing. I do have a baby monitor in the brooder house that worked well for a few years but it seems to have lost some of its range so maybe it is time for me to reinvest in surveillance.
This coyote intrusion was at 2 in the afternoon.
I also returned a bag of Fertrell Poultry Nutri Balancer to the grain elevator. When I bought it I didn't decipher the lot number. When I got home, I called Fertrell and it was 2 years old.
Manufactured January 5, 2018. It is 60 miles one way from my house. I was worried about getting home in time to lock up before dark with the memory of the coyote weighing on me.
They didn't balk about refunding my $64 but they claimed it must have come old from Fertrell. But the nutritionist at Fertrell said they got new computers in June 2018 and had not shipped to this outlet since that time. When I told them that, they then claimed that Fertrell told them it doesn't expire or go bad. Fertrell says it is only good for 6 months before there is significant vitamin loss.
There's your sign that feed store employees (at least any I've met) know nothing about animal nutrition.
I'm trying to decide if I want to give them a review so others will know to check mill dates. Right now they have a 4.7 star rating.
Let it just be a warning to others to always verify expiration and mill dates on poultry and other products. The closest feed mill to my house will keep feed and other product till it sells - veritably preying on the unsuspecting customer.
I almost bought vitamins from my local feed store. On the way to the counter, I noticed they had expired 2 years earlier and I told the clerk. They were still on the shelf over a year later.
The only thing I buy there is straw, pine shavings, seed and layer feed in a pinch because they do go through a fair amount of layer.
Now that I think about it, I don't think I'll be buying seed any more. No reason to believe it is any fresher. I have noticed that the straw appears old. The stalks are very broken down like they've been stored for years.
Our mail carrier had his last day on the job after 33 years. I got him a card, gift card and a dozen of my eggs. As I was walking down the driveway to meet him, all of a sudden I heard all the chickens going crazy. I ran back there to find a huge coyote running amok. It was really beautiful and looked more like a gray wolf than coyote but we don't have wolves. Perhaps it was a coydog hybrid. It didn't get any because the birds are too alert and fast. However I have lost a couple roosters to coyotes in the last year. It has me revisiting how I can manage to put electric fencing in.
When I'm in my house I can't hear anything going on outside unless all the windows are open, even with 20 roosters crowing. I do have a baby monitor in the brooder house that worked well for a few years but it seems to have lost some of its range so maybe it is time for me to reinvest in surveillance.
This coyote intrusion was at 2 in the afternoon.
I also returned a bag of Fertrell Poultry Nutri Balancer to the grain elevator. When I bought it I didn't decipher the lot number. When I got home, I called Fertrell and it was 2 years old.
Manufactured January 5, 2018. It is 60 miles one way from my house. I was worried about getting home in time to lock up before dark with the memory of the coyote weighing on me.They didn't balk about refunding my $64 but they claimed it must have come old from Fertrell. But the nutritionist at Fertrell said they got new computers in June 2018 and had not shipped to this outlet since that time. When I told them that, they then claimed that Fertrell told them it doesn't expire or go bad. Fertrell says it is only good for 6 months before there is significant vitamin loss.
There's your sign that feed store employees (at least any I've met) know nothing about animal nutrition.
I'm trying to decide if I want to give them a review so others will know to check mill dates. Right now they have a 4.7 star rating.
Let it just be a warning to others to always verify expiration and mill dates on poultry and other products. The closest feed mill to my house will keep feed and other product till it sells - veritably preying on the unsuspecting customer.
I almost bought vitamins from my local feed store. On the way to the counter, I noticed they had expired 2 years earlier and I told the clerk. They were still on the shelf over a year later.
The only thing I buy there is straw, pine shavings, seed and layer feed in a pinch because they do go through a fair amount of layer.
Now that I think about it, I don't think I'll be buying seed any more. No reason to believe it is any fresher. I have noticed that the straw appears old. The stalks are very broken down like they've been stored for years.
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aliciaplus3
Free Ranging
Ok so my enthusiasm for 2020 has expired... we had successfully hatched 9 turkeys on dec 28 and 29, woke up new years day to discover that DD had pulled the blanket up over the totem so the babies didnt get out, bad deal it cooked all but 3 of my freshly hatched babies
We had 16 turkey eggs due today, woke up this morning to one hatched and 3 drowned in their shells... lost another one mid afternoon and discovered many died since lockdown. Still have 2 chicken eggs that are maybes and 3 turkeys talking in their shells... maybe next weeks hatch will go better?
We had 16 turkey eggs due today, woke up this morning to one hatched and 3 drowned in their shells... lost another one mid afternoon and discovered many died since lockdown. Still have 2 chicken eggs that are maybes and 3 turkeys talking in their shells... maybe next weeks hatch will go better?
I’m not having luck either.
Ok so my enthusiasm for 2020 has expired... we had successfully hatched 9 turkeys on dec 28 and 29, woke up new years day to discover that DD had pulled the blanket up over the totem so the babies didnt get out, bad deal it cooked all but 3 of my freshly hatched babies
We had 16 turkey eggs due today, woke up this morning to one hatched and 3 drowned in their shells... lost another one mid afternoon and discovered many died since lockdown. Still have 2 chicken eggs that are maybes and 3 turkeys talking in their shells... maybe next weeks hatch will go better?
Aww, I'm so sorry
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