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

[Razadia]

Does sort of alive and unable to sleep count?

 

[Uff Da]

I've started some planting. I adore gardening but I'm such a scatterbrain it is a miracle if anything gets to the point of a good harvest.I

And I've got my fourth and fifth batches of eggs in the incubators. I said I would never do a staggered hatch, and here I am, with shipped eggs no less. I'm out of control.

 

[aliciaplus3]

huh we are still hatching weekly,,, or close to it? set a few more chicken eggs a couple days ago and plan to set another BIG batch of turkey eggs after my easter hatch is complete so I can use the brinsea... it holds 56ish

 

[kwhites634]

Wind's been raising a ruckus here for two days, HARD. So hard that it wrecked the roof of the coop. Tore off the corrugated plastic panels that were screwed to the plywood. Have a big double cinder block on it now. Hopefully, it'll hold 'til I can get a couple steel panels to replace the plastic.

 

[casportpony]

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well! Here is my shameless promotion of the Easter Hatch a Long photo contests.



11th Annual EHAL - Contest #3: Cutest Baby Fowl - Win a Brinsea Incubator!



11th Annual EHAL—Contest #8: Hatching Chick Photography Contest





Contest #7: Broodies and their Babies



11th Annual EHAL - Contest #6: Interesting Places, Funny Antics and Poses of Other Fowl

 

[mlm Mike]

I saw a pied deer outback today, I've never have seen it around before.

 

[BullChick]

I saw a pied deer outback today, I've never have seen it around before.

Really? I used to make venison pie often. Usually as a Shepherds pie.

 

[BullChick]

I am soooooo funny!

 

[kwhites634]

I saw a pied deer outback today, I've never have seen it around before.

I had one come thru here several years ago; just the one time. There's a herd of them up the road a piece.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

“Love Hurts” popped out of my mouth as I began thinning the jalapeños. The Serranos are taking off, and I know it’s going to be torture thinning them.
@ChickenCanoe Tell me again how to save the seeds. It’s nonsense to keep hoping for a good source every year.

Sorry I didn't answer this when it popped up.
As long as the plants are not hybrids, all you have to do is let the peppers, tomatoes, peas, beans, seed pods, lettuces, brassicas that have gone to seed or whatever mature completely so the seed will be viable. Scrape the seeds out, spread them thinly on a surface and let them dry completely. Otherwise they'll mold.
Seeds from hybrid plants won't reproduce the same plants as the parent. So if you plan to be a seed saver, use heirloom varieties.