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

[BantyChooks]

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Finally set up a thread for my EE x sultans....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1140483/my-ee-x-sultan-project/0_20

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Finally set up a thread for my EE x sultans....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1140483/my-ee-x-sultan-project/0_20

...After changing your avatar again...

 

[Beer can]

I wonder how many eggs an oegb/silkie can cover

My dad's best broody for his RIR's would set and hatch consistently, 18, she was a little japanese black bantam.... crazy, spread herself as far out as she could. She even hatched and brooded some wild turkey eggs once, birds were twice her size following her around when they were poults.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Golly - I get a bad multi-day migraine, have a few catch up days at work, and here I am 1500+ posts behind. I'm so bad at keeping up here.

The Monarch butterflies are on the way through on their migration, and they were swarming around the viburnum in front of my house. So fun!

Oh, and I was looking in my butterfly book - you remember that caterpillar that looked like bird poop that I fed to my chickens? It's the larval form of the giant swallowtail.

I'm going to do a read back. BRB.

- Ant Farm

Was looking through the butterfly book again before bed - I was wrong. Though the Monarchs are indeed on their way through, these aren't Monarchs (for a number of subtle reasons) - they're Queens/Tropic Queens. Still pretty, though. (My CDO compelled me to get up out of bed, wake up the computer, and correct my error.

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We don't have the monarchs here. We do get these every once and awhile

Pretty. Tiger swallowtail, I think. We have those too sometimes. (I want to get better at this - I sense a new hobby coming on - Nooooooooooooo........

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OK, really going to bed now. Good night!

- Ant Farm

 

[BullChick]

 

[dan26552]

Golly - I get a bad multi-day migraine, have a few catch up days at work, and here I am 1500+ posts behind. I'm so bad at keeping up here. The Monarch butterflies are on the way through on their migration, and they were swarming around the viburnum in front of my house. So fun! Oh, and I was looking in my butterfly book - you remember that caterpillar that looked like bird poop that I fed to my chickens? It's the larval form of the giant swallowtail. I'm going to do a read back. BRB. - Ant Farm

That's awesome!! (Do I see a lufah in the background of the first pic?)

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Good morning all.

I am so glad it's Friday!

My rooster has decided that it's completely acceptable to crow at all hours of the night. Is this normal?!?

 

[Akrnaf2]

We don't have the monarchs here. We do get these every once and awhile

A swallowtail from the genus papilio

 

[Akrnaf2]

Good morning all.

I am so glad it's Friday!

My rooster has decided that it's completely acceptable to crow at all hours of the night. Is this normal?!?

immediately!

 

[Lucky Lemon]

It's really getting old. Usually starts about 11:30 and continues through the night.