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

[Chaos18]

Are they smelly?  Y'all have scared me about goats talking about how the males pee on themselves and stink bad. LOL!

Get wethers and you won't have that problem.

 

[jkelly5359]

Hello! I need some SERIOUS help! I had a really bad first hatching experience... I started with 28 of my own eggs (my hens refuse to go broody) and borrowed an incubator from a good friend who I assumed knew what she was talking about. Unfortunately, she didn't, and I lost ALL BUT ONE EGG because they were positioned in the bator incorrectly (pointed side up, chicks didn't developed past day 10, a lot of ruptured air sacks) So I have just this one lonely egg that has somehow defied all odds... it is day 24... no pipping, internal or external and it doesn't seem to have broken through to the air cell yet... while I've done TONS of research (that I should have done BEFORE attempting a hatch) but I'm not sure I'm brave enough to jump in and assist if that's where this is headed... how do I know if that's necessary? How will I know if the yolk sack is absorbed to a point that I CAN intervene????? PLEASE HELP MY LITTLE EGG MAKE IT!!!!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Li is on it; I'll defer to her. I'm about as sharp as the leading edge of a cloud on that stuff

 

[kajira]

Hmmm... I think we would do better to not have milk goats. Do you have to milk all female goats when they get old enough?

only if they have babies.
lol

we want to milk our goats.... but there's all sorts of goats... Spanish goats are nice, if bottle fed. You can also get the ones that look like sheep - but are actually goats.

 

[Chaos18]

Good morning everyone! 

Morning Mike

 

[kajira]

Get wethers and you won't have that problem.

Wether's are just as obnoxious, but in a different way. LOL Most people I know prefer female goats, because even the wethers are trouble makers. LOL they destroy fences, eat your house. My lady goats always had more classy manners! haha

heck, our boy goats donkey/shrek taught our dogs how to dig up the potatos in our garden.

 

[BantyChooks]

Hello! I need some SERIOUS help! I had a really bad first hatching experience... I started with 28 of my own eggs (my hens refuse to go broody) and borrowed an incubator from a good friend who I assumed knew what she was talking about. Unfortunately, she didn't, and I lost ALL BUT ONE EGG because they were positioned in the bator incorrectly (pointed side up, chicks didn't developed past day 10, a lot of ruptured air sacks) So I have just this one lonely egg that has somehow defied all odds... it is day 24... no pipping, internal or external and it doesn't seem to have broken through to the air cell yet... while I've done TONS of research (that I should have done BEFORE attempting a hatch) but I'm not sure I'm brave enough to jump in and assist if that's where this is headed... how do I know if that's necessary? How will I know if the yolk sack is absorbed to a point that I CAN intervene????? PLEASE HELP MY LITTLE EGG MAKE IT!!!!

Welcome!! Are you sure it is alive?

I'm useless at assisting, so I'll let others help.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Get a pair of girls.

Nubians if bottle fed, are super awwwwesome goats. I also like Boer's, if they've been bottle fed.

Even withers are obnoxious. We ended up eating ours, because they weren't as friendly, nice, or well behaved as our ladies were lol

I've always had good luck with pygmies, but our pgymies have a tiny area, and even with 4 goats, and chickens, they can't keep the grass down. They DO love the weeds though. We go around the property and cut down tree branches and weeds and throw them into the pen for them, too.

They also love to play, so if you have an old swing or play house, you can make goat toys pretty easily. Ours loved the chicken coop, and love to head butt the chickens and eat their food, we had to secure/fix our coops to keep the goats out of it.

Your fencing is going to need to good, and depending on the type of goat you get, you may have to go unstick their horns. (Another reason we ate our boys. They ripped the fences up with their horns, and would always get their head stucks in the fences.)

My plan is to let them stay in my daughter's yard (it is enclosed with the pond front, and separate from my dog yard and the chickens free ranging area). The duck and goose go in that area, but I don't imagine that would be a problem with the goats. I am going to do a lot of research over the next 70 days! (or more if she misses any days LOL!) Thanks for the tips!

thats only bucks

Whew... definitely will avoid them!

only if you breed them

No no, I'm already bad at chicken math. Don't need to have a goat math problem too.

 

[BullChick]

I'm glad you and the family are safe and have power again.  Looking forward to hearing about the twins in a week or so. I hope everything goes well.



Glad you got through the storm ok

Set all the eggs!

I have the same phone, I really don't see the point in replacing it as it works perfectly fine. I don't use it for this site however.

Good luck!

 I hope you had a great morning at work.

Hello Chaos!

Great, good luck with the rest of the hatch.

No!

Good morning everyone! 

Nooo!

 

[BantyChooks]

MC