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

[lovechicks1293]

and these were from hers, I have no clue I have to look at her pm and send her images

awwwwwwww

 

[mlm Mike]

hi everyone! just got back from youth group, we had a neon party! it was super fun sooooo good goodnight now see ya tomorrow!!

Good night!

 

[Pensmaster]

We feed at night, in order to get them into their coops with out a battle. We free-range during the daytime. They are little piggies though. I don't think I really NEED to feed them as much as I do. I think my birds might be fat.

I actually free ranged this weekend. Lots of new grass and weeds up from rain. I had to clean coop out. They really ate far less from the free ranging. Can't do it when not home, and really have lost too many even when home.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: nope

 

[mlm Mike]

and these were from hers, I have no clue I have to look at her pm and send her images

Awwwww

 

[kajira]

I actually free ranged this weekend. Lots of new grass and weeds up from rain. I had to clean coop out. They really ate far less from the free ranging. Can't do it when not home, and really have lost too many even when home.

Do you know, that the only ones I've lost, have been in the house... to cats that snuck into my brooder?????

I'm a horrible chicken mom.

My barn cats, have stayed away from the birds since my dog has been with the birds and will eat the cats if they go after the birds.

She LOVES my birds so much. I take her in with me when I feed and round them up. She has to do all her rounds of the pens/yards. She checks all the fences and marks her territory and belly crawls to say hi to the birds so she doesn't scare them.

Then again, the other flock rides the goats, and the goats attack anything that's not a chicken or a goat. My female goat who just had her baby, will kill anything that's not human, goat, or chicken that comes into the pen right now. She'll even attack the fence to keep the dogs away from the fence line. She's... mean? LOL

 

[Pensmaster]

It was funny. She would either go back to her house or we could have a few extras. Oh I also bought eggs from her as well. Bad thing to go to the people selling always come home with more.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

and these were from hers, I have no clue I have to look at her pm and send her images

@minihorse927

 

[AlilSassy]

...not enough time to read last 20 or 30 pages... but real quick... power went out while I was at work for 3 minutes... 2 incubators off since then... 1 luckily uses a standard switch, not digital push button, so it came back on and has all the important eggs... 1 that stayed off has the last egg hatching, the cross beak in it. It was 72• in there! THE BABY IS STILL ALIVE! So I took this as a sign that I will take a chance on raising the cross beak no matter what, if it wants to try that hard. I moistened its exposed parts, its head is stuck to the membrane, no surprise, but the rest is still flexible and it still has veins to absorb... The 2nd off one had a mixed set of eggs (replacements that looked like duds too up till now), and a set of Araucana, that didn't look good either...so not horribly upset at the outage other than the chick who had to suffer through it... 2 more days to lock down for the AC and Tolbunt... need cross beak to hurry up so I can clean/sanitize and move the other eggs and use the "good" incubator to lock down in...

I remember someone a while back had a white chick that they couldn't figure out or just was shocked to see it... I showed my Splash Maran boy... well I hatched another platinum white chick...but from a Buff Laced Brahma supposedly... aren't their chicks orange/yellow? Has feathered feet... so could be, or could be another Splash Maran lol... -sigh-

 

[minihorse927]

@minihorse927

side by side is Swedish flower on the left Easter egger on the right, single chick is a brown leghorn.