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

[Phage]

@BantyChooks have about 20 trader Joe eggs developing, and will get a selection of fun eggs from my friend - whatever is laying, on Tuesday e
Probably isbars, svart honas and other fun breeds.

Awesome. The TJ's are good layers.

The best I have ever had. Suspect some sort of leghorn mix but much nicer to keep.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I generally see more squirrels than deer when I'm deer hunting, & vise-versa

 

[kajira]

They learn fast. My friend has her milk stand in a stall at the end of the barn. She opens the lower pen they go around the barn and get on the stand by themselves. They know they get grain, and back into the upper pen with the babies.
Mine go up on the stand great too.

she hadn't been handled much, then had a baby, and suddenly, everyone wanted to touch her. She was not happy about it at first, but now that she's healed up and figured out what we want from her, she's done really well. It did help to seperate the baby from her over night, so she'd be eager to milk in the morning and get her baby back!

Most milking does i've seen, have their babies bottlefed, but I wanted to give it a shot to let her raise him as long as he seemed to like us. So far, he doesn't seem to mind people grabbing him.

Edited to add :

Only thing I haven't figured out, is what happens if he decides he's supposed to be a house goat when he's fully grown, since he sleeps inside at night! LOL

 

[kajira]

my husband just texted me a picture and I couldn't figure out what the heck it was.


apparently, it was a picture of a ultrasound of a pregnant dog, who had puppies all over inside of her............................

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: I can only "audition" so many (at least at one time). For instance, I'd LOVE to audition your Penedesencas, but I couldn't do them justice housing-wise right now. That being said, I really love the look of those buttercups.... Maybe I'll try them one day when I'm looking for more layers. (The only birds I have who lay eggs a little like that are the Speckled Sussex, and they go to a new home next weekend - I like a varied egg basket).

You guys sure butcher a lot of birds! I have yet to butcher one of my birds....

Hatching or straight run chicks --> lots of boys --> only so many boys you can keep without them trying to kill each other or the pullets --> freezer camp. If there's a lot of space and housing, you can keep a number in bachelor pens if they behave, but that's limited...

Good morning everyone! I hope you all remembered to fall back in the states that do it. I wish we stayed on daylight savings time.
I hate coming home to dark every day. It leaves me no time to do anything in the light. I go to work in the dark year round and that doesn't bother me, but no light ever at home does.

This is my problem with it. The way my life/work goes, usually dark in the morning when I leave anyway, but in summer I can't really get chores (cleaning waterers, scooping poop, filling feeders - the essentials) done in the morning whether it's light or not. I have to get them done when I get home. So if it's dark when I get home...

I got the automatic doors and they work well, but they DO need clean water/clean coops/food... (Grrrrrrrrrrrr.......)

This is why I'm not getting a goat until my responsibilities at work settle down more.

Morning, MC!!!!

Be careful! The leaf monster may get you!

I LOVE this photo!!!!! She's so adorable.

@BantyChooks have about 20 trader Joe eggs developing, and will get a selection of fun eggs from my friend - whatever is laying, on Tuesday

Probably isbars, svart honas and other fun breeds.

Isbars are on a low tier wish list for me. I am not in a hurry to get them, but it would be neat to try them one day. Ayam cemani (which autocorrects to "Adam cement, if you were curious) is like that as well - might be nice to try them. I'm trying to reign myself in so I can focus on my projects for a little while and not keep turning my homestead on its head with constant big changes in bird numbers/plans.

Well, I WAS going to go out and get started early on digging those apple tree holes (it's taking FOREVER) and clearing and planting the garden (spinach and garlic/perennial onion and herb beds are next). But it's pouring out - big (loud) thunderstorm. So I'm drinking coffee and reading BYC instead. Once I wake up I'll start some of the indoor "to dos" and hopefully it will have stopped raining by then. Don't get me wrong - we really need the rain. It just sort of rearranged my day for me.

OK, soooooo... laundry, clean bathroom, cook eggs for chickens, can dilly beans, sort piled up mail from the week... I have plenty to do. Buuuuuuuuut... I think I'll just put a load of laundry in, make some more coffee, and come back here for a little bit.

BRB

- Ant Farm

 

[daxigait]

she hadn't been handled much, then had a baby, and suddenly, everyone wanted to touch her. She was not happy about it at first, but now that she's healed up and figured out what we want from her, she's done really well. It did help to seperate the baby from her over night, so she'd be eager to milk in the morning and get her baby back!

Most milking does i've seen, have their babies bottlefed, but I wanted to give it a shot to let her raise him as long as he seemed to like us. So far, he doesn't seem to mind people grabbing him.

Edited to add :

Only thing I haven't figured out, is what happens if he decides he's supposed to be a house goat when he's fully grown, since he sleeps inside at night! LOL

We separate ours half a day, and don't have trouble handeling the kids. I like them that way. They easy enough to handle and friendly, without getting too pushy. Not to mention, not having the hassle of bottles.

 

[kwhites634]

@LittleLakePhil

You probably have discovered this already, but I'm slow; I just picked up on it a couple years ago.

If you use Pyrodex pellets, instead of loose black powder or loose Pyrodex, you don't have to "shoot" it out when you're finished hunting. Just pull the nipple; the pellets fall right into the breech. At least that's how it is in my Knight; not familiar with other makes. Save your pellets for next time.

 

[kajira]

We separate ours half a day, and don't have trouble handeling the kids. I like them that way. They easy enough to handle and friendly, without getting too pushy. Not to mention, not having the hassle of bottles.

that was my theory. I'm still pumping 4-6x timse a day, and with 4 kids homeschooling plus all the other animals, I ain't got time to bottlefed a baby.... nursing from tap is why I breastfeed my OWN babies, because i'm lazy and don't want the hassle of bottles. haha

(i'm slowly weaning out the pumping sessions, now that I'm getting my toddler to drink goats milk.)

 

[meltel]

Good morning all. Special good morning to MC, Duckling and Spider (did you ever find him?) also special good morning to the busted wing club

 

[BantyChooks]

Good morning all. Special good morning to MC, Duckling and Spider (did you ever find him?) also special good morning to the busted wing club 

Mornin Mel