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

[LittleLakePhil]

OK, y'all, it's been fun, but I believe I'll stagger off to bed.  Seeya  

Good night.....

 

[ChickenCanoe]

"Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant!"

How about this one:

He looks edible.

This ones closer.

No mule deer here.

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possum 0, racoon 0, silver 5

congrats

Yeah I'm ok. Pain and frustration but had a great time at the chicken show! Brought home a few "interesting"things...

Hubby said when he unloaded them "Hey why do those curly ducks look so different?"

What were they? Geese? Swans?

This is sort of like when the wife asked just how many chickens do you have back here.

A long time ago when I started incubating, she would say, "do we really need any more chickens?"

We did, much to her chagrin.

no-I had a long weekend and been sorting seramas and hatching chicks all day & getting the newbies all set. But I ended up with a pair of swedish flowers, 6 seramas, 4 indian runner duck and 2 sebbies-a white girl and a buff/saddleback boy. Love them to pieces and got a great deal on them from a very good breeder. Still new predator problem. think its a hawk or owl-so far a runner and 2 guineas and not just at night-think the guineas was during the day today. not quite sure what to do about that problem....

I think it is important to remember, there are always multiple predators around whether we see them or not.

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big eggs then? I always hatch that high even serama although lowering 99 98 hatching days

My 3 pullets that hatched April 22 just started laying a week or so ago (27 weeks). They were nice sized but I was shocked when I weighed them. They were all above 55 grams. One pullet laying dark eggs first was just over 60 grams and yesterday's egg was 70 grams. I guess that's the advantage of delaying onset of lay.

I have an overabundance of deer too.

We have deer but not an overabundance at my house. Well a few cities in the county do but they now have professional shooters come in to reduce the population.

Below 40?? Wow, that's worse than I thought. Good info though.

Select breeds adaptable to one's climate. No Seramas for me.

Dang more nice deer......we don't have a lot of deer here..... Wolves and hard winters keep the numbers down. Now bears we have lots of those.

Do you also have chronic wasting disease there?
They started checkpoints around the state this year to take tissue samples for it. Trying to nip it in the bud.

I seen a doe with triplets this year.... Pretty unusual.
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That would be cool to see.

Yeah i have deer calls never had then work either..... Guess that's a reason i prefer to fish

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Same here. I tried all that stuff when I was young. Fishing is easy.

Deer are easy.... It's the big bucks that are hard. I'm seeing tons of does.
And this area isn't a population dense area.... ...

That's how they get big.
I saw a chart that showed the percentage of bucks in each age group that are killed each year. After year 3, the percentages are tiny.

True story: I transferred to NJ when I worked for IBM. They flew DW & I into an airport somewhere in north Jersey for a house hunting trip. I'd been working there for a month, but this was DW's 1st trip. We rented a car, and as we headed north, DW wanted to know what that green stuff in the air was. I told her that was the air; it always looked like that.

I was first stationed at Kelley Barracks near Stuttgart, Germany. Thank goodness it was only temporary. You could see the air there too but it was grey with soot. Every morning cars, streets, plants and anything outside was covered. Not good for the lungs. I was really happy and so fortunate to get transferred north to a much more pastoral area rich in history and scenery.
I probably would have been a drug addict had I lived in that dreary area long.
Peden Barracks was my post but it closed in '92.
I just discovered they have an annual reunion.








Loading artillery on rail cars at Graf headed back to Peden



This is scenery where my new duty assignment was. People have lived on the banks of the Main and Tauber since the stone age and became a community in 750 AD.


The Wertheim castle dates from 1100


Maybe just as fortunately, the best beer in the world is brewed there. Lutz Bier.
http://www.spessart-specht.de/n_startf0.php

Probably spreading from Wyoming repopulating efforts.

Or down from Canada.

 

[Chaos18]

SERAMA Info

Their tiny size requires very little space and a pair or trio of Seramas can be comfortably caged in a 24 inch by 18 inch cage.

Serama pullets start laying at 4-5 months of age, but require 15-18 months until full maturity.
Incubation period for Serama eggs is 19 days at 99.9 degrees F.
Traditional Serama are not color bred, nor do they breed true to any one color, It is not uncommon to hatch as many different colored chicks as there are eggs that hatch.
Serama do not breed true to size. Out of a clutch of 10 chicks one can expect 1 or 2 to be small, 3 or 4 to be large and the remainder to be within the normal weight range for Serama.
The color of Serama eggs range from the purest white to the deepest brown, with many shades in between Serama are tropical and need some type of heat source when temperatures drop below 40 degrees. The Serama is the most popular house hold pet in it's native country, surpassing both cats and dogs combined.

Are the heat requirments the same even if you have the normal feathered ones and not the dust mop looking ones?

 

[BullChick]

possum 0, racoon 0, silver 5

Woo hoo!

Yeah I'm ok. Pain and frustration but had a great time at the chicken show! Brought home a few "interesting"things...

Hubby said when he unloaded them "Hey why do those curly ducks look so different?"

I am sure your therapy helpers you brought home will bring some relief. You may need to get more before its all said and done though!
Did you see that CMT is going to be airing "Chicken People" next Wednesday?

 

[jwlpoultry]

Good morning Chaos and whoever else is here.

 

[jwlpoultry]

 
possum 0, racoon 0, silver 5

Woo hoo!

 
Yeah I'm ok. Pain and frustration but had a great time at the chicken show! Brought home a few "interesting"things...    Hubby said when he unloaded them "Hey why do those curly ducks look so different?" 

I am sure your therapy helpers you brought home will bring some relief. You may need to get more before its all said and done though!
Did you see that CMT is going to be airing "Chicken People" next Wednesday?

Good morning Mc!!!!

 

[mlm Mike]

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Someone had chronic waste disease in their captive herd here. The state wanted to make certain it didn't get into the wild population, they went door to door telling people about it and left instructions on how to remove the neck and head and where to drop it off incase you found any dead deer on your property. Then they would take the heads off deer hit by cars/trucks and leave the body. Odd seeing all these dead headless deer laying next to the road.

 

[BullChick]

GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME TO ABI'S COFFEE HOUSE! BEFORE I SERVE YOUR HOT DRINKS, I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A SELECTION FROM MY NEW LINE! DRIED FRUIT! IT IS FOUND THE SAME PLACE AS MY LOST KEYS!

 

[mlm Mike]

Good morning everyone!

 

[jwlpoultry]

[COLOR=0000CD]GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME TO ABI'S COFFEE HOUSE! BEFORE I SERVE YOUR HOT DRINKS, I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A SELECTION FROM MY NEW LINE! DRIED FRUIT! IT IS FOUND THE SAME PLACE AS MY LOST KEYS![/COLOR]

Thanks Mc!!