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

[dan26552]

Now even accuweather is giving me ads for hatching eggs and dark brahma chicks.

Why must they pick my weakness??

It's a sign!!!!

 

[minihorse927]

@DwayneNLiz, hung a dead chicken from the dogs neck once....I was the fool cause the dog ate it.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

it's not oozing it only leaked a little once

I've had eggs leak just a bit and glued themselves into the egg turner. They never made it.

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Moving a little slow this AM - a little headachy (nothing to justify complaint, just enough to keep me from popping up and moving around quickly). Nursing my coffee in the hopes it gets better before I need to head out for work.

We were supposed to have our first freeze last night, but it never materialized - only got down to 35F per my ...

I always move slow on Friday mornings, much to my chickens' chagrin.
Thursday night is pool night.

It was 16F here this morning and rather than bringing in the water founts last night, I had to thaw them all out this morning.

I am so upset

There's an old expression. 'Don't count your chickens before they hatch'. Truer words were never spoken.
Putting your hopes on a single egg incubating on a heat pad wrapped in a shirt is a recipe for disappointment.

I cracked it open and nothing was wrong yolk was perfect yellow and baby was kicking and blood vessels where big andeal red very healthy looking.

It is disturbing when one opens a live embryo. I've been there. That eye looking at you is haunting.

Speaking of chickens, how are your black birds?

בוקר טוב
It's December it suppose to rain!
I wish we had some of your rain. ...

I wish you did too.

I am unsure. The vet that started the thread, Kathy, and others are discussing it on the thread. I am just following along and learning.

Could you post a link to the thread?

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

Yeah I know, firing up the Brinsea is tempting but it's 10 degrees here this morning and brooding chicks in the house with 5 cats roaming around isn't the easiest thing to do. I promised DH I'd wait till it was warm enough to set up the stock tank in our shop as a brooder. That means March here since the shop is unheated. Yeah, it's tough. I did a dry run with it when it arrived and it was holding the temp at 99.5 confirmed. I have to check it with the humidity monitory I just picked up on fleaBay but I'm not expecting a problem with that.

@Sally Sunshine officially I'm a Bex

If it isn't 10 in the shop, you could do that now. I've brooded chicks in an unheated, uninsulated building when it was 10 outside and 20 in the building.

One of the reasons way you have to much excessive police force used in the US.

The difference in policing from country to country is amazing.
I remember being with a bunch of friends walking down the street on New Year's Eve in Copenhagen. There were mobs of people celebrating and setting off fireworks. There were a couple policemen walking down the street across from us. Some guys in front of us were shooting rockets at the police. Being an American, I didn't expect the response. The police laughed and waved at the guys shooting at them.
That wouldn't fly here.

 

[BantyChooks]

It's a sign!!!!

Or something.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Now even accuweather is giving me ads for hatching eggs and dark brahma chicks.

Why must they pick my weakness??

I went to seafood city yesterday grocery shopping. I spent too much money but don't get down there often and I got a lot of inexpensive goodies.
Here's some duck eggs I saw there.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I would so love to live in the new coop, that little one is plenty big just give me an outhouse a woodstove and water and im good to go!

wow! cabin not coop!!!

you'd be comfier in the barn, or how about my spare bedroom? lol, and you can have the littl coop all to yourself
just make sure oyu bring the polish birds with you

Cabin or coop...I wanna know what she'd take for the tractor!

i am still paying for that tractor, lol, got a great deal though
and i was able to sell the old jubilee to help

Hi yall can u give this to chickens because mine got lice

its useless if you have an infestation, but fine in dustbaths to help prevent

Hi everyone. My wonderful darling husband who's favorite question to me these days is " So how many chickens do you plan on having when all is said and done?" presented me with an early Christmas gift of a Brinsea Mini Eco incubator. Yep, he's a great guy.

I'm not planning to break it in till March when I plant to incubate 7 or 8 of my Buff O/Welsummer eggs to give to an Amish neighbor who gave me 8 eggs in September to stick under my broody hen some pullets and a cockerel or two. His flock is mainly OEGB and bantam Cochin crosses. He needs meat birds so I plan to give him a start of birds that will provide his family with meat and eggs.

So I have been hanging around reading the great information about incubating (so much great information to absorb. I think my brains hurt from all of it) and plan to drop in from time to time if y'all don't mind.

Awesome!! What a great guy! and WELCOME!!!

@runt325

can u feed it to chickens

i wouldnt

I wasn't going to mention that, 'cause I'm not one to say "I told you so"

since when?

why u say that

eggs are porous things get in the same way water molecules get out
eggs dont even need to be cracked for bacteria to get in

This late at night and as cold as it is nothing stronger than hot cocoa. Summer is a whole nother kettle of fish. LOL

As for lice, I use Ivermectin pour on for cattle believe it or not. My birds are pretty good sized so I put 5 drops under a wing and it's done. I do it at night with a flashlight. Lot less hassle.

DH told me if I could find a reasonably priced Brinsea he would get it for me. That was all it took for me to set out on a quest. Believe it or not, I found it on the Brinsea site. It was a demo. Full warranty. I think it was something like 50 dollars off regular price. I showed it to him never thinking he would really get it for me but he did. It should suit my needs nicely. I had thought about a Hova Bator but really didn't really want to hatch that many eggs at once, especially when I usually I have a couple three broody Buff Orpinton hens every summer. Since I'm retired I really don't mind doing the turning myself.

I just have one question. Why don't they include a free prescription for Xanax with every purchase? I have 5 years experience as an OB nurse, but when one of my hens is sitting on a bunch of eggs, I'm a wreck. I can just imagine what I will be like when the incubator is fired up.

ROFL!!!!!

They used to but people complained it wasn't strong enough.

Almost. I got all the parts to finish my bator!!!

Congrats!!

I always answer "Harley Davidson" when someone asks me if I need anything.

i have an extra!! how about an old shovel??
i always say a bag of hundreds

Thanks. With these three selling I have paid for the does, and will only have to pay myself fifty bucks for keeping the extra doeling

I would rather have kept Ruby's daughter, but the young 4H girls are likely going to talk me into letting them have her. It seems they have one that looks like the light headed doe so their mom is pushing for the darker headed one while each girl likes one or the other. I really want the darker headed doe simply because her dam is the crazier one I may need to sell and wanted to handle the daughter. I guess I will cross my fingers for another doe if I am a push over.

Good night everyone. I seem to have fallen asleep in my chair again. Off to real bed. Sleep well.

lol, darn those cute little 4Hers

Bacteria thrive in a warm moist environment. They have a way to get into the egg via the cracks. The egg has no defenses against bad stuff getting in to it because it is cracked.

thanks!!

@DwayneNLiz , hung a dead chicken from the dogs neck once....I was the fool cause the dog ate it.

LOL

 

[BantyChooks]

you'd be comfier in the barn, or how about my spare bedroom? lol, and you can have the littl coop all to yourself
just make sure oyu bring the polish birds with you 

I place dibs on the barn!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I place dibs on the barn!!

wow look at all my typos LOL
thats fine, just make sure you exercise the horse too

 

[dan26552]

Or something.

Lol.

you'd be comfier in the barn, or how about my spare bedroom? lol, and you can have the littl coop all to yourself
just make sure oyu bring the polish birds with you 

i am still paying for that tractor, lol, got a great deal though
and i was able to sell the old jubilee to help 

its useless if you have an infestation, but fine in dustbaths to help prevent

Awesome!! What a great guy! and WELCOME!!!

@runt325


i wouldnt

since when?

eggs are porous things get in the same way water molecules get out
eggs dont even need to be cracked for bacteria to get in

ROFL!!!!!



Congrats!!

i have an extra!! how about an old shovel?? 
i always say a bag of hundreds 

lol, darn those cute little 4Hers

  thanks!!
LOL   

 

[BantyChooks]

wow look at all my typos LOL
thats fine, just make sure you exercise the horse too

DEAL.