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

[dan26552]

Getting my thermostat programmed!

 

[BantyChooks]

Getting my thermostat programmed!

 

[dan26552]

I think we can have it running in another day or two

 

[dan26552]

You know, I always forget that the one animal my brother in law has lots of experience with are chickens, I really should listen to him more, he knows way more than I do.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Hey all got back from Tennessee last night. And checked the eggs this afternoon and we got our first goose egg from my little white Chinese goose

 

[dan26552]

 

[chicken hawk 33]

 

[Pensmaster]

Wonderful! Nice dog, yours? Hello Pensmaster! Happy birthday to your Dad, enjoy the family visit! I hope you are about done with that cold/flu. Sorry you are sick. Drive safely, looking forward to pics. LOL. I sprayed someone in the face with the dogs kennel cough stuff before. I hatched marans and OE together not so long ago.

Thanks Mike. Visit went very well. Tomorrow is the main party but today was his birthday so he made it.

In case anyone lives in doubt that the yard is full of critters we can't see at night, here's an empty feed pan that was apparently of interest to a 'coon: (Hence, my coops are built like fortresses...) - Ant Farm

Which is why my trap it set at all times.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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If I set traps, I would would have to quit my job with all the time I spent relocating raccoons, only to have new ones, plus possums, skunks, and armadillos come back in, as well as all the neighbors' cats (ok, so I don't think armadillos eat chickens, but they are wrecking the garden!) And I can't keep the 'coons out of the chicken water outside of the coops. I just try to protect the chickens at night and keep the local rat population at bay...

- Ant Farm

 

[Pensmaster]

If I set traps, I would would have to quit my job with all the time I spent relocating raccoons, only to have new ones, plus possums, skunks, and armadillos come back in, as well as all the neighbors' cats (ok, so I don't think armadillos eat chickens, but they are wrecking the garden!) And I can't keep the 'coons out of the chicken water outside of the coops. I just try to protect the chickens at night and keep the local rat population at bay...

- Ant Farm 

That would be too much work. And rats are a whole nother kettle of fish. Got in late tonight and one was scurrying away as I got into barn

I get maybe I critter every week or so.