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

[Fire Ant Farm]

Hey guys & gals

Just checking in to say hi to everybody. What a wonderful morning it was... Such a beautiful sky.....

Everybody was safe and Bill was able to fix it when he got home from work

Oh, geez.....

Maple's toes...

All chicks hyper healthy - except one, who I THINK is the last one to hatch, so I'll withhold judgement for now. I grabbed it just to make sure it had some water, then put it back under the MHP and am going to let it rest and see how things turn out tomorrow.

SO tired (I think I wasn't sleeping well) - fell asleep tis afternoon. So I need to do some work tonight.

- Ant Farm

 

[meltel]

Walked over to check the humidity in the bator and found this!!!

Fastest I have ever had a Serama hatch! I think I looked around 3 today and no pips!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Walked over to check the humidity in the bator and found this!!!

Fastest I have ever had a Serama hatch! I think I looked around 3 today and no pips!

Woohoo!!!!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I have a confession to make.

I was just on the Metzer website. And I just added an American Buff pair of geese to my cart. Then I threw in some Cayugas and Welshies ducklings to round it out. Got as far as picking shipping dates before I closed the window and backed away from the keyboard...

My name is Ant Farm, and I... have a problem.

(But I want a gooserz SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!)

 

[meltel]

I have a confession to make.

I was just on the Metzer website. And I just added an American Buff pair of geese to my cart. Then I threw in some Cayugas and Welshies ducklings to round it out. Got as far as picking shipping dates before I closed the window and backed away from the keyboard...

My name is Ant Farm, and I... have a problem.

(But I want a gooserz SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!)

Hi Ant Farm! I am Meltel and I too have a problem... I too came home with 2 "big curly ducks" a couple months ago.... and all of a sudden I won this "contest" for a new bator and my 2 big curly ducks started laying these eggs in a double bubble wrapped box and the eggs had names and pens imprinted on them around the same time......

 

[BantyChooks]

I have a confession to make.

I was just on the Metzer website. And I just added an American Buff pair of geese to my cart. Then I threw in some Cayugas and Welshies ducklings to round it out. Got as far as picking shipping dates before I closed the window and backed away from the keyboard... 



My name is Ant Farm, and I... have a problem.

(But I want a gooserz SO BAD!!!!!!!!!!) 

Get them!! Can't speak for the others, but you won't regret welshies.

 

[BantyChooks]

I may or may not have loaded my MPC shopping cart with over 20,000$ of stuff before sighing wistfully and closing the tab.....

 

[dan26552]

Get them!! Can't speak for the others, but you won't regret welshies.

I really liked my Cayuga.

 

[dan26552]

These are the calmest chicks I've ever met.

 

[Phage]

Came back from travels with tales of chicken woe -how stinky the chicks are, how they eat so much and that the garage is over run by rats, and how the rooster crows day and night.

DH is not a fan of chickens.

Well there may have been a rat in the garage (there was food all over the floor) but none have been caught in the trap (rat zapper -never fails IF there are rodents present). The garage was stinky, but outside the rooster only crows for about 3 minutes once at dawn and once at dusk so pretty good in my book!!!

PLUS there were 4 eggs in the coop (ayam cemani) and the lone hen has laid an egg every day since I got back so there are 7 ready to go into the Bator!!!

Planning on setting the eggs tomorrow. Seems a waste to set maybe 8 eggs in a cabinet bator.

Now there are now NO CHICKS IN THE GARAGE

The cemani youngsters that went outside 2 weeks ago look really great.
The new chicks that just went outside to the baby coop refuse to go up into the coop space and huddle in the mud outside
They are mostly trader joe chicks - sweet but SO not smart