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

[Chaos18]

It is! I need to get a winch on the Bobcat to drag the squirrels to the pile. We have huge squirrels here. I also have to worry about losing an arm or leg fastening them to the waterboard. Squirrels really fight being waterboarded..

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Be sure to wear your chain mail to protect yourself from the savage beasts.

 

[dan26552]

Banty!

 

[BantyChooks]

Banty!

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[dan26552]

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[BantyChooks]

Incubating w/ Friends Hatcher List

Birthdays: deserteggs22, Oct. 2, MommaHen2Four, Oct 6, heatherfeather 7, Nov 29

Sally Sunshine AKA Sally
I set the Crele Orph eggs I found, the nest of OE eggs, a few marans and of course serama again this morning, to the same bator since it had plenty of room... uggggg,
So I am due about the 21st and 21 days from now or sooner for serama

BantyChooks AKA Banti or Bubbles

kwhites634 AKA Ken or Whites

Chaos18 AKA Trouble, Ginger, or Chaos

MotorcycleChick AKA MC, Meebrong, or Abi

daxigait AKA Dax

mlm Mike AKA Mike

attimus AKA Zach
Hatching is on hold. Currently watching Marek's rip through my flock.

Leave a LightOn AKA LaLo

DwayneNLiz AKA Liz

heatherfeather7 AKA Heather

campingshaws AKA camping or Sharon

country lovin AKA TyAnna

Roada Red AKA Dale

Akrnaf2 AKA Benny

Honora

metel AKA Melody or Mel

Pensmaster AKA Peter

kajira AKA Kaj or Em

Phage

chicken hawk 33 AKA Seth

Auroradream26 AKA Jess
I have the first turkey eggs of the season in and will probably be hatching them every week from now until they stop laying lol. Also 4 silkie eggs under a broody and 2 random chicken eggs in the bator, just in case my broody's eggs fail so she can have SOMETHING to get her off the nest lol

Fire Ant Farm AKA Kristin
First set has hatched - all 10 NN x GNH, and 4 of the 6 Marans x Ameraucana eggs. I CURRENTLY have 6 Naked Neck (mostly Puppy) eggs and 5 Olive egger x Ameraucana eggs on day 10 (OMG, is it really day 10 already?!). I also have 6 more naked neck eggs on day 3 (mostly Puppy eggs again, a few from Switch).

duluthralphie AKA Ralphie
Hatches weekly.
Breeds:
Toads
Legbars---- Cream- Crele/gold and whites.
Partridge Chanticler
Cuckoo Marans
Appletinis
Sliver laced Polish
Silver Yokohamas
Speckled Sussex
Dominiques
Guineas -pearl
Self blue and blue slate Turkeys
Bronze Turkeys
Black turkeys
Royal Palm Turkeys
I really want welsh harlequins, runners, and pekins but I have to wait a little longer before fulfilling my dream and purchasing them due to the fact my basement is not yet perfect for free range ducks.

dan26552
Duck eggs set 1/17!

ChickenCanoe AKA CC or Paddler
I have two, two week old chicks, 23 eggs in the incubator at day 7 that I haven't candled yet and I'll be setting more on the 17th or 18th. Last two settings are for the Zodiac HAL.

(Tag: HatcherUpdate)

Please tag me if you'd like to be added or if you have updates.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Quote: I could be better if they would fix my kiddo ugggg you guys? I miss anything major? I am not reading back even one post
Well, one of my SIX DAY OLD Marans/Ameraucana cross chicks started crowing this morning.

That and Banti is working REALLY hard to get me to order Welshies.

Quote: according to them her basic labs were fine, I assume her lows and highs are not great enough to cause any alarm. But I would think they would have ran specific tests for her. Nothing was done. Makes me so mad the doc wont return my calls. I feel horrible I know for a fact she is in pain, she wakes up moaning all night and when she doesnt know we are checking on her, her face still in grimace and holding gut. She is barely eating lost 4 lbs as of Friday, no clue how much now. I feel bad because I have to tell her suck it up and deal with it because you have to go to school at this point, because I have no answers or reasons for her not to go, its not gonna happen I know it, but ugggggggg I feel so confused at this point.
So sorry. I don't have any specific ideas.

My eyes hurt from staring at the screen - gonna take a break from the spreadsheet work and check on the chickens. And probably fire up that pneumatic stapler - get those brooders FINISHED!!!!!

- Ant Farm
awwwwww what a manly chicky chick you have!! lol
did you video him?
getter done !!!

and thank you
I tried a few times, I keep missing it. But I've had baby crowers among my cream legbar baby boys (I contacted the breeder from whom I got their Daddy, and she said he and his brothers all crowed super early as well). So I'm pretty sure that's what's happening - also the way he stranded and extends his wee little head and neck. (I'll keep trying to get a video.)

Re: HarmonyAnn - lots of things could be what's going on, but Crohns disease is something to consider. Pediatricians have a history of missing it in kids (some of them think of it as an adult disease, esp. if atypical). I kinda agree on the cutting out milk and gluten part - it can't hurt, and it could be she's reacting to one or the other. Just a thought. Still sending you/her vibes.

Hey y'all!

I'm new a second opinion on this:
I'm wanting to start a Lavender Naked Neck project. And in order to get the Lavender gene into the naked necks, I need a Lavender bird. So my 2 options are Orpington or Ameraucana. Should I go for the bigger sized Orpington or the blue egg laying Ameraucana?
Thanks!

@deserteggs22 - Hey! I'm not caught up yet over there, so I don't know if you posted this on the Naked Neck thread, but you should - lots of people who have experience with lots of crosses - you can get info on expected and unexpected results. If I were you, I'd cross with Lavender Ameraucana. You'd get green eggs, and you'd also get pea combs. Pea combs reduce feathering further in Naked Necks (though they don't in non-Naked Necks. Kev on the NN thread can explain). I'd LOVE to get the pea comb into my NNs, but my Lav Am cockerel was killed.

Quote: Ah, back to normal. Sorry I missed this. It was fun read back.

Incubating w/ Friends Hatcher List

Birthdays: deserteggs22, Oct. 2, MommaHen2Four, Oct 6, heatherfeather 7, Nov 29

Fire Ant Farm AKA Kristin
I'm on Day 15, lockdown on Sunday. Set 12 GNH x NN eggs, still have 10 alive and kicking (literally), also set 6 Marans x Ameraucana eggs, hard to tell if they're ok, air cells are way too big, we'll see if they hatch/survive.

@BantyChooks - First set has hatched - all 10 NN x GNH, and 4 of the 6 Marans x Ameraucana eggs. I CURRENTLY have 6 Naked Neck (mostly Puppy) eggs and 5 Olive egger x Ameraucana eggs on day 10 (OMG, is it really day 10 already?!). I also have 6 more naked neck eggs on day 3 (mostly Puppy eggs again, a few from Switch).

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Here's my bunny.... She was a terror until her 2nd bday, when she finally decided I was not something to bite.

So cute!!!!!

(I wanted to quote more, but I didn't want to bombard y'all with the quotes-from-heck long post.)

- Ant Farm

 

[Lucky Lemon]

GOOD MORNING, COFFEE PEEPS!

Good Morning all and thank you for the coffee beautiful Abi! (Now, I suddenly want to make a cup of hot chocolate and put a peep in it.)

I saw on the sign at Starbucks this morning that they have a new "Snickerdoodle" Hot Chocolate....thinking I may have to try that at some point.

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I can't remember what all I missed this weekend in my read back, I was on my phone, and lost all of my quotes.

@Sally Sunshine I am sorry to hear that your daughter isn't any better, prayers that you find answers soon, poor kid!

To get in on the rabbit talk, I LOVED my rabbits, I had 4 of them and they were 8 years old when someone came in our backyard one day and killed them all. It was horrible. I was 18 and I remember being so upset. We had just moved and I thought it was the worst place ever because someone intentionally killed my rabbits. They left them laying in a row outside of their run.

 

[BantyChooks]

To get in on the rabbit talk, I LOVED my rabbits, I had 4 of them and they were 8 years old when someone came in our backyard one day and killed them all. It was horrible. I was 18 and I remember being so upset. We had just moved and I thought it was the worst place ever because someone intentionally killed my rabbits. They left them laying in a row outside of their run.

Oh no!! How horrible

 

[deserteggs22]

I tried a few times, I keep missing it. But I've had baby crowers among my cream legbar baby boys (I contacted the breeder from whom I got their Daddy, and she said he and his brothers all crowed super early as well). So I'm pretty sure that's what's happening - also the way he stranded and extends his wee little head and neck. (I'll keep trying to get a video.) 

Re: HarmonyAnn - lots of things could be what's going on, but Crohns disease is something to consider. Pediatricians have a history of missing it in kids (some of them think of it as an adult disease, esp. if atypical). I kinda agree on the cutting out milk and gluten part - it can't hurt, and it could be she's reacting to one or the other. Just a thought. Still sending you/her vibes. 

@deserteggs22
 - Hey! I'm not caught up yet over there, so I don't know if you posted this on the Naked Neck thread, but you should - lots of people who have experience with lots of crosses - you can get info on expected and unexpected results. If I were you, I'd cross with Lavender Ameraucana. You'd get green eggs, and you'd also get pea combs. Pea combs reduce feathering further in Naked Necks (though they don't in non-Naked Necks. Kev on the NN thread can explain). I'd LOVE to get the pea comb into my NNs, but my Lav Am cockerel was killed. 

Ah, back to normal. Sorry I missed this. It was fun read back. 


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@BantyChooks
 - First set has hatched - all 10 NN x GNH, and 4 of the 6 Marans x Ameraucana eggs. I CURRENTLY have 6 Naked Neck (mostly Puppy) eggs and 5 Olive egger x Ameraucana eggs on day 10 (OMG, is it really day 10 already?!). I also have 6 more naked neck eggs on day 3 (mostly Puppy eggs again, a few from Switch). 

So cute!!!!!

(I wanted to quote more, but I didn't want to bombard y'all with the quotes-from-heck long post.)

- Ant Farm 

I think that's what I'm gonna do. Now all I gotta do is find someone with Lavender Ameraucana eggs for not too expensive.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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I am fertility testing my home grown Ayam cemani eggs.

DH suggested an omlet to fertility test them

The oldest are 2+ weeks old by now. Fingers crossed.

GOOD MORNING, COFFEE PEEPS!

Thanks, MC! I needed that!!!!

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Agree with Chaos! I have always loved those stackable brooders. I was in Lowes the other day, and there was a metal rack with wide shelves. My first thought was "I could get three brooders in there"!!!

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Quote: Here, too!!!

It is going to be a bad day!

I just saw 4 squirrels in the yard. I may have to spend the day hunting them down, torturing them to see where the rest are hiding and then dragging them to the compost pile!

That actually sounds like fun - too bad I have to work. Get one for me!!!

Banty!

OK, gotta run!

- Ant Farm