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

[Pensmaster]

Thanks for the info; doesn't seem like tractors would work for me, though. However, what you're trying to do with alternating paddocks is nothing more than rotational grazing on a small scale. Works great for sheep & cattle; no reason for it not to work with chickens. Were I to do it, I'd probably go with at least 4 paddocks, all joined together, and pop doors in all common fences. That way, you could start at one end & progress down the line to the other end, then start at the beginning again, giving each paddock plenty of time to regrow, even in hot, dry Texas.

Next time out to birds I'll take a picture of what I thought would be a great way of giving the hens a pasture to graze. At the rate they go through it I'll need 12 pens just like it. They have been in it for a little over three weeks and it's flat mostly eaten grass that was 30 inches tall. I forgot the measurements but I think it's 30 feet wide and 80 feet long. Who needs goats!!!!!

 

[Pensmaster]

I think it was a setup.

I've caught quite a few things in the live trap but never a turtle.

 

[Pensmaster]

OK, so I've now (already!) consumed my second (forbidden) cup of coffee, and must begin my day. See you all later!!! 

- Ant Farm 

I allow myself one cup on the weekends.

On the book about raising poultry on scraps is it the same one that has rabbits in the title

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I guess I shot myself in the foot when I located the new building where it is;can't add any more run space. Already within 2' of the side of the building. The whole idea of building it at all was to locate my equipment closer to the house. Can't put coops/runs on the other end w/o blocking truck access to the lower end of the property where I cut dead trees for firewood.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Is that a turtle? Can't tell, & it won't blow up.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Is that a turtle? Can't tell, & it won't blow up.

 

[kwhites634]

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Yep! That's a turtle, alright. That old boy's been around a while! Don't look like the snappers we have around here, though, if that's what it is.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Yep! That's a turtle, alright. That old boy's been around a while! Don't look like the snappers we have around here, though, if that's what it is.

nope, my guess is western chicken turtle

Western Chicken Turtle

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Pascagoula Map Turtle, Graptemys gibbonsi

or a slider

 

[Pensmaster]

I guess I shot myself in the foot when I located the new building where it is;can't add any more run space. Already within 2' of the side of the building. The whole idea of building it at all was to locate my equipment closer to the house. Can't put coops/runs on the other end w/o blocking truck access to the lower end of the property where I cut dead trees for firewood.

I know the feeling of blocked truck access. I had to put up more used cyclone fencing due to fox getting in so easily but now to get to certain areas I'll have to take it down. Not a big deal as they are just put up with t-post and bailing wire but still it's a nuisance.

 

[kwhites634]

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Pascagoula Map Turtle, Graptemys gibbonsi
New one on me.