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

[Akrnaf2]

WANTED For stealing eggs Call the authorities if you see her, This is what the hidden cameras showed: The FBI says those look like her feet in the picture with the remains of the stolen egg.

I see a soup in her future. ......

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I just spent the last hour tearing up the house looking for my toe punch. I can't find it. ANYWHERE. I SWEAR I just saw it last week. Argh!!!!

Guess we'll play "Who's your daddy?" this hatch...

Not necessarily. Do you have any zip ties?

I wish I could get naked neck eggs

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No you don't. It is very hard to have separate pens for different breeds. I have multiple coops and have a mixed flock until things settle down here except for my seramas. You have a few nice ayam cemani fro CJ-build something small and functional for them. weed out (not hatch) your mixed breeds. make it manageable. stay focused and then after 6 months or so, rethink your decision after eresearching different breeds and settle on 1 or 2.

That is such splendid advice. I was about to say that lots of people had NN eggs but your point is much better.
Finally, someone with sound advice and wisdom.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Hmmmm.... Yep, I use the numbered ones form Strombergs, but since they're a bit clunky, I usually wait until they are a week or two old to put them on. Do you put them on day 1? I may have some LITTLE ones - that would be more reasonable to try on first day of life. I already took the eggs out of the mesh bags... If I can find the little zip ties, maybe I'll try to get them back into the bags before someone pips. (Poor eggies - I will have had the hatcher open three times tonight now...)

Thanks for the idea! (Off to search for little zip ties...)

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

OK, I found some tiny zip ties - some yellow ones and a solitary clear one. (Which is good because I have 5 OE and 1 NN egg that I'll need to keep apart form the 5 Puppy eggs.) So I opened the hatcher AGAIN, got the eggs back in the bags, and then closed it all back up (hopefully for the last time until I take chicks out.)

 

[BullChick]

I just spent the last hour tearing up the house looking for my toe punch. I can't find it. ANYWHERE. I SWEAR I just saw it last week. Argh!!!!

Guess we'll play "Who's your daddy?" this hatch...

I know where it is!

It is under the hoosier, next to the stove!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Hmmmm... I don't think I have anyone from Indiana hanging around my house... Especially by the stove....

 

[deserteggs22]

Do showgirls get broody as often as regular silkies?

 

[kwhites634]

Late again!
Guess I'll go back to bed.

 

[BullChick]

Hmmmm... I don't think I have anyone from Indiana hanging around my house... Especially by the stove.... 

 

[BullChick]

Do showgirls get broody as often as regular silkies?

No, they are too worried about keeping their figure! Besides, with all of the handling, they aren't likely to get comfortable enough.