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

[DwayneNLiz]

DYK that a cheese sandwich tastes really bad if the room smells of rotten egg?

go to a different room

It's empty. Though if it were to really happen, my eggs are lighter than the eggs I'm putting in it.
I was setting up an excuse for adding extra eggs. If I can blame Duckling ...

blame away

 

[kwhites634]

'Spose to seal the bag, Goofy! They're called Zip Loc for a reason!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Thanks! I got it from Premier 1 when I was ordering something else - I had my eye on it for a while, and finally decided to get it. A bit of a fancy solution to fresh egg storage, I know, but I have so many pretty colored eggs, and when I walk by this, it makes me smile.

I think it's everyone's list!
After a sleepless night, I had the pleasure of playing with the plumbing this morning. Not how I wanted to start my day! Took a shower in under three minutes (keep in mind that my hair is down to my hips) in standing water. Drank cold coffee while waiting for Westley (the coffee machine) to brew fresh coffee. Then Duckling woke early.

I still have animal work to do, and a kitchen to clean.
Something needs to give with the tub. Meanwhile, Duckling will be swimming in the kitchen sink.

Tru dat!

Sorry about the plumbing - as Ralph would say, that vacuums.

Agree with the thought about hair in the drain, esp. in an old house with old plumbing. (I have an old house and hair almost as long as yours - have had similar issues...)

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Thanks - but I'm not sure I'll be able to swing having them for quite a while (and I sorta kinda want American Buffs...) Someone with those gorgeous Sebastopol geese should have an amazing pond for them.

(I'm not ruling out changing my mind in several years, of course...

)

Getting the color of a blue egg on my IPhone Vacuums badly...

Tell me about it. I got a bunch of blue and green paint chips finally.

@Fire Ant Farm never watched it but did read the book when I was a kid, hard read for a kid.
Iroquois Nation are locals here.

I really liked the movie a lot - I hear it was not that faithful to the book, but that some thought that was an improvement, storytelling-wise.

Here's my egg skelter in my kitchen this AM (forgive the mess - that's on the to do list as well). You can see the lighter blue eggs (Jenny) and the deeply saturated blue green eggs (Lissa and the Three Witches). The color of blue eggs is always really hard to get on camera - direct sunlight is best for accuracy in the hue, I find...



- Ant Farm

This are wonderful eggs!

I must say to you !כל הכבוד

Thank you! But really, it was my pullets and hens who did it.

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Yeah, there are a lot of complaints on the Cream Legear threads (which I don't follow anymore) about CLs being billed as a "blue egg layer" and many of the eggs are blue-green. I chalk it up to managing expectations, as I happen to find their eggs lovely. I personally find saturation more valuable than actual shade (see how saturated those more blue green eggs are on my egg skelter?).

You are doing the exact right thing, Ralph, in selecting for egg color. I think early on people got CLs and some didn't do a lot of selection (or selected for feather color/pattern and not egg color), leading to the variations in egg color. Same issue with Marans - if you don't select for dark egg color, you will lose it - FAST.

(Maybe some day I'll get some hatching eggs from you - I recalled that you have CLs for all the different imports, or at least pre- and post-Rees, right?)

Yeah, those are everyone's favorites.

Enya got caught by a hawk

Think she's ok, couldn't find any wounds.... She is walking fine and doesn't seem to be shocky.

Maple's other toe seems to be developing wet gangrene.... Tied a band around it to hopefully keep infection from spreading.

Argh!!!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww!!!!!!! Get it away!!! Get it away!!!!!

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Blame whoever you want. We all know who the real culprit is.
It's.... BUBBLES!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: You buy all they had?

 

[Beer can]

I have a random chicken poop question... Any idea what would cause this (I don't even know what it is)??? They look like tiny little pale yellow balls almost. Thoughts?

Are they hard? Can't tell on my phone but my birds will sometimes have hard round shiny things that look like plastic balls. They're (edited their for there then they're for the grammar police Lol! :-D ) either chokecherry pits or we have regular big cherry trees not the fruit one's but they produce little cherries with pits just like a chokecherry. They grind around in the gizzard like a jewel tumbler.

 

[Beer can]

Popcorn seeds maybe?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: i bet he puncuates gud through

 

[meltel]

@chicken hawk 33 I have to say, people here are being very patient with you and trying to help you. It just seems like you have an excuse for every answer. If you don't have the right equipment to hatch, do not set the eggs. Eat them! With 60 chickens, there will be more eggs to set when you are able to save money and can order the thermometer you need. Nobody here got the flock or quality birds they have overnight. Save the money you will waste on a thermometer that will work.Also, look into getting a paypal so you can buy things through amazon, ebay or things that you can't get locally. You won't make money off of mixed egg chicks-you are already down $10 if you bought a thermometer that isn't going to work. I think if people saw you making better decisions and staying focused and not going off in every direction and taking they time to learn and improve instead of asking for advice and then doing the opposite, you would get more help to accomplish your goals.

 

[dan26552]

It goes along with the grammar thing.
It doesn't necessarily reflect intelligence.
A good friend of mine is a very smart electrical contractor, automation engineer, computer guru and can't write a complete sentence without misspelling at least one word.

Yeah.

You buy all they had?  

Me? Yes, yes I did buy all the guinea eggs.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I see that a lot in Westerns. I saw a show the other day featuring Wyatt Earp's younger brother, James. He was killed in the show, but in fact he died of old age. Saw another where Doc Holladay was killed off. He actually died in a hospital in Colorado.