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

[duluthralphie]

I see no picture

Let me try again,,,, technology and me sometimes do not get along..

 

[Leave a LightOn]

I have no chickens, that would lay this right now - that's the problem. my red sexlinked ALL just started laying - and their eggs are tiny. Bantam egg size.

None of them are laying dark brown eggs, either. They are all laying light tan eggs that are small.....

So I have no idea where this came from - it was in the turkey nesting boxes. It is speckled sort of - but more of a brown coloration with white speckles, it's just hard to see in that picture.

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[DwayneNLiz]

I know.

Also did I mention that I put them in the incubator? I left the turner off till the air cells are stable but most of them looked really good. I have goslings due February 28th

awesome!

cant wait to see them, do you know what age they are when they start showing curliness?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Yes. I would too.  Kick some ***....


In my neck of the woods...................

^.^

My hubby finally got my 3rd kennel build for the chicken coop, so I can seperate my turkeys and red sex links. I just need to get a roof on it. I have 15 more turkeys coming in the spring and I don't want them trampling my poor widdle chickens.

I'm going to try to sell half of them off - then keep the ones I think are girls, and maybe 1 more tom.


I told hubby I wanted to butcher 4 of my 5 drakes, and he could use the duck for his homemade dog food - but he doesn't want to do it. He keeps saying he will but then when I try to get him to do it, he goes no. LOL  Our girl dog is allergic to corn - so we had to start making her corn-free homemade food.

I guess i'm gonna have to suck it up and figure out how to do it.  

I have 4 more female 300 layers coming to replace the boys, along with my sebastapol geeese pair, in march.

My 15 baby turkeys are coming in  march 2.

I don't plan on attempting to do any chicken eggs, until next year when I need to start replacing my layers.

However - my geese eggs, I plan on putting available on here, however, the sebastapol's supposedly have lower fertility than the average geese... so I can't guarantee hatch  

Have you tried grain free dog food? We switched ours to that years ago and their health dramatically improved. Our Dreamy was fat with all kinds of hip problems. She was 6 then. She lived to be 12 1/2. Our bulldog mix, Sparkles, has severe allergies and gain free worked for her for a while too.we eventually switched her to a raw diet and now she's pretty much allergy free.

My dog is highly allergic to everything but sweet potato and salmon dog food (prescription d/d) so thats what all my dogs ate.... Until my other dog developed pancreatitis and got us a $300+ vet bill- now he is on prescription i/d dog food    $300 a month for 3 dogs all under 20 lbs 

MY dog "needs" prescription dog food - you know what we do? Croc pot. We use sweet potatos, "meat of choice" (i.e. whatever's old and laying around.) and eggs/egg shells. We've also given her goats milk in the past when we had extra mixed in to wet the food and it worked well.


She's had no issues. All our dogs LOVE homemade food - it's really cheap to make it, we add in left over veggies/fruits, too when we have stuff about to go bad - as long as it has no food coloring or corn, she does fine with it.

Have you considered trying to make food int he croc pot? It may be WAY cheaper.

Have any of you every looked in to feeding raw? Best decision we ever made for our bulldog mix. Net adjustors were out of control. She couldn't handle any grains, anything that could flare up yeast (starchy stuff), or any processed poultry. She now eats raw with so few issues she's like a totally different dog!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@kajira how did you know the female dog was allergic to corn?

my dog has issues, but i dont know what she is allergic to

 

[BantyChooks]

Someone's hungry....

 

[kajira]

@kajira how did you know the female dog was allergic to corn?

my dog has issues, but i dont know what she is allergic to

German shepards are known for allergies to corn - and as soon as we switched her to a corn-free "home-made dog food diet" she no longer had the "issues" she was having. It was almost cleared up over night.

German shepards are known for allergies to corn.

Have you tried grain free dog food? We switched ours to that years ago and their health dramatically improved. Our Dreamy was fat with all kinds of hip problems. She was 6 then. She lived to be 12 1/2. Our bulldog mix, Sparkles, has severe allergies and gain free worked for her for a while too.we eventually switched her to a raw diet and now she's pretty much allergy free.

Have any of you every looked in to feeding raw? Best decision we ever made for our bulldog mix. Net adjustors were out of control. She couldn't handle any grains, anything that could flare up yeast (starchy stuff), or any processed poultry. She now eats raw with so few issues she's like a totally different dog!

My husband does a modified raw food diet - that involves cooking it all. He makes large batches in the croc pot and it just sits in the fridge where he can scoop it into a bowl.

Our teenager has been known to eat the dogs food ^.^

 

[BantyChooks]

Steel nothing. My sanity is going bye-bye.

 

[jwlpoultry]

Asked on the turkey thread but asking here too. How many hens can a tom turkey handle?

 

[kwhites634]

Steel nothing. My sanity is going bye-bye.

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