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

[daxigait]

I love the markings on this kid.

 

[BantyChooks]

That was the iPhone not me

LOL.... I believe you... My autocorrect doesn't believe the word "its" exists either.

 

[jwlpoultry]

Thought you coffee and chicken people would like this.

 

[duluthralphie]

Thought you coffee and chicken people would like this.

I should have that

 

[dan26552]

There are definitely at least two zippers!

 

[jwlpoultry]

Thought you coffee and chicken people would like this.

I should have that

I think a bunch of us should have it.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Morris code?


(Sorry, couldn't help it...)

Quote:

I spoke to a person today, A real life human, A woman even.

She drove up my drive, past the "Keep Out" Biosecurity Area signs..... Past the "Employees only beyond this point" sign and walked through the door into my Pole barn with the "No Admittance, Biosecurity area, keep out"...



She then came face to face with Bert. and I heard a scream. Followed by "GD that is one big chicken"....


Teach her to not read...

(Woulda paid good money to see that!)
Sounds like you need more electric fencing...

Quote: (Loved that movie...)

Quote: FINALLY!!!!!! (Though I still am missing the true fluffy chicken butt photos...)

Yeah, it's pretty awesome - very hard to find goat milk for cheesemaking around here until this. I can either use it raw or if I decide to pasteurize it first (say, before making a low temp soft cheese that I may give to friends), I can do the pasteurization myself at low temperature (145F for 30 minutes), which is better for cheesemaking.
Also, with the arrangement we have with our suppliers, all the money goes directly to the dairy goat farmer (just like it does to the dairy cow farmer for the raw milk). That's important to me.

The door still closes, so the chooks aren't in any more danger than they usually are. It just doesn't swing straight.

That's the hardest thing to do in building a coop for me - setting the door snuggly enough not to leave a big gap, but still having it swing freely. I get better each time, but have a hard time getting things really square when working with big wall panels and having to set them on my own (I mostly am trying not to have it fall on me, usually). Meanwhile, I've started using door stops on the inside. I don't know what your door looks like, but I assume it opens outward. If so, can you take a scrap of wood and screw it in place (longitudinally, down the door) so it "covers" the gap? If it's on the inside, it shouldn't impart door function and may make it harder for a predator (or rat or other baddie) to get in. You can do the same thing on the latch side. (You're reminding me that I need to do this with one of the tractors - I think mice are squeezing in.)

Quote:

[My brain is going to blow up if there's much more of this...]
Quote: I was JUST about to say that.

Baby bacon pics are always a favorite.

I'm safe with those based on my deed restrictions. Lots of leeway in my area, but I can't build a garage closer to the street than my house, I can't raise pigs, and I can't open a TB sanatorium. Yeah, I think they were a little out of date...

(Maybe I'll paint my house purple. It's allowed. I love not living in an HOA...)

It looks like there's about 3 or 4 trying to zip!

Wow, Dan - talk about a comeback!!!!!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Morris code? (Sorry, couldn't help it...) (Woulda paid good money to see that!) Sounds like you need more electric fencing... (Loved that movie...) FINALLY!!!!!! (Though I still am missing the true fluffy chicken butt photos...) Yeah, it's pretty awesome - very hard to find goat milk for cheesemaking around here until this. I can either use it raw or if I decide to pasteurize it first (say, before making a low temp soft cheese that I may give to friends), I can do the pasteurization myself at low temperature (145F for 30 minutes), which is better for cheesemaking. Also, with the arrangement we have with our suppliers, all the money goes directly to the dairy goat farmer (just like it does to the dairy cow farmer for the raw milk). That's important to me. That's the hardest thing to do in building a coop for me - setting the door snuggly enough not to leave a big gap, but still having it swing freely. I get better each time, but have a hard time getting things really square when working with big wall panels and having to set them on my own (I mostly am trying not to have it fall on me, usually). Meanwhile, I've started using door stops on the inside. I don't know what your door looks like, but I assume it opens outward. If so, can you take a scrap of wood and screw it in place (longitudinally, down the door) so it "covers" the gap? If it's on the inside, it shouldn't impart door function and may make it harder for a predator (or rat or other baddie) to get in. You can do the same thing on the latch side. (You're reminding me that I need to do this with one of the tractors - I think mice are squeezing in.) - Ant Farm

No, the gap is under the door too. Will get pics tomorrow.... Wood would likely crack as well. The door latches funny too, so a lip would have to be built around it.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I am drooling over your turkey colors and you have/had Rhodebars right??

Only one lonely rhodebar hen now. I used to have them though. I do have a RIR roo though. I wonder how pairing the rodebar hen with the RIR roo would turn out?

 

[jwlpoultry]

I am drooling over your turkey colors and you have/had Rhodebars right??

Only one lonely rhodebar hen now. I used to have them though. I do have a RIR roo though. I wonder how pairing the rodebar hen with the RIR roo would turn out?

I hatched several Rhodebars last year and something killed off all the ones I hatched except 5 and they all turned out to be pullets so I now have 4 hens 5 pullets and 1 rooster.
I think if you pair them you get auto second chicks I would have to make sure though.