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

[daxigait]

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Yea it's 7:00 here while checking the rocket stoves I've come across a rat snare I might build just for fun when the other projects are done. Good news on the raccoons. Very cloudy here but not expected to rains

no rain! Nice to see you this morning!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Thanks!! You, too!!!

Quote: Nope, no cottonwoods. My yard is mostly mesquite and huisache and guajillo trees (types of acacias), mixed with various oaks (my big Texas red oak, and then some lacey oaks in back). I also have a couple ironwood and Texas persimmons and of course, mountain laurels. And unfortunately the dreaded chinaberry and hackberry... Giant 100+ year old live oaks in front, along with a fig tree and a very old, very big loquat.

You're lucky, I still have 3ft of snow and it got below zero last night. Still have lots of winter to go.

I couldn't bear that - which is why I live here. We can talk again when it's 105F this summer, though, if it makes you feel any better.

- Ant Farm

 

[daxigait]

Hello all.



Sorry I was gone for a couple days, it has been busy here.  I have not read back and will not so every insult "certain Persons" threw my direction will go by me as complete misses.

I can see under my new hatching schedule Thursday will not be BYC days, Between Disinfecting eggs, and incubators, if I can get one empty to do it, setting eggs, candling eggs and moving chicks to brooders I just have no time for BYC.   I thought I had 26 dozen eggs to set, but upon candling I found a bunch with hairline cracks from freezing. 

I did not try to fix the eggs with anything. I just smashed them up shells and all, and fried them to feed back to the chickens.

My hatch this week was nerve wracking I only had one chick hatch on Thursday, 2 yesterday and the rest last night.  My hatch was a little over 22 days.  (this did not make my day less busy, I spend all day going back to check the hatch.)   

My incubator these eggs came out of is about half a degree high, it is a wafer one and I have problems hitting the 99.5 right on the nose. I thought the hatch would be a tad early. However, the hatcher has a GQF electronic thermostat that is extremely touchy and it is 3/4 of a degree low.  When I try to set it, it spikes to 101.5 or falls to 97.9.  ( for those of you living in the Vast Wastelands of the North that is F not C).

I guess the 3/4 degree low in the end trumps the high temps at the beginning.




@Hawk12
   Those look like little yokohamas, You have any of them?

I hope your hatch this week goes better.

 

[kwhites634]

@meltel I hope you and your husband are feeling better.
@Fire Ant Farm I hope you get a lot doe today. Thanks again for your help with mhp. I sincerely appreciate it.
@kwhites634 Thanks for the hardware blessing. I hope you have stopped itching.
@Sally Sunshine

and prayers. I you are able to invest more. That sounded really miserable.
Any news on your daughter?
@mlm Mike Any kids yet?
@Auroradream26 Wow, that is a lot of hatching.
@campingshaws Any farm news?
@Eruedraith I hope you are well. What's up Downingtown

@MotorcycleChick Any news on Duckling?
@ChickenCanoe I hope you are feeling better. We miss you.
@Akrnaf2 Gut Shabbos
@BantyChooks How is the door to the coop issue?
@Chaos18


Dan more duck baby pictures.
@chicken hawk 33 So did you sell you chicks?
@NaJoBeLe Hatch update?
@kajira Here's wishing you a peaceful day in your family.
@granny hatchet I hope you and the boys are doing better.
@DwayneNLiz I hope you get a good ride in. I love the multi quotes you and @Fire Ant Farm do. It at least makes you a great thread friend noticing and responding to people.
OK sorry if I missed you, I will catch a post from you later I hope.

Not yet, but not as bad

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@meltel I hope you and your husband are feeling better.
@Fire Ant Farm I hope you get a lot doe today. Thanks again for your help with mhp. I sincerely appreciate it.
@kwhites634 Thanks for the hardware blessing. I hope you have stopped itching.
@Sally Sunshine

and prayers. I you are able to invest more. That sounded really miserable.
Any news on your daughter?
@mlm Mike Any kids yet?
@Auroradream26 Wow, that is a lot of hatching.
@campingshaws Any farm news?
@Eruedraith I hope you are well. What's up Downingtown

@MotorcycleChick Any news on Duckling?
@ChickenCanoe I hope you are feeling better. We miss you.
@Akrnaf2 Gut Shabbos
@BantyChooks How is the door to the coop issue?
@Chaos18


Dan more duck baby pictures.
@chicken hawk 33 So did you sell you chicks?
@NaJoBeLe Hatch update?
@kajira Here's wishing you a peaceful day in your family.
@granny hatchet I hope you and the boys are doing better.
@DwayneNLiz I hope you get a good ride in. I love the multi quotes you and @Fire Ant Farm do. It at least makes you a great thread friend noticing and responding to people.
OK sorry if I missed you, I will catch a post from you later I hope.

You are very welcome, Dax!!! And thank you!

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Quote: Pens., I was still too asleep to catch this, but x2 on the no rain being a good thing!!!

Done with my yogurt - I need to get OFF the computer now, time to work!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[mlm Mike]

@meltel I hope you and your husband are feeling better.
@Fire Ant Farm I hope you get a lot doe today. Thanks again for your help with mhp. I sincerely appreciate it.
@kwhites634 Thanks for the hardware blessing. I hope you have stopped itching.
@Sally Sunshine

and prayers. I you are able to invest more. That sounded really miserable.
Any news on your daughter?
@mlm Mike Any kids yet?
@Auroradream26 Wow, that is a lot of hatching.
@campingshaws Any farm news?
@Eruedraith I hope you are well. What's up Downingtown

@MotorcycleChick Any news on Duckling?
@ChickenCanoe I hope you are feeling better. We miss you.
@Akrnaf2 Gut Shabbos
@BantyChooks How is the door to the coop issue?
@Chaos18


Dan more duck baby pictures.
@chicken hawk 33 So did you sell you chicks?
@NaJoBeLe Hatch update?
@kajira Here's wishing you a peaceful day in your family.
@granny hatchet I hope you and the boys are doing better.
@DwayneNLiz I hope you get a good ride in. I love the multi quotes you and @Fire Ant Farm do. It at least makes you a great thread friend noticing and responding to people.
OK sorry if I missed you, I will catch a post from you later I hope.

No kids yet, two does are due to kid March 1st, so could be any day now.

 

[Pensmaster]

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no rain! Nice to see you this morning!

Very nice and the rain that is expected tomorrow may fizzle as well.

Morning thanks for the kid pics.

 

[daxigait]

Here it was 79 yesterday very hot for this time of year, and 21 this morning. My poor kids were shivering. I put out the microwavable heat pads and a heat reflecting pad for the night. This morning after feeding they were put out to run. Or play king of the hill as the case may be

 

[daxigait]

******Update needed*******
Did anyone besides Benny and Ken use snail mail????
If not I will move ahead as soon as the one arrives.

 

[Pensmaster]

You are very welcome, Dax!!! And thank you! 
Pens., I was still too asleep to catch this, but x2 on the no rain being a good thing!!! 

Done with my yogurt - I need to get OFF the computer now, time to work!!!

- Ant Farm

What materials will you use for the rocket stove, so many to chose from? Nice that it's efficient. Will this be where you roast the beans?