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

[Sally Sunshine]

Do I get an award for keeping my mouth shut when my dispatcher who comes in at seven thirty and leaves at five tells me that he knows I don't like to start too early (usually start 5-5:30), but he needs me to be an hour and forty five minutes away by six in the morning. Especially, when I am still working and likely won't be off before six???????

definitely

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Lol, no, just got done cleaning it, so it wasn't up to temp yet.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Lol, no, just got done cleaning it, so it wasn't up to temp yet.

shwew thought you were onto something new and outrageous!

 

[dan26552]

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Lol, no, just got done cleaning it, so it wasn't up to temp yet.

shwew thought you were onto something new and outrageous!

Quote: Lol, no, just got done cleaning it, so it wasn't up to temp yet.

shwew thought you were onto something new and outrageous!

It was pretty dirty, so thought I should clean it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

How long can Turkey be bred for?



Someone very close by has a pair of bourbon reds at two years she says very nice birds and never had issues, they go in to get locked up at night and she has twins around two years old and they never showed any aggression to the little kiddos. I am scared to get adult anything because I like to know my animals and trust them because I raise from little on up, i dont want to mess up and get something mean. I guess they are cheap nuff I could just eatum if they bad turkey.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

It was pretty dirty, so thought I should clean it.

your probably doing it right by cleaning it

 

[Sally Sunshine]

 

[casportpony]

Quote: It was bad.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

So been looking into becoming a NPIP tester. In Wisconsin it is a 2 hr course and $25 fee. I am pretty sure this is the route I am going to take. Mostly because I have a little OCD issue with anyone else handling my birds. Although I believe any certified tester must take great pride in handling and managing a flock and could be a weath of knowledge (BYC covers that for me) I get a little eye twitch just thinking about someone touching every one of my birds. So my question is what have others paid for this service with chickens and turkeys? Did you haul them somewhere or did someone come to you?

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Just signed up and If me has gots enough smarts for pass certified NPIP tester class. I will b all legit before MAy ends.

The tester here doesn't handle the birds. The farm manager must catch all the birds and bring them to the table where the tester sits. He plucks a flew feathers under a wing close to a vein, pricks the vein and smears a droplet of blood onto a flat plate mixed with some of the antigen.
There is one guy that tests all backyard and small breeder flocks in the state for all poultry. He's a busy guy. There is a team that does all the big commercial operations like Tyson, Georges, Eggland and hatcheries like Cackle, Estes, Marti, .
Since testing is free in MO, there is no advantage to becoming a certified tester.
The tester comes to my property and he's usually at farms by 8 AM even though he sometimes has to travel 4 hours or more to reach one from the center of the state.
He always puts on plastic booties, coveralls and gloves. He never goes to 2 without complete clothing changes and washing up.

I want to return the the U.S.

I want to return to C.R..

Took some egg pictures yesterday

Nice! What are the ones in the center?

I have a close relative of mine that lives in Florida, USA (born in Canada) that detests cold... She turned on the heat last year before I did

She came up here a few years back and wore a sweater the whole time. It never even went below 60°F, was close to 70°F... Rest of us were in short sleeves.

Once before in my life, I wore shorts and T-shirt in February. I wore shorts 7 days in February this year.
I hate this climate change.

Vet texted back and said peroxide.
@mlm Mike

Interesting.

My 11 chicks are all doing well, eating, drinking and already little poop machines. In a perfect case of irony, true to my prediction, my Welly pullet is broody. After dissuading her a couple of days, I came home after being gone all day to find her pancaked down on goodness only knows what besides the three ceramic eggs in the nest for the new layers, staring blissfully out into space and screaming like a banshee at anything that had the bad judgement to go near her. She is 8 months old. I guess tomorrow I'll see if I can get some more bantam eggs from my neighbor and swap out the fake eggs and whatever else she is parked on for the bantam eggs. I'm at capacity with 22 layers now so I'm not doing any incubating or brooding of standard sized chickens this year.

To increase the irony, I went in the coop to also catch one of my 6 month old OEGB pullets as flat as a pancake on 3 more fake eggs and two Welly eggs. She was off the nest 15 minutes later so I pulled the fake eggs and gave them to broody Dolly who immediately tucked them under her and went back into her trance.

Like she couldn't have done this this three weeks ago. Silly hens, that's why God made incubators.

I think I have about 20 new chicks but I probably need to cull 2.

Which reminds me (why, I don't know); I saw a mounted police in D.C. this afternoon....just the one......perhaps he made a wrong turn in St. Louis.

Must have been. We have mounties downtown, in business areas and in Forest Park. I learned that all the horses are donated to the police force.

No white egg layers here. I'm counting on the ducks to fill that spot in

You need some Minorcas, Anconas, Jaerhons or Catalanas.

I usually try not to play with my food

X2

I say shalom and everyone disappear

OK, I will stop saying that.....

I feel your pain.
By the time I finally get to post here, everyone is gone.

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Avocados, oranges and other citrus, WONDERFUL Strawberrys, Bananas, Pineapple, Apples and the first Watermelons and cantaloupe start to show up=the summer is around the corner!

Sounds great. No fruit here yet.