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

[BullChick]

Thank you! What makes me proud is that to use brewed coffee, you "must know how to make a good cup of coffee, or ruin the batch!" I think I succeeded!
The original recipe calls for instant coffee grounds.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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They look nice to me - in the end, though the point is whether they look nice to you. It is likely any pullets from the hatch will lay similarly colored eggs. Also, recall that if these are eggs from older birds (which is likely), the eggs would have been darker when they were pullets.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Thank you! What makes me proud is that to use brewed coffee, you "must know how to make a good cup of coffee, or ruin the batch!" I think I succeeded!
The original recipe calls for instant coffee grounds.

I would expect nothing less form the owner of Abi's Coffee House!!!!!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I think that's all I've got in me. I must have fallen asleep with my wrists in a funny position, because I woke up repeatedly with my carpal tunnel wrist pain (and so am sleep deprived). I need to head to bed - I'll need to wear my wrist braces to bed (much as I hate them).

Good night, all!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[dan26552]

Night.

 

[5Sons Coop]

They look nice to me - in the end, though the point is whether they look nice to you. It is likely any pullets from the hatch will lay similarly colored eggs. Also, recall that if these are eggs from older birds (which is likely), the eggs would have been darker when they were pullets. 

Thanks my problem is all hatching eggs look nice.

 

[casportpony]

I think that's all I've got in me. I must have fallen asleep with my wrists in a funny position, because I woke up repeatedly with my carpal tunnel wrist pain (and so am sleep deprived). I need to head to bed - I'll need to wear my wrist braces to bed (much as I hate them).

Good night, all!!!

- Ant Farm

Good night!

 

[Akrnaf2]

 
27th shipping

deliver up to NH????    Its funny I think there at least seven of our pups up in Boston area, Maine and northern NY     and they drove for them   Liz is a hermit like me, I likes her

i cant wait to get my 10000 acres, lol, i keep looking i actually just left a message for someone that has a 110 acre piece down the road from me
i want a driveway a mile long 

Hum hum mmmm
Me and my 1/12 acer property and 6 yards drive way have A LONG WAY, I guess..........

 

[Akrnaf2]

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. [@=/u/65471/mlm-Mike]@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. Quote:

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.

I couldn't live without fruits and vegetables! You really can't find any fresh plant food there?

 

[Akrnaf2]

when do you get the new ones? this is not a new one is it ?

This is the OLD, new one!