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

[dan26552]

I am thinking they won't, but yours did and these never got that cold,,BUT they were cold a long time.

Any idea how long it took yours to get cold?

Got my fingers crosses for you


Oh I think it would've taken less than an hour to go from 100 to 52, and then most likely at least half the night at that temp.

 

[mlm Mike]

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@mlm Mike


my goats all seem to just have "1" baby and always boys.

ugh.

Nigerian dwarfs usually have multiple births, in seven years we have had one singleton and quintuplets twice, every thing else is between 2 and 4.

@mlm Mike Here are my two pairs from Monday night and yesterday morning.

Cuties!

@mlm Mike I have a buckling who was disbudded this weekend with a stinky head (rot) would you use chlorhexidine, vetricin, nitrofurazone, or something else?

How is he doing now?

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.

LOL, did you give any real eggs yet?

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Awwwwwwww

Cute little duck. Must resist getting ducks.

I am happy to report that Chaos gives fabulous tasting milk

I have been giving it all to the boys, because at $5.00 a gallon the raw cows milk I was giving them was breaking me. I stole some last night for this morning.

I'm glad Chaos gives fabulous tasting milk. It is odd to write that.

Quote: Awwwww, cute. Non of my chickens would ever do that.

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[dan26552]

Thank you!

Nigerian dwarfs usually have multiple births, in seven years we have had one singleton and quintuplets twice, every thing else is between 2 and 4.

Cuties! 

How is he doing now?


LOL, did you give any real eggs yet?

Thank you!

Awwwwwwww

Cute little duck. Must resist getting ducks.

I'm glad Chaos gives fabulous tasting milk. It is odd to write that.

Awwwww, cute. Non of my chickens would ever do that.

 

[NaJoBeLe]

Picked these up to test for hot spots in the new bator. Initially I'm impressed with how close they are aside from the one with the humidity being off by 5%. It should at least be good enough to ensure adequate circulation correct?? And yes that's inside a 4 season sun room that is apparently not very well insulated.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: An invasion?

 

[kajira]

You ever feel like an oddball? I don't have many friends who get my "farm" life.... i feel weird, the big family, the farm life, the old fashioned lifestyle...

I have "casual friends" that I make playdates for, with the kids, but that's the extent of it. If we both didn't have kids, we wouldn't be friends, you know?

I miss my best friend back home. She was actually "my" friend. LOL

 

[duluthralphie]

Picked these up to test for hot spots in the new bator. Initially I'm impressed with how close they are aside from the one with the humidity being off by 5%. It should at least be good enough to ensure adequate circulation correct?? And yes that's inside a 4 season sun room that is apparently not very well insulated.

Still better test them they could all be off 5 degrees..

 

[meltel]

Good morning everybody

And Good morning Chaos-since you require a special greeting

 

[NaJoBeLe]

Picked these up to test for hot spots in the new bator. Initially I'm impressed with how close they are aside from the one with the humidity being off by 5%. It should at least be good enough to ensure adequate circulation correct?? And yes that's inside a 4 season sun room that is apparently not very well insulated.

Still better test them they could all be off 5 degrees..

yeppers, they will be tested I was just initially seeing how close they would actually read to each other.

 

[Chaos18]

Good morning everybody

And Good morning Chaos-since you require a special greeting

Morning Mel

It's only because I'm not everybody.