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

[kajira]

******Emma*******
If you are Emma please PM me your screen name so I can include you in the note.

I'm emma, silly !!! Hehehe

 

[daxigait]

I'm emma, silly !!! Hehehe

Oh, sorry I didn't remember/know that.

 

[daxigait]

I really would like to be a fly on her wall wait till I PM you all!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Hey everyone, I asked @Yemimah
 to ask for help here. 

Yemima? It is an Israeli name!

I have no idea.

BTW, thanks so much for posting the info you did about that hygro/thermo sensor I bought, I love it!

You are most welcomed!
I didn't have the chance to use it yet, but it seems very accurate!

 

[Akrnaf2]

I shipped some eggs to Florida the other day, priority mail. They would not put a "hold for pickup" on the eggs. I wrote Call for pickup and the number on it. I am sure hoping they did not leave them in the hot sun all day. ...

If I had eggs or chicks or bees coming, I'd take a day off work or make some other arrangement to be at the PO by 6AM to pick them up. If I don't get a call by 5, I call them. I tell people to go to the post office a couple days ahead of time and talk to the postmaster. Tell them you have animals coming and want the phone number of the sorting room. They'll answer that phone early in the morning. They won't answer the listed number till business hours. I once bought 2 queen bees and didn't tell my postman. There was another mailman on that day and he put the bees in the mailbox which is in full sun. They were dead when I went for the mail.

I went to a an animal shelter, 2+ hours of driving round trip, they had 2 adult, male, pissy kitties for adoption, and that was it. Not young cats, no siamese.

Adult cats need a home too.

I am going to be hatching eggs at my school, well one the eggs (the first one) was the only one born on that day. The other ones were born the next day. My question is will that first one be okay alone for the first day? (Without other chicks)

It happens all the time under a broody. It will make a lot of noise till the others arrive but it will be OK.

Hmmm I will be under an hour away from black copper maran eggs in my Saturday travels. $15 a dozen does not seem bad does it?

Good price if the eggs are dark enough. I was selling Pene eggs for $2 each but went to $3 this year.

Your thoughts on color please?

Nice. There's probably 5 out of the 14 I wouldn't set if they were from my flock. If you don't have that breed and buying the eggs, I'd set them all. Don't set marans and OEs in the same batch unless you have a means of pedigreeing them as they hatch.

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

Yes, we have lots of markets with great produce. I just mean that none is grown locally right now, except perhaps a leek, onion, chive or some spinach from a cold frame. It is FEBRUARY in Missouri. I had some greens growing in one of the chicken runs under a frame after many days in the 60s/70s and then it dropped to 20 and everything disappeared.

Yes I know, but here February is just another ,more cold month but everything is growing in full speed, in the beginning of May everything turn to brown!

 

[daxigait]

@Akrnaf2 Shabbat Shalom

 

[daxigait]

You are most welcomed!
I didn't have the chance to use it yet, but it seems very accurate!

Would you repost the link/information? Thanks.

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

Hey everyone, I asked @Yemimah


 to ask for help here. 

Yemima? It is an Israeli name!

An invasion?

How 8,000,000 population can invade to 330,000,000?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

There has been a gravel driveway here forever (well over 100 years) and it has migrated all over the place.
I have seen hens kicking it off the drive.
I hate that because the gravel makes the soil more alkaline. The large trees make it very shady and most shade loving plants for this climate are acid loving.
If I had it to do over again, I would have brought in a bobcat and dump truck, scraped off a foot or so of soil and laid down all new soil.

awww so sad such a, young age too.
if I had to do it all over again, I would do more stone, dang chickens make a mess of the yard at times! or just pav the dang thing!
We had a really bad issue with water run off from the mnt and it was always a wet nasty mess there, So during our first winter here I had big stones as a base layer put in, we drove on it and worked it in for about six months then I had bigger 2A stone on it. After 6 years I had a fresh coat put down on it because I extended it all the way down to the goat pens. the goats have really screwed itup at the other end with all that wasted hay. I need a pig that will eat all that waste I think, what a pain they are and such wasteful eaters.

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[AnneInTheBurbs]