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

[5Sons Coop]

33 pages! Just under a thousand posts til I'm all caught up. e

One hot topic and you'll be back to 100 behind....but congrats...good pace.

 

[daxigait]

I think so too!
How are you? Long time....

See this

I have become an expert!

Nice work.

 

[Pensmaster]

We may have to resort to poison. I just worry about the cats/dogs, or birds eating them.

My chickens have been known to kill and eat mice/rats, too.

Product called one bite works really well. Animals are a huge concern. I don't free feed the rats this stuff any more. If I put it on the trip it's put in tiny bags my wife sewn up out of nylon netting. Attached with mini zip ties to the trip. The same piece of bait has caught multiple rats. This way they don't take it back to their nest as the instructions say but alt least I know other animals are not getting the poison. Secure the trap to a shelf so they don't drag it away. As Ralphie said it was sickening the amount of rats there were. You could easily put the trap in the fridge if the cats don't have access.

 

[dan26552]

It is. Kind of a greyish white.

Probably a duck then. Can you feel if its waxy?

 

[10AcreChick]

I'm not even going to try to back read, pretty sure it's been like a thousand posts since I've last posted. It is Day 9 of my (hopefully) second successful hatch. Day 7 showed 47 of the 49 eggs I set to be viable and growing. There was a questionable 48th, but I don't think it's going to make the cut. Heating element incubator doing a great job with even heat, 95-104 temp differential, and 25% humidity. I just hope that the new chicks can be integrated in with the 9 who will by that time be 4 weeks older than the new ones! Since I only have one coop brooder. Didn't think of that when I did a 9 egg "test batch" first.

 

[Pensmaster]

That is essentially what they do at Lowe's they have a very sharp scoring blade that used to cut both glass and plexiglass and they scored it multiple times and then snapped it.
There's is in some sort of frame and handle they put the piece in the frame to hold it in place and run the handle in a groove sections up and down at the point you want to cut it.
Sort of like their big saw or a tile cutter.@kwhites634

Thanks Dax. We have the knife now and glue with some hinges for the lid. I'll probably try the knife although the curved parts I will try the band saw.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

Dux eggs attract rats and other undesirable things....

How come I've never had a rat?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I have at least one rat, probably more, coming into my run during daylight only, helping itself to feed, and retreating to its burrow. More than once, it's been caught on my trailcam moving from the burrow, through several hens and a rooster, to the feeder and back. The birds pay no attention to it, nor it to them.
The feeder is capped after dark; nothing can get to the feed. The rats know that, and don't even bother to come out overnight. I've tried pouring poison pellets down the burrow entrance; they're either ineffective or ignored. I can't set poison out during the day with chickens running around.

Any bright ideas? I'm fresh out.

 

[Jessimom]

I have at least one rat, probably more, coming into my run during daylight only, helping itself to feed, and retreating to its burrow. More than once, it's been caught on my trailcam moving from the burrow, through several hens and a rooster, to the feeder and back. The birds pay no attention to it, nor it to them.
The feeder is capped after dark; nothing can get to the feed. The rats know that, and don't even bother to come out overnight. I've tried pouring poison pellets down the burrow entrance; they're either ineffective or ignored. I can't set poison out during the day with chickens running around.

Any bright ideas? I'm fresh out.

Our rats and mice all come from the trees, so we have traps nailed to the trees.

 

[duluthralphie]

We may have to resort to poison. I just worry about the cats/dogs, or birds eating them.

My chickens have been known to kill and eat mice/rats, too.

They make those boxes rats and mice can get in to eat the poison and the cats and dogs can't.