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

[Akrnaf2]

I'm not pleased with global warming/climate change. Warmest February on record, most days in February above 70 F shattered the old record. I wore shorts 8 days in February, in MISSOURI!  That's just not right. I had a rash of mosquito bites yesterday and caterpillars are on the trees already.
The apricots are finished blooming and the fruit is growing. The peaches are in full bloom. The pear buds are opening. The apple and plum buds are swollen and about to open.
It will now be in the low 20s Saturday night. All that fruit will be lost.
Last year the same thing happened. All the fruit was growing and April 15 we had a huge freeze. Not a single piece of fruit survived.

This one of the ugly faces of it but it is nothing if the Thermohaline circulation will stop!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation
http://www.livescience.com/46548-ocean-currents-linked-ice-age-length.html

 

[BullChick]

I'm not pleased with global warming/climate change. Warmest February on record, most days in February above 70 F shattered the old record. I wore shorts 8 days in February, in MISSOURI! That's just not right. I had a rash of mosquito bites yesterday and caterpillars are on the trees already.
The apricots are finished blooming and the fruit is growing. The peaches are in full bloom. The pear buds are opening. The apple and plum buds are swollen and about to open.
It will now be in the low 20s Saturday night. All that fruit will be lost.
Last year the same thing happened. All the fruit was growing and April 15 we had a huge freeze. Not a single piece of fruit survived.

Yeah, I know. It really does stink.

 

[BullChick]

GOOD MORNING, CLUCKY CHICKEN CARERS!

 

[5Sons Coop]

Yummy nummy coffee....thanks.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yeah, I know. It really does stink.

I like not having to deal with frozen water all winter but I like fruit too.
It gets worse. The forecast has been updated. It isn't just going into the low 20s Saturday night. It will be in the 20s for at least 5 nights in a row with snow Saturday and Monday and not getting above freezing Saturday.
Snow isn't so bad but the fruit is toast again this year. Plus I have 2 batches of chicks out in the coop so they'll need some attention.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Yummy nummy coffee....thanks.

And what about having the 6th one?

 

[The Duck Ladie]

There's a huge difference in taste and texture.

I can't really tell the taste part,but I know the texture is different.

 

[Akrnaf2]

 
Yeah, I know. It really does stink.

I like not having to deal with frozen water all winter but I like fruit too.
It gets worse. The forecast has been updated. It isn't just going into the low 20s Saturday night. It will be in the 20s for at least 5 nights in a row with snow Saturday and Monday and not getting above freezing Saturday.
Snow isn't so bad but the fruit is toast again this year. Plus I have 2 batches of chicks out in the coop so they'll need some attention.

What about lighting some tiers near the trees?

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Nice photos, lovely flock.

Hi everyone!!

So I did it , the ol Bator is plugged in.... Getting it all set up and ready to go thinking in a few days when it even outs I'll get some eggs going and we will see what happens.

Long read back, and I'm super tired, so I'll try to selectively quote...

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Thanks, Banti! (Campingshaws - DO ET!!!!). Opal is sitting on the futon right now as I type. IN THE OPEN. It's a miracle. Brooke stared at me for a few minutes WITHOUT RUNNING AWAY. I've also started using the "turn your back" tactic - if I catch one of them out in a room, and they look like they may want to run depending on whether I come in or not, I keep coming slowly, but turn my back to them and do it sideways. With my back to them, I don't look like someone about to grab them, I think...

Chuck is old, almost 11. He's inside/outside and I know his days are numbered.





He's lived with us in four houses across three states. He hates everyone and everything, and it cracks me up.

He's not mean, just grumpy.

Morning all, Had the day off yesterday so I took the opportunity to process some excess roosters. First time experience but I made it through it and have meat in the freezer. Mixed thoughts at this point in time but we will see how they taste to see if it was worth the effort.

It is a lot of work, but I get a certain satisfaction from it, and I feel better doing it myself than giving to someone else to do. (But everyone's different...)

I am SO not ready for all these new babies coming in the next couple weeks. got 15 turkeys. (going to sit out side TSC and try to sell 90% of them for a few bucks a piece, they already told me I could. haha)

I got my sebastapol geese, and 4 new ducklings coming in, and 4 more babies in the incubator due to hatch around the 20th.

I need to butcher, and get crap ready for spring.... all these new baby goats, too. I need to go to the goat auction and sell off all my pgymies so I can replace them with nubians.

Yeah, my whole spring is like that - not ready for anything. I finally got the tractor moved to the new location for the oldest chicks (which was a back wrenching experience since it's on a slope), but lost the light before I could finish the rest of the set up. They are 8 WEEKS OLD tomorrow - way past time for them to move outside. I may try to take a couple hours before work to see if I can get some of it accomplished before leaving the house...

Here's the tractor during the move (I was taking a break):


Here it is in its new location.


I still need to tack down the aprons, cover with a tarp, put the roosts back together, put sweet PDZ under the roosts, fill with bedding, add a feeder and waterer (and fill them), and then move the chickens. Whew!!!

I am sooooooooooo ready for the time change this weekend. I wish we would just stay on Daylight savings time year round. I like light when I home in the evenings.

That's this weekend?! I'm sooooooooo glad - it has been so hard to get anything done at home after work, and I have a LOT of building to do

Quote: THE HEAT NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY.

Hi everyone!!

So I did it , the ol Bator is plugged in.... Getting it all set up and ready to go thinking in a few days when it even outs I'll get some eggs going and we will see what happens.

Quote: What I like about having cats as companions is that if you've met one cat, well, you've met one cat. They are all so different. My last cat LOVED the water (had to sit on the rim of the tub when I was taking a bath, playing with the water - she even fell in once), came running to the door like a dog when I came home (immediately dropping and rolling so she'd get belly rubs), and was actually reasonably friendly with my greyhound Froggy. (Froggy followed me to the bathroom and would just stand there and stare at me - I think she was afraid I would fall in or something.

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I like these two shy kitties already - they're just quirky in their own way.

Hubby got ALL the stuff to help me butcher the ducks, and my two cochin roosters. Who are ********. They are beating up my EE hens, and even my female ducks they are trying to force-mate with them.

I feel NO guilt about them going into the croc pot.

Woohoo!!!! So glad to hear! (They sound like jerks...)

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Quote: JACKET. WEATHER.

I was up early this AM because I had a professional meeting/breakfast downtown at the Menger Hotel, right beside the Alamo. In case anyone wants to know what the BACKSIDE of the Alamo looks like:



I am yawning uncontrollably (and it's only 8:45pm). I think I need to head to bed. Maybe Brooke will come visit me again.

- Ant Farm
I would have never pictured the Alamo being that close to the road.

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thanks beautiful Mommasita, I had discectomies and fusions of almost all of them, something like this but disc were removed as well, having a hard time these past few days and not sure why. I should be feeling much better, but I dont take any pain pills anymore and well I guess I like to suffer ughh

You are making progress, sometimes it might be 2 steps forward, one step back, but it is progress.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: What about lighting some tiers near the trees?
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