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

[duluthralphie]

I just realized I never looked into the other trays to see if any of them are hatching,,Duh See Alzheimer's strikes again.. BRB

 

[kwhites634]

If they flip the bowl; you could put it in a wooden trug w/ low edges... Might be heavy enough to prevent it, 'specially if you fill round it with gravel

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[DwayneNLiz]

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[mlm Mike]

Also I have made a request for BYC Facebook but no one is responding and it has been at least 24 hours. How long does it take usually?

Have no idea, don't really use the BYC FB.

Look what I found:




The rest are too far back and too hard to get a picture of.

Nice find!

Quote: It goes both ways. I really don't want to discuss for the billionth time what new bike wheels DH should get for his bike. They are all stupid expensive (like the cost of a cabinet bator) and he should get what he wants. It is his ONLY vice and keeps him healthy so I figure I am pretty lucky.

Thing is he needs me to say that what he wants is a fabulous idea like a gazillion times before he goes out and gets it.

That said I told him that the brinsea bator was on sale and that day was the last day of the sale (all true) and he said just get it now before the sale is over (in 2 hours)!! I was totally shocked (as he gives the appearance of hating the chickens) but that is how I got it!!

The bator has certainly paid for itself though over the years. Last week I hatched a tray of 50 eggs for this guy. I gave him the chicks and he handed me a wad of $$ saying the eggs were precious and I get him far higher hatch rates than anyone else. I was expecting $20 but when I got home and counted it it was $150. I checked with him and he said the goig rate is $1.50 per egg going in and an additional $1.50 per hatched chick. I have 2 more trays of his eggs in there..
Wow, I didn't even know there was a going rate for hatching eggs for someone else.

 

[BantyChooks]

Also I have made a request for BYC Facebook but no one is responding and it has been at least 24 hours. How long does it take usually? 

Sumi is a bit swamped by requests right now, but I'm sure she'll catch up soon.

More like this

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Totally wrong altitude. You & me, we're both in the backstretch of this race; time for the stretch run.

 

[duluthralphie]

Have no idea, don't really use the BYC FB.

Nice find!

Wow, I didn't even know there was a going rate for hatching eggs for someone else.

Me either, I just learned I do not charge enough for my EE's. I am selling them for a buck each if you buy 50, $1.50 if you buy less...

Also @Phage do you worry about bringing in disease when you hatch other peoples eggs? Are they from a NPIP flock? do you disinfect before placing them in your incubator? Are they kept separate from your own eggs and chicks?


I know, I am paranoid about diseases....What can I say?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: So that's a trug! And all these years I thought it was just a box with dividers in it.

 

[duluthralphie]

Totally wrong altitude. You & me, we're both in the backstretch of this race; time for the stretch run.

true, we have rounded third base.....

 

[Phage]

Also I have made a request for BYC Facebook but no one is responding and it has been at least 24 hours. How long does it take usually?

Have no idea, don't really use the BYC FB.

Look what I found: The rest are too far back and too hard to get a picture of.

Nice find!

BTW justification is over rated IMO -easier to just do it and beg forgiveness . Nothing would happen chez moi if we had to discuss everything.

i am in total agreement with this statement

It goes both ways. I really don't want to discuss for the billionth time what new bike wheels DH should get for his bike. They are all stupid expensive (like the cost of a cabinet bator) and he should get what he wants. It is his ONLY vice and keeps him healthy so I figure I am pretty lucky. Thing is he needs me to say that what he wants is a fabulous idea like a gazillion times before he goes out and gets it. That said I told him that the brinsea bator was on sale and that day was the last day of the sale (all true) and he said just get it now before the sale is over (in 2 hours)!! I was totally shocked (as he gives the appearance of hating the chickens) but that is how I got it!! The bator has certainly paid for itself though over the years. Last week I hatched a tray of 50 eggs for this guy. I gave him the chicks and he handed me a wad of $$ saying the eggs were precious and I get him far higher hatch rates than anyone else. I was expecting $20 but when I got home and counted it it was $150. I checked with him and he said the goig rate is $1.50 per egg going in and an additional $1.50 per hatched chick. I have 2 more trays of his eggs in there..

Wow, I didn't even know there was a going rate for hatching eggs for someone else.

I have seen this rate on CL but usually do it for free for friends or $20 for up to a full tray. This guy does have 5 or 6 different breeding arrangements so the eggs have to be kept separated for hatch which is a bit tricky.