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

[Pensmaster]

So what are you hatching? I have some memory deficiencies from lack of sleep lately.

Good morning Dax, purchased some eggs from Florida 12 LF Dark Cornish. Development in quite a few. Rest are some of mine. Also have a broody working more of mine.

How's your chicks doing?

 

[Pensmaster]

Good afternoon Mr and Mrs Benny. Happy Birthday.

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning Abi

 

[Beer can]

Good morning Dax, purchased some eggs from Florida 12 LF Dark Cornish. Development in quite a few. Rest are some of mine. Also have a broody working more of mine.

How's your chicks doing?

Did you get them from adjduncan? She has some really nice DC, would have picked up eggs last time we were down there if it wasn't so far out of our way. I couldn't get DW to go two hrs out of our way to get eggs Lol!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Prayers need we are getting a bunch of warning for really bad weather tonight and tommorow.we have a rotten tree next to our house please don't blow to hard wind.and also what do I do if the power goes out

This will give you some information if it does.
http://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx

I don't know what is in Sally's notes but if you don't have a generator, You can use wood or gas to heat water, rocks, bricks or whatever to stick into the incubator to keep the temp up.

I'm not sure it's really going to matter. The swarms coming off the hives near me (don't understand how they still have bees in their hives) are building hives at all heights. Unfortunately, by the time I hear about these hives someone has already sprayed them.

I haven't caught one before. This was supposed to be my first year keeping bees.

I've been beekeeping for close to 10 years with ups and downs. I started with an extremely strong hive this time last year and I didn't get it split in time and it swarmed. Then swarmed again and again. I caught a couple of the swarms and bought a couple packages. At one point I had 4 hives and the big black ants moved in and killed them off.
I'm redesigning my stands to try and prevent that. If I could find the ant colonies I'd get some predatory nematodes to dump on the hills.
I've read that the swarm boxes need to be about 15' above ground and about the capacity of a 10 frame deep body box.

So tell me I am not alone here. On FB tonight there is a discussion on how much room per chick. Most say 4 square ft per bird...I said 2 square ft per bird. I did not tell them there are times I am over that just to add body heat in the coop.

Quote:

Large Fowel chicken

4 per LF inside minimum.
The high stocking density will contribute to higher humidity to the coop and negate any benefit from body heat.

!!תודה רבה מתוקה

Happy Birthday!!!

Morning yall.
Thank you for the coffee MC

First Broody of the year. She seems to have transitioned off the nest and into her new quarters quite nicely. She apparently did not like the eggs where I arranged them though. I had them in the back with food and water where she is now. When I checked on her this morning the eggs had been repositioned to the very front. Temporary accommodations I had to pull the water and food out and leave the door open so she can get to it if she desires. Figure something else out when I get home.



And she was covering the eggs fine until I went to rearrange stuff and she got sassy with me.

Good luck.

I got up to get the brooders ready, Metzer farms told me my geese/ducks are arriving today, and i'm hoping they are okay, since they were all shipped on monday morning.........

WOW!!!, That's a long time in the mail.
Take a camera with you when you go to the post office. Have you called your PO yet?

 

[kwhites634]

@kwhites634 Since she goes to the buses early please wish your wife a Happy Birthday for me in the morning.

I will...Thanks

 

[kajira]

This will give you some information if it does.
http://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx

I don't know what is in Sally's notes but if you don't have a generator, You can use wood or gas to heat water, rocks, bricks or whatever to stick into the incubator to keep the temp up.

I've been beekeeping for close to 10 years with ups and downs. I started with an extremely strong hive this time last year and I didn't get it split in time and it swarmed. Then swarmed again and again. I caught a couple of the swarms and bought a couple packages. At one point I had 4 hives and the big black ants moved in and killed them off.
I'm redesigning my stands to try and prevent that. If I could find the ant colonies I'd get some predatory nematodes to dump on the hills.
I've read that the swarm boxes need to be about 15' above ground and about the capacity of a 10 frame deep body box.

Quote:
4 per LF inside minimum.
The high stocking density will contribute to higher humidity to the coop and negate any benefit from body heat.

Happy Birthday!!!

Good luck.


WOW!!!, That's a long time in the mail.
Take a camera with you when you go to the post office. Have you called your PO yet?

No, the guy who used to be really good about calling me, doesn't work there anymore, and I haven't been able to get him to call me when stuff comes in like the other guy did. That's why I called Metzer farms to figure out where my birds where yesterday, they weren't at the post office when I stopped by.
Tracking put them as arriving today. Metzer said to call them if the birds didn't make it when I pick them up at the post office. It's scanned as arrival date, and I already talked to them and expressed my concerns about their health at the extra day in the mail.

They said they should be okay if I pick them up in the AM - but the last time this happened, I lost half of the animals that got shipped.

These geese are 75 each.......... i'm not happy if they die.

 

[kwhites634]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BENNY AND MRS WHITES

Thanks, Mel.
How's the wing? I know that's old, being somewhat limited, but isn't it amazing what you've learned to do with your right hand, out of necessity?

 

[NaJoBeLe]

@daxigait
Might have missed it on my readback but how did the meeting go? Or is it today? I get my days crossed up sometimes due to the fact that the majority of my readbacks are from the previous evening.

 

[BantyChooks]

No, the guy who used to be really good about calling me, doesn't work there anymore, and I haven't been able to get him to call me when stuff comes in like the other guy did. That's why I called Metzer farms to figure out where my birds where yesterday, they weren't at the post office when I stopped by.
Tracking put them as arriving today. Metzer said to call them if the birds didn't make it when I pick them up at the post office. It's scanned as arrival date, and I already talked to them and expressed my concerns about their health at the extra day in the mail.

They said they should be okay if I pick them up in the AM - but the last time this happened, I lost half of the animals that got shipped.

These geese are 75 each.......... i'm not happy if they die.

That right there is why I don't buy live animals to be shipped through mail...

Hope they arrive safely.