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

[Chaos18]

The skill of welding, never tried but I'm sure if I ever learned it would be a priceless skill set to add to the kit.

Yes it can be a very useful skill to know, either that or know somebody that can do it for you.

 

[dan26552]

Congrats, my broody of about a week has kicked 4 of the dozen I gave her so far. She seems happy with the 8 she has now so we will see how it goes.

Thanks. Good luck! She only ever kicked one but it bad.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

I've seen at least four or five.

To bad they have crests

 

[kajira]

good, I meant the kiddos though

haha! The non-goat kids are doing well. In Law's are visiting right now. Today's their last day I think.

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning   Thanks to those who replied. My goose situation figured itself out. She came off the nest last night and went in the coop!   I am going to check for eggs when I get home from OT so there isn't anything for her to sit on. Hope everyone has a good day.

Good morning Mel I hope OT goes well.

Don't know anything about geese.

I do have a friend that wants to give me Royal Palm turkey eggs. His incubated ones are due to hatch this week.

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning everyone.

It's another Monday off for me.
I could get used to this.

 

[RollTideChicken]

How well do eggs hatch under a broody hen? I'm about to have 2 coops and thought about getting some hen to do some hatching...

 

[kwhites634]

How well do eggs hatch under a broody hen? I'm about to have 2 coops and thought about getting some hen to do some hatching...

Broody hens hatched eggs very successfully for a few eons before incubators were invented.

 

[Pensmaster]

How well do eggs hatch under a broody hen? I'm about to have 2 coops and thought about getting some hen to do some hatching...

They hatch better than an incubator in my opinion. However it's completely relying on the hen. Sometimes she just ups and quits. Very frustrating to say the least. It's really up to the hen when she goes broody one can't just put eggs In a coop and have the hen oblige.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I've got 10 chicks and 9 eggs left, 1 is pipped. I put the 8 fluffiest in the brooder because they were acting a little cannibalistic.

congrats!

There's a chick in it's mouth.

no thanks!! glad you were able to save the chick!

My neck still hurts from yesterday, and I almost hit my head again today (you can see it's across my walkway). I'm 5'6", and the branch has been drooping more and more, used to be above my head, so when I'm tired, I forget. It's also the reason I haven't changed the poor NNs moonscape paddock - I need to cut it before shifting the fence over. (The NNs turn everything into a moonscape, so I don't feel THAT bad - that's why they are paddocked, and I alternate the paddocks - just late this time.) Heck, I can tell Puppy's favorite spots around the whole big yard and she's just ONE chicken!!! She got into my potting bench yesterday and started playing in the potting soil...

i love puppy!!!!

Good morning.

Poppies blooming and hens laying.

They still really love this spot in the rock.

so pretty!!

Good morning all. I am (finally)hatching out eggs! 9 so far. My silkie is too and she has 3 that I have seen

Congrats!!

@DwayneNLiz @Fire Ant Farm @BantyChooks @Sally Sunshine

We had a horrible thunderstorm last night, I had to send my husband out at like 4am in the morning to rescue the two new baby goats. Mom just left them in a mud puddle, and I was worried she'd do that. So we brought them inside for the night until the rain stopped. They are happy with mom again.





The sebastapol geese and 4 ducklings.

Hubby's not going to butcher our drakes. He doesn't want to bother with them, so he suggested just shooting them :/


My broody in a dog kennel. She finally made herself a nest in the back.

awesome!!! glad the goats are doing better!

Wahooo!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/my-2017-coop

Woohoo!!!

They used to be a lot better; that's for sure.

The old Craftsman tools were The Best, and well worth every penny they cost....

agree completely!

@Fire Ant Farm

So. It's a bardrock egg so it's a little dark but all of my eggs look like that and one of them is a clear egg, my temp is 1105 and humidity is 60% to 65%

is it a still air? and your humidity needs to be reduced

Not me...I start around 45% and finish there on day 18....then I go up to 65-70ish

but you are using a cabinet, those are known to need to be higher

I'd have had a heart attack on the spot! I did almost put a hand down on a rat snake that was hanging on a mortar joint between two blocks of the basement wall, though. I'm so paranoid about snakes in the house that I actually shot one inside the house last year in the basement. Came in once to find a shed skin in the Venetian blinds...'bout 6' long. DW don't know about that one.

I got lucky this year with the mower, so far. I'd pulled the battery last year & set it in the basement, on the charger, where it stayed 'til yesterday. I'd also run both tanks dry, so I had no gas-turned-to-shellac in the carbs to contend with.

I re-installed the battery yesterday, poured <a cup of gas in each tank, & hit the switch. I cranked a while 'til the fuel lines were full, and fired up. No problem; didn't even get hung up & have to pull it out.

great news!! (the mower not the snakes in the house)

haha! The non-goat kids are doing well. In Law's are visiting right now. Today's their last day I think.

one can hope, right?

How well do eggs hatch under a broody hen? I'm about to have 2 coops and thought about getting some hen to do some hatching...

have a bator ready just in case