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

[dan26552]

HOW many types of animals do you have?!

Like eight. Pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs, a cat and a pheasant.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

Like eight. Pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs, a cat and a pheasant.

Is there any other critters you want?

 

[BullChick]

Just saw in the news, Assad regime in Syria just bombed with Sarin chemical gas a village, killing more then 100 people most of them children! Bloody dictator!

, and you would need to be at the very top!

Haha. So funny.

 

[dan26552]

Is there any other critters you want?

I'd like quail and I really really really would love some geese. I'd like turkeys too.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

I'd like quail and I really really really would love some geese. I'd like turkeys too.

I have 4 quail, and they are nice, but not useful. They only lay like 4 months!

 

[dan26552]

I have 4 quail, and they are nice, but not useful. They only lay like 4 months!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Today is day 14, I tried to put them in the bathroom and turn on the shower, but it got to humid. The coldest they ever got was 68. I am kinda worried.

At day 14 it would probably have been better to leave them clustered in the incubator. Keep in mind that a hen comes off the nest almost daily. If it should happen again, keep them clustered and cover them while you figure out how to heat water, brick, stone, metal, etc. as a means of introducing a temporary heat source to the incubator.
Depending on what kind you have.
The internal egg temperature was likely higher.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Im not allowed to tell anyone because parents are the only ones who know, but seein how yall wont tell my family..... imma be a gramma for the first REAL time.


sooo shhhhhhh

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I was told not to worry about the ducklings, they will arrive tomorrow or thurs

usps tracking error hmmmmm why I do think I should worry

@BantyChooks
@meltel

this tiny little dwarf mini is now owned by HarmonyAnn

and it lives in the lower level
it is eight weeks old and will stay less than 1.5 lbs

lol, shes cute

I saw the picture; didn't see the video. Those rubber fins look more suited to defeathering chickens than moving large quantities of bluestone gravel.

they work GREAT!!

You can tell the entire world if you want; I don't care...I'm fixin' to be a great grandpa for the 2nd real time.

CONGRATS!!!

Power has been out a couple hours. Just came back on. I think the eggs will be ok.

throw hot water bottles in it, or hot stones

At day 14 it would probably have been better to leave them clustered in the incubator. Keep in mind that a hen comes off the nest almost daily. If it should happen again, keep them clustered and cover them while you figure out how to heat water, brick, stone, metal, etc. as a means of introducing a temporary heat source to the incubator.
Depending on what kind you have.
The internal egg temperature was likely higher.

 

[BantyChooks]

Liz, how's the quail doing?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Liz, how's the quail doing?

3 are alive
or at least they were this morning
supposedly eggs shipping today, who knows