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

[kwhites634]

Quote: yeppers





yes my new bcm

Good Morning Everyone, i hope you are having a better morning than i am



my bear is back

dang, if hungry he will go after the horse. I pray you got everything done today. so sorry

Sandy had at least 11 or 12

eeeewwww mice! lol congrats I think

My broody hatched 2/3 eggs. the 3rd egg hatched, but it was clear she had infection, she was green and gross looking and died shortly after hatch.

The other 2, one is fluffy and the other is iffy on if it will live. We will see.

yay! sorry about that third

I have 3 eggs in the incubator. It is day 24. No piping yet, but on day 18 they were good when candled. What do I do? Any suggestions?

@2MorrowsDream

First read I HAVE EGGS LEFT UNHATCHED NOW WHAT? post #25223

and before you set again please calibrate and re-read the basics
BASICS!!! INCUBATION QUESTIONS w/answers post #15921
Hey, Kid

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@mlm Mike @jwlpoultry hey guys my my back appears to have passed on his crib bottom tip of the ear have you heard how to fix that
Twin doelings for Abigail!

CONGRATS!!! and No clue what spell check did to that first part

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Just popping in to say Hello and Goodnight. Over to the folks' I go.

Sorry 'bout the bear @DwayneNLiz
Happy Birthday from yesterday and today MC, Justin, Jess, someone else, and Happy Earth Day to everyone else!

Sorry running on empty but still running.

have a good time, hope you get to chill this weekend too!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sunshine!!

Hi Sweets

 

[BantyChooks]

CONGRATS!!!  and No clue what spell check did to that first part

Mebbe supposed to mean "Hey guys, my buck appears to have passed on his crimped bottom tip of ear. Any idea how to fix that?"

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hey, Kid

hi whites whuts new?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote:

Hey, Kid

hi whites whuts new?

Nuttin'.....watching the Orioles game

 

[mlm Mike]

Sandy had at least 11 or 12

Quote: Good luck!

My broody hatched 2/3 eggs. the 3rd egg hatched, but it was clear she had infection, she was green and gross looking and died shortly after hatch.

The other 2, one is fluffy and the other is iffy on if it will live. We will see.

She'll be happy enough with one or tow.

Hey, all - Kassaundra has some "toddler" photos of her latest scaleless Fm chicken up over here, including his current clothes (he's still small enough to wear just a modified sock, though she says he's a drama queen about it).

REALLY naked chick

- Ant Farm

That's gross! lol

Quote: Congratulations!

Quote: Thanks

Just wanted to pop in and say thank you all! My little turkey chick is doing very well, as are the other two that hatched. Also, got my new incubator today so I won't have any more temperature fluctuations from now on.

Turkey chick is sleeping on the stuffed sloth, to the right.

Great! When you firing up the new incubator?

Quote: Glad they are gathered up and accounted for.

It is running now, seems to be fully calibrated out of the box. Just waiting for a friend to get me some good eggs.

Wonderful! I hope your friend hurries up!

Since it's such a nice day, figured I might as well bite the bullet and put Chrissy outside again:



Would love to keep her inside for good, but she likes being outside better.

I did, however, make sure I put her in the most secure pen I own. No minks are getting into that thing.

Nice.

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Originally Posted by mlm Mike

Broody hens!

How did you become interested in the Penedesencas?

I hope you don't mind me chuckling a bit at the hallucinating and hiding in the woods.

I really liked my dark Welsummer eggs and wanted more dark layers. Researching all the dark layers, I found Marans, Barnevelders, Langshans, Empordanesa and Penedesenca. I considered Marans but they are pretty common and I'm not very common so I wanted something more obscure. It took me a year to find my original stock.
From there it didn't take very long before they became my favorite of all the 30 breeds I've had. Through attrition, I didn't replace any of the breeds I lost till now I only have the BPs, plus 3 olive eggers that are daughter and granddaughters of an Ameraucana that was my oldest hen when a mink killed her.

I don't mind at all. The Missouri River was in flood stage during the race. The wing dikes were submerged and buoys would occasionally pop up out of the water unexpectedly. There were some channels that would open up that looked like the main channel at night and once I hit a dead end and had to paddle back upstream over a mile to get back on course.
The last 2 nights, the huge trees lining the river became cartoon characters. There was a big power plant on the shore of the river all lit up but the more I paddled, the farther away it seemed to get like it was hovering the river just ahead of me. I thought it was a flying saucer.
I miscounted bridges. There were two bridges close together and I thought there was only supposed to be one. I had no idea how, but now I thought I was lost and in another part of the state. It was around midnight. Just before the first bridge I passed a mile marker that I couldn't read but I thought if I could paddle back to it and the number made sense, I would know if I was where I was supposed to be.
I started paddling upstream under that last bridge but got swept downstream. The river seemed to ebb and surge. All of a sudden, in my addled state, I thought the next bridge was a dam and that I thought I was going to get sucked into the turbines. In a panic I paddled hard upstream and running out of steam, I steered the canoe into the woods and hung onto a tree. This lasted close to 2 hours. I thought it was a government conspiracy. This whole time, I was less than a mile from the end of the race.

Interesting picture of the nictitating membrane that I got:

Nice!

 

[mlm Mike]

@mlm Mike @jwlpoultry hey guys my my back appears to have passed on his crib bottom tip of the ear have you heard how to fix that
Twin doelings for Abigail!

I'm sorry, I don't understand your question.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: passed?