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

[kajira]

I generally don't - I assume they will eat them or, worse, use them as bait for cock fighting.

Benny, I saw a photographic exhibition on Minamata disease at a museum when I was in high school. It's not something one easily forgets, burned into my brain - especially the photo of the mother bathing her child (under spoiler below). This is what happens when people think pollution regulations are dumb. Lots of children were never seat belted in cars years ago (including me) and survived. Doesn't mean I'm going to suggest people not seat belt their children. So I personally do not think the regulations are unnecessary.
















Invest in a quality privacy screen - works like a charm!

So early!!!!! Mine are about that size as well, but not red. This is my first year with apples - have you ever tried bagging them?

Awesome!!! (I will congratulate you from afar - I'm terrified of horses due to a childhood accident.)


Just a conduit bender. About $45 - a very nice tool to have. There are good YouTube videos on how to use it.

Got some assembly done today, but there's never enough time. Full day of work tomorrow, so no luck there, but I have Friday off for the Battle of Flowers, so I'll hopefully get more done then.

- Ant Farm

Are we still on for tomorrow? You still have a day off? my apts at 9, so I can grab a coffee, or denny's before running back home.

 

[Akrnaf2]

BTW, I was rushing around trying to get chicken chores done before dark (and a little tired and frazzled), when I found the baby possum in the CL coop again. This time I managed to catch it (wore big rubber gloves because they were handy and I didn't want to get bit) - not much larger than a big rat, but a lot uglier. I was tired and grumpy, so I just held it by the tail a while (seemed to not do very well with that anyhow), and threw it very very high at great velocity way into the woods in my neighbor's yard - took me two tries, the first time my aim was wrong and it hit a high branch (hard) and fell to the ground in my yard. Got it up and over the second try. I don't know if it would have survived. At the time, I didn't want to mess with actually killing it - not as a soft-hearted thing, more as a I don't want to deal with this right now thing. But just 5 minutes after lobbing it over and getting back to work on my chores I found myself regretting not killing it outright, because if by some miracle it lives, it'll be back to the same coop. I'll just keep checking at dusk, and if he comes back, I'll put him in a bag and bash him.

You Never have to trow away food lau) What about this?

Or this?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I fed round bales all the time. A horse will eat the good hay inside, ignoring the moldy hay on the outside. If the bales are kept where they can't get wet, and they weren't put up wet, the outer hay is fine. Biggest problem with feeding round bales is the waste. If they're just left in the field w/o a round bale feeder around them, a large percentage of the hay will be stomped into the mud.

 

[kajira]

@Fire Ant Farm If he comes back and you catch him, my daughter wants him. I never should have let her see the picture.

 

[kajira]

I fed round bales all the time. A horse will eat the good hay inside, ignoring the moldy hay on the outside. If the bales are kept where they can't get wet, and they weren't put up wet, the outer hay is fine. Biggest problem with feeding round bales is the waste. If they're just left in the field w/o a round bale feeder around them, a large percentage of the hay will be stomped into the mud.

I also use round bales for my goats - I store it under a tree and break it up and give it to them in chunks so less of it gets wasted, and I *still* have huge piles I have to rake up because they spread it out and won't eat it all. They prefer the weeds my kids pick for them. *shakes head*

MY pony doesn't get hay, he's fat just on the grass in our field. Part of the reason hubby wanted another horse is 1. for snake control in our back field, and 2. so he doesn't have to mow all that hay down. It's 3+ feet high right now and growing faster than he can mow the back couple of acres. I buy round bales to feed the goats, because it's cheaper then mowing and raking our field. hahaha

 

[daxigait]

Neighbor across the road up the hill from us was giving five nice horses away free after he couldn't sell them, retired selling his house and moving. DW pushed so bad to get a couple, we only have 3 acres, can feed them hay, no, where would you put them? Out front...ground might be goat able, nice flat open acre or so but a little on the soft side come spring stream runs all yr, we have pond next to it and neighbors large pond, if I can't drive my truck on it, no horses. She and the kids were not to happy with me, but I can't see getting large animals you can't properly take care of. Maybe someday if we move.
Bad part, the people down the road from him apparently got them. Saw them fencing in another place, must have got permission or are renting. All winter, they had a few big round bales out in the open. I ain't to knowledgeable on horses but I'm pretty sure they are not supposed to eat round bales at all? And out in the open..the poor things are still alive anyway.

Well, you can feed round bales, but it is risky for several reasons. They are not ruminants and have delicate digestive systems so if any small animals got trapped in the bale there is huge risk from that. They are also much more susceptible to mold and dust than cows. I have used the occasional round bale that was stored inside for winter storms, but I mostly feed quality square bales to my horses, and feed the cows both.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote:
Well, around here, for one - I've certainly driven by some of the properties that have lots of fighting cocks in a field in little separated huts on leg leashes. I've been told by a breeder here that that's something that can happen to small roosters sold/given away (we were talking about Cream Legbars). Processing them myself humanely is a much better end for them.
Do you have there people that enjoys that cruel "sport"?
There are people all over the world who enjoy cock fighting (I certainly don't but there's no question) - just check YouTube (found a bunch of videos when I was looking for bumble foot videos). Interesting tidbit - I forget the reference where I read/heard this, but they think that the chicken was first domesticated by humans not for eggs, certainly not for meat, but for cockfighting as a religious ritual. (Again, I am NOT saying I am okay with it, but it's part of the history of humans and chickens, and it's still out there.)

Quote: I actually use a scalpel and ordered good quality blades on Amazon (I can send you a link to good ones - I knew because of using them for work). This time around, though, I think I'm going to get myself a pair of PVC/PEX cutters and try those.

- Ant Farm
Choose you PVC cutters carefully; trust me. I own a pair. They're great for cutting PVC, as long as they cock. The way they're designed, mine anyway, the dog doesn't always engage when you want it to. No problem with PVC, but a large problem if you need to squeeze twice if the first squeeze, for whatever reason, didn't complete the cut cleanly.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Today is cold and rainy so I welcome two bucklings. Beautiful with perfect ears

Awww congrats!!

Cinder is my super broody! Sunday she hatched a lone RIR. Since then she keeps sitting on random eggs and not tending her baby. Last fall she was an excellent mama to 8 chicks and a guinea keet. I think she just wasn't happy with one (she had only been setting one egg). I went to a breeder and picked up four chicks, some a day old and some a week old. I opened the cat crate while she watched me and dropped them into the hay. This took about 5 seconds for her to sit and snuggle them.

lol silly chicken

We are getting a new horse - We got offered a retired barrel racer who was being boarded and they stopped paying for him to be boarded and never picked him up, so after a couple years of him living there, they decided to just give him away and they offered him to us. He's a sweetie.

Congrats, also make sure to have his teeth checked

I generally don't - I assume they will eat them or, worse, use them as bait for cock fighting. Benny, I saw a photographic exhibition on Minamata disease at a museum when I was in high school. It's not something one easily forgets, burned into my brain - especially the photo of the mother bathing her child (under spoiler below). This is what happens when people think pollution regulations are dumb. Lots of children were never seat belted in cars years ago (including me) and survived. Doesn't mean I'm going to suggest people not seat belt their children. So I personally do not think the regulations are unnecessary.

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

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Invest in a quality privacy screen - works like a charm! So early!!!!! Mine are about that size as well, but not red. This is my first year with apples - have you ever tried bagging them? Awesome!!! (I will congratulate you from afar - I'm terrified of horses due to a childhood accident.) Just a conduit bender. About $45 - a very nice tool to have. There are good YouTube videos on how to use it. Got some assembly done today, but there's never enough time. Full day of work tomorrow, so no luck there, but I have Friday off for the Battle of Flowers, so I'll hopefully get more done then. - Ant Farm

Battle of the flowers? That sounds neat

Neighbor across the road up the hill from us was giving five nice horses away free after he couldn't sell them, retired selling his house and moving. DW pushed so bad to get a couple, we only have 3 acres, can feed them hay, no, where would you put them? Out front...ground might be goat able, nice flat open acre or so but a little on the soft side come spring stream runs all yr, we have pond next to it and neighbors large pond, if I can't drive my truck on it, no horses. She and the kids were not to happy with me, but I can't see getting large animals you can't properly take care of. Maybe someday if we move. Bad part, the people down the road from him apparently got them. Saw them fencing in another place, must have got permission or are renting. All winter, they had a few big round bales out in the open. I ain't to knowledgeable on horses but I'm pretty sure they are not supposed to eat round bales at all? And out in the open..the poor things are still alive anyway.

That stinks, one of my husbands friends is giving away 3 horses and 1 pony, getting divorced and just can't afford them anymore, I wish I had the space

I eat a lot of rabbits, just don't raise them, cottontails. We've had rabbits when oldest DD was in 4H, made great fertilizer but no eating... My parents growing up besides many chickens always had a 100 rabbits, was a staple and sold good at the auctions back then. Just haven't got into them myself. Have thought of getting some American Chinchilla rabbits for the kids and 4H, just not sure yet if I can get away with it... If there's lot's of them, maybe they wouldn't notice some disappearing?

ROFL

@Fire Ant Farm If he comes back and you catch him, my daughter wants him. I never should have let her see the picture.

ewwwwww

 

[daxigait]

Good morning to you too Abi. We need a good Duckling antic today

 

[kajira]

Awww congrats!!
lol silly chicken
Congrats, also make sure to have his teeth checked
Battle of the flowers? That sounds neat
That stinks, one of my husbands friends is giving away 3 horses and 1 pony, getting divorced and just can't afford them anymore, I wish I had the space
ROFL
ewwwwww

Yeah his teeth looked good when my husband checked them - but we can get them floated if he needs it. I'll probably have the vet out to check him over and give him a higher grade dewormer than the one from the feedstore, just to make sure. Other than that, he's really pretty.