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

[BullChick]

GOOD MORNING! TGIF!! e:

 

[kajira]

Despite the rotten start, pretty decent day. In the morning was teaching in our largest classroom (set up for small group work) - it has the very best view on campus, always makes me smile.






Then additional work, some one on one teaching in the afternoon, then home. I promptly crashed ("just closing my eyes for a minute") - several hours later, I woke up and realized that no building work is getting done today (my hands/wrists are still swollen, so that's probably for the best). I'll just need to do more tomorrow. I'm going to try to go to bed early and get some catch-up sleep tonight. I know I'm getting old now - I was invited to a big party tonight (for Fiesta) with good friends and adult beverages, but sleep is vastly more appealing.

Went out to collect eggs at dusk, caught that little baby possum mid-stride int eh center of the coop floor. It had that look on it's face like, "busted" (and I'm sure it remembers that I'm the one that gave it its unpleasant ride through the air yesterday. Skipped the photojournalism this time and just donned the orange gloves, grabbed it by the tail, put it in a paper sack, put paper sack inside an old potting soil bag, and sorta kinda dropped a big 20 pound stone on the top of it. Repeatedly. (I think it was the same one - I will keep watching in case it wasn't.) (Sorry Kajira)

- Ant Farm (edited - forgot photos)

Don't worry, I didn't really want to let my daughter have it, anyways!

 

[Nksg75]

Ah, I was also up at 4, actually 3:30am. Not sure why, however the last 5 years I can't sleep past 4-5 am!! No matter how hard I try!!

 

[BullChick]

Ah, I was also up at 4, actually 3:30am. Not sure why, however the last 5 years I can't sleep past 4-5 am!! No matter how hard I try!!

Children destroy our chances of sleep.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I got adventurous and got squash and zucchini spirals to use in place of noodles, to see if kids would eat them as a side dish.

did it work?
i have heard spaghetti squash does

Also - my mommy chick is a great mommy, but one of the chicks was stupid and drowned itself in a goat pool we leave out for the bigger chickens to bathe in, and the goats to drink out of.

so, we are now down to 10, from 11.

Which was sad, because it was one of the 2, grey chicks.

The other are like a white leg horn X EE cross....... so the chicks are spotted and I have no idea *** they are going to look like when they are grown.

sorry

Agree, but it's a bit addictive/dangerous. (I've got an angle grinder on it's way - to be fair, I've needed an angle grinder for a while, but ripped one to many shirts this week on hanging ends and hurt my wrists using the tin snips on the HW cloth yesterday, and got fed up.)

- Ant Farm

agreed, i need to order things, but there are a lot of things in my cart

that guy it now button is a doozy too

Despite the rotten start, pretty decent day. In the morning was teaching in our largest classroom (set up for small group work) - it has the very best view on campus, always makes me smile.






Then additional work, some one on one teaching in the afternoon, then home. I promptly crashed ("just closing my eyes for a minute") - several hours later, I woke up and realized that no building work is getting done today (my hands/wrists are still swollen, so that's probably for the best). I'll just need to do more tomorrow. I'm going to try to go to bed early and get some catch-up sleep tonight. I know I'm getting old now - I was invited to a big party tonight (for Fiesta) with good friends and adult beverages, but sleep is vastly more appealing.

Went out to collect eggs at dusk, caught that little baby possum mid-stride int eh center of the coop floor. It had that look on it's face like, "busted" (and I'm sure it remembers that I'm the one that gave it its unpleasant ride through the air yesterday. Skipped the photojournalism this time and just donned the orange gloves, grabbed it by the tail, put it in a paper sack, put paper sack inside an old potting soil bag, and sorta kinda dropped a big 20 pound stone on the top of it. Repeatedly. (I think it was the same one - I will keep watching in case it wasn't.) (Sorry Kajira)

- Ant Farm (edited - forgot photos)

Pretty (for a city), glad you got rid of the possum

Air Canada's too busy throwing paying customers off their overbooked planes to worry about cookies.

was that air canada?

What do the letters on eggs stand for?
MW
MBW
BWWW

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/byc-index-of-abbreviations-acronyms

but i dont see any m ones, so maybe the person you got the eggs from knows

Hello everyone it's been awhile. Any chicks hatched? My project birds are far outgrowing the Dark Cornish chicks. The neighbors broody is still on my hens eggs. Due this weekend

We could use snow here as well. Today is last cool day for awhile. 88 next week.

Hi

glad the birds are growing well

Good to be back. Roasted coffee tonight and had a fine brew from my friend.

sounds divine

Sally and others - here's the rabbit hole I fell down on Pinterest/Google last night when I couldn't sleep - gambion cages for landscaping. I have so many rocks, and plenty of bits of scrap welded wire, this is a no brainer!

hmmm, would look better without the cage, what if you put them in the cage then left the middle empty and filled with concrete then removed the cage?

I have just the spot for them, if I only had rocks....

come visit me! i live in the granite state AND i have PILES of field stone out in my woods

I do not own Pollacks,,,, I own a pollack, the rest ranaway in the sleet the other night..Stupid birds ran into the woods....They will never be seen again.

sorry

Nope, I was trying to catch them and put them back in their pen/cage because they were running around like chickens with their heads cut off over the sleet....

Every other bird I own went back inside on their own. I caught the three in a net tried to get one out and two escaped and ran in opposite directions into the woods... I have not bothered to go looking for them. I know they were eaten.

lol, i hope they come back for you

Makes enough sauerkraut to feed all of Québec and then some at a time? Doesn't brush his chooks' teeth enough? Debates for several pages on whether or not cattle roost? Lives on a sand dune? Raises giant toads? Has had some strange avatars?

hey now, i love sauerkraut

Children destroy our chances of sleep.

never a truer statement made

 

[Pensmaster]

Children destroy our chances of sleep.

Good morning Abi. Destroy being key word here. The slight chance of sleep doesn't come back after they are gone either.

I haven't been to my favorite meeting place in a long time. They rearranged it. Making more space for tables. Couldn't find the coffee at first.

 

[Pensmaster]

did it work?
i have heard spaghetti squash does

sorry 

agreed, i need to order things, but there are a lot of things in my cart 
that guy it now button is a doozy too
Pretty (for a city), glad you got rid of the possum 

was that air canada?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/byc-index-of-abbreviations-acronyms

but i dont see any m ones, so maybe the person you got the eggs from knows

Hi    glad the birds are growing well

sounds divine

hmmm, would look better without the cage, what if you put them in the cage then left the middle empty and filled with concrete then removed the cage?

come visit me! i live in the granite state AND i have PILES of field stone out in my woods 

sorry

lol, i hope they come back for you

hey now, i love sauerkraut

never a truer statement made

It was. Morning Liz

 

[DwayneNLiz]

It was. Morning Liz

good morning!!

how is your pond coming along?

 

[SidChick]

What do the letters on eggs stand for?
MW
MBW
BWWW

Anybody? Please and thank you!

 

[mlm Mike]

Despite the rotten start, pretty decent day. In the morning was teaching in our largest classroom (set up for small group work) - it has the very best view on campus, always makes me smile.






Then additional work, some one on one teaching in the afternoon, then home. I promptly crashed ("just closing my eyes for a minute") - several hours later, I woke up and realized that no building work is getting done today (my hands/wrists are still swollen, so that's probably for the best). I'll just need to do more tomorrow. I'm going to try to go to bed early and get some catch-up sleep tonight. I know I'm getting old now - I was invited to a big party tonight (for Fiesta) with good friends and adult beverages, but sleep is vastly more appealing.

Went out to collect eggs at dusk, caught that little baby possum mid-stride int eh center of the coop floor. It had that look on it's face like, "busted" (and I'm sure it remembers that I'm the one that gave it its unpleasant ride through the air yesterday. Skipped the photojournalism this time and just donned the orange gloves, grabbed it by the tail, put it in a paper sack, put paper sack inside an old potting soil bag, and sorta kinda dropped a big 20 pound stone on the top of it. Repeatedly. (I think it was the same one - I will keep watching in case it wasn't.) (Sorry Kajira)

- Ant Farm (edited - forgot photos)

That's a nice view.I hope you were able to catch up on your sleep!

What do the letters on eggs stand for?
MW
MBW
BWWW

Might need to ask the seller.

Hello everyone it's been awhile. Any chicks hatched? My project birds are far outgrowing the Dark Cornish chicks. The neighbors broody is still on my hens eggs. Due this weekend

We could use snow here as well. Today is last cool day for awhile. 88 next week.

Hi Pensmaster! Good luck with the broody hatch. We hit 80 on Wednesday, now back to the 60a.

GOOD MORNING! TGIF!!

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Good morning, Abi!