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

[Akrnaf2]

Good morning my friends. I hope you are having a great morning. I did chores, and then sat with my week old kids in the shed letting them play around me, and having them come up to be pet(wonderful to see my buck pass on his loving personality - friendliest Boer kids I have ever had) while it rained and rained. Since it was and is raining plus early the power was out I had a perfect excuse to stop and enjoy life. Since the chickens don't mind the storm, they were out. There was a funny moment, when one came around the shed corner. The little doelings cocked Thier heads wondering what she was
Allie and Annie (Dam is Abigail so they get A names)

@Akrnaf2 Shabatt Shalom! Your namesake Benny is a beautiful red roan buckling with a black dorsal stripe. I didn't get a picture last weekend so here he is the week before at two weeks.

And he is the MOST BEAUTIFUL buckling in the world!
So now I am a godfather to a buckling!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Have another brownie

I want a brownie
But I want in my hiking clothes and breeches more I think

Yes indeed, we have being swimming in the Mediterranean Sea earlier today.

Why? Is it something that I said?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Thanks! What I'm doing right now isn't that hard - assembling panels and attaching hardware cloth, and bending conduit. But it's 91F, and while in July that would be considered downright cool, right now it's the beginning of summer, and there's always the acclimation phase where it's kind of miserable. (Also, humidity is unusually high for here as rain is coming, and mosquitoes are out with a vengeance.) So, I'm taking a break.

I have a sad story to tell... Hopefully Liz will not get upset with my telling it.


As you know, or some of you know, I sent Liz some legbar eggs about a month or so ago. Some arrived scrambled, She tried hatching them but nothing came from it. (Other than smelly eggs)..

I felt bad so I decided to send her some Chicks. We made a deal where we both put something into it and were both out some. I have to say she is a fantastic person to deal with.


I sent those chicks on Monday from my Sunday hatch. I sent her 16. I was promised they would be there Tuesday by 3pm. I even asked the postmaster here on Friday before I shipped them. "The last pickup is 5pm, the plane leaves for the east coast here at 6pm, how will they make the flight? it is a 90 minute drive to the airport not in rush hour....

The postmaster said no problem the flight never leaves on time and they hold the plane for these next day priority packages.



Well, Guess what? They don't hold the plane and they really do not care. Those chicks as near as I can tell spent 22 hours sitting on a cold loading dock in St Paul. Why they go to St Paul from Minneapolis when the Airport is in Minneapolis is beyond me...

But they sat there. The tracking was not updated, until all of a sudden Liz had them around 4Pm on Wednesday. BTW it was Cold here!!!

She opened the box to 4 dead ones and I think 9 died total, (check with her for full count)...


Luckily, we had the insurance on them and after some work on her part she got a partial payment, enough that we can try again on May 8th from my hatch on the 7th...

This time I am driving them 25 miles further to a post office with a 2 pm pick up and 25 miles closer to the airport..

Wish us luck..

I have felt like a failure chicken an egg shipper to this point with her.

You do not know how badly I want this to work. I expect a dead one now and then, but 9,,,NO way...


Lucky also for us we followed all the rules including NPIP# on the box and so forth..

I just want to tell you what a great job she did pursuing the USPS to get the insurance payment.

Good Job Liz!

Also glad that there was some restitution. Same thing happened with my S&G broiler naked necks - from tracking, looks like they spent roughly 24 hours at the Denver airport. Lost 9 out of 25, and had to cull a 10th. (I was not organized or mindful enough to pursue insurance...)

- Ant Farm

 

[Akrnaf2]

It is something beyond your power! You could not done anything different! The post services sc... up!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I have felt like a failure chicken an egg shipper to this point with her.

you are by far not a failure at this, it honestly looked like they were in a paint can shaker
and they spent way too long on a loading dock
and currently there are 4 left out of the 16

Thanks! What I'm doing right now isn't that hard - assembling panels and attaching hardware cloth, and bending conduit. But it's 91F, and while in July that would be considered downright cool, right now it's the beginning of summer, and there's always the acclimation phase where it's kind of miserable. (Also, humidity is unusually high for here as rain is coming, and mosquitoes are out with a vengeance.) So, I'm taking a break.

Also glad that there was some restitution. Same thing happened with my S&G broiler naked necks - from tracking, looks like they spent roughly 24 hours at the Denver airport. Lost 9 out of 25, and had to cull a 10th. (I was not organized or mindful enough to pursue insurance...)

- Ant Farm

make sure to take breaks and HYDRATE!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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[BantyChooks]

Thanks! What I'm doing right now isn't that hard - assembling panels and attaching hardware cloth, and bending conduit. But it's 91F, and while in July that would be considered downright cool, right now it's the beginning of summer, and there's always the acclimation phase where it's kind of miserable. (Also, humidity is unusually high for here as rain is coming, and mosquitoes are out with a vengeance.) So, I'm taking a break.

Good. That way we don't have to bribe kaj into sharing your number and then phone you to chew you out.

 

[BantyChooks]

and currently there are 4 left out of the 16

Ouch, that's bad.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

black flies are already out here, not biting yet but they are in swarms

 

[BantyChooks]

black flies are already out here, not biting yet but they are in swarms

Better you than me