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

[BullChick]

The perfect waterfowl egg:

I actually do crush most duck (and turkey! ) eggs.

 

[BullChick]

Tragic day.
The police shot and killer a 15 year old student at my sons high school early this morning.
He had called 911 and said a minor (himself) needed help.

He had a BB gun, and police shot and killed him because he would not put it down.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Quote: I think I'm going to do HW cloth on the bottom of my new coops (not the tractors, but the permanent ones) and modify the others. Do your chickens get down to the HW cloth int eh run when scratching? How did you do the attaching? Buried?

Pee in the hall. Pee on the porch. Pee on the bathroom floor, potty seat, pants, and feet.
It's been a wet day, and that was the easy part!

Tragic day.
The police shot and killed a 15 year old student at my sons high school early this morning.
He had called 911 and said a minor (himself) needed help.

He had a BB gun, and police shot and killed him because he would not put it down.

Oh wow.

How is your son doing?

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Long day of work on the tractors today. It's the project that never dies... I really really hope that I can get them all done and the chickens moved tomorrow. I was going to stay up and do some additional hardware cloth cutting ( the last of it, for the aprons) tonight by headlamp. But that was before I discovered that my fridge was up to 72F. Freezer was fine, but didn't trust it, so was moving stuff I thought wouldn't have spoiled in the few hours(e.g., jams, condiments, etc.) to another fridge and was just considering whether to move the freezer stuff when that temp hit 32F, so I had to empty that as well. I am SO grateful that right at the moment I have a spare fridge/freezer running (though in the other house), but this was a huge pain. I think I stuffed the freezer too full and it interfered with circulation (this has happened before) - now the only stuff that's in there is stuff that will need to be tossed (I refuse to deal with that right now). Hoping it will get back in gear soon like last time - a new fridge is not in my budget.

Meanwhile, dinner has been warm cheese and crackers, warm beer, and melting ice cream.

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh no, sorry Kristin.

 

[Pensmaster]

Long day of work on the tractors today. It's the project that never dies... I really really hope that I can get them all done and the chickens moved tomorrow. I was going to stay up and do some additional hardware cloth cutting ( the last of it, for the aprons) tonight by headlamp. But that was before I discovered that my fridge was up to 72F. Freezer was fine, but didn't trust it, so was moving stuff I thought wouldn't have spoiled in the few hours(e.g., jams, condiments, etc.) to another fridge and was just considering whether to move the freezer stuff when that temp hit 32F, so I had to empty that as well. I am SO grateful that right at the moment I have a spare fridge/freezer running (though in the other house), but this was a huge pain. I think I stuffed the freezer too full and it interfered with circulation (this has happened before) - now the only stuff that's in there is stuff that will need to be tossed (I refuse to deal with that right now). Hoping it will get back in gear soon like last time - a new fridge is not in my budget. 

Meanwhile, dinner has been warm cheese and crackers, warm beer, and melting ice cream. :/

- Ant Farm

Sorry Kristin.
How's all the chicks doing? I see you've been very busy building tractors for them.
Mine will soon need more space as well.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Oh no, sorry Kristin.

Thanks - but it's not nearly the crisis it would be, since I have the spare. I was just irritated because I was tired - I seriously thought for a second, "Screw it, let it all rot." Then I sighed and started hauling food.

The freezer has started holding temp again, so ice cream is not soup - and it goes nicely with the warm beer. Nice to have the excuse to have a dinner like this.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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They are enormous, too big to call chicks, and it's embarrassing that they are still inside. I'm desperate to give them housing, hoping for tomorrow. Here;s hoping they aren't somehow psychologically scarred by their boring brooder heavy adolescence...

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[Fire Ant Farm]