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

[BantyChooks]

Egg #3 is out!

 

[BantyChooks]

Awwwwww!

Like the Legos. Is that so your stuff sits at the same height as the top of the eggs?

Yes.

Confused...anyway. Sorry, it's been a rough night.



I didn't know you still had that incubator of yours, seems to work well!

That's a rebuild, my first hatch in it, actually.

 

[mustangrooster]

Egg #3 is out!
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Yes.


That's a rebuild, my first hatch in it, actually.

Oh. Good rebuild then.

 

[BantyChooks]

#2 is out!

#1 popped out while I was uploading the pic. 4 ducklings total from 7 eggs---not bad.

 

[mustangrooster]

#2 is out!
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#1 popped out while I was uploading the pic. 4 ducklings total from 7 eggs---not bad.

I had a feeling they would all pop out soon...they are adorable. I'm in love and they aren't even my ducks! That one looking up at you--

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Well, terrible terrible night last night. Maximus (Maxy--the Joey) passed on. He really was just a carcass.....no fat on him so it was extra hard to keep him warm, and that lead to his death. I tried so hard with him and was feeding him every 3 hours morning and night, he was so small. Poor bub.
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Hope you will start feeling better soon, and about the Joey pics-----i would have loved to.
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Now, that pic desevres to be in a caption contest! She is adorable.

Oh, I am so sorry - but I can understand why it'd be so hard to keep him alive.

If you have other baby joey pics in the future, we'd love to see! (Or at least I would.)

Puppy is a little stinker, that's for sure. Here's the caption that goes along with that face and why she's in the hospital wing (she was chastised by the CL's rooster):

Cracked off a piece. He busted right out, and his belly is perfect.

The other three are zipping now.

#2 is out!
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#1 popped out while I was uploading the pic. 4 ducklings total from 7 eggs---not bad.

Eeeeeeee!!!!!!
Congratulations!!!!!

Baking bread and making stock right now. Will be making some baked BBQ chicken wings next for dinner (using homemade peach BBQ sauce).

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Looks great, Kristin!

 

[Akrnaf2]

You should go look at the Old Fashioned Broody thread I linked earlier. Many folks recommend moving them at night.



Do I need to tell you to stop candling, young lady?!

Joyous, joyous day here. As always, the day after culling a lot of extra cockerels is always so peaceful in the chicken yard. Everyone has fresh water in scrubbed waterers (I have hard water, and it leaves a build up), and all feeders refilled. It's only up to 88F today, so everyone thinks it's delightful in comparison to the day before. And best of all, all the laying hens got the organs left over from culling as treats. There's nothing quite like watching otherwise sedate grown up chickens playing keep away with chicken hearts.

Puppy was a little piggy, as always. She was out of the coop, so I hand fed her some, then when I put the pan into the coop, she jumped back in to have more.

Time to start in on the chicken stock.

- Ant Farm

And way you don't eat the hearts?

 

[BantyChooks]

Night all, I'm whupped. Thanks for cheering these babies along with me.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

And way you don't eat the hearts?
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Oh, I'm sure it would be delicious, but I save them for the chickens as treats, they REALLY love them.

- Ant Farm