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

[LittleLakePhil]

I bought this one about 30 years ago, maybe more, for a bunch of quail eggs. It's had a total of 3 hatches run through it.

I, too, much prefer a broody. I keep the incubator ready in case she quits. Have one setting 11 eggs right now.

I'm hatching quail right now.....

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I was trying to get my garden all in today.....but it didn't happen rain.
But I got a good start..... potatoes, corn, beans, and potatoes are in.
Then thee sky opened up.

 

[dan26552]

I was trying to get my garden all in today.....but it didn't happen rain.
But I got a good start..... potatoes, corn, beans, and potatoes are in.
Then thee sky opened up.

It's been pouring for almost two weeks here, it's finally started to dry up, I got a decent harvest today. I hope to have four or five times that in a couple weeks.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Morning all !

It is definitely slow in here! Took me less than 15 minutes to get caught up from yesterday around noon.

I like the new format just fine - some things are better, some are worse. IDK about anyone else, but I'm just super busy with outdoor stuff plus work, so I'm not on as much, or I read, but don't post.

it's also my birthday....i was born on the 20th anniversary of D Day....6/6/64

Happy Birthday!!!!!

I don't get on as many threads anymore either....i pretty much stick to 2. And pop in here once in a while.
I'm guessing it'll get easier as everyone gets more used too it.

Weird - I actually am MORE likely t get on another thread in the new version than in the old. I think it's just patterns of clicking and navigation we get used to.

I have a couple of double yolkers in the bator. Most don't make it. I have hatched several though, though usually only one chick survives or is even alive.

So last night I see a pip in the DY. Thinking it would take hours to zip and probably eventually need help, I forgot about it. 4 hours later the shell is empty and there is just one huge damp chick with a HUGE belly. It can hardly walk.
Seems like chick #2 probably died and is inside chick #1.
I have suspected that this has happened before.
This morning it is just fine, waddling around.

That is seriously freakin' weird.

@kajira Here are the requested pictures
Buckling
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Doeling on left buckling on the right.
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Making a big batch of stock. Again. (Last of the stock from the carcasses for the cull.) Deja vu all over again. Once it settles down into a nice simmer, I gotta head out and work on moving brush and setting up paddocks. No rest for the wicked...

- Ant Farm

 

[LittleLakePhil]

It's been pouring for almost two weeks here, it's finally started to dry up, I got a decent harvest today. I hope to have four or five times that in a couple weeks.
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Nice Dan

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I like the new format just fine - some things are better, some are worse. IDK about anyone else, but I'm just super busy with outdoor stuff plus work, so I'm not on as much, or I read, but don't post.



Happy Birthday!!!!!



Weird - I actually am MORE likely t get on another thread in the new version than in the old. I think it's just patterns of clicking and navigation we get used to.



That is seriously freakin' weird.





Making a big batch of stock. Again. (Last of the stock from the carcasses for the cull.) Deja vu all over again. Once it settles down into a nice simmer, I gotta head out and work on moving brush and setting up paddocks. No rest for the wicked...

- Ant Farm

This format reminds me of the old desktop version.......i liked the old mobile version.
It worked better on my phone which is all I use. But this version does pics better for sure

 

[duluthralphie]

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Yep. They act up, give 'em back. I get to spoil them, & Mama gets to deal with them. Paybacks can be a beech

Yeppers,, Grandkids are great...

I get from my kids....."You can't give them that..or Do that with them"...


My response is always the same. I am grandpa, I can do anything I want.... Now the kids have picked that up too..

"He's Grandpa he can do what he wants"... I love em!!!

And Payback is..

 

[daxigait]

So... I lost my sweet Chrissy tonight. I made the decision to let her go after seeing how her quality of life had just plummeted.

I didn't post the details here but she was suffering.

Thanks, y'all, for offering advice and support. I got to spend 6 more precious months with my little girl.

So very sorry
Loosing any pet to death is hard, but the ones we are closest to and have to choose to let go...

 

[daxigait]

@LittleLakePhil Happy belated birthday!
@kajira I am a bit short on does after last week, though that Boer is for sale since I kept her sister last fall.
@Pensmaster sorry I missed you!
Where are Abi, Sally, and ChickenCanoe?

 

[kwhites634]

@LittleLakePhil Happy belated birthday!
@kajira I am a bit short on does after last week, though that Boer is for sale since I kept her sister last fall.
@Pensmaster sorry I missed you!
Where are Abi, Sally, and ChickenCanoe?

I think we've been banned in PA