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

[Fire Ant Farm]

Awe it was such a picturesque coop and yes sleep is a good thing



Work went better than I thought it would. If it's a small splinter have you tried packing tape on it. Sometimes it will get them when nothing else does. I might be able to try the water dunk this weekend but we didn't get over 70 the past couple days and it's been windy.
One of the DC eggs is oozing.

So, here's the thing. We have these trees (saplings) that are acacia relatives, and they have thorns all over the branches, but some are very small. When you have a brush pile or a cut branch you reach down to move out of the way, you don't realize it's ONE OF THOSE. They are small enough to work deep, and it's completely buried. I'm just going to have to wait until it works it way out or gets yucky and I'll pop it out (with much pain). But I will totally keep the packing tape thing in mind for when it's still at the surface - a great idea!!!!

Ain't it pretty? Was built as a screenhouse over 50 years ago, and then got turned into a storage shed, a playhouse, and finally, a coop. Seems a shame to burn it.

I'll bring the marshmallows!!!! (Can we roast a mink over the fire?)

I know.....i have a metal roof on my house.... best thing I ever did.... snow slides right off

EVERYONE has a metal roof here. Different reasons, though.

Maybe they acclimate like we do. I've noticed mine acting like it was 100 out the other day it was only 80. But when the real weather kicks in they all do fine. Well as fine as a chicken can do at 106

This is definitely true. My NNs were acting like wimps on the first few hot days this year, and now could care less.

I've thought of it before. I might, someday... Certainly not with this coop, lol... Just hasn't been much of a priority. I think something chewed on the cord because there was an exposed spot... Six inches lower and the coop would have been toast. The bedding was very dry and dusty.

If I had any cord that wasn't in conduit, it would get chewed within the week... Too many critters...

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

So, here's the thing. We have these trees (saplings) that are acacia relatives, and they have thorns all over the branches, but some are very small. When you have a brush pile or a cut branch you reach down to move out of the way, you don't realize it's ONE OF THOSE. They are small enough to work deep, and it's completely buried. I'm just going to have to wait until it works it way out or gets yucky and I'll pop it out (with much pain). But I will totally keep the packing tape thing in mind for when it's still at the surface - a great idea!!!!



I'll bring the marshmallows!!!! (Can we roast a mink over the fire?)



EVERYONE has a metal roof here. Different reasons, though.



This is definitely true. My NNs were acting like wimps on the first few hot days this year, and now could care less.



If I had any cord that wasn't in conduit, it would get chewed within the week... Too many critters...

- Ant Farm

Oh, those things are awful. Don't know if we're talking about the same kind, but I have a similar spiked tree here... If you step on one of those things barefoot, it HURTS.

Sounds great!! Yes, marshmallow and mink roasting party at 10PM on the 26th of June.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

My old house had one. Used to give me quite a start in the middle of the night when it would slide off. Got used to it eventually.


Great idea. Yes, they have been drinking like hosses. Especially the poor chanties... They looked like they needed to go for a swim.

One of the hot weather "rules" is to have multiple water sources/types of delivery, so that if one of them fails or has a catastrophic leak or something, they won't die of dehydration while I'm at work. Hence the waterer and the pan. The pan gets gross quickly if they walk in it a lot, but it's water, and they can't tip it. I want to change the bell waterers to a more automatic waterer fed from a Igloo cooler, so they have more cool and fresh water. But the pans stay. Too much of a risk.

I actually decided not to do some work related travel in July because I don't have the watering system set up yet, I trust my chicken sitter, but it's too much to manually ensure sufficient water daily, and I decided I couldn't leave. (Well, ok, so I didn't really want to go to that meeting anyway...)

- Ant Farm

 

[rIrs roost]

What the humidity suppose o be at lockdown? And when I see the firs pip what do I set it at? In a still air bator

 

[BantyChooks]

We agreed to never discuss the video, so why bring this up????

I was thinking more along the lines of say, getting stuck in MN...

One of the hot weather "rules" is to have multiple water sources/types of delivery, so that if one of them fails or has a catastrophic leak or something, they won't die of dehydration while I'm at work. Hence the waterer and the pan. The pan gets gross quickly if they walk in it a lot, but it's water, and they can't tip it. I want to change the bell waterers to a more automatic waterer fed from a Igloo cooler, so they have more cool and fresh water. But the pans stay. Too much of a risk.

I actually decided not to do some work related travel in July because I don't have the watering system set up yet, I trust my chicken sitter, but it's too much to manually ensure sufficient water daily, and I decided I couldn't leave. (Well, ok, so I didn't really want to go to that meeting anyway...)

- Ant Farm

Check on that. They have 1--3 1 gal pans plus a duck pool filled with water. They're hard to get into, though, so I'll provide some easier to access water.

 

[BantyChooks]

Jace's baby would have killed herself today had I not been out there... Second time in a week she tried to commit suicide... First time she jumped into the duck pool, and today she got a bowl flipped over her. Would have died in under an hour of heat stroke. It was already heating up under there due to the strong sun when I found her a minute later. Phew.

 

[BantyChooks]

What the humidity suppose o be at lockdown? And when I see the firs pip what do I set it at? In a still air bator

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[Fire Ant Farm]

Oh, those things are awful. Don't know if we're talking about the same kind, but I have a similar spiked tree here... If you step on one of those things barefoot, it HURTS.

Sounds great!! Yes, marshmallow and mink roasting party at 10PM on the 26th of June.

Well, we have SOME that have 2-inch long spikes that hurt like h-e-double-hockey-sticks, but you can see them. It's when you reach for what looks like a normal piece of wood that has near microscopic ones in them that you get these. I'm not sure what's worse.

But it's ok - I have lots of training. When I was very very small, my father used to raise cacti. I've lost track of the number of thorns that I have had pulled out of me, and at a young age learned to pull them out myself. (On rare cold nights, we children, as the labor force, moved ALL of the cacti into the garage.) There's this one cactus called the "bunny rabbit ear" cactus (it's opuntia something or other), because it has pads shaped like bunny rabbit ears.

It had these little brown fuzzy-looking spots on it - looks like velvet, like something a small child might like to pet. Well, those spots were packed with THOUSANDS of minuscule thorns. When I was three years old, I reached out and grabbed one. Needless to say, my mother has never let me forget the ordeal (as she had to remove the hundreds and hundreds of tiny thorns from my hand as I wailed and screamed).

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Well, we have SOME that have 2-inch long spikes that hurt like h-e-double-hockey-sticks, but you can see them. It's when you reach for what looks like a normal piece of wood that has near microscopic ones in them that you get these. I'm not sure what;s worse.

But it's ok - I have lots of training. When I was very very small, my father used to raise cacti. I've lost track of the number of thorns that I have had pulled out of me, and at a young age learned to pull them out myself. (On rare cold nights, we children, as the labor force, moved ALL of the cacti into the garage.) There's this one cactus called the "bunny rabbit ear" cactus (it's opuntia something or other), because it has pads shaped like bunny rabbit ears.

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It had these little brown fuzzy-looking spots on it - looks like velvet, like something a small child light like to pet. Well, those spots were packed with THOUSANDS of minuscule thorns. When I was three years old, I reached out and grabbed one. Needless to say, my mother has never let me forget the ordeal (as she had to remove the hundreds and hundreds of tiny thorns from my hand as I wailed and screamed).

- Ant Farm

OUCH. I had a similar experience as a kid with some sort of tree that had hair like spikes.. Forget what kind it was but I sure don't forget how it felt to get them yanked out with duck tape. Goes without saying that I never touched it ever again.

 

[BantyChooks]

Night all, I'm beat....