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

[kwhites634]

You all will never believe this, but...

I have had an empty incubator for nearly a month now.

See, I said I could stop whenever I wanted too, and I did.

So, what if it's only a month.... Let me revel in my amazing self control for a bit.

You're right....I don't

 

[kwhites634]

Getting some from amazon. Thanks.

Did you know Amazon is buying Whole Foods?

 

[kwhites634]

Not even close....


Look again.. It s not like looking into a mirror, is it?

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[kwhites634]

I'll try, but I can't promise. The punctuation and grammar errors in that thing are bad enough to invade my nightmares.

Get Chaos to fix them

 

[BantyChooks]

Get Chaos to fix them

Chaos? He'd make them worse. Way worse.

 

[kwhites634]

How does one approach a skunk that has been trapped?



.Vewwy, vewwy carefully

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I know as a medical person you will go nuts on this..BUT my measuring system is dump enough in to make e happy. pump it and spray it..


I use 1 ounce to a gallon of water for disinfecting eggs (I actually measure) I use stronger in the pens as I figure it can't hurt to over do it.

Nope - I just figured that you are careful re: your birds and disease stuff. More sounds good. In the lab, the standard is to use 10% bleach to disinfect, so I'll just default to that, I think.

WAIT!

If you are told to expect the unexpected, then what about the expected, are you then told to unexpect that?

Well I got all five processed in about 3-1/2 hours or so - not bad. Needless to say, plucking was a LOT easier after scalding (never dry plucking again). They are resting nicely in the cooler with a bunch of ice now. Quiet day for the remaining three - they're trying to figure out what the heck happened. But I did find a bunch of scrapes and bruises on some of these under the feathers (did you know a chicken bruise is turquoise?!), confirming that their lives had been rough the past few days - they had a quiet day in the holding pens before the end, so there's at least that (though the ones who made the list for biting reaffirmed their place on the cull list - grumpy until the end).

I think I'm gonna watch a movie now. Something action-y so I don't have to think much...

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Nope - I just figured that you are careful re: your birds and disease stuff. More sounds good. In the lab, the standard is to use 10% bleach to disinfect, so I'll just default to that, I think.





Well I got all five processed in about 3-1/2 hours or so - not bad. Needless to say, plucking was a LOT easier after scalding (never dry plucking again). They are resting nicely in the cooler with a bunch of ice now. Quiet day for the remaining three - they're trying to figure out what the heck happened. But I did find a bunch of scrapes and bruises on some of these under the feathers (did you know a chicken bruise is turquoise?!), confirming that their lives had been rough the past few days - they had a quiet day in the holding pens before the end, so there's at least that (though the ones who made the list for biting reaffirmed their place on the cull list - grumpy until the end).

I think I'm gonna watch a movie now. Something action-y so I don't have to think much...

- Ant Farm

Harry Potter?

Library tomorrow... I'm gonna 'splode. Haven't managed to convince anyone to tell me what happens yet.

ETA: I did know that about the bruises. Sorta neat, huh?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Nope - I just figured that you are careful re: your birds and disease stuff. More sounds good. In the lab, the standard is to use 10% bleach to disinfect, so I'll just default to that, I think.





Well I got all five processed in about 3-1/2 hours or so - not bad. Needless to say, plucking was a LOT easier after scalding (never dry plucking again). They are resting nicely in the cooler with a bunch of ice now. Quiet day for the remaining three - they're trying to figure out what the heck happened. But I did find a bunch of scrapes and bruises on some of these under the feathers (did you know a chicken bruise is turquoise?!), confirming that their lives had been rough the past few days - they had a quiet day in the holding pens before the end, so there's at least that (though the ones who made the list for biting reaffirmed their place on the cull list - grumpy until the end).

I think I'm gonna watch a movie now. Something action-y so I don't have to think much...

- Ant Farm

Glad you got it over with and relaxing now! I thought everyone did the scalding thing. I've only done it twice though so . . what do I know lol

 

[kajira]

So - we are officially having twins for now. Unless we have vanishing twin, we should see heartbeats by friday-next week. I go friday and then again wed for follow ups for better measurements and to find a heartbeat.

Doctor down here is super awesome. I just wish he could deliver me, but hospital down here won't allow vbacs, or twin deliveries.