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

[BantyChooks]

The wall studs not 16" centered (between) or P.T. wall plate?

Pullorum-Typhoid wall plate?

That's what happen to those that make ellipses out of commas.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Goats on grassy plains are bad news for their footsies. We have been incorporating large boulder rocks for them to climb and walk on to dampen the burden of hoof trimming on said Goatie care takers.. us..hehe.

Omg...hoof trimming a flock/herd in your cases is awful.

I read in an old (70/80s)horse magazine I bought about picking for the stance of the pastern, it's more straight-legged than illustrations show on picking show. I thought it was a very progressive thought. So I've picked replacement stock based on that. I went from trimming the entire sheep flock that first year (37 with rams when I started...omg!) to none. My horse has never seen a farrier since she's been here...she was 12. She's 34. She wears off her hooves so evenly...she's like a dream. They used to trim cattle feet here...we shipped those animals and have been picking replacements with a good leg/foot stance. The only bulls that come home are ones with excellent feet. We haven't trimmed hooves since we took over the herd in 2011. Thankfully.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Howdy

Why Howdy rite back.. I do declare!

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[Lazy Farmer]

Pullorum-Typhoid wall plate?

Pressure treated lumber silly whillie

 

[Wickedchicken6]

On a different topic..
I am a hands on hatcher. I have autoturners but don't use them because..
A: I run still air and need to rotate position to evenly heat the contents of the bator.
B: I prefer to hand turn to simulate the Broody Hens effect of not a gradual turn but a abrupt knock over so to speak.
C: As well helps prevent contamination by a leaking dud.
I had a leaker a couple days ago. When I ran auto turners, those rotting duds would contaminate the water journals.
I was running 3 bators. (tri-monthly hatches) 1 died a couple months ago. The second died very recently, and the oldest which is old and the very first one I ever bought, is in lock down. Now my burden of babysitting the eggs is over. I have 3 days until I get to play egg lady again.. akward.. nuttin to do egg wise. I can stare at the aux meters and hope for a spike?

So are you trying to say you are missing the work??
I miss it for a while too when I'm done.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Omg...hoof trimming a flock/herd in your cases is AWFUL! Ugh!

I read in an old (70/80s)horse magazine I bought about picking for the stance of the pastern, it's more straight legged than illustrations show on picking show. I thought it was a very progressive thought. So I've picked replacement stock based on that. I went from trimming the entire sheep flock that first year (37 with rams when I started...omg!) to none. My horse has never seen a farrier since she's been here...she was 12. She's 34. She wears off her hooves so evenly...she's like a dream. They used to trim cattle feet here...we shipped those animals and have been picking replacements with a good leg/foot stance. The only bulls that come home are ones with excellent feet. We haven't trimmed hooves since we took over the herd in 2011. Thankfully.

If we stay on top of it, there is little to trim. Once it starts to curl.. it sometimes takes intervals to correct. Foot rot is DANGEROUS.. They ain't curling on my watch. Not mama's babies.

 

[BantyChooks]

Pressure treated lumber silly whillie

Not "P.T." It is 16" centred.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

My Nanny who stroked out from my big billy buck was due to deliver in less than a week. The Buck smashed thru a fence post and 8000 volt hot wire, came after Shelia who didn't want to mate. Chased her down, stressed and stomped her. DH had to drag her out of the pasture after goat roping the sob buck. Sent me shopping while he put down Bam Bam, and buried him. 12 hours later he buried Shelia with her twins still in the oven...

Are bucks that aggressive?? Wow. I always pulled my rams to have the girls on schedule...but I've never worried about them hurting the ewes/ewe lambs. There's courting and such involved...sort of like the cattle. She has to stand for him to try.
I didn't know that about bucks. Although I did have a really tall buck trying to pee on me when I was picking out our Suffolk ram. I got a lot of exercise that night.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

So are you trying to say you are missing the work??
I miss it for a while too when I'm done.

Just unusual to skip a routine. Got to fill the blank some how. The blank today was we removed 30' of fencing/barb wire-hot wire to make way for the last Irma damaged tree to fall. It is super windy today. The crack is opening and closing. Today might be the day it falls.
DH and his faithful super cool assistant. Removed the Property line boarder fencing and posts to save the material. Any second that baby is coming down.
These pics are from yesterday. The crack is so much bigger today.
TIMBER!

 

[hippiestink]

Can't wait to have the house and land, means I can have ALL THE CHICKENSSSSSS

Doesn't help that FIL enables me by gifting me his dad's incubator and rooster.