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

[Wickedchicken6]

Chrome = Google = soon they will control everthing

Embrace the control.

 

[BantyChooks]

Embrace the control.

Don't. Rebel and go back to IE.
(Just don't complain when it crashes)

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Banty, I'll be setting around 30 duck eggs either this week or next.

Will you be joining the Halloween HAL?? It's be eggciting!!

 

[BantyChooks]

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

I kind of miss my old temperamental LG. It was fun to use. I made my current one too well---I just stick them in the autoturner, candle when I wanna, and lockdown in 18 days. It's bad of me but I'm not even checking the thermometers more than maybe once a day once it's stable.

Speaking of incubators, I ought to finish the upgrades for mine.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Well I remember that the hatch was a while ago. I just did not know how many poets who ended up with. At least you got a few.

Benny is very into poets. ... (Just teasing)

 

[Lazy Farmer]

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.

He got worse and worse.. Especially when the ladies ovulated..
Our Replacement Buck is a teddy bear.. Wanna hug him?
THIS WAS BAM BAM... Before he went Loco..

These are photos when he was young and loving.
I will post photos later if I get on the computer. My tablet is limited. Bob has zillions.
A week before he was put down, DH went into Bam's pen to repair something and he blind sided him, hooked DH by the ankle while he was on the ground and dragged him about 10 feet to the corner and pinned him down. DH yelled out to me and I came out to the garden hose and got him away. He kept going up and down on his hind legs and showing Bob he was the King of the farm. They hate water so he backed off. Bob stomped into the house yelling and cussing and returned with his 357 Mag. I was balling crying and begging him not to shoot him. He fired 6 shots into the ground and Yelled "you may be king of the farm but I God @#$&%$#@.
A week or 2 later he busted out and stroked out Miss Shelia. Shelia was Bob's baby. His first Goat ever.
He said Go shopping... NOW! I came back a couple hours later and No more Bam Bam.
He was named RHODIE before he started destroying everything... renamed Bam Bam accordingly in his later years.
He was my first baby goat ever.

 

[BantyChooks]

He got worse and worse.. Especially when the ladies ovulated..
Our Replacement Buck is a teddy bear.. Wanna hug him?
THIS WAS BAM BAM... Before he went Loco..
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These are photos when he was young and loving.
I will post photos later if I get on the computer. My tablet is limited. Bob has zillions.
A week before he was put down, DH went into Bam's pen to repair something and he blind sided him, hooked DH by the ankle while he was on the ground and dragged him about 10 feet to the corner and pinned him down. DH yelled out to me and I came out to the garden hose and got him away. He kept going up and down on his hind legs and showing Bob he was the King of the farm. They hate water so he backed off. Bob stomped into the house yelling and cussing and returned with his 357 Mag. I was balling crying and begging him not to shoot him. He fired 6 shots into the ground and Yelled "you may be king of the farm but I God @#$&%$#@.
A week or 2 later he busted out and stroked out Miss Shelia. Shelia was Bob's baby. His first Goat ever.
He said Go shopping... NOW! I came back a couple hours later and No more Bam Bam.
He was named RHODIE before he started destroying everything... renamed Bam Bam accordingly in his later years.
He was my first baby goat ever.

 

[BullChick]

I don't listen to anyone here. If I did, there's no way I'd get them. Too much hassle.
What I'm doing is learning from a friend that can give me the basics without dumping extra stuff or "whatifs" on me. That's what I have done for every other animal I have owned.

We all have our different ideas on right and wrong. If I were to listen to the woman that I got my ducks from, I am doing everything wrong with everything down to my hermit crabs. Ralph he says that the only thing I'm doing wrong with my ducks is keeping them alive.
So Dax is the only one really scaring me. I am not ignoring her!

Nahhh. Just a learning experience. A gross misconception of just get a goat and they eat everything and end of story. I have learned so much. the hard way.
If I had to do it again, I would. I love them.. Lots and lots of fun.. a wonderful return on labor and efforts.

What I thought 7-8 years ago.
Goats are as cheap as dogs. $40 was average around here for a pygmy of either sex. Vaccinate once per year. They are browsers. They prefer to sleep elevated.
My late brother-in-law had goats. I was used to them jumping the fence only when no one was around, but staying close. They would always return to the barn at night.
Now I'm understanding that they need additives and medicine weekly?
I get hoof trimming. Especially here. The buildings are on cement pads, but I'm sure I'd have to trim their feet.

No, they are a blessing most of the time. They just have to be monitored well because they can be quickly susceptible to problems.

Do they need all of the things that you talk about if they are kept clean?

I enjoy your contributions!!!

Because I'm quiet anymore! I miss playing Marco Polo, and smacking Chaos. He'd shake his bunny butt, and I'd smack him more. We would freeze people's computers...

 

[BantyChooks]

We would freeze people's computers...

You only froze mine once, despite your best attempts

 

[Lazy Farmer]

He got worse and worse.. Especially when the ladies ovulated..
Our Replacement Buck is a teddy bear.. Wanna hug him?
THIS WAS BAM BAM... Before he went Loco..
View attachment 1151549View attachment 1151551 View attachment 1151550
These are photos when he was young and loving.
I will post photos later if I get on the computer. My tablet is limited. Bob has zillions.
A week before he was put down, DH went into Bam's pen to repair something and he blind sided him, hooked DH by the ankle while he was on the ground and dragged him about 10 feet to the corner and pinned him down. DH yelled out to me and I came out to the garden hose and got him away. He kept going up and down on his hind legs and showing Bob he was the King of the farm. They hate water so he backed off. Bob stomped into the house yelling and cussing and returned with his 357 Mag. I was balling crying and begging him not to shoot him. He fired 6 shots into the ground and Yelled "you may be king of the farm but I God @#$&%$#@.
A week or 2 later he busted out and stroked out Miss Shelia. Shelia was Bob's baby. His first Goat ever.
He said Go shopping... NOW! I came back a couple hours later and No more Bam Bam.
He was named RHODIE before he started destroying everything... renamed Bam Bam accordingly in his later years.
He was my first baby goat ever.

WHY ARE MY TREES PHOTOS IN THIS POST??????