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

[Akrnaf2]

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.

The Orpingtons

The Barnevelders

 

[BantyChooks]

Your complaining because you're incubator does "too good" of a job??? Did you fall an hit yer head or something??????????????? View attachment 1151572

I just liked messing with it. I don't get to do that any more.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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.

I'm not as familiar with goat testicles. But that looks like a very nice set! (Sorry, couldn't help it)

I'm so sorry that it had to go down that way. Your Bam Bam sounds like here. Over the years the odd ram seems to have it out for DH...they'll watch when he's not looking and catch him from behind. They only "try" it once with me. I'll catch 'em and put them over on their back for a bit and smack their underside. They won't touch me after that. A fellow breeder showed up at the show one year with a broken leg at the thigh. Her ram was the cause. Closest thing here to that was our darn llama that lost his mind. We had him castrated when he was 4 and he'd been with the ewes for years when he started getting rough with them. He started picking them up by their backs and legs. He hurt one so we pulled him and he went in with the rams until he passed.

Your Bob sounds so much like my Dh. Dh is so easy going...but when the foxes got his little oegb rooster last year, he was . I showed up early at the farm the next morning not knowing he'd already made the rounds. I wondered what he was doing by the house...until he dropped two foxes stage left by our bins. I like to tease him all the time...but it really surprised me with how upset he was.

 

[dan26552]

got a pic??

Unfortunately I don't. My gold cockerel is only 3 months and my silver pullets aren't laying yet. The cross though should yield silver Roos and gold hens.
https://minifluffsrabbitry.weebly.com/wyandotte-chicken-color-genetics.html

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Ours are pygmy.. our average local price range is 90 to 150 clams. Bucks on the low end. We castrate all baby bucks.

Mine prefer a fresh dry hay bed to sleep.

Monitor bowel movements (you want berries, not clumps), weight loss and check for signs of anemia by pulling down their bottom eye lid and checking the color. It should be pink. If white, they have a low red blood cell count and it needs to be address asap.
WET GRASS SEASON is bad news for goats. We dewormed a lot during the summer this past unusually wet year. Annually vax's with us.
We have a mobile vet who taught us a great deal.

If your concrete is brush swept finished that is super duper. That is very course and will grind the hoofs nice. If it is smooth, the will be like humans walking on ice. My barn is smooth finish concrete, they have a hard time stablizing on it.
Some people dremel hoofs. We we have clipping shears and we file finish with a #2 bastard file.
If you stay on top of it. It takes only a couple minutes a hoof.

You really have to do all that for goats? I'm was thinking abouts goats...everyone's bad enablers here. I didn't realize they required that. I think sheep are my thing. Dh will be happy...I've been asking...

The piglet is par to the course. That's why they have up to 15 because of the fatality rate and risk factor.
The roo was pedigree. that upset me. We profit off that particular breed.

Par for the course but I still greatly dislike having anything die. Yep, softie here.
It's always got to be the best/favorite...always. As in the case of your rooster.

Do you have CRS too?

Crazy rooster syndrome?
Cat rat sneezes?
Kooky rough sand?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

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

I was no. 1 helper building our giant egg house (slave laborer). That's how eye learned. We have 20" center.
The Master worked me like a dog.
Only photo on my tablet

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I just liked messing with it. I don't get to do that any more.

.... I think everyone else in the world might thing that was a good thing?? I "could" be wrong though.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

You really have to do all that for goats?

If you care for them.

Par for the course but I still greatly dislike having anything die. Yep, softie here.

So many fatalites. Had a 800# sow lay down on an entire litter once.. that sucked.. One or 2 becomes an acceptable out come years later. Early days were rough.

Crazy rooster syndrome?
Cat rat sneezes?
Kooky rough sand?

"Can't Remember $&%#"

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I caught up!

Goats here, especially small ones bring a lot of money. I'd say $100 - $500 depending on what it is in the spring sales I DIDN'T go to the sale last weekend. So I didn't get fall prices. I'm very proud of myself. I couldn't bear the thought of all the precautions/cleanup I'd have to make. Makes me tired. I like my birds...don't want anything else. i do like to see the prices...but it wasn't worth it to me this fall. I've got enough going on without that extra travel.

Two morning ago I was surprised to find two new friends. So I think Pensmaster is very correct with the theory that it was a skunk/s that got my roosters. That's 4 just last week. And it's the first time the coyote trap has made a catch. It's come to my attention the cage doesn't have a door plate like the regular sized cages do. That makes getting close to the cage a bit more interesting... The skunk to the right in the coyote cage was enormous. And heavy. Haven't seen many that big. I think that trap is 54 inches long (if i remember correctly) It just fit in the box of the truck that's 58"

So yesterday morning I went to go home...and we have a very large canid type species eyeing up the coop and rabbits. I wasn't able to take it down...but I've moved the big trap out to field that's upwind of the farm and baited it with the good stuff. I did still use marshmallows (in case Banty shows up) but I cracked out the big guns.
Bacon Gone Bad...coming soon to a theatre near you. (It's a western) So nothing caught last night...but I'm/we're on high alert.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

If you care for them.

So many fatalites. Had a 800# sow lay down on an entire litter once.. that sucked.. One or 2 becomes an acceptable out come years later. Early days were rough.

"Can't Remember $&%#"

Of course. I thought they were more on par with sheep. I don't have to do anything of that with sheep.

Yes, the big ones can. But I've seen guilts do it too. I liked them to be sensitive to where the piglets are and the piglets crying out without eating me alive at the same time. It's a hard combination to master and I didn't personally have pigs long enough to select. ANd at the barn...they're farrowed in crates so it doesn't come into play. I always think its funny to have people still ask me if I have pigs. I haven't had pigs for 28-29 years! Or worked at the barn since 2000....too funny. But time goes by so fast...people don't realize how many years go by.

Hey, yep! That's my syndrome.