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

[kwhites634]

What is a Maple bug? Is that the same thing we call box elder bugs?

We had an infestation of them once several years ago. I saw them so thick on a barn door that I couldn't see the door. They eventually went away & the ladybugs came in to infest your house. They pretty much went away, and for the last several years it's been the stink bugs

 

[Lazy Farmer]

They do use them for testing like that. The purpose is to use the chickens as an early warning system to see if the mosquito born illness is in the area. They will kill a chicken every once in a while to test for the virus.

All this box cages were placed around livestock zones. Especially Horse farm areas.
The signs were a warning not to tamper with the coops that they were state property and for Equine Encephalitis studies and prevention and violators would be up the river without a paddle.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

stink bugs

we have stinky stick bugs bad..

 

[duluthralphie]

We had an infestation of them once several years ago. I saw them so thick on a barn door that I couldn't see the door. They eventually went away & the ladybugs came in to infest your house. They pretty much went away, and for the last several years it's been the stink bugs

We have those "fake" ladybugs that stink and bite..Millions of them right now.. Give them 2 weeks and the below Zero temps will send them packing.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

We have those "fake" ladybugs that stink and bite..Millions of them right now.. Give them 2 weeks and the below Zero temps will send them packing.

That's a staple food for Ducks I hear..

 

[kwhites634]

I try not to laugh.. We are blessed to be mechanically inclined. It's just that I sell birds for 5 bucks to go into a $1200 house. I think it could be duplicated for a fraction of the price.
There also a since of satisfaction of building your own creation. Not to mention pride.
Do you know how many birds I have to hatch/feed/raise to see $1200 bucks? We should pre fab hutches and forget this egg factory thingy I barely profit on.

I duplicated my first one & modified it just a tad. Instead of the entry door sliding side-to-side in a track that has to be cleared of droppings on a daily basis, the copy has a vertical door....no track, no poop. Also added a cleanout door so I don't have to reach through a chicken door to rake old bedding out of the coop.

 

[kajira]

Read a book about labor that's geared more at labor support/and hospital staff. (but good read for doulas/husbands/labor support people, too, including positions, labor techniques, etc.)
Told my hubby he had a reading assignment.

He slept through my last labor. I told him I'd beat him if he slept through this one. LOL

 

[kwhites634]

Bowling nite...bbl

 

[duluthralphie]

That's a staple food for Ducks I hear..

Nothing eat these things. If DUx hate them I would look at Dux like I do my cats..

I hate cats...BUT I hate the things they eat worser!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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@ruralking.. I am in the wrong end of the bizzness..

What? You don't have 2 or 3?? You're not on trend, lady.