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

[Lazy Farmer]

Just found a half-dead chicken on our property - but all of our black birds are accounted for..... WTF.

I wonder if our little dog brought it home from down the road or something? he brought home half a deer leg the other day too. LOL

Your dog has Fox Bloodline in him..lol

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I like waking up early, so I try to set my alarm in winter to not sleep past 8am.

I'm outside before 6, since I can remember. I have a built in clock. Over a dozen Roosters crowing starting around 4:30 helps too. One starts and its like a crow fest.. non stop. Spread out on a 2 acre area. Some are faint(the far ones) and some are like freight train horns(backyard one).

 

[kajira]

I'm outside before 6, since I can remember. I have a built in clock. Over a dozen Roosters crowing starting around 4:30 helps too. One starts and its like a crow fest.. non stop. Spread out on a 2 acre area. Some are faint(the far ones) and some are like freight train horns(backyard one).

I can't hear my birds crow - we have a brick house and it pretty much drowns out almost all outside noise.

When the big roosters are right by the house after the kids get up and let them out of the pens for the day I can sometimes hear them if they are right by a household window.

 

[BullChick]

The brooder is set up (Duckling was happy to help), and I have a question. I'm leaving soon, and undecided. Six Amberlinks, or choose "something else (they didn't know the breed)" and risk males?

 

[kajira]

The brooder is set up (Duckling was happy to help), and I have a question. I'm leaving soon, and undecided. Six Amberlinks, or choose "something else (they didn't know the breed)" and risk males?

Can you get a few amberlinks and then a couple mixed/don'tknowbreed for fun? That's what I would do - and then butcher the males later if needed.

 

[Christinecam]

Good morning! Not sure what happened to my posts..
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/whats-up-with-this-bug-eyed-chick.520571/page-2
Here is the link to bubble eye seramas!
My little Pop eye is doing okay. She has infections in her eyes. She getting nutri drench and drinking by my hand. Applying to her eyes 2x a day.

 

[duluthralphie]

For some strange reason it not getting the media attention. The Vegas shootings had news broadcasts for eons of hours straight. This last attack was a quick report and vanished from the spotlight pretty quick..

It did not have a firearm involved so it does not serve the media's purposes to dwell on this.

 

[duluthralphie]

I took the batteries out of 3 wall clocks for an hour before bed.... I refuse to be a slave to day light savings time
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Do you take the batteries out for 23 hours in the spring?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I slipped in the barn on Rooster poo. Fell down and busted my butt. Now it has even a bigger crack in it.

I can't hear my birds crow - we have a brick house and it pretty much drowns out almost all outside noise.

Lol.. Ours is total Brick and solid. Double pane windows. We are lite sleepers and have a buttload of Roos. Nothing but jumbo breeds. We recently took on more Roos. The beauty of being breeders. Folks that buy our straight run chicks call us back and ask us if we know anyone who wants a free rooster(s).. We take em back.. Keep em separate for awhile for bio hazard reasons for a bit. Then stack em in the freezer like little succulent legos.
I should do a roo count again just for my own sake.

Meanwhile--back on the Brick House thingie, I love my power bills in the Fall/Winter/Spring.. The brick holds the temps and we really almost never use the central heat. We keep a fire going almost no stop and circulate the warm air from the den to the rest of the home. Last January our electric bill was in the 60's. They don't read our meter every month anymore. They go by an average power consumption. We just place a call to request a meter reading because we don't have to blast our air condition as much.
I don't believe in that average consumption garbage..
They have RF technology now and the guy doesn't need to walk up to the meter to read it anymore like the old days. Just drive by slowly while the meter talks RF to his computer and beeps for conformation of completion. What a load of fecal matter that average consume use is.. WHAT A SCAM.
When Hurricane Irma knocked our power out for that 7 days, the power company still billed us for 4 weeks! DH spit nails at them and they put credit on or next bill but still got their money that month. How many people did not notice they were being ripped off and just AUTO PAID their bills?

Coming soon, Rooster inventory... AGAIN?

Do you take the batteries out for 23 hours in the spring?

I heard a couple states are trying to do away with day light savings, did I hear that right? It was on the news last night while I was being over powered by the sandman..

62*F!

Was 64* here... FOGGY FOGGY wow

I wish I could explain time changes to the dogs, goats, and chickens.

All my critters have Farm meetings.. I am never invited. I am sure that discussion has come to the table.

I need to get me one of those! Soon as the current alarm clock breaks, anyway. It's 30+ years old and still going. Laugh away, Abi

Ours is the same one used on the set of "Leave It To Beaver".. It is old.. Solid State made in USA.
It's sitting right next to our Betamax & lava lamp

Silent alarm? How does that wake you?

10,000 volt zap!

So it is a dead end as an income source! Bread for your own consumption!
Try to breed somthing exotic I once mentioned this bird the Tinamou that have wonderful eggs

and they are a very popular meat birds in South America, or breed guinea fowl for meat, or quails for meat and eggs.

Does all the hens Turtle Wax their eggs as they plop out or is that sold separately?

@daxigait you are missing a terrible lot on FB most good sales and quality finds will be in our groups. not many even bother with CL anymore Thats why I am on FB for my pups poultry and now goats.

I am recently investigating FB for poultry in my area. CL is failing us anymore. CL users are wanting something for nothing anymore. And most don't bother to read the ad details. Times have changed.

STOP TEXTING ME... PLEASE>..
We put in every ad "PLEASE NO TEXTING" but still almost nothing but texts off subject of the description placed within the ad..

Told this to my husband. He asked why I hadn't hugged him. I said because he was in dirty clothes (he was) and he asked..."Do you think your chickens are clean?"
He has a point.

Make him wear rooster pajamas!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Make him wear rooster pajamas!

I will tell him this as soon as he comes in!