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

[BullChick]

Last night, Duckling moved a step stool in her room. Last month, I fractured my foot. An hour ago, I landed on the ground after falling from the sky, after going through the roof, after hitting my foot just right (or wrong) on the stool. I can’t believe I didn’t swear.

 

[Akrnaf2]

How long should hatching eggs be sitting out on my counter before I ship them? If I sold a dozen and am only getting 4 eggs a day, I would have to wait 3 days to ship them so I could get a full dozen. Which means a lot of the eggs would be sitting out a couple of days. Is that ok?

The viability drops in an average of 2% every day from laying.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Nice looking piglets. Congratulations.
Sometimes we had as many as 10 farrowing at a time, so we never assisted. Sometimes we weren't even on the farm which was about 100 miles south of home. Occasionally we'd lose a few but they were basically on their own. One of our neighbors had fancy automated (for ancient times) octagonal farrowing houses. Another neighbor ran all his hogs free ranging in the woods with no human intervention. He averaged just about 0.8 fewer weaned piglets per litter than the guy that had spent the 10s of thousands for the houses.
One of my jobs from the time I was about 9 or 10 was castration of all the males. It made my dad nauseous so he couldn't do it. Imagine an old pig/poultry farmer getting sick at the sight of minor surgery.

It isn't the surgery, it is the thought about the organs that have to be cut!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Last night, Duckling moved a step stool in her room. Last month, I fractured my foot. An hour ago, I landed on the ground after falling from the sky, after going through the roof, after hitting my foot just right (or wrong) on the stool. I can’t believe I didn’t swear.

What were you doing on the roof!!

 

[BullChick]

What were you doing on the roof!!

Going through it.

 

[BantyChooks]

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Got roosters? Yep. Need roosters? NOPE!

Got freezer space... kinda. It has half a cow in it but I could probably squeak some more skinny chicken in there.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Going through it.

Obviously!
Stop doing dangerous things.

 

[BullChick]

Okayyyyy.

 

[BantyChooks]

It isn't the surgery, it is the thought about the organs that have to be cut!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

there is something in your teeth.. looks like a tiny feather?