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

[Akrnaf2]

I have "King Creole" stuck in my head. Anyone got another earworm to replace it with?

tutti frutti

 

[BullChick]

I've been told after the fact-

Never open the lid.View attachment 1272603
Never touch w/o gloves.View attachment 1272603
Never unzip, peel membranes! They will be special needs chix.View attachment 1272603
Never touch until day 23.View attachment 1272603

Guess what. I open my lid constantly.View attachment 1272598
I never wear gloves.View attachment 1272598
I assist all the time.View attachment 1272598
I remove first hatches and lamp dry them.View attachment 1272598
I have excellent hatch rates as well.View attachment 1272598

Point your finger at the monster!View attachment 1272606

Don't look at me..
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I'm hideous!​

I got tired of it too. Even by people that apparently didn’t realize that they were attacking. I try to remember to say, “I do it this way” or “but there are others that disagree” to discourage the mean people.

I have "King Creole" stuck in my head. Anyone got another earworm to replace it with?

“It was an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka dot bikini...”

 

[kwhites634]

I have "King Creole" stuck in my head. Anyone got another earworm to replace it with?

What's wrong with King Creole?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Have fun spending your next three paychecks at once

DH lost his composure at the feed store

A lady called and asked for a package deal on all our swine listed. Told Hub in a nasty snotty tone saying.. "well, I am a pig farmer and I know what pigs are worth" and a rotten disposition.
Rambo started raising his voice loud in the parking lot. "So you got for free... hundreds & hundreds of footage of fencing and posts, irrigation systems, panels, feeders full of magical free food, labor, needles/meds/vaccanations/vitamins, and your offspring appears out of thin air and free of charge from the pig fairy

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Then fed and raise them for 2 months with free food and labor to get them to 50 lbs. Then sell them for next to nothing because you spent nothing! No labor, no money.
(I am hiding in the truck now with the grandson) He yells in the phone again and says if she meets us at the feed store with her magical pig fairy and she waves her wand on our 2 flat carts stacked with feed that just cost us $482 to purchased, to have it magically loaded up, you can have the pigs for free.

Moral of the story is don't tell a pig farmer his prices are high 3 minutes after he spent $500 for feed and he is hand loading it.

But he is a good cook. So I put up with it.

 

[kwhites634]

I got tired of it too. Even by people that apparently didn’t realize that they were attacking. I try to remember to say, “I do it this way” or “but there are others that disagree” to discourage the mean people.

“It was an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka dot bikini...”

Doing good, now go ahead & finish it.

 

[BullChick]

Doing good, now go ahead & finish it.

That’s your job.

 

[kwhites634]

That’s your job.

I have the next line; after that, I'm lost

 

[microchick]

Hi guys. I'm baaaaack.

Back in the incubating business. Stupid stupid stupid broody is all I can say. She's a little spaz bantam. For two weeks she has been sniffing around being broody and two days ago finally acted like she was taking it seriously so yesterday afternoon I gave her 5 little bantam eggs that I had hoarded from my two tiny BBR girls that I got from Orscheln's last June. She was all over them like a good little broody, then I went in this morning and she was off the nest. Not unusual. She is usually off early in the morning and was back on before I was done in the coop. Went back around noon to take a partition out of the nesting boxes to make more room for her and she spazzes off again but gets back on the nest a few minutes later. Go back an hour or so later and there she is off the nest. Third time is the deal breaker. I grab my towel packed ice cream container and repossess my little eggs. There are two bantam cross eggs in another nest and I toss them in her nest and tell her that is all she deserves knock herself out and my 5 precious little eggs are now in the Brinsea.

I have a lot of hope resting on these little eggs. After heavy losses last year to Marek's I've been reading that the way to strengthen your flock's resistance is to breed your survivors to vaccinated birds. My two little BBR hens were vaccinated and my bantam cross boys are healthy and vigorous. I'm adding more vaccinated chicks this spring to flesh out the gene pool a bit but in the mean time........

......I'm a more dependable brood hen then my broody is.

 

[BantyChooks]

What's wrong with King Creole?

Nothing, except three straight days of singing it over and over is tiring.

Hi guys. I'm baaaaack.

Back in the incubating business. Stupid stupid stupid broody is all I can say. She's a little spaz bantam. For two weeks she has been sniffing around being broody and two days ago finally acted like she was taking it seriously so yesterday afternoon I gave her 5 little bantam eggs that I had hoarded from my two tiny BBR girls that I got from Orscheln's last June. She was all over them like a good little broody, then I went in this morning and she was off the nest. Not unusual. She is usually off early in the morning and was back on before I was done in the coop. Went back around noon to take a partition out of the nesting boxes to make more room for her and she spazzes off again but gets back on the nest a few minutes later. Go back an hour or so later and there she is off the nest. Third time is the deal breaker. I grab my towel packed ice cream container and repossess my little eggs. There are two bantam cross eggs in another nest and I toss them in her nest and tell her that is all she deserves knock herself out and my 5 precious little eggs are now in the Brinsea.

I have a lot of hope resting on these little eggs. After heavy losses last year to Marek's I've been reading that the way to strengthen your flock's resistance is to breed your survivors to vaccinated birds. My two little BBR hens were vaccinated and my bantam cross boys are healthy and vigorous. I'm adding more vaccinated chicks this spring to flesh out the gene pool a bit but in the mean time........

......I'm a more dependable brood hen then my broody is.

Hey!!

 

[hippiestink]

I have "King Creole" stuck in my head. Anyone got another earworm to replace it with?

Here ya go Banti