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

[daxigait]

@Pensmaster @Akrnaf2 life has been very busy so I have been long gone, but circumstances in both of your parts of the worldmade me want you to know that you have been in my thoughts and prayers between fires and bombs

 

[daxigait]

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Boy has she grown. I think we got more snow than you we got around 3 in.

 

[BullChick]

Oh my goodness the number of pictures I took of the snow out a truck window. I wish I could find the ones from ten or so years ago. I have some with mountain goats.

 

[BullChick]

I was surprised to walk outside into snow last night. We had about half an inch, and it was still coming down pretty good. This morning, the ground is almost totally bare again.

 

[daxigait]

that is here where I'm changing trailers in Monett we got about 3 inches up by my house yesterday started with rain and slushy stuffit finally settled on snow and they got about 3 in. Then it got really cold last night

 

[daxigait]

the chickens were all poofed up and the goats are shaking. We've been pretty warm in the fifties and then all the sudden the bottom dropped out. we hamad one real freeze and a couple of nights near in the low 30s and other then that always had several in the twentiex. That's the biggest problem here. Nobody can quite get used to things because of the swings we were 65 and then we were 16.

 

[daxigait]

@BullChick so how are your chickens? Have you yield to the goat Fanatics syndrome now?s

 

[BullChick]

It seems there are a lot of predators around this year. Especially hawks! I lost three in 2 days.
I’m down to 3 Pekin and my Muscovy was due yesterday. She has six eggs. This is her third clutch this year, and she only successfully hatched one, who died soon after. I’m giving her a few more days until I put her in the coop with the others.
Steven is in the coop with a SLW and RSL. I still have 3 SPR boys loose. One is sleeping in the open still, and the other two have taken to the woods. I’m still debating about them. I might be able to lure them into the coop.
No goats. The urge is still there though.

 

[BullChick]

SHE HAS A BABY!!!
Aretha has one little yellow duckling. And Maaco was told to stay off the sidewalk. He learned to stay away from the nest on his first day. Today he was flogged for being in sight!

 

[daxigait]

It seems there are a lot of predators around this year. Especially hawks! I lost three in 2 days.
I’m down to 3 Pekin and my Muscovy was due yesterday. She has six eggs. This is her third clutch this year, and she only successfully hatched one, who died soon after. I’m giving her a few more days until I put her in the coop with the others.
Steven is in the coop with a SLW and RSL. I still have 3 SPR boys loose. One is sleeping in the open still, and the other two have taken to the woods. I’m still debating about them. I might be able to lure them into the coop.
No goats. The urge is still there though.

I hope she is successful. I have not lost adults, but quite a few chicks. Only one cockerel, but nine pullets. So I had only a few pullets make it this year, and had to get rid of more then ten cockerels. I do have several that started to lay last month so they wlwi help this winter. It has been a poor year for eggs. Another four should be laying by February. I bought twelve Isa, but only these four have made it.