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

[ChickenCanoe]

I've missied Telluride and Crested Butte. We have skied Wolf Creek Pass down in that corner.

I've also missed Echo Mountain, Eldora, Kendall, Powderhorn, Granby, Hesperus and Sunlight. I have made it to the other 16 ski areas, some like Steamboat and the 4 Aspen area resorts many times.
We've been to most in Utah and Wyoming too. It used to be much less of a rich man's sport.
Monarch and Sundance in UT are about the only places I can afford to ski any more.

I'm hoping to get 6 more breeding pens done soon so I can evaluate the hens I need to remove.
I don't need to continue feeding birds producing eggs I'm not going to use for hatching.

 

[aliciaplus3]

got the email today, cackle hatchery sent out my delaware and white rock chicks!! oh and the rhode island red babies for a friend that I get to keep till they are off heat. hmmm that means that friday I should get a call from the post office asking me to pick up my crying babies!! hip hip hurray!

 

[mlm Mike]

After a few days with temps pushing 60, temperature has dropped. We have a winter weather advisory, snow then freezing rain.

 

[Uff Da]

What breeds? And good morning

Icelandics. I hate to be one of those boring chicken keepers that only had one breed, but I'm not over my enthusiasm for them yet!

Our winter has been dreadful. And by dreadful, I mean mild. I like a good hard winter. It makes me feel more secure about the coming summer. Mild winters are followed by grasshoppers--good for the chickens but not for the gardens!

 

[mlm Mike]

I'm not going anywhere in this.
Good job national weather service.

 

[mlm Mike]

Icelandics. I hate to be one of those boring chicken keepers that only had one breed, but I'm not over my enthusiasm for them yet!

Our winter has been dreadful. And by dreadful, I mean mild. I like a good hard winter. It makes me feel more secure about the coming summer. Mild winters are followed by grasshoppers--good for the chickens but not for the gardens!

Mild winters here mean ticks, lots of nasty ticks.

 

[Uff Da]

Mild winters here mean ticks, lots of nasty ticks.

Oh ick. I have a mortal fear of ticks. My grandma died of leukemia, which she developed shortly after contracting Lyme disease. A doctor at the Mayo Clinic told us he thinks the Lyme disease may have triggered the cancer. Even though I doubt something like that would happen twice in the same family, I associate ticks with leukemia. I was 10 when she got sick, so I was just old enough to understand the medical discussions happening around me, but young enough to develop unreasonable fears.

Do chickens eat ticks? I know guineas do.

 

[mlm Mike]

Oh ick. I have a mortal fear of ticks. My grandma died of leukemia, which she developed shortly after contracting Lyme disease. A doctor at the Mayo Clinic told us he thinks the Lyme disease may have triggered the cancer. Even though I doubt something like that would happen twice in the same family, I associate ticks with leukemia. I was 10 when she got sick, so I was just old enough to understand the medical discussions happening around me, but young enough to develop unreasonable fears.

Do chickens eat ticks? I know guineas do.

Chickens eat some, guineas eat more. I'll just have to check me and the dogs more.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yes, I know time is flying too quickly!
22, 17, 11

wow! very quick, and so cool to see them grow, as well as some of the others we grow with on here! amazing!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Icelandics. I hate to be one of those boring chicken keepers that only had one breed, but I'm not over my enthusiasm for them yet!

Our winter has been dreadful. And by dreadful, I mean mild. I like a good hard winter. It makes me feel more secure about the coming summer. Mild winters are followed by grasshoppers--good for the chickens but not for the gardens!

great birds! Its nice to have one type that looks all so different!! and then breeding them is cool too. easter basket of chicks! thanks to Mike sending me eggs some time ago! <3