Feeling lost

[pbjmaker]

Well my last chick of the season hatched yesterday and I feel totally lost. No more random staring at the incubator. No more hunting down the "good" flashlight for candling. No more hallucinating "peeps" days before a hatch is due.

I was really wanting some "SQ" banty cochins this year to raise up for the state fair next year. - That didn't work out. But I did get lots of cute crossbred chicks and some darling starts to my sizzles.

Maybe this fall I will try to get some more cochin eggs - I just swore off winter brooding.

Well little incubator - its in to the garage for you...

(we need a sigh smiley)

 

[2txmedics]

thank you for all your help my friend, Im gonna miss you....

 

[FenDruadin]

Hee hee. I'm on my second incubation (and my last one for the year). I'm dreading the silence of the unplugged egg turner.

I feel for you.

You'll just have to break out the livestock catalogs and start dreaming and planning for next year. Just try to save a little money for buying fertile eggs, and don't spend it all on incubator equipment and cool new gadgets.

 

[ChickBond 007]

LOL, I just posted that the incubator was calling me from the storage closet... You make me laugh!

 

[FenDruadin]

Well, NewChickMom, after reading your thread about the Call of the Incubator, at least I know I won't have to listen to "silence" after all. There will be plenty of voices to fill the void of the egg turner's motor.

 

[pbjmaker]

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So you are saying I should wrap it in blankets and tape it in a wooden box so I won't hear it calling to me?

I have two of them you know... I think they talk to each other.


BTW - Buckette and the ducket crew are doing good. Looks like three girls and a boy. My husband is building them a floating duck house out of scrap lumber from our addition.

I'm gonna make a video of them later - after the building inspector dude comes by.

Yay for city inspectors

 

[ChickBond 007]

pbj - I can't wait to see them. I'm down to 3 teenagers, 5 ducklings, and the two old drakes. Coyotes got all of my egg laying hens.

 

[ChickBond 007]

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Sometimes the voices in my head are the only people in the house who talk nice to me....

 

[pbjmaker]

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Video is made - will be posting it in the duck section as soon as it finishes downloading to photobucket.

One of the ducks bobs her head incessantly and I'm trying to discover why.

 

[ChickBond 007]

Well, I've got a wheaten marans rooster who only hops. Feet are perfect, he just believes he's a kangaroo.