Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Bits a this, bits a that.

A Bitsa

SHRA SVP

 

[Ponypoor]

Leave me to punchline my own jokes please. Smartypants

Still owe a SHRA SVP

I like stripes and wattles and babies

You should know this by now

 

[Ponypoor]

Science has finally cloned a feather duster, and made it into an acceptable chicken breed! I’m impressed!

But… would HRH see Henny as a chicken? She lays pink eggs… !

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Disaster...I didn't notice earlier but kiddo put the incubator all the way hot. It is 109 degrees F and has been for nearly 7 hours...are they cooked? Dangit I wish I had caught it earlier. maybe I'll get lucky

Oh no, so sorry, but temperatures like that can kill embryos in a matter of minutes. For 7 hours? Those eggs might not be alive anymore.

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Oh no, so sorry, but temperatures like that can kill embryos in a matter of minutes. For 7 hours? Those eggs might not be alive anymore.

Although I think you should keep them incubating. There might be a chance that some survived.

 

[Ponypoor]

Disaster...I didn't notice earlier but kiddo put the incubator all the way hot. It is 109 degrees F and has been for nearly 7 hours...are they cooked? Dangit I wish I had caught it earlier. maybe I'll get lucky

Cross your fingers and hope for the best. Might be a good idea to put up on a higher location.

Kids, always into something. What I did was escape and go down the elevator to the ground floor were some biker found me I was 18 months old… what a brat eh?!

 

[Ponypoor]

Although I think you should keep them incubating. There might be a chance that some survived.

Yep

It’s an older bator so temps likely not all that steady I bet. I say stay the course and lock the system away from little Einsteins she will be an engineer one day I bet

 

[notabitail]

Xzit still broody:
She likes the fan.View attachment 3892236

She's a fan of the fan.

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

She's a fan of the fan.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone. I'm honestly trying to not cry while fiddling with this dang temperature knob. On the plus side...there are 8 still happily tucked under my silkie broodies. And I'll make a little mark where the knob is supposed to stay in case it gets bumped again. I temped all the eggs, they're sitting between 106F and 111F.

If they do die I'll have to figure out a way to tell kiddo so she doesn't do it again but she isn't devastated. I know I would have been even as a 3 year old if I accidentally killed eggs...