"gambling" with fate to defend my eggs' life (he/she make it!!!!)

[GreenGoddess]

Morning I believe.. Is it, 11 hours difference? I think so...

Goddess

 

[FenDruadin]

Yup--I believe they are precisely 12 hours (or 13 depending on daylight savings) off of CST in the U.S. At least, that's what I remember from our trips to Thailand many years ago, and I believe they are in the same time zone... All right mulia, set me straight, what time is it there??? And are you in the same time zone with Thailand?

Also longing for an update, but I guess you have to sleep some times!

 

[wegotchickens]

Mulia, I have a broody hen, too. I take her out of the nest and lock her away from it to try and keep her from being broody right now. She can be broody later, but right now I don't have any eggs she can sit on, too.

Maybe put a bucket or other obstacle in her 'nest spot' after you collect her egg? Also, don't wait until she gets up, but gently push her off the nest and take the egg. I usually talk to mine when I do this, telling her not be silly, now is not the time for her to set. After I take the egg and pet her a little, I pick her up and take her away from the nest area.

Yesterday I had no internet at work or home all day due to bad storms messing up the lines. Maybe Malia hasn't posted for similar reasons. I sure hope everything is okay!!

 

[mulia24]

@ GreenGoddess : wew, glad to hear someone waiting for me.

no, i don't talk about it.

em, i think this is because the different time zone in which we live, if you stay in USA, it could be morning or noon now, but here is now evening, it's 8:40 PM here today is 21st august over here. different isn't it? and yesterday my phone that i use as modem (since it's cheapest i can found in my country

) got trouble can't access abroad site but can access local site without having no problem. and today is a busy day cause my "waitress" didn't come so i have to work by myself and i got very disturbing power outages for 3 and half hours

so i've to run up and down stairs to light up my kerosene lamp, even i got 2 times surprise. first my bator temp reach 41 deg, made me like "crazy" to decrease the temp and second when i looked again about 1 hour later, i found it only 35 deg, wew, "push" me hard to close some ventilation to increase it temp without having to add kerosene lamp , what a difficult/hard day . oh, my hen didn't broody anymore since my duck always disturb her "throwing" water and mud to her when "flapping" their wings.

thank you for wishing me the best.

@ pjbmaker : you are right, maybe it caused by time zone, i'm sleeping when you are working and i'm working when you are sleeping.

could confusing if i send a roost to USA, maybe he will (OMG, what's the english of making sound by roost to wake people up) "sing" at midnight and sleep at morning.

but i think roost isn't too stupid.

 

[mulia24]

@ imcuriositycat : yes, exactly, i have the same time zone with bangkok , capital city of thailand. GMT +07, you can see it by double clicking your left mouse to clock that located below of your screen (in case you're using wi***** (i don't want promote any OS) ) choose time zone tab and just left click once at drop down menu that show GMT +xx:xx . i'm sorry if you've know how to do that since it is very easy, maybe another didn;t kno so this such an instruction

. by the way, i think we have no time saving here, remind me if i were wrong that daylight saving was invented by Benjamin Franklin, wasn't it? thank you for anything you've done.

@ wegotchickens : yap, my hen also has stopped being broody since she "suffer" "free fountain" made by my duck flapping their wings

. wow, very good, thank you for your advice, i can do that in another time when she get broody and there are no more "free fountain" that make her understand that that's not a good time and good place to get broody.

you're absolutely right, bad storm and "hard" rain happen everyday here for 6 months and drying for another 6 months, that's why i said that in my coun try we only met "mr rain and mr dry". hope there is snow here.

thank you for your advice and help.

 

[GreenGoddess]

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Yes, you are 11 hours ahead of me... Sorry to hear your hen didn't stay broody.. Could have used her to finish incubating the eggs while you build a styrofoam incubator for the next batch.. Not sure if you have read the post but I have also built my own incubator.. I'm having a hard time keeping the temp from fluctuating, especially at night when it's cooler in the house but not nearly as many problems as you are having with your power going out all the time.. I congratulate you for the hard work you have put into trying to get your eggs to hatch and wish you the very best.. As i said before, I am on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens..

Goddess

 

[mulia24]

by the way, i'm asking my friend who owned a "farm or ranch? to say a place in which you have many chicken that laying eggs and you sell eggs and chicken." i asked him to provide me 1 "box" of hatch able eggs, it's about 40 eggs if i'm not wrong, he said he will send it to his house at Saturday night and i can take it on sunday. but since he have or sell no "domestic chicken like i raised" so he only have chicken that have good eggs producing and meat producing. he said that if the eggs hatched, and grown older and start laying eggs, the hen will lay eggs for 8 months (full production), and after that the hen will be useless cause you feed normally with only low production of eggs, so the full production of this (he said this chicks named "arabian chick" (if i'm not wrong all of this chicken only have brown feather) is only 8 months, after that it will not be "prospective or gaining" if i still keep them, he suggest me to slay and eat them or sell it. i said to him, i buy those eggs only for 1 reason i just want to have chicken that hatch by my incubator and "know" me as "dad" to be raised, i'm not thinking to "tortu**" them to gain eggs. i can eat the eggs when they're producing and not gonna using any kind of medicine or drug to make her laying more. for information, i don't like to have my chicken use any medicine to increase eggs production or make them "heavier". i like them to be "nature" made one. i just feed them with corn, cracked corn, leaves of banana, vegetable and sometime rice and any scraps from my kitchen. so, i'm planning to turn the "styrofoam" box i bought 1 week ago to be an incubator to hatch 40 eggs that i'm going to get 2 days later. but, i feel sad cause i can only hatch and raise that chicken that have been produced only to be "eggs and meat producer". can we "crossing" chicken? could my "domestic roost" "doing his job" to an "arabic chicken" since they have different "breed". please anyone give me suggestion and advice to this plan. i think that some people will think that i'm a greedy one since i've not hatch my 3 left eggs and now try to hatch another eggs in this country of power failure, am i a greedy man? is a man greedy if he only want chicken to be played with, chicken that can produce him enough food from only his backyard? chicken that "will" hatch from his own made incubator in very very hard country that didn't supporting him by always running out of power? thank you for any comment, protest, advice and suggestion.

by the way, i even haven't done my coop yet.

 

[wegotchickens]

You can interbreed the chickens!
And even if peak production is for only 8 months, they will still lay eggs for you after that. Just not as many.

What will you do if you hatch a bunch of roosters? Eat them?

I don't think it's greed. This hatching thing is an adventure. You are proving you can overcome the elements in your country. Just be prepared to learn from any failures. Too much emotion is the dangerous thing, because hatching babies isn't easy even for us with constant power.

Roosters crow in the morning. I have 5 and each crows a different 'song'.

 

[GreenGoddess]

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Honestly Mulia, I personally don't think you are greedy at all.. I would call you "very determined"! You already have the basic knowledge of building an incubator.. You can now put that knowledge into your styrofoam incubator and it will be better than the one you have.. You may still have temp fluctuations but hopefully not as severe.. Also remember, it's not the temp of the air in the incubator that's important.. It's the temp in the eggs that matters the most...

Goddess

 

[mulia24]

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wew, it's 9 AM in USA, isn't it?
no, it's good for her to went unbroody now since she has no fertile eggs and she is nesting in dirty and wet place that could easily make all her eggs broken if not taken quickly after being laid.

yes, that's the idea, using her to incubate 3 duck eggs that survive my power failure country but can't do it since she will make the eggs broken by sitting it on wet and dirty ground.

waw, that's good, you can just place the link to your post then i and other can take a look and learn your bator construction.
thank you, i also wish your incubator work well and hatch the best chicken ever