Immmm sooo haaappyyyy~~~! I just candled my GHD eggs and a couple pf my crap eggs turned GOOOD again~~~!!! Surprise, surprise bc I haven't turned or eve looked at my 'duds' for about 6 days...
My HM incubator is 10 degrees too hot.. I'll have to drill more 1" holes into it.
And sad to say... my valentines day hatch id been looking forward to aren't doing too good... LOTS of dead cells, a few infertilities(too many hens w/ too little roosters). I think my temps may have spiked... but then wouldn't my GHD hatch have died? It's really too early, and the ones i'd laid down at the bottom(which will b my hatching tray) are good... what the flip-stix?
Just 6 days left b4 my (late) GHD chicks hatch~ I haven't scrapped any in a week~ I think I have 23 or 24/32 that are still good. My record for he last 3 years if they all hatch~~~!
Just a quick Q... let's say if you had chickens for several years and lived near a vacant lot. Some critchy people moved in an constantly griped about your roosters, every single day. And your allowed to have any kind of whatever u wat, as long as they're healthy and cared for.
Wha would u do?
A: tell them to get a life and bug off.
B: get rid of your roosters to please your deveish neighbors whom you detest.
C: join in on the fun your roos are having and start a crowin' too.
D: something else.
I, personally, would join the roosters and start crowing until the annoying jerks moved away. Did that several times to my grandma's neighbors. To this day, the record of ppl livi.g there was like 6 months~~~!!! I would make a reeeeally mean politician! Vote for meeee~!
~JuSt JoKiNg PpLz~
Congrats on the developing eggs!
On the eggs in the tray below looking good, do you have a fan in the 'bator? If not, that tray would be cooler, possibly saving the eggs if you did have a temp spike.
On the neighbors... if your allowed to have the roos remind them you and the roos were there first. Do be aware that deliberately provoking them is probably a bad idea, I've heard of 'accidents' happening to roos when their owners were out. I also try to keep a reasondable number of roos... when my almost 30 young boys hit crowing age there was a drastic thinning of numbers. Next door can just get over the 3 crowers I have now but I don't expect them to put up with 30+! DH would probably have killed me anyway if I'd wanted to keep them all!