Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[madamwlf]

No different from eating quail or dove, right? Or see if you can sell them for cat/dog food for those who feed a biologically appropriate raw foods diet.

Yup, there you go. There is always someone out there that feeds RAW.

 

[Bettacreek]

Well, I brought them up twice with no response, even after texting him about them. If no response by the end of the night, I'm going to set up a time and day to go look at them and buy them. Hey, he knows how to make a "no" clear, like when I brought up emus, so if he really didn't want the turkeys, he'd say no, right?

 

[Bettacreek]

Sah, I forgot about that. Crud. I suppose I'll have to call the feed mill tomorrow and see what straight grains they have available. Gotta be cheaper than TSC anyways.

 

[SewChaos]

Yup, there you go. There is always someone out there that feeds RAW.

I hadn't thought of that.

 

[Bettacreek]

Wait! He DID say something about the turkeys! I said for that price, I could sell some at auction and make some money. He just said "IF you take them to auction." The guy had more than I thought though, so I won't be buying ALL of them, but hopefully he'll let me buy all nine hens. I suppose I could sell off a few of those. I want more hennies,but I suppose I could live with eight or so instead of eleven, lol. I did mention to him that I'd want to keep some of the hens for Hoover.

The turks are his favorite. He even came with for the other hens and paid for them. Plus he wanted me to look for more royal palms, lol.

 

[chickenbelle]

Okay everyone! I need help...AGAIN! The SBEL and two of the SBMs from DMRippy are hatched along with 7 lemon cuckoo orps. i have one more SBMs that has pipped, but not zipped. The eggs from gamebirdsonly went in 14 hours later than the rest and one of the OE has pipped.

Here's my problem. I set them in the egg cartons and that has worked wonderfully. However, my three oldest chicks that are now fully fluffed and dried are really tearing up the newly hatched chicks. They are trampling them, pecking, and biting at them all over! Leave them in or go ahead and slip those three out and put them in the brooder? These are the three that hatched last night and early hours of this morning.

Or should I quickly pull out the egg cartons and shells that are taking up space and hope that curbs the biting? Leave them alone?

 

[chiqita]

I go away for the weekend and it goes insane around here!

Woohoo! My husband brought home a five gallon bucket of spent grains from a guy he works with that brews his own beer!! One more thing to cut down food costs! Between that, free ranging, and fodder... I think I can get my food cost down to $20 a month. At least, until the 79 quail eggs I have in the Bator hatch next week... Then I'll be up to like $70 a month. Luckily, quail seem to LOVE fodder, and once they feather out they will be getting that.

we are trying fodder, DH is very excited. he was telling the quails good things are coming, they told him go away big thing and bring scratch. We tried quinoa, flax adn wheat. Only the wheat worked.

Who has the MF leghorns? I am working on the Aloha project and I could use a few of them.

BM6

Super Bowl Bound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW THAT is a birthday present. But we are historcialy against you on this one. This reminds me to call my dad while he is still in love wit hthe world.

Oops haha I guess I should post the link
http://tampa.craigslist.org/hdo/grd/3559833003.html

OMG that is a good looking...something.. not a chicken!

I have isbars and I would say that they are a fragile breed, when I had a dozen eggs shipped only 5 hatched. I have to watch them more closely than any other breed I have.

ok, no isbars for me, I get upset enough when the bantams die, I have one hen who has super small showgirl babies, theya re so fragile.

It helps if you soak oats in hot water instead of cold. I find it sprouts much faster!

Ohh, does that work for other sprouts? good tip!

 

[chiqita]

Okay everyone! I need help...AGAIN! The SBEL and two of the SBMs from DMRippy are hatched along with 7 lemon cuckoo orps. i have one more SBMs that has pipped, but not zipped. The eggs from gamebirdsonly went in 14 hours later than the rest and one of the OE has pipped.

Here's my problem. I set them in the egg cartons and that has worked wonderfully. However, my three oldest chicks that are now fully fluffed and dried are really tearing up the newly hatched chicks. They are trampling them, pecking, and biting at them all over! Leave them in or go ahead and slip those three out and put them in the brooder? These are the three that hatched last night and early hours of this morning.

Or should I quickly pull out the egg cartons and shells that are taking up space and hope that curbs the biting? Leave them alone?

If they a re going mad pull em out. If its dry in your house make the bathroom steamy and pull them out in there to not loose humidity for pips.

 

[Herducks]

Saw this on facebook and had to share!

 

[debs_flock]

What will do you with the extra banty roos? That's my worry with the bantys, they're too small for freezer camp...

You've eaten (or at least seen) cornish game hens? And you can use anything, even an ancient tough serama to make broth.

Deb