Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[srpaint]

BTW they are laying GREAT right now... yours will be coming soon. Maybe next week or the week after (4th or 11th). I may have to set some but yours will be right after that.

Thanks!! No rush.

 

[AyeUpChuck]

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Normally I don't post this sort of thing but if you go to the link above they're giving a $15 credit to the store and they have a shop right now called charm on the farm that has some REALLY perfect chicken decor and kitchen stuff!

 

[tazcat70]

I have some Wh Ams in the bat or right now, out of 22 I have 5 that might make it. The air cells are all wonky and had a few blood rings. I am hoping that they pop out easily on the 6th.

 

[Brookhavens]

Just went out to the coop and what did I find (lying on the ground rather than in the nesting box, but hey)? My first pullet egg!

My cuckoo marans/white rock cross has laid her first egg! It's little but not teeny, about as dark as her mom's but it has speckling on it She's five months and one week old today. Her brothers were all big enough to slaughter at 12 weeks, and pretty meaty. I want to give her some time to settle into a routine and see how she lays and how large her eggs look to be before I decide for sure, but I think I may just have to hatch myself out some more utility layers!

Best feeling the world. When mine started 2 weeks ago I actually had to look twice at them before I realized what they were.

 

[chicken fever]

was building new pens today and well...i was a dummy and accidentally put a staple thru My finger with the air compressor staple gun! it hurts...but those pens sure are looking purdy!

 

[DMRippy]

was building new pens today and well...i was a dummy and accidentally put a staple thru My finger with the air compressor staple gun! it hurts...but those pens sure are looking purdy!

My hubby did that with a NAIL gun just hit the edge of his finger..... blood dripping all over my clean floors too LOL..... He also fell through the ceiling when I was 9 1/2 months preg. His pelvic bone cut his urethra. He had blood coming out places men should not bleed out of. He was fine it healed on its own. SO Don't fall through anything.....

My hubby is a klutz like I have never seen before.

Remember it is all for the CHICKENS.... more pens, more chickens..... PUSH THROUGH THE PAIN. The chickens NEED YOU! Hope it is not hurting TOO bad. Those things hurt worse the next day.

You will post pics right?

 

[Brookhavens]

was building new pens today and well...i was a dummy and accidentally put a staple thru My finger with the air compressor staple gun! it hurts...but those pens sure are looking purdy!

Did that once with a regular staple gun when I was like 14. Could not imagine doing it with an airgun. I remember I was to afraid to tell my mother so I pried it out with a screwdriver just enough so that I could pull it out with a pair of pliers.

 

[KYTinpusher]

I couldn't understand why my chicks were making so much noise a couple of hours ago.

It was dark in their room and they should have been asleep. Turns out, my NYD chicks WERE asleep. but the 3 just hatched blue Orps were making all the racket!

Still waiting on 1 BBS Orp and 4 SFH.

 

[Daloorashens]

While I completely agree with survival of the fitest...I have no choice but to use a heat source for -40 below here! Its only a few days each winter...and mostly -30 thats an extreme weather condition and for that they need heat...when it gets above -15 -10 heaters go off...

Yikes, that is extreme... I would be heating in that case, too!!

It was last spring. I had gotten my Ams and they had started to lay. I was hatching EVERYTHING so I could get a jump on chicks. I was splitting the Ams with Hot2Pot I could not afford them all. Anyway. It was my second hatch of them. I had SBEL and Ams and maybe something else. Had a near 100% hatch. 18 chicks 3-4 were lavenders. I was so excited to get some lavenders. Anyway it was getting late and I decided to leave them in the hatcher over night. Came in the next morning, looked at all the chicks DEAD everyone

it was 118 in the hatcher. Hubby had not come in to the shop, he was outside so I stepped out and told him and he thought I was kidding.

Why would I joke about dead chicks??????? It was a sad sad sad day. It was the END of the WHT. I may have had to do one more hatch with it. But it was replaced ASAP with a digital. The cost of losing the chicks was WAY more than the digital thermostat. It has worked PERFECT since. I have extras around just in case.... takes too long to get here in an emergency.

Oh my, that is sad!! WHT is the wafer thermostat, right?? making me nervous.. that's what I use in my hatcher.. the other is digital.. guess I better start looking for a digital to trade it out....

So I'm sure some of you will think me crazy but we raise mice to feed my 2 snakes. It's cheaper and I get healthier mice then what the pet stores sell. I have 2 breeding females and just added a third. Needless to say 2 snakes don't eat that many mice. Any extras are put down and feed off to either the dog (only one will eat them) or the chickens. So today I put 3 small mice down and feed them to the chickens. It was quite a hoot watching the carnivore side of them come out.

My chickens love mice, too... It is funny to watch them chase each other around for the best part of the 'treat'' ew

I couldn't understand why my chicks were making so much noise a couple of hours ago.

It was dark in their room and they should have been asleep. Turns out, my NYD chicks WERE asleep. but the 3 just hatched blue Orps were making all the racket!

Still waiting on 1 BBS Orp and 4 SFH.

Yay!!!

 

[Brookhavens]

WHT = Water Heater Thermostat. I had a similar problem with the first one I had installed in my coolerbator. It still kept the temp but it started making the bulbs flicker and then burn out. I replaced it with a wafer and we are all good now.