Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[DMRippy]

Ugh. After my swaps/purchases are all in, I think I'm seriously done for a good long while. I'm pulling far too many clear eggs. I can't justify $17 or making soaps/candles for the chance to get one chick. From all of these swaps, I have 5 turkey poults, 1 buff orp, 6 marans and one silkie. That's from a minimum of 13 swaps! I'm just not having any luck this year from shipped eggs.

I am with you there. I just candled 120 eggs tossed over 1/2 and the ones left are 95% mine. Sucks.....

 

[Lilwanis]

Brine him for 24 hours and then cook him. Or at least let him chill out in the fridge for a day. It will help the muscle to relax and improve on any cooking results. Good job by the way. It's never fun, but is necessary.

We were going to leave him in the fridge until Friday morning and then do a crockpot recipe of some sort for the day. Is that too long in the fridge? I thought I had read 3-4 days...

Thank you for the support. He was a pet to start, but was just too mean. He has drawn blood from my son a few times. My son is 13 and taller than I am by about an inch. I am 5'10. Anyway, the point being, if he could do that kind of damage to my big kid, my two year old was in real danger. He was also throwing the hens. I feel a little depressed and am reminding myself of the reasons...

 

[ProfTi]

Dear Wonderful and Responsible Chicken Owners,

My name is Jane Doe. I am just poor little mystery chick looking for my way in the world. I was born on the rough side of tracks and my irresponsible and neglectful mom found me riding the rails in the huge scary incubator. I mean I want to grow up and be a professional skateboarder someday, but at about 12 hours old, don't you think I am still a little young? So after riding the rails for hours among all my brothers and sisters (I think SHE might have killed them because they are just sitting there like blobs while there is an earthquake right under their feet), my so called mom opened up the incubator and let in all this super cold air and then skeeched and promptly grabbed me by the legs and tossed me out into the cold dark world, abandoning all the other babies and leaving me cold and alone.

Is the such a thing as Chick Protective Services? Because, I can't totally sure because I wasn't born yesterday, but I think she is an imposter!!! I am nothing more than a lonely, lonely baby in the world but there is something quite wrong with that mama hen if you ask me. It seems to me that she at least have feathers, unless that rooster has been after her too much! I dream of some beaver clear family where the world is warm and safe and I get tucked lovingly under the wing every night falling asleep to the sweet coos of a mama who loves me.

Alas, this is not my lot in life. I was born into a cold harsh world where I somehow fell through the cracks of the great turning rack in the sky. Why or why couldn't I have been born to one of you mamas and papas that are so keen to adopt and who have lost so many babies already, instead of this shumck? I am reaching to you to help me find myself. Please, oh please, can you at least tell me what I am?

 

[DMRippy]

Dear Wonderful and Responsible Chicken Owners,

My name is Jane Doe. I am just poor little mystery chick looking for my way in the world. I was born on the rough side of tracks and my irresponsible and neglectful mom found me riding the rails in the huge scary incubator. I mean I want to grow up and be a professional skateboarder someday, but at about 12 hours old, don't you think I am still a little young? So after riding the rails for hours among all my brothers and sisters (I think SHE might have killed them because they are just sitting there like blobs while there is an earthquake right under their feet), my so called mom opened up the incubator and let in all this super cold air and then skeeched and promptly grabbed me by the legs and tossed me out into the cold dark world, abandoning all the other babies and leaving me cold and alone.

Is the such a thing as Chick Protective Services? Because, I can't totally sure because I wasn't born yesterday, but I think she is an imposter!!! I am nothing more than a lonely, lonely baby in the world but there is something quite wrong with that mama hen if you ask me. It seems to me that she at least have feathers, unless that rooster has been after her too much! I dream of some beaver clear family where the world is warm and safe and I get tucked lovingly under the wing every night falling asleep to the sweet coos of a mama who loves me.

Alas, this is not my lot in life. I was born into a cold harsh world where I somehow fell through the cracks of the great turning rack in the sky. Why or why couldn't I have been born to one of you mamas and papas that are so keen to adopt and who have lost so many babies already, instead of this shumck? I am reaching to you to help me find myself. Please, oh please, can you at least tell me what I am?

It is BARRED

 

[ProfTi]

Of course my side of the story is a little different.....aren't they always?????

 

[ProfTi]

It is BARRED

I don't think I had any of those.....

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

It is BARRED

Don't cha mean he is barred

And Profti you are to funny! Now I know why there is no more Kahlua on your swap page

 

[ProfTi]

Don't cha mean he is barred

And Profti you are to funny! Now I know why there is no more Kahlua on your swap page

Maybe that's how he fell from the great turning rack in the sky!!! He doesn't look like anything else I have and he is really big! I though he was a poult at first.

 

[flocksalot]

The last time my hubby was home I gave him a box to mail back to me. It had 4 Midget White turkey eggs and three eggs from fertile myrtle a hen we can always count on. He took them to Colorado by way of Missouri from Wisconsin. He mailed them three days later. I did this because I had someone with all clears and I know I have good hatch rates, so I needed to see what would happen. One of fertile myrtles is developing. Two were clear. Two turkey eggs were clear one is clearly scrambled, and one is developing, but not at the rate it should. All have detached air cells. The PO killed my babies. On the other hand my sister in law sent me two dozen of their eggs. One was clear. Twenty three are developing. They came in perfect order from western Minnesota. I'm wondering if its the hub that they go through? How they decide to X-ray or not? And. If there is anything we can do about it?

 

[ProfTi]

I don't think I had any of those.....

HAHAHAHHA.....took me a minute. I am a little slow of the draw, hence the mystery chick.