Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[mzstre]

I am so excited. One of my Sumatras laid her first egg today.

Sooo exciting to get that first pullet egg! Congrats!

 

[MrsMoonCat]

I am so excited.  One of my Sumatras laid her first egg today.  e

Congratulations! Gotta love our Sumatras

 

[Daloorashens]

I'm unsupervised all winter.

It will be easy to grow out chicks and have them in the flock before he has time to notice!

Ok, now that is funny!!

I have 7/7 SFHs from KYTinpusher developing on day 8!!!

Yay for all the developing eggs, that is awesome!!

I am so excited. One of my Sumatras laid her first egg today.

Yay again!!!

Speaking of how tough chickes are... the other day for some reason I remembered something from when I was younger.. I had chickens as a teenager, it was my project to keep me off the streets I guess (from my parent's point of view, lol) Anyway... I didn't have a bator, but I had some great bantam cochins that were awesome broodies, so I just stuck the eggs I wanted under those girls... After a little while I figured out how to shake the eggs very gently after about 12 days, I could tell which ones were fertile and which ones weren't, and throw them out... Sheesh, didn't know anything about aircells or anything (obviously) And if I remember correctly, most of those eggs hatched!! Tough little fuzzy butts!!

 

[cluckitall]

Aw that really stinks!! Can you see inside the eggs enough to see any movement? Is there really that big of a thermostat difference between still air and forced?! I know I love my forced air preset... Even when it got "cold" here and my still air hatcher was going wimpy on temp, that preset has never changed from 99.

Apparently there *is* that big a difference -- what keeps the 'bator at 100 degrees with fan on cranks up to 112 degrees with the fan *off*. (sigh...) Mine's a homemade jobby with a hot water heater thermostat. Once I get the temp set it stays steady as a rock, except for a brief drop when opening it. Stupidly, because I was candling, I unplugged the fan so the incubator didn't lose too much heat. Which is one mistake I will NEVER make again.

Sadly, no, at this point I'm not seeing any movement and it looks like what veining was developing has stopped. I'm not 100% sure, and it's only been a week, so they're all staying in for at least another four days. I'm so bummed, too -- WVstruttin and John both did beautiful jobs packing the eggs, and they arrived in great shape. I hate to have let their efforts go to waste as much as I hate having 'wasted' my lovely turkey and NH eggs!

 

[cluckitall]

Okay, I figured I had nothing to do. So here he is:

That's so weird! Except for the shank color, he looks *exactly* like my 6 week cuckoo marans/white rock cross roos! Well, the shank color and the flecks of color in his wings -- but the barring, crest, head and general build are almost identical!

 

[cluckitall]

Beehappy, what beauties! I like your little gray mutt Happy

!!!

 

[cluckitall]

I am so excited. One of my Sumatras laid her first egg today.

Congratulations, caj!!!

 

[KYTinpusher]

We are now 2 months into this thread and we would like to make sure that everyone is meeting their obligations in a timely manner. If you have claimed eggs before Nov. 2nd (unless the offer stated there would be a delay) and have not received them or a DC# that they have been sent, please PM me with the details. If you have claimed PP and it has not been sent within 3 days, also let us know. We will try to make sure we keep on top of any trends.


Here are this week's current standings as of 5:30AM, Fri. Nov. 16. For all potential new swappers, we welcome your participation, but please read the rules on page 1, post #1 of this thread.

Game #1 - Whenever someone goes over 7 swaps, they lose 2 swaps the following week. The first person to catch it and post "Jinx"- (name of person going over), gets an extra swap in the current week. If crazypetlady (CPL) goes over, everyone gets an extra swap that week, and the first person to catch her and post "Jinx-CPL" gets a special prize of eggs from CPL. Start stalking!


Game #2 - Whoever claims the 50th, 75th, and 100th swap of the day (yes, I think we will get up that high this spring or before) will win an extra wild card swap to be used in the winner's week of choice.


Those in red are done swapping until 12:01 EST on Sun. Nov. 18. Those in yellow are getting close to a limit.


*current offer


# swaps Elapsed time
h/m/s
babymakes6 4

2:14:00​

Bhep 2

0:42:00​

birdnbeast 1

5:39:00​

caj1985 2

5:33:00​

crazypetlady 3

20:54:00​

debs_flock 2

0:12:00​

DMRippy 1

0:42:00​

emvickrey 3

2:47:00​

Herducks 1

0:16:00​

John farmer 2

12:39:00​

kraftyladies 2

4:57:00​

KYTinpusher 1

1:53:00​

madamwlf 3

0:37:00​

Overoberyl 5

0:45:00​

RedBrush Farm* 3

11:36:00​

reesepoultry 1

0:24:00​

wayne813 3

11:37:00​

Below is a list of the new swappers that still have to complete their initial 7 swaps, so are limited to one swap at a time until each one is verified. Once you have been cleared by crazypetlady, kraftyladies, coffeekittie, babymakes6 or madamwlf for another swap, you may claim another, regardless of what my list says. I don't keep track of whose swaps have been verified, just the swappers that need to have that done. My list is only published once a night, but your swapping status may change a few times during the day. Once all of your 7 initial verified swaps are completed, your name will be moved to the big list. I may not have everyone's name here that is already swapping, but all new swappers will be added here until I hear differently. As long as all your previous swaps have been completed and verified, you are good to go! Happy swapping!


Current Week Elapsed time
Swaps h/m/s
alisar 0

0:00:00​

checoukan 0

0:00:00​

chicken fever 1

13:02:00​

chicken stalker 0

0:00:00​

Chicky Dee 0

0:00:00​

Dahlisgrams 2

4:01:00​

deelake71 0

0:00:00​

filumene 0

0:00:00​

JulieNKC 0

0:00:00​

mendocinosunris 0

0:00:00​

mstricer 0

0:00:00​

MyTDogs 0

0:00:00​

pastrymama 0

0:00:00​

Phage 0

0:00:00​

Sahwithchicks 0

0:00:00​

superjjf 0

0:00:00​

tadpole98 0

0:00:00​

Suspended list: The following swappers are prohibited from claiming additional swaps until further notice.

funnmomm
wayne813

 

[RedBrush Farm]

Just wanted to apologize to everyone for holding up the swap last night. I should have put a PayPal on before I went to bed. Please forgive

Billie Sue

 

[KYTinpusher]

I have finally finished a summary of all the swaps since the beginning of this thread. It is sorted according to each swapper and includes the swaps you claimed and the ones you promised. It can be accessed here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Am7IlDTXygsBdGZ5Vi1ta0lFRmY4UHhiRGhYdHFpcXc

Disclaimer:This spreadsheet is for reference only. I believe all are valid swaps, but I may have missed a roll back or two. If you find a mistake, let me know and I will investigate it.