Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[CelticOaksFarm]

yes pming back now

 

[cluckitall]

So it looks like everyone agrees with limiting the time on eggs offered. I'll let the discussion stay open until tonight and we can go from there but it looks like we will be putting a limit.

I'd still suggest time limit and hens must be laying before eggs are offered, myself Suggesting this to keep me out of trouble as much as anyone!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

rhodebar trio are spoken for

ccl are spoken for


EE quad available:

 

[cluckitall]

Pretty, COF!

Whew, that was an easy fix -- I just took the tray out, turned it around, and slipped it back in real quick. Almost all of the breeds are in their own little compartment and the two that aren't should be easy to distinguish. Now I just have to ignore the incubator for two days...

Pysankigirl, that's miserable. Can your goat herder friend come over and work with her with you? That's a very unpleasant situation when you have that many animals and one you don't trust yet.

she turns into a GREAT guard beastie! (And hi! Haven't seen you in ages

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Yay for cheeping eggs, minihorse! Have a great hatch!

Okay, time for me to get back outside and on all the things I meant to do this morning, lol! Have a good afternoon, everybody.

 

[Bettacreek]

I personally won't offer eggs unless the hens are already laying and fertility tested. Even with that, I still owe a swap from forever and a half ago. Leave it to my birds to stop laying after their eggs have been claimed.

Krafty, you know I'm alright with waiting. I'm in no particular hurry to send eggs to their death right now... Nothing has been hatching very well for me and I lost quite a few birds the past two days with this cold snap. you'd think heat lamps would be sufficient, but apparently not.

 

[Bettacreek]

And, yes, I'll be 25 in less than a month. I was shopping for the kids swap and mothers day and started thinking that my nephew soon had to be shopped for... then it hit me, his birthday is my birthday and I'm going to be 25! Laugh all you want, but I almost started crying at Walmart. And I'm usually the levelheaded one. Mom actually asked if she was talking to my sister or me, because it's not like me to fret.

 

[caj1985]

And, yes, I'll be 25 in less than a month. I was shopping for the kids swap and mothers day and started thinking that my nephew soon had to be shopped for... then it hit me, his birthday is my birthday and I'm going to be 25! Laugh all you want, but I almost started crying at Walmart. And I'm usually the levelheaded one. Mom actually asked if she was talking to my sister or me, because it's not like me to fret.

You are just a baby! 25 is nothing. I hit 50 this year. Yes, I am a 1963 year model and proud of every minute of it. LOL You can't have a midlife crisis yet! You are just starting your prime years. Up to 25 you are just learning. After that comes the time to enjoy what you have learned.

 

[mzstre]

Since I'm waiting on over 20 dozen "spring" eggs due me, some swaps as far back as September, some form people active on BYC anymore, and some from people now banned.  I've seen people swapping breeds for current shipment while I'm still waiting for my eggs, and posts from people saying they're disbanding some breeds I'm still waiting for.  The previous discussion on this topic pretty much ended in "spring doesn't end until June 21 so you have to wait until June 21 before swappers are in default."  Some people I have PMd but they are ignoring my requests.  So I will wait until June 21, but then every last swapper who still owes me will be reported.  I will not claim future eggs anymore.  I support the 2 month restriction.

I also think it's not fair to ask the person you claimed from to change the swap.  "To ship tomorrow"  means that, not shipping in two weeks.  If you can't take the eggs tomorrow please don't claim them.  There is a reason for "hens choice".  Please don't ask for specific breeds/colors if you claimed a "hens choice".

Well said.

They are beginning to wind down a bit right now. We are down to eight eggs a day currently. Depending on who's still laying if they go below say six eggs a day with mostly same genetics laying I will get concerned about too much inbreeding. This happened when the UW had possession of them and some individual breeders that took the stock in have did much work to correct the problem. Others not so much. Too much inbreeding leads to severely reduced fertility very quickly in this breed. Happens in all breeds, but because it did happen and I'm lucky enough to have them I get a little protective. If I know people will be keeping for breeding and not just eating or selling them I want to ensure they get a wide range of genetics. Im working on securing another set of genetics and have a lead on one more. yes i know whos who and who mated who and who laid which egg. These are like children to me and yes I'm weird, but hey I'm momma!

As for shipping poults I'm really nervous about it. I would need some major input. Newly hatched poults should not get wet. A wet poult is a dead poult. Wish I could set up a turkey train. Send me a PM and we can see what we can work out.

. Brandi here's my naughty little girl.

and here's one of her brothers. See the difference in the snood. I'll get the head angles later so you can see the rounded for boys and triangle for girls.

Such cuties! I'm REALLY hoping for 2 girls out of the 4, but with my luck they'll all be boys lol!

 

[Bettacreek]

You are just a baby! 25 is nothing. I hit 50 this year. Yes, I am a 1963 year model and proud of every minute of it. LOL You can't have a midlife crisis yet! You are just starting your prime years. Up to 25 you are just learning. After that comes the time to enjoy what you have learned.

G will be 65 at the end of June. He thinks it's funny that I'm freaking out about turning 25. I'm not in the whole "that's funny that you're freaking out about turning 25" camp. It's just depressing. I'm going to be 25, no longer a "baby" and where am I? I didn't finish school like I wanted to, I'm not working and I WANT to be. With G's health not being so perfect and him being one of those stubborn old men, I worry about him too. He's been sick for over a month now with some chest cold. He FINALLY got some antibiotics, but sheesh... I'm not big on taking drugs either, but if you need it, you need it. 2 weeks is my max before I decide that it's enough and get something for it. But, the freak out is because I just feel like I should be so much further in my life than I am, with a career. God forbid something happens to G, because we rely on him. If something happens to him, we're sunk on so many levels. Maybe it's the depression or the fact that he just recently told me that he has COPD and now the kidney issues and the chest cold from hell, but I'm fretting about losing him (okay, well, he's actually in excellent shape for a 65 year old man). He's our brick wall, he's the kids' dad, even if he's not biologically their's. I SHOULD'VE finished nursing school a year ago, now I have to restart. I've been dealing with major depression the past year, since I had to leave school. Now, it seems like all of my endeavors are going sour. I lost four birds last night and four yesterday. I lost three seramas, two quail, a royal palm poult, a mixed breed and my D'Uccle roo. The marans chicks were killed last week. The big birds were fine with them for the longest time, and then bam, they went on a killing spree... In all honesty, I think it was the oldest poults. They've been getting a little nasty lately and one is going to have to go for sure... It started kicking at other birds. While it's still small and hasn't gone after people, I have never had a poult kick anything before, so I am afraid that it might be an aggressive tom as it ages and I can't have a 20lb+ bird that is potentially dangerous. THEN, with this frost last night, I forgot to bring in the grapes and strawberries. I haven't even had the heart to check on them and the raspberries, because more doom and gloom is just more than I can handle for today.

 

[flocksalot]

You are just a baby!  25 is nothing.  I hit 50 this year.  Yes, I am a 1963 year model and proud of every minute of it.  LOL  You can't have a midlife crisis yet!  You are just starting your prime years.  Up to 25 you are just learning.  After that comes the time to enjoy what you have learned. 

I hit the big 50 late next month. Time sure flies when you are having fun. I keep telling my 30 year old that he's old, but then he asks me if that makes me ancient. Twitt! I'm blonde, very light blonde, so I'll go white and its hard to see those white hairs, but my 30 year old has some grey in his brown. I think that's hysterical! Poor boy always getting picked on by momma! Then he reminds me I walk with a cane like an old lady. Snot.

I raised him by myself so he has my sense of humor.