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krazykat0373 said:
wife, are you ready for eggs?
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Yes I am. Actually had to go out and buy 2 more incubators!!
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I think I went a little crazy!
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But yes yes I am and it is supposed to be warm again next week. I just wish there was a way to send eggs and to skip the only sorting center in our state!! Day shift there really sucks the eggs/chicks miss the truck everytime they arive there during dayshift even if it's at 8 am and the truck leaves at 12pm!!!
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I think next year I might just have everyone send all the eggs to my mom's house in NH and then just take bi-weekly visits!!
Does this mean I will be getting some turkey eggs soon?
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I have my first chick of the year hatching today! Its from my white cochin x silkie crossed with my lemon blue cochin rooster (bantams). I have a broody cochin and I gave her a few eggs to set. Unfortunately, she is in my lavender orptington pen and the other 8 hens prefer the nest box she is in. So at day 21 I brought her two surviving eggs in the house to hatch. They must have been a little chilly (its been below zero at night lately) because it's now day 25 and one is just starting to make its way out. The other one hasn't even internally pipped. I can't wait to see how cute it is. I love my mutts. The hen that layed the egg is my avatar right now. Super friendly and when she gets nervous she doesn't run, she spins in circles.
 
Well, today was a bad day. It started out ok but really has gone out with a bang. I got stuck on a two hour call this afternoon. During this time my cell phone kept ringing. I finally got off the call at 530, and listened to my voicemail. Turns out that my son had gone into one of his autistic fits. Screaming, throwing things, breaking furniture (he is a big kid, 5'11 at 13). It has been many years since he has been like this, and I was shocked to hear this. I tried to call his teacher, but of course it was too late. Then I texted my DH to see if my son had told him about it. He hadn't but told my DH that he hadn't been taking his meds for at least a week (I suspect my ex's influence here with his anti big pharma stances). Now I have to find out how to get him back on his meds. I scheduled an emergency therapy session for tomorrow, and I have to try to convince the school not to boot him out. I thought we were done with this phase of his life. Apparently his meds help him to live a normal life; more than I suspected. I can't stop crying, I had to leave work early as I could hardly function. My whole existence with my son has to do with being able to believe that he will be able to live a normal life in the future. I take it really hard when something removes some of that hope.

To top it off, tonight was the night I set to float test the eggs I had set. All were high floaters, no movement. They are two days late on fresh, not shipped eggs, so I wasn't expecting them to pass any test. I opened them up and they all died a week ago when the bator spiked to 104. It also spiked to 109 (why would an incubator even go that high!!!!!) I am not hopeful for the eggs that are in the other bator. They were in Spike when it went to 104. I am still holding out hope though. The new bator has been great. Steady temp at 99.5. No spikes or anything. I feel like crying.

Sorry for the rant...
 
Lilwanis said:
Well, today was a bad day. It started out ok but really has gone out with a bang. I got stuck on a two hour call this afternoon. During this time my cell phone kept ringing. I finally got off the call at 530, and listened to my voicemail. Turns out that my son had gone into one of his autistic fits. Screaming, throwing things, breaking furniture (he is a big kid, 5'11 at 13). It has been many years since he has been like this, and I was shocked to hear this. I tried to call his teacher, but of course it was too late. Then I texted my DH to see if my son had told him about it. He hadn't but told my DH that he hadn't been taking his meds for at least a week (I suspect my ex's influence here with his anti big pharma stances). Now I have to find out how to get him back on his meds. I scheduled an emergency therapy session for tomorrow, and I have to try to convince the school not to boot him out. I thought we were done with this phase of his life. Apparently his meds help him to live a normal life; more than I suspected. I can't stop crying, I had to leave work early as I could hardly function. My whole existence with my son has to do with being able to believe that he will be able to live a normal life in the future. I take it really hard when something removes some of that hope.

To top it off, tonight was the night I set to float test the eggs I had set. All were high floaters, no movement. They are two days late on fresh, not shipped eggs, so I wasn't expecting them to pass any test. I opened them up and they all died a week ago when the bator spiked to 104. It also spiked to 109 (why would an incubator even go that high!!!!!) I am not hopeful for the eggs that are in the other bator. They were in Spike when it went to 104. I am still holding out hope though. The new bator has been great. Steady temp at 99.5. No spikes or anything. I feel like crying.

Sorry for the rant...
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I just finished candling all of the eggs that I had due to hatch the beginning of this week (today is day 23 for the chickens and day 37 for the muscovies).
None of the bantam eggs that I had set were fertile.
Of 5 French White Muscovies that I had from Celtic Oaks, only 1 hatched, the rest died in shell and the one that hatched is all white.
None of my white midgette turkey eggs from flocksalot were viable, they were all scrambled (Thanks again, USPS)
I got 10 eggs from ReesePoultry's gorgeous silkies, one was cracked (but I waxed it) and three were completely scrambled (thanks again USPS).

I am bummed about the muscovies, I was hoping for one with a black tophat, but this one is a cutie pie nonetheless. I just wish the others had made it to hatch, I blame the post office for it, maybe I should have left them in standing pointy end down for an extra day? I don't know.

I really wanted at least a couple of those white midgette turkeys to hatch too, I can't find them locally and DH would not understand the expense of ordering poults. Bummer!
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I love that my mailman just comes in the house and puts the packages inside. I know that my eggs aren't sitting outside freezing while I'm stuck at work. He never asked if it was ok to do this. One day he knocked and before I got to the door he had already put everything inside. I just never told him to do otherwise. Oh, the joys of living in a small town.

About scrambled shipped eggs: Don't pack them too tight in the box. Leave a little cushion and wiggle room around them so the internal parts of the egg aren't absorbing all the vibration when the box gets tossed around and when they are being transported in a truck. Almost all my chickens are from shipped eggs. I've never had any come broken or even cracked, but I have had some that were so scrambled that most of them didn't even have a chance to develop.
 
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