Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[ProfTi]

Update on the many, many starts I owe:

There is still 6 inches of snow in Minnesota!!! I cannot even imagine what is happening with the weather. I have never seen anything like it. I will get them as soon as I possibly can!!!

 

[caj1985]

Update on the many, many starts I owe:

There is still 6 inches of snow in Minnesota!!! I cannot even imagine what is happening with the weather. I have never seen anything like it. I will get them as soon as I possibly can!!!

It's clear here in Rochester! We didn't get anything much when you guys got mobbed. LOL Do I sound like a native?

 

[ProfTi]

It's clear here in Rochester! We didn't get anything much when you guys got mobbed. LOL Do I sound like a native?

How's it going? Keeping busy. I can't beleive you don't have snow

. I am soooooo sick of it!!!


Ya' sure, you betcha knickers youse sound like a Minnysoooootan!

 

[flocksalot]

It's clear here in Rochester!  We didn't get anything much when you guys got mobbed.  LOL  Do I sound like a native?

How's it going?  Keeping busy.  I can't beleive you don't have snow  . I am soooooo sick of it!!!


Ya' sure, you betcha knickers youse sound like a Minnysoooootan!

I might be living in Wisconsin but I'm still a Minnesotan and there is no way I ever sounded like that!

 

[ProfTi]

I might be living in Wisconsin but I'm still a Minnesotan and there is no way I ever sounded like that!

You know that's what we sound like to foreigners! They just find our vowel useage quaint.

 

[flocksalot]

And Crystal your halfway home or me. You just take I90 and head west til you hit nothin. Then north and hour. Ah home. Crap now I better call my Mother.

 

[flocksalot]

Profti, I was wandering the gardens today........because I can with NO snow on the ground and found my hubby drove over TWO of my blueberry bushes, knocked over a fence onto my everbearing raspberries and broke them off for the fifty feet section and it seems my gooseberries are missing. What should be his punishment? Last year we got ten pounds of blueberries each from those bushes, and the raspberries will still produce in the fall (if it doesn't snow early) but there will be a much reduced crop in July. I'm thinking no strawberry jam this year! Or maybe two years because he also hacked off the best limbs on my three varieties of mulberries. And as for the gooseberries! He's been a very bad boy. I say he gets no cherry pie filling for his favorite chocolate cherry bars and black Forrest cake. Think that will teach him?

 

[coffeekittie]

Well, I have some bad news. I've had some major issues with my chickens lately. I've thought long and hard about this. As soon as the chickens I have now have lived full lives, I will not be getting anymore. On my last hatches from shipped eggs, I got one chick out of over three dozen eggs and this one was SUPPOSED to be a Rhodebar, but it is yellow with two black spots. I had a great hatch out of my own pilgrim goose eggs, so I know it's not that. It just has something to do with shipped eggs that don't do well for me. Then, a few nights ago, a raccoon literally ate a hole through our fencing and killed every single Rhodebar I bought from madamwlf and then last night something ate through the brooder at the other end of our property and killed some of my chicks from CPL. I'm just done. We've killed at least 40-50 raccoons and possums in the last two years and they still kill everything. Nature wins this one. Thanks to all of you for being so supportive! Once my spring claims come in and the hatches are done, I will not be getting anymore chickens. I'll fulfill the orders I have out, but then I'm done.

Oh, no. My heart dropped when I read this. I lost most of my poultry (lots of different species) last year, and finally penned up a dog I adopted just for the purpose of keeping her in with them. In my case it worked, but I have much lower predation pressure than what you are describing. What a terrible thing to happen, I know. You along with everyone facing tragedies are in my thoughts.

What a nice offer, Satwithchicks

 

[KYTinpusher]

Look what we brought home today to our Jenny - she is like

His name is Joseph.

 

[coffeekittie]

I guess I have been lucky with shipped eggs..... I have been getting about 40-50% hatch rates on most things. I know my incubating is probably the same everyone else's, mine probably not even as good as most of yours, so I wonder what accounts for the differences? Maybe if we could figure it out, we could figure out how to improve the odds for everyone.

1. I am in MN, which is further from most of you than you are from each other. So, it cannot be distance traveled.
2. It could be the MN sorting, but why? Don't they go through sorting on both ends? Then, that eliminates sorting. Hatch are equally good on my shipped eggs as my received.
3. It could be that our trucks and facilities in MN are heated.
4. It could be that the eggs are colder, because the temperature outside is colder.

Any thoughts? I don't believe our postal workers are significantly superior to any other place and I use all the same shippers as everyone else, so I would think it has to be a temperature thing or something in how they are shipped. I am curious what the hatch rates will be in Alaska. Maybe that will give us some insight on temperature. What about you all from WI, what are you hatch rates?

Good questions. My shipped egg hatch rate is about 1 in every 40 makes it out. Most are clears and a few quit early on. Most of the rest that do develop don't make it out of the shell. I'm at the tail end of a long line of shipping and transfers, as I'm at the tippy top of the US on the Western side. The eggs have to go through a lot of hands to get to me.