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  1. Dec 2, 2009 #1
    duckncover

    duckncover Duck Obsessed

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    I just don't understand my mom. She won't let me have chickens or quails but she told me to fix my incubator and she'll buy eggs. Now I'm not being ungrateful or anything but I just have no luck with eggs and my homemade incubator is broken. It flickers when you walk passed it and isn't holding a good temperature. It also needs a new thermometer and hydrometer. I don't have a job but she will buy me all this but it doesn't make any sense. 2 hens will cost like $20 if I get them from someone OR like $10 if I buy chicks at my farm store (but I don't feel like waiting till spring.) Now on the other hand a good thermometer with hydrometer functions at Walmart wil be like $10-$15 and after shipping eggs will be at the least $20...so what gives?!?

    I don't know guess I'm just venting...

    I also out of a total of:

    8 call duck eggs
    12 ring neck pheasant eggs
    30 button quail eggs
    and
    over 30 coturnix quail eggs

    I've only hatched 1 duckling and 3 button quails...

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  3. Dec 2, 2009 #2
    3goodeggs

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    Maybe mom is trying to get you to try, try again. It may be the education of incubating correctly that she is wanting you to have.
    Mom's are evil that way.
    You could always ask her.
     
  5. Dec 2, 2009 #3
    Widget

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    So if she won't let you have chickens what does she think is going to hatch from the eggs?
    I would do my best to fix the incubator and try again. Granted it is heartbreaking when the hatch fails but on the up side it is so amazing when the chicks do make their way out of the egg and start learning what the world is all about.
     
  7. Dec 2, 2009 #4
    duckncover

    duckncover Duck Obsessed

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    Quote:That's exactly what I was thinking.
    Quote:If I ask why she won't let me have actual chickens she will defiantly say something like "If you're not happy with the eggs than you can just go without anything." . I know her all to well. [​IMG]
    I also doubt she wants me to try again. She doesn't like the fact that I want chickens (or animals). I get the "Why can't you just be like all the 16 year olds and listen to music" or similar whenever I talk about chickens (or animals).
    I'm ready to tell her that the majority of "16 year olds" are either doing something illegal or or things a whole lot worse than being a pet lover. I'm probably bluffing but someone should honestly tell her that. She also doesn't understand than my liking animals isn't an "addiction" (that's what she calls it!) It's MY way of life. She compares it to a drug addiction and acts like it's something wrong.

    It's all just stressing me out...[​IMG]
     
  9. Dec 2, 2009 #5
    Year of the Rooster

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    Your mom is expecting way too much from you. She needs to respect your hobbies and realize that you are who you are. She sounds like a control freak to me. Try having an honest talk with her and if she says something like you told us she would, then say something back to her. Be bold, but not cocky or forceful. If she refuses to answer, say that you know her better than that and ask her to tell you the real reason.
     
  11. Dec 2, 2009 #6
    3goodeggs

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    Wow. That is a bummer.
    So, learn all you can about incubating. play by her rules, and hatch some chicks!
    Good luck. I guess animals are addicting. There are worse things.
     
  13. Dec 2, 2009 #7
    duckncover

    duckncover Duck Obsessed

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    I think I answered my own question. Sometime back that she told me that the only reason she's letting me incubate eggs is that she knows that it probably won't work. I just remembered that...oh well.
     
  15. Dec 2, 2009 #8
    shawnkfl

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    sounds to me like mom is interested in hatching eggs....see if she'll buy you a new incubator!
     
  17. Dec 6, 2009 #9
    Mr chicken dude

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    Quote:Well fix that incubator read all you can read on incubating and watch her face light up in shock when you hatch those eggs....

    Yeah, tell her that having an animal addiction is a LOT better than some other stuff I know of that teens do.
     
  19. Dec 6, 2009 #10
    PineappleMama

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    Hehe... what'll be really amusing is when her lack of faith in you backfires.

    IE if you get as many eggs as last time, and thanks to YOUR hard work and research every single one hatches.

    [​IMG] Welcome To The Jungle Mama
     
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