INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[DwayneNLiz]

Sorry Billie u r taking too long lol

Good night, sleep well
Sweet dreams to all

 

[runt325]

Sounds cozy

it is

 

[runt325]

Sorry Billie u r taking too long lol

Good night, sleep well
Sweet dreams to all

u to man

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I didn't say anything about your floors, although I do like them. People pay good money to own floors that look like that, and you already have them

 

[DuckGirl77]

Sorry Billie u r taking too long lol

Good night, sleep well
Sweet dreams to all

G'night

 

[ChickenCanoe]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,lay some grading over the nest so predators don't dig them up and eat them

Hmmm. I wonder where you learned that?

Is it dark where y'all live

It got completely dark about 25 minutes ago. Longest day of the year.

negative, speaking of dark, did you know there's a resume mission to the south pole right now?

Yes, I was aware of it. They're sending 2 planes in case one doesn't make it. Do you know why they had to bring the planes all the way from Alaska?

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I still have rearranged plans to figure out, but LOVE the Poultry Diagnostic Lab!!!!

Very smart. In the northwest mountains in Vietnam, we were in a van taking us to our hiking destination - driving on steep winding dirt roads on mountains WITHOUT the nice safety barrier like seen in the photo. Pretty sure our driver was high. Terrifying leg of the trip, I gotta say. Better to be in control of that mess yourself when you can...

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- Ant Farm

I love poultry labs too.
VN is a strangely shaped country. S shaped and only 50 km wide at the narrowest but 1650 km long. After touring Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, she bought that bike her first day in Viet Nam. She was there 3 months.

what is tators.I mean the turtle eggs

Taters are potatoes. The turtle was in his tater patch.

I saw the light once.

Party lights? Red and blue and green?

It's really dark in my wood duck eggs.I have been incubating it just on a heating pad.

I'm amazed you are successfully incubating on a heating pad. How are you controlling temperature?
What are your plans for raising humidity when hatch day comes?

Why didn't you just stick it under one of your broody hens?

Shhhhhh not so loud! I don't want my ducks to hear that I love dogs this much! They might revolt and call me names, like "The Bad Pea-Giver" or "That Awful Thing That Brings Us (may we live forever) Peas."

Weeeeeell, I just remembered that my thermometer hadn't been calibrated correctly when my dad tested the bator temp with another thermometer and it read differently. Then, suddenly, I remembered what MC said about calibrating thermometers. I just calibrated my mercury thermometer the RIGHT way. It was two degrees off.

What else is going to go wrong? Are the eggs gonna jump up and start singing "Weeeeeeee will never haaaaaaaaaaaaatch"?
How much damage did I do?

Which direction was it off - too high or too low?

That's why most thermometers aren't appropriate for incubating. They're only supposed to be accurate to plus or minus 2F. And many are off by more than that. Not close enough for hatching.

 

[DuckGirl77]

Which direction was it off - too high or too low?

That's why most thermometers aren't appropriate for incubating. They're only supposed to be accurate to plus or minus 2F. And many are off by more than that. Not close enough for hatching.

Too high

 

[rIrs roost]

Life seems to keep on going, how bout you? Your pain pass?

Nah. She's still laying beside me and the kids just won't leave no matter how many times I lock em out.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Yes, indeed I did! I have UGLY wood floors that were finished with a horrible white-pink-toned stain, and then ripped up by greyhound claws for 10 years.

Quote: Thanks - yeah, it's no fun, but it's part of the process of keeping chickens, you're right...

I need to go to bed early tonight - I seem to be chronically behind on my sleep, but still have to be up early. So see you guys later...

(Whites, let me know if you find my ball peen hammer...)

- Ant Farm

(Man, autocorrect on BYC has been MESSED UP tonight!!!!!!)

Ain't seen no hammer

 

[5Sons Coop]

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I use closed aluminum bands that are imprinted with the year, association and number. I get them from the associations we show in such as ABA, Wild West Serama Club, SCNA.... ABA bands are plastic.

I use similar aluminum and stainless steel bands for my parrots that I have engraved with the year, our ranch initials and a hatch number. These, I order from http://lmbirdlegbands.com/

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I like the idea of a aluminum or stainless ones. Things will get confusing once I add more.