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

[BantyChooks]

I NEED

 

[BullChick]

I NEED

Yes

 

[BullChick]

The broodies beat me up, but the six active chicks are in with them. It took a minute for them to stop screaming at me, but I heard (and dared to peek) them clucking, and all seemed okay.

 

[Jennn27]

CUTE!!!

 

[BantyChooks]

Love this!!

 

[BullChick]

  CUTE!!!

. Are you hooked yet?

 

[BullChick]

Love this!!

I wanted them to face forward, but this was funny too.

 

[BantyChooks]

I wanted them to face forward, but this was funny too.

Can you pretty please enter it into the caption contests?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1028893/official-byc-caption-contest-photo-submission-thread-2

 

[Jennn27]

. Are you hooked yet?

LOL Well I will show the pics to my husband. He's kinda leaning towards a Longhorn.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@ChickenCanoe

Bee question for you. A friend of a friend has hives that he hauls all over the states. He placed some at friends house and I was going to asked him if he wanted to place some here. There really doesn't seem to be anything blooming including the Buckeye. What would they collect to eat? And disadvantage to bringing them here if he has some?

I'm not familiar with what blooms late summer and fall in your area. You'd be surprised what is out there though.
Honeybees focus on vast numbers of flowers. You rarely find them visiting a single or handful of flowers. That is the realm of solitary bees and native pollinators. Honeybees need fields or trees full.
They will travel over 4 miles from their hive. I've had a large bed of buckwheat blooming about 40' from the hive. The bees flew right over it to greener pastures.
They get a significant amount to eat from trees. However most trees are finished blooming by mid summer.
I don't see a downside to having them there. However, they do need a constant water source. A pond or stream is good. Without those, they'll need a pan of water with pebbles so they can't drown but that they can rely on.

well the other 5 are going to be fashionably late to the party

i want a .270, hoping it is my next gun, someday i want to go out west and hunt for mountain goats
same here

have a great day!!

If I ever buy another rifle, it will probably be a .270. I only have 2 rifles. A .22 semi-automatic and a 7 mm Mauser.

Funny you should mention coming west to hunt. Brother in law is going east to hunt moose with friend. Bil didn't get the tag but his friend has invited him along for the hunt.

Ok now I'm off to get birds fed and honey do list done. Then....

Wyoming and Idaho have moose. The Shiras/Yellowstone subspecies.

Very hard. His friend has lived in Maine for 40 years. This is his second tag.

I've had road kill deer before. No moose here.

I've had 3 road kill deer in my freezer.

You need a better recipe!
I had 19 eggs that were viable. 16 in the incubator.
7 out, one pipped, one rocking.
The app counts the first day. Day 21 began eleven last night.
I do not know what a battery gun is. You reminded me that I want a nail gun though!

I now have 13 out. I hope the other 5 hurry up. These guys are chomping at the bit to get out in the forest and field.

Battery gun, cordless drill - same thing.
Nail guns are nice. I have a couple pneumatic brad nailers. When building a building once I rented a framing nailer that runs on co2 cartridges. It was sweet. No electric, no compressor hose to trip over or lug around.

I told management that when my kids started school I'd be wanting 1st shift,or I wouldn't gt to see them in daylight.

It wasn't possible and management didn't care. 2500 employees, you had to wait your turn to make days. It seems like every time I had enough seniority to hold days, I got a different classification or trade and had to start at the bottom again. I started there in '76 and for most jobs you needed '67 seniority to hold days.

battery

you should see the idiots in moose alley that separate momma from baby with their cars and get out of their cars to take pictures

There are DeWalts and then there are DeWalts. To get a good one, you have to pay dearly but if you do, it will be a workhorse. I bought a cheaper DeWalt and wore it out in no time. I bought a Milwaukee lithium 18 volt 3.5 amp and have loved it.
IMHO, Hilti is the best by far but they are very expensive.


Always go with the lithium version. They are much lighter and less bulky.

me too but i think this is what he meant

just get an impact gun, cordless impact guns are the best!

Unless you don't need an impact gun. Impact drill/drivers are decent. It is a tough choice if you can only buy one.

Them too. I just have a thing about geese. The Pomeranian are tempting, but none other at this point. Horses are a bit more work, and not everyone is up to it.

I had a teacher that did videos with bears. She was a bit interesting.

Unless you work the horses, as in draft horses. Still hard work but cheaper to buy and operate than a tractor.

It's got to the point where park rangers have to educate the people to not try and take selfies. Even from what they consider a safe distance.

We were skiing at Jackson Hole when my wife was pregnant with our first child. Every time we went up the lift, I could see a moose laying just off to the side of the lift in a thicket. Every time down the run, I tried to find it. Finally after several futile attempts, I decided to take my skis off and walk through the thicket. About half way in, I realized I was stupid. What would I do in waist deep snow wearing clunky ski boots if this moose started running at me. I walked out, put my skis on, skied away and never thought about the moose again.

WANTS

How about my frizzle Delaware. She raised many broods for me over the years. I never thought to hatch any of her chicks.
This is her at about 2.5 months.


She was a fierce protector. The frizzle effect made her even scarier when she would charge you.

Nope not kidding. Google it.

I've seen how fast a bear can run and a 30 foot head start from a selfie position isn't far enough. Just plain dumb.

How about my daughter's selfie with her alfresco lunch friend.

Both of those are stoopid ideas, IMO. Though I have been known to enjoy a good roller coaster now and then.

I can do cliff diving, can't do bungee jumping. None too fond of roller coasters either.

Town wasn't that small. Maybe 3500 people no signal lights when I first moved there. I miss the place just not enough work to keep a family going. It's a miracle the group I hung with are alive today some of the games we played would make parents cringe. What mom and dad don't know right?

I placed a boy from Hong Kong from a foreign exchange org. in a home way out in the boonies with a bunch of older host brothers. Years later they told me they taught him to drive on some of these old dirt roads blindfolding him and telling him which way to turn.

I like ferris wheels alright; anything else & I'm out

That's about all I can do too.

This page is great!!! I just got my first incubator today. The Hova-bator 1602N model. I didn't get the egg turner yet, but I plan to! I did get their Hydrometer. So far, I am keeping the temp steady at 99.5 pretty easily, but the humidity is 35% and there is no water in it.

Any tips?

35 is good for now.

Chicken eggs (2 RIR's, 2 Buff Orp's, 2 Olive Eggers, and one EE). Really hoping that my Olive and EE's hatch since I recently lost those two hens. But yes, I have the hydrometer I bought from the same company and the one that came with it. Both are reading the same temp.

Hygrometer, thermometer or both?