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

[ChickenCanoe]

Yes, Carthage caves. I am back waiting for my turn to go in with a second load.

I used to sell advertising for the office space and warehousing in the KC area caves.

My brother retired from Leggett and Platte in Carthage.

They don't just leak out? I would like to try the nipple waterers, can you switch a bird over or do they need to learn as chicks?

Usually any bird that goes into a building with nipples will learn quickly. If one learns, they'll teach the others. Make sure the system works before the birds test and don't get any water.
I put chicks out a few days ago with nipples and a 1 gallon water fount. Within minutes the chicks were all using the nipples.
They will tap at anything near eye level, especially with the color of the nipples.

The horizontal nipples are spring loaded so they don't leak. Birds can be switched over to them.

That's probably true for buckets. They can leak if there is any debris whatsoever in the system. I use mine in pvc pipe and if I don't ream after cutting and carefully flush the system, they will leak.
They can be removed and the seals flushed so they usually work after that.

 

[BullChick]

What do you use for footing on the plastic?

Pretty cool here. Low 60s the last 2 mornings.  It hasn't been that cool since July 3.
Looks like the worst of summer is over. Nothing much over 90 the rest of the way.

50-60F is right in my wheelhouse.

My wife went to the Festival of the Little Hills yesterday with son and his girlfriend. She picked up 2 Christmas presents.

You're on oil heat?

Mine wasn't by choice either. They closed our 58 year old factory when I had 30 years in. 20 additional jobs later in gigs ranging from 4 hours to 9 months. Several of which were out of town. I got tired of looking for work where I'd be working for morons so I just gave up.

Likely.

My arachnophobia was cured in a similar manner. When we moved into this house, the basement had been unused for a long time. It was empty except for successive walls of spider webs. If there was one spider down there, there were millions. I spent a day wearing coveralls with sleeves and cuffs taped to my gloves and boots with a complete head covering. I used a shop vac to suck up every one of those little critters and their egg sacks that I could find.

Often when I float a small stream, there are lots of overhanging boughs and brush. Usually they're loaded with spiders that end up in the canoe. EWW!
I was on a 3 day trip and the canoe was filled with spiders. On the third day I got bitten. My arm was swollen by the time we loaded the boat.
I went on a big cub scout outing with my son - ONCE! I hated it.
These people had no clue what camping is about. They thought it was about subjecting yourself to unnecessary discomfort.
You weren't allowed to bring your own tent. You had to use the facilities they provided, which they had the audacity to call tents. They were basically 2 flaps of canvas. No floors, no doors. I went inside, turned on the flashlight and the walls were covered in spiders.
I spent 2 nights sleeping in a chair outside.
There was a very large swimming pool which was used in evenings. The pool, as big as it was, was so crowded, everyone in the pool could reach in any direction and touch someone else.
It was mid to upper 90s every day. Imagine all those sweaty bodies in the pool at the same time. The best I could call it was - unsanitary. Maybe I just don't like people that much.
IMHO, they don't teach anything useful about camping and the wilderness. Perhaps it is beneficial for urbanites but not for us.
My son had been camping for years prior to scouts, setting up camps, pitching tents, collecting firewood, building fires, environmentally friendly bathing, cooking and breaking camp. He learned nothing from the scouts except for having fun with his friends.


They eat roaches too. I've never sprayed for pests here and have never had roaches - just too many spiders.

Lose the fan. The air around the incubator needs to be stable.
Given that those temperatures are accurate, 103 isn't OK and 98 is pretty low.
Keep in mind that thermometers usually don't read constantly but intermittently. Depending on how far it is from the heat element and the type of thermometer, it could be reading high when the element kicks on and low just before it kicks on again.
Internal egg temperature will be more stable.

I normally get more pullets than cockerels each hatch.
I've had 9 hatches so far this summer. In total there were 21 cockerels and 33 pullets.
The first one was 6 cocks and 2 pullets. The last was 7 chicks - all pullets.

Is she digging a mole run?

Yup, oil heat. Coal heat was taken out of the house, and the chimney in the garage is in too poor of shape to use.

 

[campingshaws]

In case you missed this Benny! @Akrnaf2

Ok Benny now I have questions!

Was that curry or turmeric? What's was the black powdery stuff at the end? I love that cooker!! Is there a name for it? Was that rice they dropped in? What country was this?

WHERE WAS THE REST OF THE GOAT??

 

[daxigait]

Have any of you used food grade peroxide for water tanks? I had a vet and several people suggest it while I was on vacation.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

The horizontal nipples are spring loaded so they don't leak. Birds can be switched over to them.

The horizontal nipples are very good, that is what I use and a food grade bucket.

Thanks!

Usually any bird that goes into a building with nipples will learn quickly. If one learns, they'll teach the others. Make sure the system works before the birds test and don't get any water.
I put chicks out a few days ago with nipples and a 1 gallon water fount. Within minutes the chicks were all using the nipples.
They will tap at anything near eye level, especially with the color of the nipples.

That's probably true for buckets. They can leak if there is any debris whatsoever in the system. I use mine in pvc pipe and if I don't ream after cutting and carefully flush the system, they will leak.
They can be removed and the seals flushed so they usually work after that.

good to know, thank you

 

[Honora]

I have a broody hen so I got these beautiful rainbow eggs from @h2oratt to hatch! I'll be setting them today.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I have a broody hen so I got these beautiful rainbow eggs from @h2oratt to hatch! I'll be setting them today.

Woohoo!! I love rainbows!! Good luck!!!

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Morning all!

I closed off the coop that my broody is in yesterday and you would have thought I started world war III.... the hens have been going crazy trying to get in there, they actually tore apart part of my fencing trying to get in there! There is a nice, clean coop, with 2 VERY nice nesting boxes for them and they refuse to go in there. CRAZY! Hopefully they will chill out and go in there and get to laying soon. Yesterday they paced around the front of the coop where my broody is singing their "I need to lay an egg" song, but would not go in the other coop.

Checked on my broody this morning, she is keeping all 12 eggs under her now and hopefully will stay on them! I have not tried to look at them again as that one was rockin' and rollin' yesterday morning and I don't want to cause an issue if it has pipped.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Morning all!

I closed off the coop that my broody is in yesterday and you would have thought I started world war III.... the hens have been going crazy trying to get in there, they actually tore apart part of my fencing trying to get in there!  There is a nice, clean coop, with 2 VERY nice nesting boxes for them and they refuse to go in there.  CRAZY!  Hopefully they will chill out and go in there and get to laying soon.  Yesterday they paced around the front of the coop where my broody is singing their "I need to lay an egg" song, but would not go in the other coop. 

Checked on my broody this morning, she is keeping all 12 eggs under her now and hopefully will stay on them!  I  have not tried to look at them again as that one was rockin' and rollin' yesterday morning and I don't want to cause an issue if it has pipped.

Congrats!!! Have you put a dummy egg in the new box? It could help

 

[kwhites634]

@kwhites634 Corn pie? Do you have a recipe? What is similar to?

No, I sure don't; Sally would.
If she's talking what I'm thinking, it's like pumpkin pie, with the filling being corn, rather than pumpkin.