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When they decided to spray with a much stronger pesticide to eradicate mosquitoes in Dade County to suppress the Zika virus, I wondered if any bees would be left.
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There are big bat population problems world wide.
14 of the nearly 1,000 species of bats worldwide call Missouri home. They hibernate here for at least 5 months a year due to a lack of insects.
Many of the Missouri species are endangered and protected by state and federal laws. The Ozark Big-Eared bat was once common in caves throughout SW MO but hasn't been seen here since I was in high school. There are only a few caves in Arkansas and Oklahoma that have a population.
An interesting thing about bats is how short gestation is and how rapidly pups grow. They only have one to five pups a year depending on species. Most only have one.
They mate in the fall and females store sperm throughout hibernation. Gestation is only a few weeks and the pups that are born in May or June are already half the size of an adult and can fly by 2 to 5 weeks of age.
Imagine if a woman had a half grown baby and it could drive and get a job a month later.
'Cry Baby'
Staggered hatches: I do them fairly often but timing is important. Setting eggs day after day is a bad idea. Eggs stored properly can wait a week or more so set eggs all at once or at most, just a couple hours apart and then not again for at least 4 days. In this way, you have time to get chicks out before the next ones pip. I believe the biggest problem is not being able to turn eggs while keeping the incubator closed during hatching. If eggs are set 4 or 5 days apart, you can still turn eggs sufficiently. If your eggs are set over a week apart, you would have eggs needing to be turned and miss that attention for a couple days while hatching occurs. The first 2 weeks of turning is most critical and should be done every 2 to 6 hours if possible.
Candling: IMHO, you are candling too much. Granted, I don't have white eggs and mine are difficult to see into but there isn't really a need to candle that often. I candle at about 10 days and if they are positively clear, I'll remove them. Any that look to have been developing, I leave till about day 17-19 when I'll candle again. I have eggtopsied eggs I thought were done only to have a live embryo in there so I'm never anxious to remove eggs. IMHO, there's no reason to remove eggs before day 23 unless they leak or stink.
I don't think excessive handling of eggs is doing them any good.
You are fussing way more than a mother hen. She doesn't candle, she doesn't lose sleep, she just sits and occasionally turns eggs. If they hatch, she takes care of them. If they don't hatch, she abandons them. That's what I do and I don't lose a minute of sleep.
Making sure your breeders are healthy and given optimal nutrition, storing the eggs properly, then turning regularly, keeping proper temp and humidity is all you need to do.
If you're lucky enough to have an auto turner, you should be able to set them and forget them.
Sit on your hands
Quite the misunderstanding.
But I think that is possible too. Some people can't take the heat.
Good luck with your legal matters.
Every year, 33% of all bee colonies fail.
http://opensourcebeehives.net/
When they decided to spray with a much stronger pesticide to eradicate mosquitoes in Dade County to suppress the Zika virus, I wondered if any bees would be left.
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As of now, I can't see myself ever being able to afford a new one again. And I get them at dealer cost as a retiree from Ford.
Many of the caves in MO have had bars installed to keep people out for years. Gating or fencing important bat caves and placing warning or interpretive signs at ungated caves help limit human disturbance, especially at maternity time.
There are big bat population problems world wide.
14 of the nearly 1,000 species of bats worldwide call Missouri home. They hibernate here for at least 5 months a year due to a lack of insects.
Many of the Missouri species are endangered and protected by state and federal laws. The Ozark Big-Eared bat was once common in caves throughout SW MO but hasn't been seen here since I was in high school. There are only a few caves in Arkansas and Oklahoma that have a population.
An interesting thing about bats is how short gestation is and how rapidly pups grow. They only have one to five pups a year depending on species. Most only have one.
They mate in the fall and females store sperm throughout hibernation. Gestation is only a few weeks and the pups that are born in May or June are already half the size of an adult and can fly by 2 to 5 weeks of age.
Imagine if a woman had a half grown baby and it could drive and get a job a month later.
Joplin?Listening to the depressed crying of Janice kills me.
Feeling the thunder shaking the house scares the poop outa me!!!
'Cry Baby'
Quote:I don't know if I will incubate eggs again, but if I do I tell you what for 1 I will buy a quality incubator and not make one out of a Styrofoam cooler. And most importantly I will not EVER have a staggered hatch again (add new eggs to the incubator when others fail) because I've been hatching eggs since Wendsday night and I tell you what, I haven't gotten a bit of sleep! I've drank more coffee between 10-12 than I ever have in my life, ive worried about these little eggs to the point of which I question my sanity lol I don't know how yall do it! I'm exhausted and stressing and driving myself crazy all at the same time!
A few comments for you on these topics.my first came wendsday, it pipped and I went to bed, while I was asleep it had troubles zipping, it somehow got stuck and diedthe next one was hatched Friday I stayed up with it until 2am, one was born Saturday morning the other one looks like it died in lockdown when i candeled it
, 2 are hatching right now and I have two more that are supose to hatch tomorrow then I'll be done! I'm so tired I wish these babies would hurry up !!!!! I changed my post about candeling, I made it sound like it died from candeling, it did not, ive candeled the other ones in lockdown by doing just what you said. I meant it looked like it died when I candeled it. I'm still hoping and giving it until the last egg hatches, but my problem has been from temp and humidity swings after an eggs hatches, it goes all over the place and takes a while to settle, I'm pretty sure that's what killed it if it is indeed dead
Staggered hatches: I do them fairly often but timing is important. Setting eggs day after day is a bad idea. Eggs stored properly can wait a week or more so set eggs all at once or at most, just a couple hours apart and then not again for at least 4 days. In this way, you have time to get chicks out before the next ones pip. I believe the biggest problem is not being able to turn eggs while keeping the incubator closed during hatching. If eggs are set 4 or 5 days apart, you can still turn eggs sufficiently. If your eggs are set over a week apart, you would have eggs needing to be turned and miss that attention for a couple days while hatching occurs. The first 2 weeks of turning is most critical and should be done every 2 to 6 hours if possible.
Candling: IMHO, you are candling too much. Granted, I don't have white eggs and mine are difficult to see into but there isn't really a need to candle that often. I candle at about 10 days and if they are positively clear, I'll remove them. Any that look to have been developing, I leave till about day 17-19 when I'll candle again. I have eggtopsied eggs I thought were done only to have a live embryo in there so I'm never anxious to remove eggs. IMHO, there's no reason to remove eggs before day 23 unless they leak or stink.
I don't think excessive handling of eggs is doing them any good.
You are fussing way more than a mother hen. She doesn't candle, she doesn't lose sleep, she just sits and occasionally turns eggs. If they hatch, she takes care of them. If they don't hatch, she abandons them. That's what I do and I don't lose a minute of sleep.
Making sure your breeders are healthy and given optimal nutrition, storing the eggs properly, then turning regularly, keeping proper temp and humidity is all you need to do.
If you're lucky enough to have an auto turner, you should be able to set them and forget them.
There's absolutely no reason to candle after day 18. Nothing good can happen when you do. If they quit on you, there isn't anything you can do about it.
Sit on your hands
Don't help
I meant heat to food. With Serrano peppers.
Quite the misunderstanding.
But I think that is possible too. Some people can't take the heat.
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