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[Elemes]

Been raining all day and my hatches are almost over. 6 in about 14 hours, they started around 2am. I think our power might go out if this storm gets any worse.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

My husband says chickens are my new obsessions... he did say he'd rather I be addicted to chickens and BYC than my video games.

i hate video games, i like chickens
lol

Been raining all day and my hatches are almost over. 6 in about 14 hours, they started around 2am. I think our power might go out if this storm gets any worse.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Kaj why do you candle from the bottom of the egg up?

 

[kajira]

i hate video games, i like chickens
lol

My husband's not a gamer. He just doesn't understand

 

[kajira]

Kaj why do you candle from the bottom of the egg up?

I thought you were supposed to candle the pointy side down? (I can still see the air cell on the small eggs)

 

[Chaos18]

I thought you were supposed to candle the pointy side down?

Candle down through the air cell.

HOW TO CANDLE EGGS post #40826

 

[casportpony]

It can be really nerve wracking waiting for them to gain, but as long as there yolk bellies shrink, they peck food/water, and poop, they will usually be back up to hatch weight by day 5-8. Chicken chicks and ducklings seem to start gaining much earlier.


-Kathy

I don't have cable TV - I've never actually watched an episode of south park in my entire life. LOL

I did see a few minutes of one on youtube, because of playing world of warcraft and everyone linking me to the one where they were making fun of gamers.

Comedy Central is re-running a bunch of episodes, and that episode is one I watched a couple of days ago. It's so politically incorrect and offensive, but I can't help but watch it.

-Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I want my birds to like me. I'm prickly enough that if animals don't like me, i'll eat them. It's why my goat mr. pickles is going to be dinner as soon as I can replace him with a different billy goat that's been hand-raised.

Quote:

Well, like is subjective. If I want to pick it up, I expect it to tolerate it with out trying to kill me.

My billygoat won't let me touch him.

It is subjective. I don't want to pick them up or carry them around. If I was able to, they wouldn't try to kill me. I think the birds that are comfortable around you are those most likely to attack.
I like wild birds that stay away from me and other predators.
That's just me.

My husband says chickens are my new obsessions... he did say he'd rather I be addicted to chickens and BYC than my video games.

Ya' think?

Kaj why do you candle from the bottom of the egg up?

I do both.

 

[kajira]

Candle down through the air cell.

I got it backwards then. LOL everyone always talks about the pointy side down for everything,I must have missed the part where candling was supposed to be the air cell down and not the pointy side.

Haha. Well, okay then. I'll recheck air cells tonight before they go into the incubator, with them candled the right way.

I can see the air cells with the point side down.... so it never bothered me to do it that way.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: This may be a dumb question, but have you tried putting up a sign @ the end of the lane/driveway? In years past, when we were getting more eggs than we and family needed, we had customers (total strangers) showing up after seeing the sign at the end of the lane. Of course the attraction was the brown (magic word) eggs & the fact that we beat grocery store prices & still bought feed with egg sales