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

[BantyChooks]

I had to go close the chickens up, those chicken killing dogs were over at my neighbors again. Never getting a moments peace nowadays.
At least the chickens are safe now.... I hate those dogs!

 

[fire370]

me too, but she can help calm him down more than me....

I had to go close the chickens up, those chicken killing dogs were over at my neighbors again. Never getting a moments peace nowadays.
At least the chickens are safe now.... I hate those dogs!

They'd be laying out there taking a dirt nap if it were my place. IMHO, you've gave plenty of warnings. Probably way more than I would have.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm not Gonna throw away and kill the baby's.

I don't mean this ugly, CH, but I think you've done a pretty good job of doing just that so far. You know better than to open the bator during lockdown, and you candled the eggs during lockdown??? This isn't your first try to incubate, but you're acting like you forgot everything you learned from the first time. It takes practice to get good at it, and it takes patience and self-control to be successful. You are not being patient and letting the chicks do what chicks have been doing for eons. You aren't keeping your hands out of the bator during lockdown, and if you're lucky, the chicks will only be shrink-wrapped. I can't figure out why you're acting like you've never done this before. Do you remember the problems you had with the chicks legs the last time? I have a feeling you're going to have a lot more problems if any of these eggs hatch. You started with how many eggs? How many are left in the bator? How many or those appear to still be alive? That's not a good record, which means that any chicks that (somehow) manage to hatch are more than likely going to have some serious problems. I'm not saying that it's a 100% bust this time, but I think you need to be prepared in case the worst happens... which is no chicks from this hatch. I don't want to sound mean, but sometimes you need to know where to draw the line. When I have things go wrong, and nothing seems to work, I back up and start over. Sometimes a fresh start is all you need to do something right. Okay???

I just read the past few pages, and I'm not incubating but I stopped by to say this.
I agree with @Ur -ur-ur-urr. However, it does seem to me that everyone is being a little too hard on @chicken hawk33. If I was in his/her case, the replies would be enough to make me not want to incubate again. I see both sides of the situation. @chicken hawk33 next time you intend to incubate, ask the people who are closest to you (parents, sibs, spouse (I don't know your age so I can't tell what your life situation is)) if there are any intended trips or vacations within the next month that would interfere with incubating. Incubating takes a good deal of time commitment if you want a happy healthy hatch.
For now, the best things to do is to find someone who can watch the eggs while you're gone and throw out the shells and stuff once they've hatched. If you have a broody, I'd first stuck the eggs under her before throwing them out.

And everyone remember, BYC is a place to encourage and guide, not discourage

 

[Saris]

Here is a pic of one of the cull Fibro Turkens that the naked neck trait didn't come across. These will be put into my cull pens and the hens will possibly turned out with the free rangers and the Roos.............

What a cutie

There was movement last night,they may be saying don't move till he turns the light off.I hope there not dead.I will never hatch again

That is a good idea. Don't hatch again until you are willing to actually follow the advice that experienced hatchers a give you.

I'm leaving tommorow and won't be back till january

So even if they hatch they will die anyway, unless you can get a chick sitter?

I'm not Gonna kill the chicks

You say that, but you keep opening the gator which only endangers the chicks.

Every one should I throw these and start over later

I would give them time, but you seem keen on ignoring the advice given so why listen now?


Seriously CH I have a 3 year old and I told her if she touches the bator it could hurt the chickies and she can keep her hands off of it. Why can't you? The chicks will hatch or they won't but I think your constant interferences have doomed them.

 

[kwhites634]

I just read the past few pages, and I'm not incubating but I stopped by to say this.
I agree with @Ur -ur-ur-urr. However, it does seem to me that everyone is being a little too hard on @chicken hawk33. If I was in his/her case, the replies would be enough to make me not want to incubate again. I see both sides of the situation. @chicken hawk33 next time you intend to incubate, ask the people who are closest to you (parents, sibs, spouse (I don't know your age so I can't tell what your life situation is)) if there are any intended trips or vacations within the next month that would interfere with incubating. Incubating takes a good deal of time commitment if you want a happy healthy hatch.
For now, the best things to do is to find someone who can watch the eggs while you're gone and throw out the shells and stuff once they've hatched. If you have a broody, I'd first stuck the eggs under her before throwing them out.

And everyone remember, BYC is a place to encourage and guide, not discourage

You might want to go back & read the last 200 pages or so....just sayin'

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Like I told her in a post earlier this morning, I haven't a clue how she's held up this far. I gave up about 6 Still Nothings ago.

She's a trooper, that's for sure. I went to bed seeing that, and read back a few pages awhile ago, and was still seeing that. Last night I asked him wait until something happened, and then tell us about it. He hasn't listened to any of the advice we have given him throughout the entire process, and refuses to stop posting about steal nothing, steel nothing, still nothing. I don't know many people who won't crack after an extended amount of tortu...

I just don't see this ending well...

 

[kwhites634]

A pot of creamy and a pot of regular. Brit is peeling potatoes for mashed taters and mama is making homemade biscuits. I can tell ya, I'm starving!!!!

A pot of creamy and a pot of regular. Brit is peeling potatoes for mashed taters and mama is making homemade biscuits. I can tell ya, I'm starving!!!!

I'll take some sausage gravy on them biscuits, if'n ya got some.

 

[fire370]

I just read the past few pages, and I'm not incubating but I stopped by to say this.
I agree with @Ur -ur-ur-urr. However, it does seem to me that everyone is being a little too hard on @chicken hawk33. If I was in his/her case, the replies would be enough to make me not want to incubate again. I see both sides of the situation. @chicken hawk33 next time you intend to incubate, ask the people who are closest to you (parents, sibs, spouse (I don't know your age so I can't tell what your life situation is)) if there are any intended trips or vacations within the next month that would interfere with incubating. Incubating takes a good deal of time commitment if you want a happy healthy hatch.
For now, the best things to do is to find someone who can watch the eggs while you're gone and throw out the shells and stuff once they've hatched. If you have a broody, I'd first stuck the eggs under her before throwing them out.

And everyone remember, BYC is a place to encourage and guide, not discourage

CH has been given so much valuable advice that he chooses to ignore. Myself and several others have talked until we are blue in the face trying to help but he continually chooses to do everything we tell him not to do. I can tell you, I've even used the enticement of me shipping him pure bred hatching eggs if he'd settle down, listen and have a good hatch. He's chose to ignore so now I'm watching him continually killing his eggs. No biggy whatever.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I just read the past few pages, and I'm not incubating but I stopped by to say this.
I agree with @Ur -ur-ur-urr. However, it does seem to me that everyone is being a little too hard on @chicken hawk33. If I was in his/her case, the replies would be enough to make me not want to incubate again. I see both sides of the situation. @chicken hawk33 next time you intend to incubate, ask the people who are closest to you (parents, sibs, spouse (I don't know your age so I can't tell what your life situation is)) if there are any intended trips or vacations within the next month that would interfere with incubating. Incubating takes a good deal of time commitment if you want a happy healthy hatch.
For now, the best things to do is to find someone who can watch the eggs while you're gone and throw out the shells and stuff once they've hatched. If you have a broody, I'd first stuck the eggs under her before throwing them out.

And everyone remember, BYC is a place to encourage and guide, not discourage

I hear what you're saying, and I completely agree. This isn't something that transpired over the past few pages... this is the second incubation period we've experienced with this young one. If you'd been along for the entire ride, you would understand why patience is wearing thin.

 

[FridayYet]

I just read the past few pages, and I'm not incubating but I stopped by to say this.
I agree with @Ur -ur-ur-urr. However, it does seem to me that everyone is being a little too hard on @chicken hawk33. If I was in his/her case, the replies would be enough to make me not want to incubate again. I see both sides of the situation. @chicken hawk33 next time you intend to incubate, ask the people who are closest to you (parents, sibs, spouse (I don't know your age so I can't tell what your life situation is)) if there are any intended trips or vacations within the next month that would interfere with incubating. Incubating takes a good deal of time commitment if you want a happy healthy hatch.
For now, the best things to do is to find someone who can watch the eggs while you're gone and throw out the shells and stuff once they've hatched. If you have a broody, I'd first stuck the eggs under her before throwing them out.

And everyone remember, BYC is a place to encourage and guide, not discourage

Hi Silkie I was wondering if you'd stop by here.

You might want to go back & read the last 200 pages or so....just sayin'

LOL. Silkie is a self-appointed Sheriff. Tried to mod some other threads a while ago - didn't work.