INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!
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Quote: Sure, sounds fun!
A chicken artist with a duck avatar...isn't that against some rule somewhere?
I'll have you know Ravyn got me hooked on duckies..... Those pics of SQ calls were just TOO MUCH!
(THANK YOU Ravyn.... If you are reading this.)
I can't change my title for another 3 months..... Or I'd switch.
I just love that picture, I think it's the best I have ever taken. I was lucky- I got some other nice pics of those wild ducks too!
This one isn't really this badly centered- when I downloaded it to mobile it messed it up slightly.
I used to hunt a state forest about 2 hours away during deer firearms season. In previous years I'd slept in the truck, but one year a guy with a 6-man heated tent invited me to bunk with he & his party. We were packed in like so many sardines, but the gas-fired heater, which was turned off before we bedded down, kept it pretty toasty. We woke to 17* temps next morning. Later that day a snow storm came in & dumped enough snow that a couple guys decided they'd best get up the hill & out of there while they still could. One of them was in a flat bed p/u with a trailer ball at the extreme rear of the bed, to which he coupled one of those turtle-looking campers. He never made it out! Stupid people shouldn't breedSo true. It's short enough already.
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I don't think anyone, individual or hatchery, will guarantee eggs because - as TJ said - they can't control shipping or customer's incubation skills.
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Horse too.
I'm right in the suburbs of a pretty big Midwestern metropolitan area. There's hardly a predator that isn't in abundance here.
There are coyotes walking through my yard at all times of day and night. A pair took a rooster last year. I've interrupted a fox grabbing a hen twice. (friendly buff orpington didn't know what hit it) Raccoons, opossums, weasels and too many mink as well as hawks galore.
While not as common, there are bobcat, black bear and mountain lions too. In another suburb across town, someone recently caught a mountain lion on their backyard game cam. Dead in the middle of the populous burbs bobcat have been sighted and foxes have dens all over. Black bears have been getting more numerous. Our county and a nearly as densely populated county across the river have both had bear sightings.
This map includes sightings prior to 2008
I think a bear could get into about half of my buildings.
They are so tough. On a few occasions over the years I've had 3 to 5 week old chicks escape into the woods late in the day when it was quite cold out. I always expected them to be goners - either chilled to death or taken by a predator only for them to be running around the coop in the morning looking for mom.
Congrats. Having it fired up is a good thing.
Bonus. They are hatching like crazy in spite of all that handling candling and graffiti on the eggs.
A lot of chicks will raise the temp. That's a lot of metabolism going on there. I think a chick's body temperature is 108F if memory serves.
I always avoided opening day of trout season here (which is always March 1) because I hate crowds and even summer holidays can have anglers 3 deep along the trout streams here. But one year I decided to take my son for opening day which was on a Friday and I had a 3 day weekend. Luckily we decided to sleep in the van rather than pitch a tent. We had a good day of fishing and then the blizzard came. The campground was on top of the mountain above the river. We got snowed in for 3 days. We spent the time reading the Lord of the Rings, doing homework and playing in the snow. It was so bad I-44 was closed. It got so cold, the cream for my coffee froze solid at the foot of the bed. The walls of the van were thick sheets of ice from condensation freezing. Eventually they got the steep road cleared enough for people to drive out. They came around to all the campers to see if everyone had enough food or they were going to helicopter some food to the camp.
This should be enough information to get you started.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKSexLink.html
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKMaking.html
After you've absorbed that, come back to fine tune the info.
You're right.
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Stop posting Ducks dangit!!
morning paddler,
chickalong congrats! sorry my quote didnt pull again!!! good mornin!
jessimom good morning sweets!
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Stop, just stop, please.What part of day 10 should you remove vent plugs? Beginning, middle, end, or "just stop obcessing and do it at a convenient time?"
What difference could it make what time of day, in the middle of a 21 day incubation when you already have some vent holes?
A hen doesn't have a clock, hygrometer, nor know how far she's turned eggs or which ones got turned and which ones didn't. She just scratches them around and plops down again.
It's great you have a source of raw milk.
I used to hunt a state forest about 2 hours away during deer firearms season. In previous years I'd slept in the truck, but one year a guy with a 6-man heated tent invited me to bunk with he & his party. We were packed in like so many sardines, but the gas-fired heater, which was turned off before we bedded down, kept it pretty toasty. We woke to 17* temps next morning. Later that day a snow storm came in & dumped enough snow that a couple guys decided they'd best get up the hill & out of there while they still could. One of them was in a flat bed p/u with a trailer ball at the extreme rear of the bed, to which he coupled one of those turtle-looking campers. He never made it out! Stupid people shouldn't breed
And they don't even know they're stupid.
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