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

[Fire Ant Farm]

Good morning are you feeling better with your foot? your to be slowing down and now you do more???

Thanks! It still hurts, but is less severe (so obviously is NOT a fracture - probably some joint thing or bursitis or something irritating like that). Unfortunately I'm doing MASSIVE teaching right now (hours and hours each day), which is all on my feet. (I pace and point when I talk in the lecture hall - I've tried to stay still before, seems to be impossible!

) But I'm trying to be good to rest it when I get home (not that helps in chore completion...)

ouch, you have a long way to go son, dont start that now. Although balding men can be quite charming
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and this one

and this one

I'm glad I'm not the only one - bald men are SO sexy. That alone made The Abyss my favorite movie for a while when it came out...

Now your brooder cover.... that's funny!! my chicks stay off ours but they sit on everything else. Chickens are amazing acrobats - my first chickens used to roost on the cloth netting cage around my daughter's trampoline.

Chicks can perch on ANYTHING (at least mine can).

But you should totally send that photo to them...

I has me a linguistics question. How does a U make a W sound? But it's still a nice coop.

It's a Loo-zee-anna thing. Like I grew up on the corner of Henry Clay and Tchoupitoulas, or "Chop-a-tool-is":

So my first year raising chickens I was originally just going to get 6 hens I ended up with over 50 birds in 2 short months ... I had become crazy chicken lady with horrible math skills.

Hey, I resemble that remark!

This chicken math thing is really scary...

It has to be done on an average. Take all the eggs to get there weights and than get an average weight loss for the group. It's the same with air cells. You can't adjust for each individual egg without hurting the others. So you take the average for everybody. It's a "For the good of many at the expense of the few" kinda thing.

The problem with the average weight method is that there can be inter-egg differences that are significant. @Sally Sunshine mentioned differences between breeds, but it can even be different within a breed with different hens. All my malpositioned big wet chicks were from one pullet with rounded eggs that had very poor moisture loss (maybe 8%?) and small air cells. All the rest of the air cells (that were not from that pullet) looked great, had about 15 or 16% loss (except one, more rounded, DIS), hatched fine. The average was spot on target...

I was so confused I thought the weights were messed up. I think they were fine, and the eggs were just really varied in their loss of moisture. Sally told me that "next time" if something like this happened, you can try to adjust the microenvironment around a group of eggs as needed (e.g., in a container with a wet sponge if they need more, or whatever)... Hope I won't have to use that advice...

Ok, look at the egg in the bottom left corner, 3 eggs up, 1 egg in...its "Pink", for lack of a better term. I've never seen an egg that color, have you?

Several of my Naked Neck girls are laying lovely deep pink eggs like that. It's been a DELIGHTFUL surprise.

I will be in the corner after I make something to drink because obviously I need one and to shut up.

No No No No No No No No.......

Please don't ever shut up. I learn from EVERY SINGLE THING you post! (Even when it DOESN'T apply to me at the time).

Oh, and you're, like, TOTALLY funny and nice, too.

I was 50 something posts behind, and I seem to have missed the discord. I hope everyone is playing nice now!!! I totally appreciate all the information that is shared on here. I don't care if it's posted multiple times - that makes it easier to find!

What she said.

Earlier this am. Again the wolf story comes to mind, but I think it was more related to his eggs

I was worried at first, but then he joked about pulling his hair out, so I realized he was joking.

@chicken hawk 33 you can't say things like that. I'm serious.

Well, it is officially day 20 now...

Me too!!!!!

I'm at the end of Day 20. No pips. I'm trying to stay away from the incubator as much as possible, because we all know...

A watched egg never pips!!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[LocalYokel]

A watched egg never pips!!!!!

- Ant Farm

Trufax Thibodeaux!

 

[BantyChooks]

Thanks! It still hurts, but is less severe (so obviously is NOT a fracture - probably some joint thing or bursitis or something irritating like that). Unfortunately I'm doing MASSIVE teaching right now (hours and hours each day), which is all on my feet. (I pace and point when I talk in the lecture hall - I've tried to stay still before, seems to be impossible! ) But I'm trying to be good to rest it when I get home (not that helps in chore completion...) I'm glad I'm not the only one - bald men are SO sexy. That alone made The Abyss my favorite movie for a while when it came out... Chicks can perch on ANYTHING (at least mine can). But you should totally send that photo to them... It's a Loo-zee-anna thing. Like I grew up on the corner of Henry Clay and Tchoupitoulas, or "Chop-a-tool-is": Hey, I resemble that remark! This chicken math thing is really scary... The problem with the average weight method is that there can be inter-egg differences that are significant. @Sally Sunshine mentioned differences between breeds, but it can even be different within a breed with different hens. All my malpositioned big wet chicks were from one pullet with rounded eggs that had very poor moisture loss (maybe 8%?) and small air cells. All the rest of the air cells (that were not from that pullet) looked great, had about 15 or 16% loss (except one, more rounded, DIS), hatched fine. The average was spot on target...:/ I was so confused I thought the weights were messed up. I think they were fine, and the eggs were just really varied in their loss of moisture. Sally told me that "next time" if something like this happened, you can try to adjust the microenvironment around a group of eggs as needed (e.g., in a container with a wet sponge if they need more, or whatever)... Hope I won't have to use that advice... Several of my Naked Neck girls are laying lovely deep pink eggs like that. It's been a DELIGHTFUL surprise. No No No No No No No No....... Please don't ever shut up. I learn from EVERY SINGLE THING you post! (Even when it DOESN'T apply to me at the time). Oh, and you're, like, TOTALLY funny and nice, too. What she said. I was worried at first, but then he joked about pulling his hair out, so I realized he was joking. @chicken hawk 33 you can't say things like that. I'm serious. Me too!!!!! I'm at the end of Day 20. No pips. I'm trying to stay away from the incubator as much as possible, because we all know... [COLOR=0000FF]A watched egg never pips!!!!![/COLOR] - Ant Farm

True, but an unwatched bator spikes and kills your eggs! :/ Maybe that's why mine aren't hatching.... I stared a hole in them...

 

[LocalYokel]

True, but an unwatched bator spikes and kills your eggs!

Maybe that's why mine aren't hatching.... I stared a hole in them...

 

[chicken hawk 33]

My,incubator spiked to 104.7

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Holy cow are the chicks ok inside

 

[LocalYokel]

My,incubator spiked to 104.7

you turned it up too quick

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Mighty hard getting into spring mode in sub-freezing temps

Mentally of course. Everyone's trying to get it to come faster by stocking up on poults and chicks lol.

Had a guy down here offer to take every cockerel I get. Not so sure about him, though...we'll see how that goes.

Probably just looking for a cheap source of meat.

 

[BantyChooks]

It aint that funny! I wanted chicks!
(Kiddin- I know why you were laughing )

 

[BantyChooks]

My,incubator spiked to 104.7

Oh no!!!