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

[kwhites634]

I would try it first! Humen urine is less afective because we don't communicate with feromons as many animal, especially cats, do! So Lion is much better than human! And when it undersand that ther is a bigger predetor there it will deter it.

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you, Benny.

IMO,this cat appears to have lost its fear of humans, which makes it dangerous. Because it's already fed there, it will be back, and is probably smart enough to avoid traps. A dog may be effective, or it may get dead. More than one dog has been killed by a treed cat. Multiple dogs would stand a better chance with it. Before I invested in a single dog, I'd try to find a big cat hunter with a pack of trained cat hounds. They could pick up the cat's trail & possibly run it down.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Good morning, all!!! I spontaneously woke up at 4:45am BEFORE Severus Snape (my rooster) - which is a miracle, as he likes to go off at 5am these days. I was trying to figure out what woke me, then I realized it was 'bator chirping. Sure enough, the pip from last night had just hatched (he's still sitting in his little egg cup right now working himself up to shove out).

The one I helped yesterday was not any better looking at all, so I euthanized it (never pleasant) - I don't know whether its bad leg issues and being poorly were related to having struggled stuck to the shell for such a long time, or if it was an inherently flawed chick, but the outcome was the same. I will eventually get to my goal of "never assist" (which I understand and agree with), but obviously wasn't there yet. I tell you, though, it's much easier than culling an older chick or chicken.

So, we're on Day 23. Twelve eggs went into lockdown (upright hatch). Eight live hatched so far (one euthanized), seven on Day 22, one on the morning of Day 23. Four eggs left, no pips. I was thinking perhaps they just wouldn't make it, but while I was watching the latest little bugger sit in his little cup, and I heard something... It was chirping coming from one of the eggs - so SOMEONE is internally pipped. Maybe more are coming!

LONGEST. HATCH. EVER. But super pleased so far.

The ones in the brooder are mostly doing the resting/sleeping chick thing, but the older ones are moving around some. They are taking longer to be steady on their legs because there wasn't a way to have them practice walking in the incubator (no space) - I'm going to use the R-Com as a hatcher from now on, more space (or maybe get a Hovabator as a hatcher that's bigger).

Chicks are acting true to type. I have cream legbar chicks in one brooder and the new NNs in another. CLs freak out and run when I come in as if I'm a monster (and I'm not doing anything scary or sudden). NN chicks run TOWARD me, or toward my hand in the brooder. Curious confident happy chicks - they've been my favorite, most fun chicks to brood so far and this group is acting the same way.

OK. I'm going to try to get some "work" work done before it gets light.

- Ant Farm

 

[BullChick]

Good morning, all!!! I spontaneously woke up at 4:45am BEFORE Severus Snape (my rooster) - which is a miracle, as he likes to go off at 5am these days. I was trying to figure out what woke me, then I realized it was 'bator chirping. Sure enough, the pip from last night had just hatched (he's still sitting in his little egg cup right now working himself up to shove out).

The one I helped yesterday was not any better looking at all, so I euthanized it (never pleasant) - I don't know whether its bad leg issues and being poorly were related to having struggled stuck to the shell for such a long time, or if it was an inherently flawed chick, but the outcome was the same. I will eventually get to my goal of "never assist" (which I understand and agree with), but obviously wasn't there yet. I tell you, though, it's much easier than culling an older chick or chicken.

So, we're on Day 23. Twelve eggs went into lockdown (upright hatch). Eight live hatched so far (one euthanized), seven on Day 22, one on the morning of Day 23. Four eggs left, no pips. I was thinking perhaps they just wouldn't make it, but while I was watching the latest little bugger sit in his little cup, and I heard something... It was chirping coming from one of the eggs - so SOMEONE is internally pipped. Maybe more are coming!

LONGEST. HATCH. EVER. But super pleased so far.

The ones in the brooder are mostly doing the resting/sleeping chick thing, but the older ones are moving around some. They are taking longer to be steady on their legs because there wasn't a way to have them practice walking in the incubator (no space) - I'm going to use the R-Com as a hatcher from now on, more space (or maybe get a Hovabator as a hatcher that's bigger).

Chicks are acting true to type. I have cream legbar chicks in one brooder and the new NNs in another. CLs freak out and run when I come in as if I'm a monster (and I'm not doing anything scary or sudden). NN chicks run TOWARD me, or toward my hand in the brooder. Curious confident happy chicks - they've been my favorite, most fun chicks to brood so far and this group is acting the same way.

OK. I'm going to try to get some "work" work done before it gets light.

- Ant Farm

That;s right! You get another incubator. Excuse it anyway you want. We understand!

 

[kwhites634]

That;s right! You get another incubator. Excuse it anyway you want. We understand!

Good mornin' MC
1st cup, or 3rd?

 

[jwlpoultry]

Good morning Mc, Whites and Fire Ant.

 

[BullChick]

Quote: Be nice to my Benny! Don't make me fight you!

 

[kwhites634]

Good morning Mc, Whites and Fire Ant.

Howdy!
Another early bird to get the party started

 

[BullChick]

Quote:
Third.. Or fourth. I forget.

 

[BullChick]

Good morning Mc, Whites and Fire Ant.

 

[kwhites634]

Be nice to my Benny! Don't make me fight you!

So not sharing his opinion is wrong now, is it? Duly noted.