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

[campingshaws]

Morning Sally's house.

 

[rossfam06]

who are you people that get money back at tax time???? I work my butt off 60 hours a week for just less than $13 an hour take no deductions and usually get or owe around 200.
No offense meant it is just frustrating as I saw someone come in a couple of years ago who earned 18,000 and had a couple of kids. By the time she got this handout (credit) and that credit and I paid taxes and got nothing she took home more than I did.

We have 2 kids and made less than 25 grand for both of us this past year, and because my hubby is a business owner we get a lot of deductions. Not really sure how else to put it.

 

[LocalYokel]

 

[campingshaws]

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How's your farm LoKo?

 

[daxigait]

Dax, it's hard to say on the roo. May be a couple there just based off comb size.

The christmas birds should be able to go out no prob. Have you weaned them off a heat lamp?

yes, they have been off for several weeks. I thought the littler ones looked feathered. What do they lack? I just pulled the lamp from them yesterday to put it on my new Lavender Orpington chicks.

 

[LocalYokel]

How's your farm LoKo?

The backyard chicken/quail farm is nuts!

The farm I help on is doing great!!!

 

[daxigait]

Ok so i have never susesfully hatched a chicken or any other poultry(i also never susesfully learned to spell but thats a diffrent story) and i found some ayam cemani eggs on a website for sale and was wondering how stupid it would be to buy them. 1 being the dumbest 1098 being enistein.

well, if you know someone who is experienced at hatching, but I would not be that brave for a first hatch. Maybe if I had a really fancy incubator, but ask the more experienced.
Welcome and good luck.

 

[LocalYokel]

yes, they have been off for several weeks. I thought the littler ones looked feathered. What do they lack? I just pulled the lamp from them yesterday to put it on my new Lavender Orpington chicks.

If they are Fully Feathered at 5 weeks you done good.

 

[NaJoBeLe]

Gonna be one of those days. Went to bed feeling fairly productive. Set up outside brooder for my 19 mixed 5 wk olds, cleaned indoor brooder and set up for my week olds, set up incubator and put the shipped eggs in, cleaned big coop and changed out bedding/dusted nest boxes, and other randomness that I'm forgetting about.

Woke up this morning and the incubator didn't come back up to temp. Hasn't been above 95. I'm using a different thermometer but not sure if I trust it. The STC thermostat is set to 100. Actually I mixed things up quite a bit this go around so we will see how it goes. If temp is still down this afternoon I will tinker with it

Walked outside and the closer I got to the brooder pen the uglier it got. Fresh dirt on both ends. Rough guess is something got about half of them. Seemed like it was secure but dosent look like 1/2" hardware cloth is going to work. Didn't tear it loose or get through it but somehow managed to get at least some of the birds out. 3 dead in pen mangled and 2 injured but still alive and eating and drinking.

Plan forward is to move the brooder pen into my shed and hope that goes better.

Ehhh. Getting really tired of this part of it.

 

[kwhites634]

Ok so i have never susesfully hatched a chicken or any other poultry(i also never susesfully learned to spell but thats a diffrent story) and i found some ayam cemani eggs on a website for sale and was wondering how stupid it would be to buy them. 1 being the dumbest 1098 being enistein.

Don't spend the money for AC's 'til you know what you're doing; they'd be a super-expensive lesson.
Matter of fact, I wouldn't buy any birds my 1st time out unless there was no other possible option.