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

[ChickenCanoe]

Someone just got an egg inside an egg and posted pics.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...incredibly-large-136gram-egg/10#post_16885004

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Hey Canoe...
Got fishing to do.... Couldn't sleep...( Normal)

 

[NaJoBeLe]

As long as its function isn't inhibited and it is located where it will cause temp to be correct for the eggs.

Progress.

Seems like every time I had a major mower issue I couldn't or didn't have the time to deal with myself, it was always at the peak of mowing season. Coincidentally, when all shops have a several week backlog.
One time I ended up buying a cheap push mower and using it all summer. Once it gets hot and dry, grass stops growing here. Sometimes you don't have to mow for a couple months toward the end of summer.

You've always done well, now you'll slay them in comfort and style.
Good luck.

I wasn't on this site long before I learned to behave. It was quite a learning curve for me though.

The little one right up the road from me carries them but they only get one shipment and they like to sell out quickly.
I picked up feed at Farm&Home yesterday. All their chicks were 25% off. They must have had 15 different breeds - and lots of each.

Search Ohio Brooders. I made 2 that can each hold about 100 chicks. The original Ohio Brooder will hold about 200 or more. With these things, chicks can go out to the coop as soon as they come out of the hatcher, even if the building temperature gets down to 30F.

I picked up 8 bags yesterday at Farm & Home. Surprisingly, there's very little difference in the price of scratch grains and feed. Why would anyone try to mix their own feed?

50# of Nutrena brand scratch grains is 10.29.
50# of All Flock is 10.49.
50# of Layer crumbles is 10.99.
40# of Nutrena Nature Wise layer pellets is 11.49.
50# of 21% ADM meat maker is 12.49.


That's normal - depending on season and ambient temperature. When it's hot here, they'll stay off a couple hours. When it's cold, just 15 or 20 minutes.
They usually know what they're doing. Unless conditions are perfect, I usually break first timers. I've had first timers do very well and others that weren't committed.
The worst thing they do is come off the nest to do their thing and then go back into the wrong nest. I usually move them into their own apartment where there is only one nest.



That's just the way the predators do it. Cull the weak to make the herd gene pool stronger.

Same philosophy behind culling weak, sickly poultry.

Yeah that's what I was thinking with the weather. She seems to be doing pretty good. I moved her to my growout pen by herself. I have 4 nest boxes for 3 hens that are laying age and of course they all wanted to use the same box. Decided to go ahead and move her when I realized extra eggs were showing up. I'm planning to let here keep going since these are barnyard mix. Once she proves herself I will try and allow her to hatch other eggs.

 

[lazy gardener]

She could be an internal layer, or have cancer. She's old, not laying, and not feeling well. Time to go.
Faster methods would be to shoot her or run over her with the car.
Still, snapping the neck or cutting the head off are quick, humane and sure.

Perhaps our scythe was fancy. It looked like this one only that the long handle was more curved to wrap around your bod. I used it a lot. We had a couple sickles.

That's similar to my Dad's, including the brush blade. But his long handle is more curved. and the hand grips are one piece. I like the fact that that one is adjustable in hand grip position. Would make it easier for a short person like me. His is way too long. I'd ought to check some time, and see if the handle attachments can be loosened and repositioned. He's 90 years old, and may still use it occasionally!

I believe my hatch is complete. Of the eggs that made it to lock down: Shipment #1: 2/6 with one assist. Assist chick is doing fine, but very small. Needed to have pasty butt cleaned 3x. Shipment #2: Set 13 eggs, 12 made it to lock down. One died after pip. One bled out a bit, placed in cup, after betadine wash to umbilicus. Several assists, one with spraddle leg which has been taped. I have yet to assess the chicks left in bator. 9 hatched. My gender shaped eggs: Set 27. 19 made it to lock down. 1 assist. There may be some spraddles, and curled toes. One had yolk sac the size of a marble attached to a stem, dragging it around, with a bunch of crud stuck to it. I put it in a cup, and decided that it wouldn't get any dirtier by waiting till morning. Total survivors 11. Hatch in both bators negatively affected by temp and difficulty getting humidity up for lock down. I've learned what needs to be done to have a better grasp on humidity. Won't set in new styrobator until I've had time to problem solve temp flow throughout the box, and set up a raised platform for water trays underneath. Turkey poult egglet is still alive!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Hi LG...... I'm going fishing.... Yay!!!!

 

[BullChick]

 

[NaJoBeLe]

Hi LG...... I'm going fishing.... Yay!!!!

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Your still here?.......


..... Told you silly girl.... No worries.......

 

[NaJoBeLe]

@MotorcycleChick

Well Good Morning MC. Glad your with us this morning.e e

 

[BantyChooks]