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

[scottcaddy]

Quote: I want dark brown with blue speckles!

Scott

 

[Saris]

    I have to do the warsh as well.  Do you really call it laundry?

I say laundry, my mom says wash and I tease her that the R is silent. Haha

Hello all! I just wanted to join in this thread!

I have 48 eggs in the incubator ready to hatch Thursday!

AND my hens I hatched this summer just started laying this week! Yay!

Yay babies! I wanna know what kinds you have!

Yay! Woke up with 1 pip this morning. Dropped eldest off at school, and come home to second pip! Yay!   

ETA: off to drop younger at school/go to store, hopefully more when I get home LOL

Yay! Yay! Yay! How's the snow there? We got a couple inches here.

 

[mirandaleecon]

I want dark brown with blue speckles!

Scott

Oooh that sounds pretty! Maybe I'll try to cross my EE or Ameraucanas to a Marans and see what happens!

 

[tao chick]

All 5 eggs infertile/clear after 72-96 hours. Incubator off. Next fertility check next month.

 

[Cynthia12]

Looks great! This is how my NYD hatch a long eggs are looking. Thought I only had 8, but I have 9. Yes, not tossing too soon is the right idea..had two sitting aside seeing nothing..last night, I saw that little embryo.

 

[Cynthia12]

Ok, I have what may seem like a dumb question to many of you, but a lot of you know, that I can not keep roosters here. I have just started this past yr. to keep a boy for a while, until his crowing gets real loud. Found out that these boys can fertilize the girls pretty early ... after they start crowing. I have a beautiful Heratige RIR. Well guess what I witnessed this morning? Ey? Yep, and when he went after her, I just watched to see if he knew what he was doing. He sure did! Here's the thing. He isn't crowing! He is 6 months old. I know I can open eggs to see, but wondered how long it takes for an egg to get fertile, this gal he got this morning has only laid her second egg today. Maybe he isn't fertilizing them yet? I've seen him chasing the girls, but haven't actually seen him get one until this morning. Whoot! I have a leghorn that is laying out there. She will be easy, she squats for me. A leghorn and a RIR..nice laying hens in the future if he does his job!
Man, am I finally going to be lucky and be able to keep a ....non...crowing rooster? I know, it's coming. Just hope he isn't too loud at first, and I can keep him for a while. Sure was funny hearing the sounds he made after he got his girl.

 

[Cynthia12]

And oh...the word is ... laundry. I have an Aunt that says warsh. I thought, why does she say that? Her mom, my grandmother, lived out in the boonys of VA. back in the 60's. They didn't even have a bathroom, but an outhouse. I think that's why my Aunt still says words with an r in them, when I am thinking they shouldn't.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Specifications:

per 4 oz.

per lb.
Vitamin A (IU MIN)

2,500,000

10,000,000
Vitamin D3 (IU MIN)

1,000,000

4,000,000
Vitamin E (IU MIN)

2,000

8,000
Riboflavin (MG MIN)

750

3,000
d pantothenic Acid (MG MIN)

2,000

8,000
Folic Acid (MG MIN)

125

500
Thiamine Mononitrate (MG MIN)

375

1,500
Niacinamide (MG MIN)

5,000

20,000
Pyridoxine HCL (MG MIN)

300

1,200
Ascorbic Acid (MG MIN)

3,750

15,000
Vitamin B-12 (MG MIN)

2.5

10
Menadione (MG MIN)

1,000

4,000
Salt

11.0% (MIN) 13.2% (MAX)
Sodium

4.7% (MIN)
Potassium

3.8% (MIN)
Magnesium

0.26% (MIN)

It lacks 2 things that I want to give my birds - Biotin and Selenium

I add some ground up human tablets I buy in bulk - just 5 tabs per 100lb of feed for adult birds.

just 1 gram is enough for 1 gallon of water

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[Sally Sunshine]

All 5 eggs infertile/clear after 72-96 hours. Incubator off. Next fertility check next month.

awwww I am having that issue, I am setting again later, but the eggs are muddy!! I think I will set the dumb things anyways!!

Ok, I have what may seem like a dumb question to many of you, but a lot of you know, that I can not keep roosters here. I have just started this past yr. to keep a boy for a while, until his crowing gets real loud. Found out that these boys can fertilize the girls pretty early ... after they start crowing. I have a beautiful Heratige RIR. Well guess what I witnessed this morning? Ey? Yep, and when he went after her, I just watched to see if he knew what he was doing. He sure did! Here's the thing. He isn't crowing! He is 6 months old. I know I can open eggs to see, but wondered how long it takes for an egg to get fertile, this gal he got this morning has only laid her second egg today. Maybe he isn't fertilizing them yet? I've seen him chasing the girls, but haven't actually seen him get one until this morning. Whoot! I have a leghorn that is laying out there. She will be easy, she squats for me. A leghorn and a RIR..nice laying hens in the future if he does his job!
Man, am I finally going to be lucky and be able to keep a ....non...crowing rooster? I know, it's coming. Just hope he isn't too loud at first, and I can keep him for a while. Sure was funny hearing the sounds he made after he got his girl.

SET ALL EGGS I think I recently read??????

and no rooster crowin comments from me at the moment

 

[gimmie birdies]

I pulled my last clear the blue egg had thick shell could not see too good, but it was not getting dark inside. When cracked it was not fertile. cat liked it though.

I still have six eggs. I have a tan one not pictured.




so now 6/6 on day 7.