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

[caeti21]

Just a quick Good morning everyone!!! Hope everyone has a great day!! BBL

 

[caeti21]

mornin hero
finally!!! yayayyayyay!!! congrats!!

Thanks

 

[slordaz]

enjoy your hatchingm understandable it's only quick

 

[caeti21]

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Thank you

 

[mlm Mike]

Good Morning Everyone!

Good Morning Sally!

 

[fire370]

mornin hero
finally!!! yayayyayyay!!! congrats!!

Mornin' my dear

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Good Morning Everyone!

Good Morning Sally!

good morning Mike!!! Lets knock a contest out today!!

 

[LocalYokel]

Yes it will

Fricken sweet

 

[kwhites634]

@LocalYokel
You close to filling those quail rails yet?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Don't wish your life away

So true. It's short enough already.

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So now I am looking for hatching eggs. If I am going to have them shipped, I would rather have it from an actual Hatchery. Hopefully, they know how to pack them properly. However, I've checked some sites. eBay has some reasonable price, however they don't guarantee the eggs at all. If they are broken or infertile you're out of luck.

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EBay is not in the business of selling eggs..private individuals use it, just like here. Ask the seller questions and check their feedback.....No one can really guarantee eggs because of the postal handling and they don't know how well you incubate......

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Yes, dear. It's the seller that said no guarenees, refunds or exchanges.

I don't think anyone, individual or hatchery, will guarantee eggs because - as TJ said - they can't control shipping or customer's incubation skills.

So a friend was madly sending me pm's tonight through facebook cause we don't have cell signal here and she only has a cell phone. She was driving up the highway and as she passed my place she saw a large mountain lion come through our gate. Fortunately, since I was trying to catch up with you guys, I caught her trying to send me messages. Me and the kids jumped in the truck and drove all over the ranch with lights. We never saw him, but the kids shot several rounds off near the horses and again near the birds. I hope we spooked him away.....

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TJ that's too scary! Just saw a deer last night, crossed right in front of our car. We were going slow enough to slow down on these icy streets.
One day a few yrs. back, we were decorating our Christmas tree, when all of a sudden, right there, on the sidewalk in front of our house, in our neighborhood..not a farm..goes a fox, just trotting along. I hurry out and place all of my chickens in the coop, shut them right in.

Man, think that lion would go for a horse? They are pretty big. Deer yes, horse??

Horse too.
I'm right in the suburbs of a pretty big Midwestern metropolitan area. There's hardly a predator that isn't in abundance here.
There are coyotes walking through my yard at all times of day and night. A pair took a rooster last year. I've interrupted a fox grabbing a hen twice. (friendly buff orpington didn't know what hit it) Raccoons, opossums, weasels and too many mink as well as hawks galore. I've quit keeping calm breeds since then.
While not as common, there are bobcat, black bear and mountain lions too. In another suburb across town, someone recently caught a mountain lion on their backyard game cam. Dead in the middle of the populous burbs bobcat have been sighted and foxes have dens all over. Black bears have been getting more numerous. Our county and a nearly as densely populated county across the river have both had bear sightings. Those are likely males. The only known locations of radio collared females are 3 counties away.
This map includes sightings prior to 2008


I think a bear could get into about half of my buildings.

UR, I moved my 8 week olds out this weekend. temps inside were 60-65 , outside day time highs were 24, night time lows - 5. I did put a reptile bulb in the lamp in the enclosed pen, but after the first night, they have just settled in as a group, don't seem to be using the lamp much, and all were running around fine last night. the little boogers are a lot tuffer than we give them credit for. day time high yesterday was 4 and they were active and hungry at feed time

They are so tough. On a few occasions over the years I've had 3 to 5 week old chicks escape into the woods late in the day when it was quite cold out. I always expected them to be goners - either chilled to death or taken by a predator only for them to be running around the coop in the morning looking for mom.

Still have to do all the finishing touches but it is wired and running.

Congrats. Having it fired up is a good thing.

they are popping and noisy boogers, temps went up to 100 for some reason and I had it down, musta been from so many hatching together because its the same temp in the room.

Bonus. They are hatching like crazy in spite of all that handling candling and graffiti on the eggs.

A lot of chicks will raise the temp. That's a lot of metabolism going on there. I think a chick's body temperature is 108F if memory serves.

Good mornin', all my fine unfeathered friends.
Was gonna go fishing this morning, then looked out the window; I ain't up for wading through snow to go fishing. I'm crazy, but not stupid. Only 'sposed to be in the 40's today, anyway.

I always avoided opening day of trout season here (which is always March 1) because I hate crowds and even summer holidays can have anglers 3 deep along the trout streams here. But one year I decided to take my son for opening day which was on a Friday and I had a 3 day weekend. Luckily we decided to sleep in the van rather than pitch a tent. We had a good day of fishing and then the blizzard came. The campground was on top of the mountain above the river. We got snowed in for 3 days. We spent the time reading the Lord of the Rings, doing homework and playing in the snow. It was so bad I-44 was closed. It got so cold, the cream for my coffee froze solid at the foot of the bed. The walls of the van were thick sheets of ice from condensation freezing. Eventually they got the steep road cleared enough for people to drive out. They came around to all the campers to see if everyone had enough food or they were going to helicopter some food to the camp.

Funnier part of the story is that he missed his scouts box car derby but his friend's mother went by the house to pick up the car and enter it for him.
We hadn't finished the car. We were planning on making a 1960 Cadillac. All we had done so far was take the block of wood, install the axles and wheels and glue the weight to the bottom. His block of wood took 2nd.

I got a question for y'all. I happen to really like my black and red Sex Link hens, and when I expand the flock in the future I want to start breeding and hatching Sex Links. Anyone happen to have done so before or known someone who has, and if so what breeds are best for breeding Sex Link hens with?

This should be enough information to get you started.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKSexLink.html
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKMaking.html
After you've absorbed that, come back to fine tune the info.

It's my understanding, right or wrong, that sex-links don't breed true. In other words, breeding sex link / sex-link is going to result in mutts, not more sex-links. ...

You're right.