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

[kwhites634]

No good old land of nuts and fruits California we do have snakes as well

I've heard that most of the snakes in CA walk upright & tend to congregate in the larger cities. Any truth to that?

 

[kwhites634]

Okay I told Friday I would post about yesterday's fishing adventure.

Part one.

So my buddy shows up and we drive to the lake. We get there and the whole lake had been snowed plowed.
Now I've been fishing this lake for 33 years and it's never been snowed plowed. Now have I ever seen an entire lake snow plowed before. (Is a fairly big lake)
We decide were gonna truck on over to the far side being we had the snowmobile and all. We get over there drill our holes, set up the shack, and start fishing. A bald eagle flies right over our heads ( Pretty cool but not too uncommon here). We start fishing and I go to check on you guys here and realize I don't have my phone. I end up jumping on the snowmobile and heading back to see if i left it in the truck.
The machine starts to act up and dies on the way back from the truck (oh crap).
I do notice if I reach down and pump the primer it'll keep running. So I get back call my wife with Frank's phone and she says that I left it on the window above the kitchen sink(that's where I put it if i am trying to get a text out cuz I can't text for crap at my house....big metal roof acts like a tin foil hat). Now I'm worried about getting stranded on a lake at night with a dead snowmobile and I'm not really dressed for it...

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So now we're fishing and all of a sudden out of now where two freaking airplanes land on the ice right next to us. Scare the bejesus out of us. I didn't have my phone to get pics.

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Now I know why the lake was plowed.

Intermission:

We catch fish...I got a couple of pike one was about 26" Frank kept a good meals worth off Bluegill. Had fun.


Part 2.

so now we decided to head back before it's too dark knowing the snow machine is acting up. We start heading back.
And the only way I can keep it running is to hold the throttle with my left hand ( is on the right handle bar) and reach down with my right hand and pump the primer (obviously I have a fuel issue). It's almost out of control as it is too ride like that. So now Frank is on the back, the machine is bucking like a freaking bronco (Frank's a big guy) every time it bucks he's practically choking me trying not to fall off the back. All this time I'm trying to steer left handed with the right handle bar. Somehow with all this going on I managed to get the machine back to the truck. (Oh yeah Frank fell off half way back I made him walk cuz I wasnt stopping for nothing). You would think this would be the end of story.
NOT...trying to load the machine onto the trailer I flooded it and fouled the plug. Luckily my quick thinking I stole the plug out of my ice auger and even though it was totally the wrong plug I got it started and loaded and we went home...Yay !!!!
Allot to go through for a meal of fish.....

......Phil
Edited by LittleLakePhil - Today at 9:12 am

Sounds like gangs & gangs of fun with the snow machine

What was with the planes landing on the ice? Ever find out?

 

[casportpony]

I read your post about liking to medicate. I know everyone has different management techniques and perhaps more importantly, different climates. But I don't get why you LIKE to medicate. I like not needing to medicate.

@ChickenCanoe and @sourland , guess I should have worded that post better (poor attempt of a little humor). Of course I don't *like* having to medicate, I'd rather never have to, but keeping peafowl and turkeys with chickens and earthworms can be quite difficult. Even though they are in their own aviaries, I still have to deal with many cases of blackhead each year, and with blackhead comes E. coli. Other than the peafowl, turkeys and occasionally ducklings with bloody navels, I hardly ever treat anything else.

If I hatch out 40 peafowl and stick them on the dirt, those 40 peafowl will eventually need to be treated for blackhead (histomoniasis) and probably E.coli. So what I do is keep peafowl off the ground until they are sold.

-Kathy

 

[AnnikaLF]

Oh lord I have to be crazy my step daughter just asked me to put her white Bantam Leghorn egg in the incubator.... Incubation should come with a warning label may become a addictive. Lol.

 

[Pensmaster]

I've heard that most of the snakes in CA walk upright & tend to congregate in the larger cities. Any truth to that?  

I'm seriously more afraid of the critters in town than I am of all the wildlife here. Including the cougar at least I know what to watch for with her

 

[casportpony]

OK caught up. @Sally Sunshine . Brace for at least another week, but much better no more crutch or cane. Glad at least a few Sermas made it and you are feeling better.
@gotro17

great first hatch and you listened for success.
@tao chick they get over mycoplasma on the surface, but remain carriers and it can come out in times of stress.
@kwhites634 link to gravity feeder?
@rossfam06 I grew up there too, but would not say I missed February in AK
@casportpony have you ever used permethrin?

I use permethrin dust to treat lice and mites.

-Kathy

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:

Shalom to you all! Always 10,000,000 posts to CU ! This thread is incredible!!
(SHALOM Sally!

)

BENNY!!! did you see my project chick images?

and you have images to share from Rome?

Quote:

wake up child!!! its not gasoline!!!

200+ posts behind, but wanted to update and ask about my air cells (and hopefully get some reassurance - it's my first hatch!!!!)

The Cream Legbar eggs are on day 18. I only candled long enough to mark air cells, then got them back in to the incubator (lined with paper towels, and baskets separating eggs from different mothers).




Here are the air cells. (A representative selection)


I was alarmed at first with how little change I saw in some from day 14. But there are others that look good, and I re-read the day 18 info a couple times. Does this mean I just have some that have begun to draw down, and some that have not yet? Or am I going to end up with sticky chicks for some eggs (I am re-reading that section as well). For what it's worth, several of the eggs have been obviously rocking since yesterday when I cluck at them, and those have the more drawn down ones. The photo is representative of some of the differences in the air cells (there is only a 14 day and 18 day mark, no 7 day mark). Humidity was 40% days 0-7, and 35% from day 7 to 18 (settings - but readings mostly matched that, occasionally a point or two above temporarily). By weight they were fairly on track for 11% weight loss by average of all eggs, but looking individually, some lost more than they should, some less. (What might make eggs of similar size vary so much in weight loss? Alternative explanation I suspect is that the scale for the first readings was off). I did not weigh them day 18 because I didn't trust the numbers at 14 days - and I wasn't really sure what I would do differently anyway.

Regardless, they are now locked down at 98.5F and 65% Humidity. Will drop temp again on day 21 per Hatching 101 guidance.

Any suggestions on anything I should do differently at this point, or am I good to go/wait at this point?

Heading out to finish that coop, but will check back in regularly. Thanks!!!
@Sally Sunshine

- Ant Farm

this is close, not sure what you were looking at at candle, some do draw down and since you have a pip I am certain they were.

Its extremely hard to guess on air cells via images, some look good and some look small to me.

I have only weighed my standard eggs one time, because everyone wanted to know what weight I typically lost. So I weighed but still went by air cells to see what I reached....

the results were that I averaged 15-15% weight loss running at 100.5 until day 18. when I weighed to test what % I actually loose during my own incubation for clean healthy hatches.

Quote: no clue what he does at this point, he is too busy I dont bother him.

One of them just peeped!!!!!

Quote:

see and you wanted to trash them!! oh the shame!!

So... I have nearly run the gamut, @Sally Sunshine , as predicted! I've now made my first pip (I was right on, so grateful!)! I'm really glad I did too- I think the shell was too hard- it was tough for ME and my stainless steel dental tools! Anyway- the Marans is holding and I'm antsy to help it- I'll fight the urge though! Humidity is a steady 74%, temp at 98.3... Anything else? The Marans hasn't turned much- just keeps peeping it's little beak from the pip.

nope just time them and wait until they absorb, you read the assist, you got this.

Oh lord I have to be crazy my step daughter just asked me to put her white Bantam Leghorn egg in the incubator.... Incubation should come with a warning label may become a addictive. Lol

how are you feeling?

so this adds to staggered hatch?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

When should I start with the lower temps

 

[Pensmaster]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/u/162672/Sally-Sunshine

Sally this is what I use to clean my incubator and my brewing equipment. Any thoughts. It is food safe and doesn't need rinsing.

Did the blue light work?

 

[Pensmaster]

Okay I told Friday I would post about yesterday's fishing adventure.


Part one.


So my buddy shows up and we drive to the lake. We get there and the whole lake had been snowed plowed.

Now I've been fishing this lake for 33 years and it's never been snowed plowed. Now have I ever seen an entire lake snow plowed before. (Is a fairly big lake)

We decide were gonna truck on over to the far side being we had the snowmobile and all. We get over there drill our holes, set up the shack, and start fishing. A bald eagle flies right over our heads ( Pretty cool but not too uncommon here). We start fishing and I go to check on you guys here and realize I don't have my phone. I end up jumping on the snowmobile and heading back to see if i left it in the truck.

The machine starts to act up and dies on the way back from the truck (oh crap).

I do notice if I reach down and pump the primer it'll keep running. So I get back call my wife with Frank's phone and she says that I left it on the window above the kitchen sink(that's where I put it if i am trying to get a text out cuz I can't text for crap at my house....big metal roof acts like a tin foil hat). Now I'm worried about getting stranded on a lake at night with a dead snowmobile and I'm not really dressed for it...:/ .

So now we're fishing and all of a sudden out of now where two freaking airplanes land on the ice right next to us. Scare the bejesus out of us. I didn't have my phone to get pics. .

Now I know why the lake was plowed.


Intermission:


We catch fish...I got a couple of pike one was about 26" Frank kept a good meals worth off Bluegill. Had fun.



Part 2.


so now we decided to head back before it's too dark knowing the snow machine is acting up. We start heading back.

And the only way I can keep it running is to hold the throttle with my left hand ( is on the right handle bar) and reach down with my right hand and pump the primer (obviously I have a fuel issue). It's almost out of control as it is too ride like that. So now Frank is on the back, the machine is bucking like a freaking bronco (Frank's a big guy) every time it bucks he's practically choking me trying not to fall off the back. All this time I'm trying to steer left handed with the right handle bar. Somehow with all this going on I managed to get the machine back to the truck. (Oh yeah Frank fell off half way back I made him walk cuz I wasnt stopping for nothing). You would think this would be the end of story.

NOT...trying to load the machine onto the trailer I flooded it and fouled the plug. Luckily my quick thinking I stole the plug out of my ice auger and even though it was totally the wrong plug I got it started and loaded and we went home...Yay !!!!

Allot to go through for a meal of fish..... ......Phil

Edited by LittleLakePhil - Today at 9:12 am

Snowmobiles are sooo much fun. I'm going to relay this on to my brother in law. He's got some and he'll get a blast out of this.