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

[lindalouly]

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Yes... I threw up a little posting that.

 

[canadachickens]

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What the ........? Now it lets me post pics?
Here is my Auracana eggs! e

 

[lindalouly]

What the ........? Now it lets me post pics?
Here is my Auracana eggs! e

Nice!!! Was just debating a few of those kinds of eggs to hatch.

 

[Saris]

how are you beautiful Saris?

how far they shipping this time?

You're gonna make me blush haha!

The 6 SiAm eggs are coming from SC, but the seller and I talked about how she packs and she does it well so I am hopeful.
10 Biele eggs are coming from Boise ID, which is about 6 hours away? Not far at all.
24 Biele eggs are coming from Redding CA, but I've only heard good things about Papa Brooder's packing and shipping so I am very hopeful.

Overall I know I have a tough hatch ahead, but I feel more prepared after the disaster of the phoenix eggs..... However I feel that their packing had a large impact on how they did.

Now I just need to decide what to do with them since I'm sure they will all arrive at different times. I'm wondering if I should store them somewhere more or less humid. My bedroom is sitting at 70 degrees and about 35% humidity. I'm also wondering if I should orient them aircell up but leave them in the bubble wrap or something to help reduce the growth of their aircell from age....

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Sounds like gangs & gangs of fun with the snow machine     What was with the planes landing on the ice? Ever find out?

Someone on the lake apparently had airplanes....I know there's one on the other lake I fish but it only flies in the summer.

its ok for styro?   where do you get it? 

any wine making store.

 

[gotro17]

it says lay them horizontal for hatching.helps hatch an hour or two early.I know you said put them in cartons.but I don't know.I have never done it.and I don't want some to not hatch if they pip on the wrong end in the cartons.

Not ONE pipped the wrong end! I had almost a dozen eggs with detached, severely saddled, ait cells. I can attest I hatched all but one thanks to @Sally Sunshine expert advice- and me doing exactly what she said to! The one that DIS was probably my fault for "checking" on it too much yesterday. Hard, sad, lesson learned because I DIDNT LISTEN! You keep saying you're "scared" because you've never done it like this before... Have you ever had shipped eggs with saddles and detached AC like this before?!? Just do what she tells you! Cut holes on the bottoms of the carton. Stagger which ones will have them, like a zig zag...that way, the chicks have room to flop out. Here's a good picture of the spacing I'm talking about, AND, a successful hatch! All pictures here pipped, zipped and hatched right where you see them. I used a clear carton because I couldn't find a styrofoam one... Good luck!

 

[casportpony]

Go Denver!




-Kathy

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Wow, I was a good 75 PAGES behind! And was only gone a few days! That should be a new record lol. My hatch finished up with 14 new poults. Unfortunately about 11 quit at hatch time. I think it was due to my incubator failure last week. So upsetting! None of Pebbles' eggs hatched either so I gave her 2 poults. She was happy to accept them and was looking at my hands for more lol. Pictures when she brings them out.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

nothing more for you sweets! your time is before and during 18 days! now its their time!

Alright! I'll just keep cheerleading them from the outside. And Dumbledore keeps crowing for them, too.

GO CHICKEEEEEEEES!!!!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I know what you mean. On my cell, too many posts!!!
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I don't know how you do it.

For those that care, when you quote, delete pictures that take forever on phones and in the boonies or other countries without fast internet.
Anyone that wants to, can click back to see the pictures.

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

Good story.
You didn't go through that for a meal of fish but for the adventure.
Glad you made it off the lake.

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

Oh so true.

@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

I get it. Thanks.
I'm glad I only have one species of bird and down to 2 breeds.
I haven't had to deal with blackhead. I've only wormed 3 birds to my recollection in 60 years. Bless cold winters.

When should I start with the lower temps

You don't have to. Hens' body temperatures don't change on day 18. It's just that embryos can handle more temperature swings beyond that.
Best not to change anything.

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On the topic of snakes, we don't have an abundance of poisonous ones here, but we do have many common garter snakes. The limestone deposits all over this area provide them with good year round habitat. Don't mind them much, they do keep the mice down, but not a big fan of picking them up and playing with them just the same.

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As for the snow you all were mentioning, we are having a blizzard here right now. Probably the same system pushing eastward for Sally and Whites areas later this week. Enjoy!

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Go Broncos! Sorry Louly

On the topic of snakes - not to beat a dead horse. I've been bitten by spiders an infinite number of times more than snakes (because I've never been bitten by a snake)
I've swollen up lots of times from spiders. Snakes have never hurt me.
My bees have caused my eyes to swell up to where it was hard to see.

I'm indifferent but may watch some of the game since I was a NFL fan a couple weeks ago.
I just hope for a good game.

it says lay them horizontal for hatching.helps hatch an hour or two early.I know you said put them in cartons.but I don't know.I have never done it.and I don't want some to not hatch if they pip on the wrong end in the cartons.

I'm not sure if horizontal or vertical changes the time of hatch.

but y I never understood.because what if it pips the wrong end.it will die in an egg carton

If they've been nearly upright, they won't pip at the wrong end. Don't fret and don't overthink this.

Not ONE pipped the wrong end! I had almost a dozen eggs with detached, severely saddled, ait cells. I can attest I hatched all but one thanks to @Sally Sunshine expert advice- and me doing exactly what she said to! The one that DIS was probably my fault for "checking" on it too much yesterday. Hard, sad, lesson learned because I DIDNT LISTEN! You keep saying you're "scared" because you've never done it like this before... Have you ever had shipped eggs with saddles and detached AC like this before?!? Just do what she tells you! Cut holes on the bottoms of the carton. Stagger which ones will have them, like a zig zag...that way, the chicks have room to flop out. Here's a good picture of the spacing I'm talking about, AND, a successful hatch! All pictures here pipped, zipped and hatched right where you see them. I used a clear carton because I couldn't find a styrofoam one... Good luck!