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

[S5apiotrowski]

I'm not so good at technology... trying to embed video of a chick hatching after pipping the wrong end. If this works, this is 1 of 2...

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Did you sterilze the bator well before putting in fresh eggs?

yes.haven't put them yet.

 

[Phage]

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experience is golden, like any education.


Also suspect he is paying for the electricity and the eggs/chicken feed?

 

[Phage]

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AWESOME

 

[S5apiotrowski]

Wow - I guess it works when I submit the comment. It just doesn't look like it will work in the editor! #2/2

 

[ChickenLady2014]

Some girls want diamonds for Valentine's Day... I'm happy with a Super Coop, and Mama Garden, plotted and planned by Handsome Devil (referred to as HD). I know I've talked about these plans before, so, forgive me for repeating... Now it's finally happening!!! The first picture is the outline of the raised beds we'll build at the end of the run. Hubby designed the U shape (12' down, 9' across and 3.5' wide (our tractor is 3' wide), with an extra 3' x 4' bed in the middle.

This second pic is a panoramic taken from the inside of where the run goes...we are building the space to the left out for the coop 18ft x 8ft. It is the back of the girl's playhouse. We will tap into the electricity so I can build a brooder and hospital cage above the nesting boxes. We are pouring a slab for ease of cleaning and security. Half of the open space above the wall, to the left, will be greenhouse glass (for light and rain (should we EVER get any!) protection)), with the rest hardware cloth, where it will come across the front, framing it all in and giving them protection at night... We are making the "people door" a Dutch door I can just open the bottom half of to let the girls out. We will mount that old wagon wheel (propped up against the wall) flat on a post for a fun roost, along with a ladder roost.

The posts will be 4.5' high with hogwire. I am moving the blood orange and fig trees out of the center, into the run spaces...more protection from our overhead visitors. We are planting 2 avocados "inside" the run space as well- 1 along each wall, for protection and to screen our neighbors yards. Outside the run fence I'm planting lavender and rosemary bushes for pollinators, chicken smell camouflage and rodent deterrent. We are adding a gate at the corner from where I took the pano, to be able to close off to use for new bird integration, breeding and/or broody hens... We are adding a small 5'x4' coop at the mandarin tree end too.

I am keeping my "Bielefelder Family" over in the area the big girls have their coop now. I am planning for the big girls to move to super coop when these babies are ready to go out...just so everyone is on new territory.

Lastly, we will fill in the open space with polished gravel and put a picnic table and benches in the middle, along with my favorite adirondack chairs. This is the best Valentine present EVER! I have a feeling it is also bday, Mother's Day, anniversary , and likely Christmas...for a very long time!

Hi Gotro, sound very eggciting, bet you can't wait to start. I have one question though. From what I've read and heard avacado flesh is safe for poultry, but that the skin & pit are toxic to them in large quantities. Will they have access to the trees & avacados that fall from the trees? I would hate for your chickens to become ill from them. Please understand, no offense intended

 

[Phage]

FEEL BETTER SOON SALLY

 

[karenerwin]

Looks like I got the message mixed up I thought we were talking tomatoes and grafting them. Maxifort is a tomato grafting tomato stock not for fruit trees. Lol
As I get older the fruit tree root stock that the fruit tree stays dwarf or semi dwarf is looking much better to me. Can't stay on the ladders like I used to. Grafting is fun.

No, you had it right. We were talking about tomatoes. I hadn't heard or thought about grafting them. Then I went off topic, but still talking about grafting & talked about fruit trees.

 

[Phage]

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Originally Posted by chicken hawk 33 I,probably will.he only has ten eggs.so I will probably set thirty Silkie eggs for me.



?? SO WHY DID YOU MAKE THE FIRST STATEMENT????

IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO CARE ABOUT YOU, AND HELP YOU YOU NEED TO BE HONEST

 

[Sally Sunshine]

yers is smaller, but mine is better shelled

wanna weigh and see who has the smallest? guess where mine is since this morning?

going back to bed now. had to message sumi back need a nappy