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

[Cluck cluck moo]

what are you up to this morning?

Getting ready to mow the lawn this morning.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Getting ready to mow the lawn this morning.

I'd have to shovel mine first......... Not supposed to stop snowing till Tuesday....

 

[Cluck cluck moo]

Oh, I don't deny my yard is under a bunch of snow. But I can still put on my bikini, and push the lawnmower around.

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh, I don't deny my yard is under a bunch of snow. But I can still put on my bikini, and push the lawnmower around.

 

[daxigait]

Think I should plow?

yuck

 

[daxigait]

So I'm thinking about selling some hatching eggs.... But, I don't know how I should package them. Does anyone have any methods that protect the eggs well?

Yes Sally has even posted it in the notes section see page one.

 

[daxigait]

Good morning everyone. I am really late heading out for chores, but . My first time sow has not squashed any babies.
I will also open the coop for the tiny chicks (March 1-27). I keep hoping some will get brave enough to explore the run. So far the most is Dow the ramp and right back in no adult chickens to go with since I had to get rid of mine. My oldest 15 weeks are in a separate pen.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Well, it is not chickies, but here are my newest. I have helped with five of the ten and I thought I would share a picture of the ten she has now since it will be dark when she is done.

They are being little piggies.

Just 1 street over from me - at the top of their road - it has always allowed horses - There was a 1987 ruling that said llamas were beasts of burden and were equal to horses . There are several llama farms in the area. A different family bought a llama from a neighbor in 1994. Their neighbor didn't like it, so tried to get the city council to overrule that 1987 ruling and ban llamas from the "elite" equestrian only neighborhood. Tried to get the city to try to pull EVERYONE's ability to raise them. Thankfully, the city voted 3 - 0 to keep the ruling, and if horses are allowed, so are llamas. So sometimes it doesn't work.

Even though I'm a stone's throw from Ferguson, this is an "elite" equestrian neighborhood - or at least a wannabe.
It is a scattering of subdivisions built over the last 40 years snaking out from 3 roads. Those primary roads properties are all a minimum of 1 acre but some go upwards of 30 acres. Horses were all explicitly allowed on parcels over 3 acres. All of us with chickens saw nothing in the ordinances disallowing chickens. One of my close neighbors has had horses, cows, ducks, geese and chickens. No problems for a long time. Then one day a reporter from the Post-Dispatch noticed many of her neighbors in the city had chickens and contacted our chicken group for an interview.
They all told her to call me. She asked how many chickens I had and at the time it was 45. She said, "can I come right over?" We sat for an interview and I explicitly asked her not to mention how many chickens I had or that I had roosters. She didn't comply. The story hit the paper the next morning and the Mayor choked on his coffee and donut exclaiming, "Do you realize someone in Black Jack has chickens? We have to make him get rid of them!!!!!"
That started a nearly year long battle. There were 5 other people on my road with chickens and at least 3 others in the city with them at the time. No one knew. The mayor's next door neighbor had chickens and he didn't know it.
We got TV, radio and other press involved and needless to say, we won.
It didn't hurt that the mayor and the city had come under national scrutiny a couple years earlier for trying to ban unmarried people from co-habituating in the city. That was a long battle as well and while I was doing my thing I met the couple at the convenience store who started that firestorm.

That's like some of the Yuppies that move into this area, with it's numerous horse & dairy operations, and complain about the smells when the wind's right after the "honey wagon" has finished its job.

If you don't like the country smells, go back to wherever you came from & quit trying to change a way of life.

X2
Visit on Sunday and go home.
Overpopulation is one culprit.

Good thing I closed the co-op before I left to.go fishing,just got back and had a huge coin in the run.ran away.before I could pull of a shot

We have a feed co-op. Ours was closed for a while but we're starting it up again.
I would love to have huge coin. How much are yours worth? Are they Spanish doubloons?

I can't see inside a pig. As a first timer, she may be done or have several more.

Pigs usually start with about 12 or more embryos but have the unusual ability to resorb embryos during gestation if nutrition is insufficient.

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I loved your Bator viewing window response.
She is a Berkshire, red wattle, Duroc cross bred by a Berkshire Landrace cross. I will head out soon to see if she has had anymore, and if she has managed not to squish one. I built a shed with protected sides for the babies, but she won't use it.
Faucets 18 or 20.

Wow, that's a lot. 12-14 is standard but can range up to 32. I never saw that.
I was wondering the breed too.
We used to have Durocs, Hampshires, Yorkshires and Poland Chinas.

I was thinking Duroc.

I locked my 1st mare in a big box stall to foal, & went to work. When I got home, in the middle of a hard rainstorm, she'd broken out of the barn & was in the process of foaling, in the rain, beside a barbed wire fence. I named the little filly "Stormy"

Quite a story. Dummy mare. I guess it was warm weather.

I sent in NPIP paperwork today!

So how intrusive are they if you do that?

Not much in MO. They do blood test every bird on the property over 4 months of age the same month every year.

I don't think the temp is right.the eggs are not as developed as it should be

eggs = plural, it = singular

Don't go by that, put the egg back, close the incubator and keep your hands out. That's why your temperatures are wonky.

I have a question for all the quail hatchers. We have a friend that lives up in the hills. There are a bunch of wild quail that live nearby, but there are so many predators, that they are disappearing faster than they are replenishing. He was wondering if we would hatch quail for him, that he could re-release around his property. He says they do a great job of keeping down on the bugs, and he'd probably eat some of them as well.

If they hatch in an incubator, can they ever be released out in the wild? If they can, at what age?


@daxigait Congratulations on the piglets!!

That would work but you want to raise them on range with a range feeder so they can find their own food later.
Perhaps in an area with tall grass and brush surrounded by electric fence to keep predators out.

is this okay to do

What?

Can you please explain me what IS the importance of NPIP to you?
And what its mean in fact?
Does it mean That a govermant inspector will visit your flock and check fir Salmonela?

NPIP=National Poultry Improvement Program.
It is a national program but administered by states so each state is different. Consistent across states is that it is a test for Pullorum-Typhoid. So yes, it is for the Salmonella pullorum bacteria.
The disease devastated the poultry industry around the turn of the century. Mortality was about 80%
The commercial poultry industry couldn't even get off the ground as long as PT was rampant across the country.
It was discovered that it is transmitted from hen to chick vertically through the egg.
A blood test was developed in 1913 and many states did statewide testing and eradicated carriers.
Then flocks could be designated as pullorum free.

Other things can be tested for like M Synoviae, M Gallisepticum, M Maleagridis, S Enteritidis and AI.
I'm not mad that I got into the program. The basic test is free here. There is a cost for others.
Pullorum-Typhoid clean is required for selling across state lines. In Missouri, it is required to sell within the state but many ignore that. Some states require birds to also be AI clean for importation. I was advised not to test for that because with rare birds, if they found antibodies, they'd cull my entire flock. So there are some states I can't ship to.
Some states only require a percentage of birds to be tested but in MO, 100% of birds over 4 months of age are tested. Mine are done in August. I try to get close to my winter numbers of adult birds by then and have a bunch of chicks.

So I'm thinking about selling some hatching eggs.... But, I don't know how I should package them. Does anyone have any methods that protect the eggs well?

Foam egg shippers wrapped in bubble wrap in a box, inside a box.

Thanks for expl.!
It is baisicly a Government controling system that will ease the goverment to reach and eradicate chicken flocks in case of bird flou eroption......

That happens.

I just sold this handsome cockerl For 45$! I have asked 50$
Good deal isn't it?

What breed?

Thanks Phil!
A sleepless night?
How is your wife?

My fourth in a row..... The wife is a whole different story of rather let alone for the minute.

I read that as your 4th wife in a row. Sorry.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Think I should plow?

Might as well. It may be your last chance to get some use out of it this winter/spring.

Getting ready to mow the lawn this morning.

I mowed around the fruit trees yesterday. It is getting long all over but I have to pick up all the branches that fell over the winter and especially the last extremely windy week.
My wife has been on me to mow for at least a week. It's supposed to rain the next couple days so I better get some done later today.

I'm getting ready for my chicken class. I have to leave here by 9 to make it there in time. The college is almost an hour across town.

Good morning everyone. I am really late heading out for chores, but

. My first time sow has not squashed any babies.
I will also open the coop for the tiny chicks (March 1-27). I keep hoping some will get brave enough to explore the run. So far the most is Dow the ramp and right back in

no adult chickens to go with since I had to get rid of mine. My oldest 15 weeks are in a separate pen.

That's good about the piglets. I've had chicks charge right out and some flocks that were too timid to leave the building till they were over 3 months old. You never know.

 

[kwhites634]

@kwhites634 She had an even dozen. There was a runt in the first five, but the others all seem fine. Now if she can just keep them warm and not squish them.

Very good! Glad all went well.