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

[BullChick]

@Akrnaf2

Sorry. I just can't think this morning!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Morning all you crazy chicken peeps

Morning back at you all.

how are you?

@Sally Sunshine I'm sorry. You know my mind is elsewhere.

its ok I know that

I am getting excited about my next hatch. I have ordered the quail eggs. I am getting a dozen Swedish Flower Hen eggs. I am eggcited to load up the bator again.

awesomeness!!!! what kinda quail? Now your on the April HAL!!!!

Quote: dont forget to update and tag me lol

Good morning everyone.

Thanks for all the kind thoughts. Will be working with doctors this week, have been for some time. As you know bodies are tricky. Just like a car squeak take it in and it doesn't do it for them. This time it might have, again thank you MC for sharing your experience I was just going to wait this one out again.
Peter

 

[mrleeroy]

Good morning everyone.

Thanks for all the kind thoughts. Will be working with doctors this week, have been for some time. As you know bodies are tricky. Just like a car squeak take it in and it doesn't do it for them. This time it might have, again thank you MC for sharing your experience I was just going to wait this one out again.
Peter

I hope you and the docs can get it figured out.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: I know, I know. I was just trying to find a way to obliquely say that they weren't being as mean as they might seem if taken out of context...

No, it was my screw-up. I tried correcting it, & gave up. I did have something to say, but I can't remember what it was; I hope it wasn't something important.

That CRS kicking in again?

OK, gotta run - I'm buying breakfast tacos for the lab this AM.

Have a great day, everyone!!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[Chaos18]

Chaos! good morning!

Im fine thanks and I pray you are!

yes anything 45 to 100

is it raining there as well whites? I always get the exterior floor paint, then I NEVER have to repaint the trim on my houses lol trick my Painter friend told me! YES set that sucker up!!! I did keep that Marans cockerel baby, I have a feeling yours will become food at some point. Like I said this guys dady took the MASS show this winter. So I kept him and a pullet.

Not so much but at least I'm on the green side of the grass.

 

[mlm Mike]

Morning back at you all.

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What are you setting?

Good morning everyone.

Thanks for all the kind thoughts. Will be working with doctors this week, have been for some time. As you know bodies are tricky. Just like a car squeak take it in and it doesn't do it for them. This time it might have, again thank you MC for sharing your experience I was just going to wait this one out again.
Peter

I hope it is figured out soon!

Sorry. I just can't think this morning!

Morning.

 

[kwhites634]

Chaos! good morning!

Im fine thanks and I pray you are!

yes anything 45 to 100

is it raining there as well whites? I always get the exterior floor paint, then I NEVER have to repaint the trim on my houses lol trick my Painter friend told me! YES set that sucker up!!! I did keep that Marans cockerel baby, I have a feeling yours will become food at some point. Like I said this guys dady took the MASS show this winter. So I kept him and a pullet.

He might, at some point; I hope not. He's been behaving himself lately.

 

[mrleeroy]

What are you setting?

I hope it is figured out soon!

Morning.

The ones I said i wasn't going to hatch.... They're from my Cream Brabanter pullet and Beardless roo. I wouldn't breed those offspring, but I would like to know a little more about her genetics. I want to know if she's pure for her beard. So I figure with a non-bearded roo, if she is pure all of her offspring should have them. If not, it will be 1/4 with beards.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Coon pics

Soil test: Unfortunately, this is one factor that folks don't consider when they load up their run with chickens that turn the land into a burned moon scape. Harvey Ussery addresses this issue in his book: The small scale poultry flock. It's so easy to loose track of this aspect of poultry keeping. I wonder if that bed would be helped by a deep mulch? Or perhaps find some crops that are heavy phosphorus feeders. Your county co-op Ag extension agent should be able to help you with that. And, I'm not pointing a finger at you re: soil management. We're all at risk of this! This is one reason why I'm such a proponent of DL in the run. I don't know that it will help or solve the problem, but it can't hurt!

Agreed, any one paying for shipping on a DY is throwing good money after bad. Shipping is hard on eggs. DY are at huge risk of even having a successful outcome for even one baby, and that's when they are hand cradled from nest to bator.

Thanks and you're absolutely right. The agent didn't answer his phone Friday. I had suggested testing my finished compost but he didn't think it was important. I disagree.
I do have a tandem load of garden soil I was building more beds with so I'll be able to top the bed off with about 4" or so of lower P soil. The biggest problem with high P is that plants become deficient in iron and zinc and therefor fail to grow. I can't stress enough how important a soil test is. Had I or most other people had a problem with plants failing to thrive, we may have tried fertilizer. If the fertilizer used had anything other than a zero in the second spot (N-P-K), the problem would have been exacerbated.
Any fertilizer I use will have to contain nitrogen only.
300 ppm is considered high enough to cause problems for plants. Mine is over 700 ppm.
I'm sure I can correct the situation in time. I wouldn't have been able to if I didn't have the soil test to know what I was dealing with.
Peculiarly, it is akin to having a sick chicken and immediately starting to medicate or bite the bullet and take it for a necropsy so you know the correct course of action.
Even heavy feeders like tomatoes only remove about 30 lbs. of P per acre. Fortunately P over time becomes chemically bound in the soil and unavailable in solution, unlike nitrogen which flushes out quickly.
The problem is just as bad for organic growers as for those using excessive amounts of chemical fertilizer. 20 tons of cow manure per acre will accumulate 1200 lbs. P over 20 years and chicken manure is much worse.
I do use straw in the run but not enough. Making it worse likely is that after the chickens are done, I top it off with finished compost but that is made up mostly of shavings and manure from the coops.
In the future I'll use much more shavings in the coops and muck them out more often and add more brown material like leaves and grass clippings to the compost.


People keep trying to grow grass in their runs or the bare area in front of the coop to no avail. The soil is too compacted and too high in phosphorus.
All one can do is dig out a few inches and bring in fresh soil.

No, it was my screw-up. I tried correcting it, & gave up. I did have something to say, but I can't remember what it was; I hope it wasn't something important.

I'm sure it was important.

Ha ha! I don't think of them as a kid treat (obviously, since I had to ask). I am sure that is because of the cost. I kinda think now that I should have gotten the half dozen for three kids, but since they are mixed white, milk and dark chocolate, the dozen is better. Besides, some adults around are uncouth enough to take candy from babies.
I addressed the chocolate to the kids, and I sent my sister a remembrance candle. It is a terracotta holder for a tea candle. I am sure she will have more than enough flowers. I was shocked at the S/H! An order costing under $80, had $45 shipping charge! Well... $15 was for getting it there tomorrow.

Now that is torture!

Too bad you couldn't find a local place near where she lives that would deliver rather than ship from afar.
When catastrophe happens, there isn't time to consider other options.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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ok well you know where he is if you have issues! he is outside in the big run now so he should start growing fast!