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

[kwhites634]

Originally Posted by PerfectPlumage
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Congratulations!
Are they bantams or otherwise extremely small eggs?
If it were me, I'd say my humidity was low or my thermometers were wrong. 2 days early is how one would determine actual temperature was high regardless of readings.
Page 3 in the following link.
http://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8127.pdf
"If they hatch up to a day early then you know the actual temperature was up to one half a degree higher than what the thermometer was reading." from the following.
http://incubatorwarehouse.com/incubator-warehouse-blog/how-to-calibrate-a-thermometer/
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/166/care-and-incubation-of-hatching-eggs/
https://poultrykeeper.com/incubating-and-hatching-eggs/setting-up-incubator-for-hatch/

No, DE won't cure a heavy load of worms and ACV will have no effect even if you feed the chickens pure vinegar.
As far as I know, there are no over the counter anthelmintics approved for treating tapeworms in poultry. A vet may be able to help if they can determine what kind they have. Each type of tapeworm has a specific secondary host.
The way to control tapeworms is to control is to control the secondary host. You need to know which of the 8 types of tapeworms you have so you know what secondary host is carrying them. It could be ants, slugs, snails, termites, earthworms, dung beetles, darkling beetles, ground beetles.

Exactly why I don't treat without knowing what I'm treating for.


That sounds like fun. Catch and release has really made for bigger, albeit smarter fish.



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I'm a big fan of deck blocks for coops.







They make construction quick with no post holes

I don't think anything you use would be a problem for the egg. Yes you should invest in a brighter bulb.

Form follows function.

Good list.
Most of my hens have spurs - as do many Mediterranean breeds.

Today means nothing - it's just another day in the life.
Have a happy birthday.

Deck blocks! Never heard of them, but I like the idea.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Saturday is lockdown. YAY yay YAY yay YAY yay

sweet!!! and Shah was being polite making conversation, so go answer her with what is in the bator and when due....

 

[DwayneNLiz]

It was crazy! I went to the feed store, walked by and they were somehow in my car when I left...it's a mystery

This is a great mystery!!

Wait a second! Did my sweet little squishy tush call me old?! I caught it when he said it, but my mind was elsewhere. Now my mind has circled around, and I am very offended!

Nope

Wow. That would be scary. He just opened his door between my truck and trailer when I moved, and his door got a new bend and a shattered window. The corner of my trailer was dented and has a small scrape. My company is not holding me in anyway responsible since he was way over his line and since it is clear it was opened between the two.

that's great that you are in the clear!

Today means nothing - it's just another day in the life.
Have a happy birthday.

@MotorcycleChick ^^ Agreed! I stopped counting birthdays when i had my daughter, she gets to have them now

and i have to use a calculator when someone asks lol

When have I ever been inside your head?.............I mean besides when your day dreaming about me.

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I was just offered 12 Canada Goose eggs yesterday. I turned them down.

And goose dust and down out of the hatcher.

Shop vac for broken glass in the grass.

I guess it was but what was forecast as 3 solid days of rain fell apart and I have a total of less than 1/4 " in the rain gauge.

I HAD way too many. I've been liquidating for the last few years. I still have to sell an '02 Ford ZX2 and a '72 Porsche 914 and invest in a truck. That will leave only the truck, wife's car and son's car in the drive.
At one time, I had a Ford E250 cargo, Ford F700 Bucket truck, Ford Focus, Ford Taurus, 3 Saabs ('92 900 turbo convertible, '97 900, '99 9-5 turbo convertible), 86 BMW 5series, 2 MGBs, the ZX2 and Porsche. Oh, and a Bobcat.

Here's my daughter's bike which she bought in Ho Chi Minh to drive the length of Viet Nam all the way to Ha Long Bay. She was so over 6 hour bus rides that usually turned into 10. She sold it in Hanoi before her flight back to Thailand.




Then she rented a 4 wheeler to take a friend riding the dunes.



However, I think she may have enjoyed riding elephants more.


She was on the young elephant on the right that kept taking her on submerged swims.

shopvac for just about everything, good luck on the rain!

looks like your daughter had a ton of fun!

I was just jerking your chain a little bit

jerk away

Good morning everyone!!

Ouch, 20 + pages catching up and my quote button failed!!!

Congratulations on the hatching eggs!! I loved the Deck blocks idea!. Fishing stories - last time I went fishing I think I was 6, and when I tried to cast the line, I ended up letting go of the entire rod. I was not asked to go fishing with them anymore after that.

Sally - how did you forget yours were hatching? Your calendar is SO organized!! Banti - congratulations on Jace's first hatch! I never would have thought of those!

@daxigait , Sorry about the fender bender!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @MotorcycleChick !!!!! Scary story about almost getting squished. How did you finally get the guys attention?

Ok, my lock down eggs are pipping! 1 hatched during the night and there are more than 9 pips (they lost track while counting them)! At least that is the report I got. I have not yet been home to see them!


For the May hatch along - what kind of stories on remembering the fallen are you looking for?

Happy Thursday everyone!

Good Morning!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Nothing to add? Hens spurs dont get near as long as old roosters as they age ? if so what breed/s?

Nothing I can think of. I think you covered it. They don't have teeth so you can't look in the mouth.

Pretty much every Mediterranean breed I've had, some of the hens had spurs. Leghorns, Anconas, Minorcas, Buttercups and Penedesencas. My Jaerhon hens had spurs too.
It is acceptable but isn't a desirable trait, yet they're there. Most of my Pene hens have them. When I get all the other kinks worked out with this breed - egg color, feather color, size, earlobes, comb, shape - I'll work to eliminate the spurs in the girls.

They aren't as long as older roosters but they're pretty long. They occasionally use them in a fight like a cock would.


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Our 'Pints and Plants' event at Urban Chestnut Grove Brewery and Bierhall last night was fun and interesting. The speaker couldn't answer any of my questions but I still learned a lot.
It turns out you can use Coriander seed and chili peppers to replace some of the hops during the end of the wort boil.
You can use pumpkin, lemon and bitter orange to add flavoring in the secondary ferment.
I learned it takes 100 sq. ft. of a barley crop to make one 5 gallon bucket of beer.

Suggested books are "Drunken Botanist" by Amy Stewart and "Complete Joy of Homebrewing" by Charlie Papazian.

I stuck around to try some suds and recruited another gardening apprentice or two.

 

[BantyChooks]

cause cause I am a halfwhit of late??? idk really no clue where my head is!!    this is the first time I lockeddown today and didnt set eggs upright or anything just added water and now we wait.  no clue what my issue is to be honest. 

I'll be yer hatching assistant! Set me up with a cot by the bators and I'm good.
-Banti

 

[kwhites634]

For all the times that you are inside my head, this is apparently not one of them.
Mine keeps kicking off too.
I love the blocks, and agree that today should just be another day. For the most part, it is. However, I can't avoid that it isn't.
Thank you.

You made it to another birthday...that's a good thing, & sure beats the alternative.

 

[kwhites634]

Well if you don't want to think about what you're thinking about than it's far less scary being in a head like mine.

Still to cold outside for ya?

No. I was out working on the coop platform 'til the DW got home. Between her schedule / activities & mine, we don't see much of one another except on weekends. Besides, she makes me a sammich.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I thought you wanted to quit drinking?

Quote: OK you can stay in the downstairs with all the bators, they have taken the move down there! lol oh with me!!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

cause cause I am a halfwhit of late??? idk really no clue where my head is!!

this is the first time I lockeddown today and didnt set eggs upright or anything just added water and now we wait. no clue what my issue is to be honest.

Don't feel bad. I can't tell you how many times I forgot to move eggs to the hatcher only to find chicks hanging on a rack or running around the bottom of the incubator.
I even have one of those Incubator Warehouse incubation timers sitting right under my computer monitor.

Deck blocks! Never heard of them, but I like the idea.

Lowe's and Home Depot carry them in the concrete block/cement section.
I use them every time I build a new out building. It makes building on a slope so easy. Just level the ground where the block sits and change the length of the post. It routes rainwater away from the wood as well. You can use 2X lumber horizontally or 4X4 vertically.

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@MotorcycleChick ^^ Agreed! I stopped counting birthdays when i had my daughter, she gets to have them now

and i have to use a calculator when someone asks lol
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shopvac for just about everything, good luck on the rain!

looks like your daughter had a ton of fun!

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I have often forgotten how old I was over the years. That's not a bad thing to do.

She always has fun, she can get very irritable from time to time. Just don't talk to her then. She's pretty intense.

Her tagline for living is, "work, save, travel, repeat".

I created a monster.

I'll be yer hatching assistant! Set me up with a cot by the bators and I'm good.

-Banti

That would be a good time.

 

[Chaos18]

No. I was out working on the coop platform 'til the DW got home. Between her schedule / activities & mine, we don't see much of one another except on weekends. Besides, she makes me a sammich.

Ya mean she let's you go outside unsupervised?