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

[flocktastic]

One side vs the other...

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Omg four external pips.

 

[harrellkd]

Omg four external pips.

Yay! Congrats CH!!!

 

[BullChick]

Busy afternoon of getting nothing finished, but quite a bit done.
It took two swipes with the clippers, but the dog is shaved down… For the most part. He's so tiny when he's shaved.

The summer coop is coming along. I adjusted the fencing, fiddled with the run roof, and worked on the housing. I never screamed, and rarely cried. I even got most of the splinters out of my hands!
Three of the ducklings and "mama" duck wandered into the duck run. I caught a picture of the ducklings being watched over. The other two were by another water bowl outside the fence. All five were in with the mama, but I missed the picture. The drake follows me around. When I went for my phone, she saw him, and got up to be with him.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

The four pips.

 

[BantyChooks]

I didn't think so


Is it?
Well, not personally, but ...

Don't see anything...

Congrats....the last of mine was a few
Years back...now I'm just lost....my youngest daughter was (is) my best friend we hunted and fished together....did everything....God how I wish she could have stayed 5.
Good job....99.5 eh? Mine is running 100.5.....steady though.
I didn't see niacin listed?
Crab is the absolute best......
Hey Pensmaster how you feeling?

99.5 measured slightly too low. Probably 100.5 when measured correctly.... all my legos are in the other incubator.

Very good on 4 done.

I'm hoping my hens understand lockdown.

Going to get stuff planted after coffee break

Jace did lockdown, albeit a bit late.... She didn't get off her nest for two days! (Yes, she ate a LOT after)

Omg,day 19 and three are pipped externally.should I open and add water.humidity is only 51 %

I would, really really quick. If you do, make sure the water is hot and you don't take too long....

The four pips.

-Banti

 

[BantyChooks]

The summer coop is coming along. I adjusted the fencing, fiddled with the run roof, and worked on the housing. I never screamed, and rarely cried. I even got most of the splinters out of my hands!
Three of the ducklings and "mama" duck wandered into the duck run. I caught a picture of the ducklings being watched over. The other two were by another water bowl outside the fence. All five were in with the mama, but I missed the picture. The drake follows me around. When I went for my phone, she saw him, and got up to be with him.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!

Still nothin' from the duck people..... I can't wait any longer!!
-Banti

 

[ChickenCanoe]

We Have to slit the throat according yo our lows, we can't kill in any other way, the special men that do it, do it with the raiser sharp knife and the movement must be fast and you only do it in 2 motion, so it is very very fast ! All of this is to minimize the suffering, I could post sum clips but I understand it is against the BYC rules.

That's close to how I do it. I'm almost Kosher.

You could post a link. Are any on YouTube?

Quote:

The plucking and evisceration.

I'm slow at plucking. Sometimes I just skin them.
These Penedesencas pluck easier than many of the Heritage breeds. Almost as easy as a Cornish/Rock.

Before I made a killing cone I use to just hang them by their feet and use a very sharp knife to cut the jugular on the side of their neck. Not my favorite job, but my hubby just can hardly bring himself to do it. I figure they are my hobby so I should be the one to do the "not so pleasant job" anyway. Good luck to you both. There is no good reason to keep a mean rooster around. I've had to dispatch several.

I always put off processing day with all kinds of excuses. I don't have a problem killing because that's the fast part.
Catching the bird just before dawn and hearing them scream bloody murder calling for help isn't fun.

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Thanks! Keep the fly control ideas coming, folks! One of today's tasks is to redo the compost bins and cover them with landscape cloth. It needs to be done, but I am NOT looking forward to it.

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It's hard to do, but, I promise it's not as hard as processing a cockerel that hasn't attacked you but just isn't in your breeding plans/will have no space to live in your yard, or is being raised for meat.

That's because we "Woman Up" every day when we wake up. We don't make a big fuss about it, we just do what needs to be done...

@Pensmaster has a good suggestion if you don't have a cone and don't want one - cut the corner out of a feed bag for his head, to help restrain him. Try to find a way to suspend it - when they are upside down, they are calmer, making it easier for you to take a minute to do what needs to be done.

You really should go over to Sally's other thread about Processing for the first time - it's very helpful. Read a lot, watch a lot of videos, etc. to prepare.
This is what I do - I'm still working on the "very very fast" part, but I'm getting better.

OK, I need to go get to work - it's not gonna get done without me! I'm hoping the rain waits long enough for me to mow and get some lumber prepped for the next tractor coop...

- Ant Farm

If you use the Golden Malrin fly bait, be careful nothing else can access it. Very poisonous. Read the instructions.
It's very effective though. If you have a lot of flies, you'll have a huge pile of dead flies.
It will kill a raccoon in a heartbeat.

I hatch a lot so I have to butcher a lot of roosters.

For small birds you can use a milk jug. A parking cone works too.

Is everybody still coming eat crabs.LOL

I wish I could. Thanks for the invite. A good old crab boil. Are you frying fish too?

Have you caught sea trout in your backyard? I caught several when I fished the bayou.

Afraid CA was going to break off & float out to sea, were ya, like a lot of nuts predicted a decade or more ago?

Steely Dan
"California tumbles into the sea
That'll be the day I go
Back to Annandale"

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And was it here or on the backyard tips thread where the plastic nest pad was recommended? I have two nest boxes in the SS coop that I can't keep clean, so I tried it - it worked, they were willing to lay on them first day (I was surprised, not sure why, they are sold as nest pads, after all).


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- Ant Farm

I think that was me. At least 10 of my 16 nest boxes have them. The chickens don't mind laying in them but they won't go broody in them.
They will in the excelsior nests or pine shavings.

No snow tires? We can use snow tires (actually all-weather anymore) or chains here, though it's fairly rare to see anyone running chains; I don't even own a pair. I ran studded tires when I carried papers.

One of the tasks of my first job where I received a pay check (rather than cash) was putting studs in snow tires.
They're no longer allowed.

How bout an island in front of Arizona?

Anyone ever hear the legend of the sailing ship full of treasure lost in the California Mojave Desert?

Many people claim to have seen it.
One story is that it was a 50 ton Spanish ship named the Flame from the early 1600s and is laden with pearls.
The shifting sands covered the ship but occasionally uncover it.

Supposedly the ship was following the west coast of Mexico into the Gulf of California. One explanation is that an exceptionally large tide from the gulf collided with heavy runoff from the Colorado River at the delta producing a flood that broke through the land dam separating the gulf from the Salton Sea basin. The flood retreated leaving the ship stranded.
The gulf and the Salton Sea were once connected.

Omg,day 19 and three are pipped externally.should I open and add water.humidity is only 51 %

No. You're better off at 51% than opening it with external pips and dropping below that.

Try to use a straw or something to get water through one of the air holes.

Busy afternoon of getting nothing finished, but quite a bit done.

It took two swipes with the clippers, but the dog is shaved down… For the most part. He's so tiny when he's shaved.

The summer coop is coming along. I adjusted the fencing, fiddled with the run roof, and worked on the housing. I never screamed, and rarely cried. I even got most of the splinters out of my hands!
Three of the ducklings and "mama" duck wandered into the duck run. I caught a picture of the ducklings being watched over. The other two were by another water bowl outside the fence. All five were in with the mama, but I missed the picture. The drake follows me around. When I went for my phone, she saw him, and got up to be with him.

Good for you. I got very little accomplished YET.
It took me 3 hours to get the bees. There were a lot of people picking up equipment and bees. I just brought them home, took care of the chickens and ten went to Earth Day. Just got back.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

No,progress

 

[BullChick]

I went to put things away, and ended up building/arranging some more. Let me tell ya! Splinters in between the fingers hurt more than the palm. When I got a splinter in my palm about a month ago, it hurt every time I moved my hand. That pain was nothing compared to this!