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

[Fire Ant Farm]

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You'll love it. I tend to binge watch all at once when I have the time (which is not very common lately...)

- Ant Farm

 

[LittleLakePhil]

oooh!!!! I keep trying to get my DH to let me get one but he's a Camaro guy
X2
smarty pants

No.... Firebirds are the way to go...

Howdy
Dang here I thought it was 2015.
You know we are gonna need pics right?

I can't post pics right now for some reason... I'm not happy about it either... I've between trying and trying....

Motor trans gear ratios need more info, I want a 76 or 67

Don't know what motor in putting in it yet.... Probably a 400....

Time for me to call it a night as well.

Good night all!

Night brother....

 

[daxigait]

You'll love it. I tend to binge watch all at once when I have the time (which is not very common lately...)

- Ant Farm 

That is why it is still wrapped from shipping. I don't watch much except in the winter when it is too cold out to work, or I am to exhausted to move.

 

[Akrnaf2]

ok,so the other four eggs are turning black in spots what does it mean

It means you have handled them too much.

CC this is for you! Muktuk!

Who would have thought that it is high in vitamin C? I wouldn't have. I usually equate that with fruits and vegetables.

they wher stinky.they died after internal pip they had the whole yolk sack still unabsorbed.i checked no breathing nothing.but we have four healthy and happy babys.yayayayyayayyayayyya

I hate to tell you this because you obviously are an animal lover and passionate about poultry, but you may likely have killed them by handling them too much. Take the advice of people that have been doing this longer than you have been alive. Artificial incubation SOMETIMES requires candling and intervention - but mostly not. Natural incubation almost NEVER requires any contact by humans. I've probably told you this about 50 times and it has fallen on deaf ears, but animals have been birthing their offspring for millions of years without your help. They still aren't extinct even though you weren't there. Incubating eggs when you have a setter isn't your gig. It's hers. Let it be.

Question for those with broody experience. How long does it typically take a broody hen to start re-laying after hatch? Also is it recommended to allow her to raise the chicks or put them in a brooder with the same aged chicks? I have a hen sitting on 9 eggs that should hatch over the weekend(slightly concerned because she seems to enjoy her food and water breaks more than what I have seen most talk about). Temps here have warmed up so we will see. Also have 26 in my incubator that will be hatching over the weekend. Hoping someone with experience can give some advice on best approach.

Usually about a week or two after weaning the chicks she may start laying. (not desiring to care for them any more) That's why it is crazy for people not hatching chicks to not break the broody immediately. It is always best to let the hen raise the chicks. You wouldn't believe how much the hen becomes attached to them. I had a hen go broody in November when it was warm. By the time the chicks hatched it was cold and getting colder. When lhighs dropped into the 20s, I took the chicks away to brood artificially. 2 weeks later when it warmed up a bit and the chicks were bigger I brought them out in a cage. You should have seen her run up to the cage to greet them. I'm sure she thought they were gone forever. I've been doing this farmer stuff a long time and it was touching to even me. First, if she's healthy, they'll get good probiotics from her feces. You don't need electricity and they'll have fresh air. If weather is warm, they'll spend much more time off the nest. You can probably graft the incubator chicks onto her. I once gave a broody hen 42 chicks.

CC did you ever thought abaout were real carnivores like lions get their C vitamin? They don't eat any plant materials ? They just have the building mechanism, and they synthesize it for themselves, only Humans and some few species can't. Basically you can find vitamin C also in animal material especially milk and liver, but the problem is that heating destroy it! Muktuk is almost the only source of vitamin C for the Inuit people.

 

[daxigait]

Well, it is time to join the off to bed crowd. Sleep well.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Yup - same thing here. My bother watches as well and was two years ahead of me (I was watching on Netflix) - and then I stayed in town for Christmas (had to cover at work) and lapped him while drinking spiked egg nog.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

OK, yeah, I gotta crash as well. Good night!

- Ant Farm

 

[daxigait]

Yup - same thing here. My bother watches as well and was two years ahead of me (I was watching on Netflix) - and then I stayed in town for Christmas (had to cover at work) and lapped him while drinking spiked egg nog. 

Sounds fun. Night. I am not trying to be rude. I am enjoying the conversation, but my alarm goes off in six. I don't want to fall asleep driving.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Sounds fun. Night. I am not trying to be rude. I am enjoying the conversation, but my alarm goes off in six. I don't want to fall asleep driving.

good night

 

[BullChick]

Thanks to everyone for the congratulations. And to MC they are in my camera roll

They do no good there!

Good evening everyone.
Joey, congrats on the new arrivals! Didn't you just set them like last week?
Phil, enjoy the ride tomorrow, sounds like a busy weekend.
Whites, howdy! Sorry for jumping in last night and then leaving right away, but my last three weeks have been insanely busy!
Hello MC, Dax, and everyone else I missed! Hope everyone is doing well!

Hi!