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

[sasafras4u2]

Hi guys. I am in the middle of my first hatch ever and I was wondering if you all could take a look at my air cells and see if they look ok to you. They were candled on days 0, 7 and 14.

look good. Fresh eggs im guessing not shipped!

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: I went to the grocery store only. Too bad you didn't make it to the farmer's market, is that only on Saturdays?

Quote: All sounds delicious, except the coconut.

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Yummy!

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whites great grandson I believe!
GGD, actually, but close enuf! Still a curtain climber, rug rat & another little one to spoil, then give back to Mommy

Revenge is sweet!

My short round has gotten too big for his britches. My birthday boy.

Happy Birthday to him!

Hi! I've got 2 incubators running and 3 hatches scheduled for the coming week and a half! First hatch has 22 eggs, going to post photos one egg has a weird air cell, should I worry? Im taking them off the turners tomorrow night and getting this lockdown deal going

will be this years first hatch and our first hatch with our own eggs so we are all excited! Been muddy and we had an egg get smashed in the breeding coop so I've not been saving so many eggs for the next incubation. I will hatch in the one incubator, clean it out and put the next few eggs in lockdown in there and then clean that out again after that hatch and then the other incubator goes into lock down and the first one will get 42 eggs - I have 24 ready already and about 8 days till I should load it up and with 10 hens in breeding coops I've been getting 6-7 eggs a day and it's sort of touch and go on the cleanliness front, so I'm just keeping the clean ones for incubation and rotating them and what not... I figure if I get 5 good eggs a day on average for 8 days that's 40 more eggs and after I go through it and pick out the imperfect ones I will have like 50? And whatever's left can go in the next batch... Or maybe I will have a broody please universe lol. Any of you move broody hens? I'm thinking about how to go about that if one goes broody can I put her somewhere safer than the barn? How many eggs would one put under a broody?

A lot of hatching planned. Some people move broody hens, I never have. I let them hatch where they chose.

sorry the above photo was the wrong one- this is the one

I'm sorry, I can't see the contents of the photo very well.

Some cute photos from this morning before the rain started:

Lavender ameraucana (6.5 weeks) - pretty little cuddle monkey, this one is. I think it may end up being a cockerel, but I may keep him anyway.

Here's Dotty, chronic escapee from her paddock (she drives her rooster to distraction worrying for her, poor guy). I can hear her now, "I'm too sexy for my coop..."


And finally, three crazy girls all trying to share the same nest box:


- Ant Farm

Very Nice!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I went to the grocery store only. Too bad you didn't make it to the farmer's market, is that only on Saturdays?

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It's Wednesday thru Saturday. Saturday is just the best day to go for good deals, and for people watching. Last Saturday was really wild.
I can't really do it justice by describing it.
Most of the other markets around town are just Saturday mornings.
I may make it there next weekend. I'm teaching a chicken class at Gateway Greening's Bell garden Saturday Morning.

This market is huge and old. It's got everything -- fresh produce and meat, flowers, plants, live poultry, other animals, jewelry, incense, custom-made soaps and ointments -- you name it, they've probably got it, from any spice imaginable to bakeries to alligator meat, all housed in two long buildings in a historic neighborhood only a few miles from Gateway Arch.. And there's a park next door with art shows and concerts during warm weather.

Here's a taste.

 

[emmie325]

Ok I'm going to try quail eggs I just put them in there 30 minutes ago so day 1 is at 2:05 tomorrow right

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Pretty interesting. I think the bloody mary would make shopping a bit more tolerable. Thanks for posting the videos.

 

[mlm Mike]

Ok I'm going to try quail eggs I just put them in there 30 minutes ago so day 1 is at 2:05 tomorrow right

Yes, tomorrow is day one.

 

[emmie325]

Okie dokie

 

[BantyChooks]

Congratulations!!! I've got my eye on you... Banti, repeat after me: "Duck Math, get thee behind me!" Owwwwww!!!! Makes me hurt just thinking about it. It rained yesterday afternoon, so the yard is all messy, and it's supposed to rain off and on again today. Someone's supposed to come over today to pick up my little kit coop (in pieces) that I don't want anymore (Coop of Sadness), and I'm embarrassed with all the coop construction detritus strewn everywhere, so I want to do some cleaning. (I should have people over more often!). But first, I need to go scoop some poop (good times!) - Ant Farm

Aw, shoot! "Duck math, get thee behind me.... Where you can bite my ankles!"

Do you know how hard it is to enable I have been working on Banti for along time and I am getting close to mission accomplished.

You??? Why you sneak!! And here I thought you just luved Burd!

Not only that - Sally is catching it, and babbling about gooserzzzzzz... - Ant Farm

YAYY!!! e

Oh no - Banti Disease must be airborne now!!! Get out the duct tape and plastic sheeting, everyone!!!! Them's winter-time temperatures around here!!!! -Ant Farm

No! In fact, stay, breathe deep, enjoy the carefree feel of Burd addiction! e

Already got on the tin foil hat.

That only works for the mind reading bator...

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[BantyChooks]

lol phil

15 HOLY crap!!!  

awww congrats !!!!!!!!!!

yayyayaa

MC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  and ONE interesting girl!  fine whatever

I think you were the one she was referring to!

I hate arguments. I didn't bother to tell her I know someone who keeps them next to their bed 

Who?

 

[kwhites634]

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