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

[jwlpoultry]

I was just looking at the shouldered poultry contest lol. Think I have some pics to Enter in that one.

dont forget about the headshots contest, or the poultry in nature

Yeah if you don't check in every couple hours you will be a 100 posts behind quickly.

yep

I still have to look into those.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

It's the Saturday morning silence. Everyone is sleeping or having fun.

i wish i was doing either of those, more so the fun one

I still have to look into those.

you should enter

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@BantyChooks , I have been watching the duckling hatching cam all morning while catching up and drinking coffee. It's mesmerizing, can't stop watching. Goodwin, who's in the brooder in the mudroom (but with the door open) can hear the ducklings, and keeps making these sounds of encouragement - he's totally focused. I'd say maybe that'l make him a good daddy, but honestly, I think he's just a little lonely while he heals...

DUCKBURDS WITH WIDDLE WEBZIES!!!!!!!

(ahem)

Where did that come from - did I say that? Uh, oh. Ducks and baby goats are starting to melt my brain, toooooooooo.......

- Ant Farm

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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I have an LG that doesn't do the things yours does. Or at least it hasn't. How long have you had yours? I hope your eggs are ok!

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This one is fairly new. I had an older one that was given to me and was really beaten up. I made repairs to it and used it. This one was given to me by the college a couple years ago for College for Kids classes I was teaching. It has only been used a handful of times. The first one, I threw away everything but the heat element.

prayers for the family, this makes me want to cry, i think about this all the time because of the little town we live in it could very easily happen

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I was always holding my breath the entire time my kids were growing up. Every time the phone would ring at odd hours I'd have a mini heart attack.

My daughter was coming home from the high school senior lock-in at about 7AM on a Sunday morning. The school is about an hour from here. She had my wife's car and it was parked at a friend's house 20 minutes from school (20 minutes farther from here). They didn't sleep all night and about 10 minutes from home, she fell asleep at the wheel. She veered off the edge of the interstate and tried to retake the road but spun out taking out one of those monstrous light standards. That light pole was planted square in the middle of the back seat. If she had hit it on the driver's side she probably would have been killed.
So we get this panic call at 7AM waking us and we couldn't understand anything she was saying. We finally understood where she was. When we got there, all the prizes and party favors from the party were strewn across the interstate. Miraculously she was unharmed.
About 2 months later, we get the same screaming panic call at 1 AM. When I calmed her down enough to find out what the problem was, It turns out she was in the driveway and wouldn't get out of the car because there was an opossum between the house and the car.
Those two calls took a few years off my life.

S
So sorry, what day are they on? Is it possible any are OK?

Some are on day 19. Some are on day 10 and still others are on day 3.

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oh crap, how long? I had half hatch on tiny serama at 58 over night, when they were around four days incu. and if you read posts, I have a terrible habit of unplugging the lights in the cooler when I candle and always forget to screw them back in all the way and on many occasions I dropped pretty low with LF without issues. But you know all this, but what you dont know is that I finally learned to unscrew one completely and lay it in with the eggs so I DONT forget to screw them back in.... thick headed

I'm not sure how long.
I think I figured out what the problem was.
I was taking the temperature in one of the corner air holes(temp 92). I moved it to the opposite side and the temperature was 98.
I turned it up and one side was 101 and the other side was 95.
I figured either one side of the heat element failed or there was another problem.
Yesterday I had laid the 20 eggs due to hatch on one side and all the eggs that were in 10 days or less on the other side. The collective embryonic metabolism of the older embryos raised the temperature of one side affecting the thermostat and lowering the temperature on the other side.
As a remedy, I pulled all the eggs, put the mature ones in a ring around the outside of the incubator and put all the others in the middle. Temperatures seem to be a lot more consistent throughout.

Sally I want your project eggs!!!
I want one of this beutiful crested hens!

Is it possible for you to import eggs from any other country?

 

[Phage]

Bator must be running cool as this guy is very late. Was afraid it would not hatch. It has been so long since I hatched a pea egg. So excited!!

It is a special surprise for DD who is on her way back from college in UK.
Hopefully she won't already be too overloaded with animal stuff from college and will still be excited!!

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning everybody!!! Rise and shine... Or in my case rain and wind!

Yes rise and shine here. First weekend it hasn't been windy rainy or cold. Now it's hot hot hot. 94 today 104 Tuesday. Getting all I can do done before the heat. Did I mention I hate heat

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@BantyChooks , I have been watching the duckling hatching cam all morning while catching up and drinking coffee. It's mesmerizing, can't stop watching. Goodwin, who's in the brooder in the mudroom (but with the door open) can hear the ducklings, and keeps making these sounds of encouragement - he's totally focused. I'd say maybe that'l make him a good daddy, but honestly, I think he's just a little lonely while he heals...

DUCKBURDS WITH WIDDLE WEBZIES!!!!!!!

(ahem)

Where did that come from - did I say that? Uh, oh. Ducks and baby goats are starting to melt my brain, toooooooooo.......

- Ant Farm

uh oh! time to exorcise the webz from your brain

My daughter was coming home from the high school senior lock-in at about 7AM on a Sunday morning. The school is about an hour from here. She had my wife's car and it was parked at a friend's house 20 minutes from school (20 minutes farther from here). They didn't sleep all night and about 10 minutes from home, she fell asleep at the wheel. She veered off the edge of the interstate and tried to retake the road but spun out taking out one of those monstrous light standards. That light pole was planted square in the middle of the back seat. If she had hit it on the driver's side she probably would have been killed.
So we get this panic call at 7AM waking us and we couldn't understand anything she was saying. We finally understood where she was. When we got there, all the prizes and party favors from the party were strewn across the interstate. Miraculously she was unharmed.
About 2 months later, we get the same screaming panic call at 1 AM. When I calmed her down enough to find out what the problem was, It turns out she was in the driveway and wouldn't get out of the car because there was an opossum between the house and the car.
Those two calls took a few years off my life.

the 1st story, SUPER SCARY!! I can't imagine. I used to walk to school everyday, but its a tiny town so not quite as scary as some of the others. I cant imagine what i put my parents through, i was never home and always out in my car all over the place. (knock on wood) i have never been in an accident, only stuck in the snow a couple times-because i didnt have reverse

2nd is wicked funny -sorry, surely a panic attack at first but after...

Bator must be running cool as this guy is very late. Was afraid it would not hatch. It has been so long since I hatched a pea egg. So excited!!

It is a special surprise for DD who is on her way back from college in UK.
Hopefully she won't already be too overloaded with animal stuff from college and will still be excited!!

Yayyyy!!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Dangit - lost all my quotes.

I can't remember... ummmm...

@Sally Sunshine I want some of your project eggs, too!
And I'm SOOOOOO jealous about the goats - those are the ones I want as well. Agree with @ChickenCanoe - I have to wait until I have the facilities for them (and the time to care for them). Have you seen the website "Weed 'em and Reap?" Very funny, and has some amusing things about goats and goat keeping. (She keeps the mini Nigerians, or did). I thought to direct you there because she talks about the slightly different milking stand/situation with such a small little goat - it was interesting.

My favorite part, under backyard farming, is the "funny stuff" section - don't miss "Goat Glamour Shots: The New Selfie"

http://www.weedemandreap.com/category/backyard-farming/funny-stuff/

Fire and others, I can't seem to get a day off for rain much either. It's been raining like crazy here in Texas and it JUST WON'T STOP!!!!

I can't recall who posted it, but that was such a sad story about the little boy hit by the car.

@BantyChooks , @ChickenCanoe - I've tried to be really good about the chickens having lots of space, between 10-20 sq ft per bird in each coop, even though they range outside all day also. (The 15 week olds have 6-7 sq ft per bird indoors, with ranging, but they are in a growout tractor coop and will be moved soon.) It's easier when you're building for yourself rather than trying to have them fit into an existing structure you've bought (that's why the tiny Coop of Sadness had to go). But the EHAL cohort of babies do NOT have enough space right now. They have been growing so fast it has blown my mind, and I've been either unwell or swamped figuratively, or swamped literally (meaning rained out) - I must admit that I'm certain that's why Goodwin got pecked. I'm moving the boys into their separate growout tractor this weekend (working on it as soon as I can get my back to unkink). I've started on their large permanent coop foundation, but lots to do...

@jwlpoultry I've noticed it's slow on weekend days - I suspect because everyone's often out getting chores done. Often I am doing the same thing...

Well, after letting the chickens out I went back to bed to try to get catch up on some sleep after this past week - good to catch up on sleep, but I always end up feeling so unbelievably stiff and my back seizes up. I'm going to go take some pain killers - I've got a lot of work to do! (If I can stand to leave when waiting for those last two duck eggs to zip!!!!)

- Ant Farm

 

[ChickenCanoe]

uh oh! time to exorcise the webz from your brain

the 1st story, SUPER SCARY!! I can't imagine. I used to walk to school everyday, but its a tiny town so not quite as scary as some of the others. I cant imagine what i put my parents through, i was never home and always out in my car all over the place. (knock on wood) i have never been in an accident, only stuck in the snow a couple times-because i didnt have reverse

2nd is wicked funny -sorry, surely a panic attack at first but after...

Yayyyy!!

It was very funny - after the fact. I still give her a hard time about it.

My son was run off the road on the way home at night and ended up in a creek bottom in some deep brush. Had he lost consciousness, no one would have ever found him. He climbed the hill and flagged down the police who took him to the hospital. This was about 2 minutes from home. The car was totaled. Standing on the side of the road you would never had known there was a car down there. That one wasn't bad.
It was his fall from an 80 foot cliff that was really dicey but he survived.

Dangit - lost all my quotes.

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@BantyChooks , @ChickenCanoe - I've tried to be really good about the chickens having lots of space, between 10-20 sq ft per bird in each coop, even though they range outside all day also. (The 15 week olds have 6-7 sq ft per bird indoors, with ranging, but they are in a growout tractor coop and will be moved soon.) It's easier when you're building for yourself rather than trying to have them fit into an existing structure you've bought (that's why the tiny Coop of Sadness had to go). But the EHAL cohort of babies do NOT have enough space right now. They have been growing so fast it has blown my mind, and I've been either unwell or swamped figuratively, or swamped literally (meaning rained out) - I must admit that I'm certain that's why Goodwin got pecked. I'm moving the boys into their separate growout tractor this weekend (working on it as soon as I can get my back to unkink). I've started on their large permanent coop foundation, but lots to do...
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Well, after letting the chickens out I went back to bed to try to get catch up on some sleep after this past week - good to catch up on sleep, but I always end up feeling so unbelievably stiff and my back seizes up. I'm going to go take some pain killers - I've got a lot of work to do! (If I can stand to leave when waiting for those last two duck eggs to zip!!!!)

- Ant Farm

Losing quotes happens to me all the time too. Sometimes I'll quote a couple and have to go run off to do things. When I come back, most or all are gone.

I always try to have plenty of space inside in case I can't get them out on time. I do from time to time squeeze 4 or 5 into a space intended for 2. It hasn't been a problem but the windows are huge so plenty of fresh air and sufficient roost space.

I sometimes wake in a panic wondering if I locked all the coops cause I can't remember.
Near the top of my list of 100 projects that need to get done soon are automatic coop doors.

 

[Akrnaf2]

 
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I have an LG that doesn't do the things yours does.  Or at least it hasn't.  How long have you had yours?  I hope your eggs are ok!

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This one is fairly new. I had an older one that was given to me and was really beaten up. I made repairs to it and used it. This one was given to me by the college a couple years ago for College for Kids classes I was teaching. It has only been used a handful of times. The first one, I threw away everything but the heat element.

 
prayers for the family, this makes me want to cry, i think about this all the time because of the little town we live in it could very easily happen

...

I was always holding my breath the entire time my kids were growing up. Every time the phone would ring at odd hours I'd have a mini heart attack.

My daughter was coming home from the high school senior lock-in at about 7AM on a Sunday morning. The school is about an hour from here. She had my wife's car and it was parked at a friend's house 20 minutes from school (20 minutes farther from here). They didn't sleep all night and about 10 minutes from home, she fell asleep at the wheel. She veered off the edge of the interstate and tried to retake the road but spun out taking out one of those monstrous light standards. That light pole was planted square in the middle of the back seat. If she had hit it on the driver's side she probably would have been killed.
So we get this panic call at 7AM waking us and we couldn't understand anything she was saying. We finally understood where she was. When we got there, all the prizes and party favors from the party were strewn across the interstate. Miraculously she was unharmed.
About 2 months later, we get the same screaming panic call at 1 AM. When I calmed her down enough to find out what the problem was, It turns out she was in the driveway and wouldn't get out of the car because there was an opossum between the house and the car.
Those two calls took a few years off my life.

S

So sorry, what day are they on? Is it possible any are OK?

Some are on day 19. Some are on day 10 and still others are on day 3.

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oh crap, how long?  I had half hatch on tiny serama at 58 over night, when they were around four days incu.  and if you read posts, I have a terrible habit of unplugging the lights in the cooler when I candle and always forget to screw them back in all the way and on many occasions I dropped pretty low with LF without issues.   But you know all this, but what you dont know is that I finally learned to unscrew one completely and lay it in with the eggs so I DONT forget to screw them back in.... thick headed

I'm not sure how long.
I think I figured out what the problem was.
I was taking the temperature in one of the corner air holes(temp 92). I moved it to the opposite side and the temperature was 98.
I turned it up and one side was 101 and the other side was 95.
I figured either one side of the heat element failed or there was another problem.
Yesterday I had laid the 20 eggs due to hatch on one side and all the eggs that were in 10 days or less on the other side. The collective embryonic metabolism of the older embryos raised the temperature of one side affecting the thermostat and lowering the temperature on the other side.
As a remedy, I pulled all the eggs, put the mature ones in a ring around the outside of the incubator and put all the others in the middle. Temperatures seem to be a lot more consistent throughout.

Sally I want your project eggs!!!

I want one of this beutiful crested hens!

Is it possible for you to import eggs from any other country?

Not even one molecule!
But my government Thake the liberty to import 70 to 100 milions egg a year from Turkey and Spain without even blinking!