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

[Pensmaster]

Hi Pensmaster! From the laughing I assume you are ok with her not setting.

I swapped my broody hen's eggs last evening successfully. Took the 7 she had and gave her the 8 I want. She didn't seem to mind, say right on them when she returned to the nest.

Well she's back in nest. Going to collect more Altsteirer eggs and try again.

 

[BullChick]

Be careful with the glue traps.....it doesn't kill them. I have found chewed off legs in them or dehydrated bodies that starved to death.....be prepared to kill them. I use the black plastic snap traps with teath. I don't feel like I'm going to lose a finger when I set them. Good luck!!!

I'm sorry you don't feel well. Ginger ale(flat, no bubbles) helps.
I'm so sorry, I agree, you made the right decision....

I was raised on that for stomach aches. I try to keep ginger ale in the house, but it is so hard to find in the stores.
I know the glue traps don't kill the mice, but that's life. They are eating the feed, pooping, getting into the straw bales, and they need to go. Starving to death is fine.

Jeez....hard descions baseball, race, or garden.....i want all of them....someone want to come over and help me move the TV out to the garden

 

[BullChick]

Well she's back in nest. Going to collect more Altsteirer eggs and try again.

Good luck!

 

[pipAchick]

Comments?
Courtesy tsc-flyer(free)

 

[Jessimom]

I was raised on that for stomach aches. I try to keep ginger ale in the house, but it is so hard to find in the stores.
I know the glue traps don't kill the mice, but that's life. They are eating the feed, pooping, getting into the straw bales, and they need to go. Starving to death is fine.

I find ginger ale over in the drink mix aisle by the liquor, not with the sodas.

Our traps are nailed to the trees around the coop. We haven't caught any in a while.

 

[kwhites634]

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Thanks everybody - it helps to be able to post about it somewhere where folks understand what I'm talking about.

I'm making sourdough bread now. Dough is rising. Think I'll make some fridge pickles today and Mediterranean tuna salad... Staying busy.

- Ant Farm
Save me a slice of that bread...on my way

 

[casportpony]

Hey all

How's the duck egg?

-Kathy

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Heck yeah I'll help. But first.....

I have to go help my neighbor bury a water line.

Hi Phil.

....howdy Pens

Which game?(you recording it or want stats?) Lol I'll be in care but ya know happy to help enable you if I can.
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
(heading to tsc happy chatting)

The Tiger game....good thing i got picture in picture

 

[ChickenCanoe]

A real social butterfly! Glad you survived.

I wish I could float like a butterfly.
I'm glad too. The smartest thing I did was not try to drive home.

I have so much to do today. I am going back to bed. Maybe more sleep will help. I must get the chicken chores done today. Building and cleaning coops in the rain (tomorrow) is not going to work.

I had to get another nap too.
Please wear a dust mask when you muck out the coop.

Just how do you manage to amuse yourself while you're waiting for the western world to wake up?

That's when he gets stuff done.

I keep on having mice run in front of me whenever I close up the coop late..... I don't keep feed out at night, but I think some feed spills. Do yall have ideas for spill-proof feeders or mice traps? I hate to kill em, they are so cute but I want less feed waste and dont fancy the mice attracting weasels......
-Banti

They can bring in pathogens too. The famous bucket trap works great.
There are a lot of versions of it. You can find some on youtube.
http://fivegallonideas.com/bucket-mouse-trap/

I'd think any opening large enough to accept a chicken's head would be no problem for a mouse to get through.

Right. They can squeeze through tiny holes. They chewed a bit off the weather stripping under the back door so they can now get onto the back porch. There's barely enough space to see light through.

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you sound like a youngin lol

Not by a long way. That's what afternoon naps are for.
There were a lot of youngins there. I took them to school on the table.

I need to finish the modifications on a pop door for the latest coop, & install the last of the skirting on the run so the little ones can't get through to the outside or the grown birds on the other side, then I'm gonna kick these kids out of the basement. I turned off the bulbs in the brooder a couple days ago to get them hardened off a bit. They're big enough that they could jump out of the brooder when I open the lid to feed & water, but they don't know that & I ain't tellin' them. Daytime temps are running 70-90, nights maybe down to 60. Basement windows stay open 24/7 when there's no driving rain, so the temps in their room are probably in the 70's. Might need a heat source at night yet for a week or so?

What y'all think?

Sounds like a good plan. How old are they? I just saw they are 6 weeks. They don't need any heat at those temps.
It's warmer than that here. Mine range from 2 to 4 weeks and have been out in the coop with no heat. HIghs in the 90s and lows in the 70s to 80s. Yeah, it's been miserable.

I have staggered settings in the incubator and was just going up to turn eggs to find a chick and a pip. 4 more due but no pips in them yet.

Good morning everyone.

Broody hen could not figure what pile of eggs she wanted to set so I moved her to a separate pen with her eggs. May have cured her of setting.

I hate when they switch nests.

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They are hardier than we give them credit for.

X2 They're tough as nails.

They're off the ground, alright; 'bout 2' worth! Gonna pick up a new bag of shavings today. I have one door with a 8"x10" cutout covered with hardware cloth, on the west side; solid door on the other side. I can change out the cut-out door with a solid one if I need to. Plenty of air can get in at the top, by design.

My feed store isn't open on Sunday or Monday. They close about 2 on Saturday and at 4:30 during the week. I don't know how they expect people with a job to shop there.
It's an old time feed store and still stuck in the days when everyone around here were farmers.

well morning number 22 still no pips and I don't see any eggs moving

"Life is time to waste in between meals." Robert W. DeSena

Sounds like something I'd say.

Paper over the top,seat always up; what's to figure out?

Yeah, why is it our job to move the seat?
I hate when people put the roll on backwards.

Well, I got all seven processed in about 2-2.5 hours or so (skinning). Cried with each one - but was grateful that I've done this enough now to make each a very clean death. The worst part was finding this inside one of them - she would have laid her first egg today.



The other CL (eight pullet) did survive the night and went back to the coop to look for the rest, so I caught her and closed the book on this whole thing.

I got my weekly weights on the others, now I'm back inside having more coffee, and crying again.

I've culled before, a number of times. And I am at peace with the reasons I had for culling these pullets. I just wish I didn't feel like such a monster.

- Ant Farm

Beautiful egg. You made your decision and did what you had to do.
I hate processing day too.

Sorry@fireant.
Your a respectable soul for admitting the truth at its base core level. I worked with elderly at a nursing home. People grew tired of me crying each time they passed. I spent hours with these people are you kidding me? I think your border line if your inner spirit&emotions don't grieve in some sense when we end a life.
I tell my hens thank you every time I get eggs from hens. I thank the roosters for protecting them. Call me nuts but I don't care my chickens are happy with me&appricated.
We have a squirrel we are debating at current. I don't want to end it's life but it keeps destroying my flowers beds, my crop of sunflowers and feed bins. I'm going to have to decide my chickens health&flowers well being or no squirrel. Happens every year, another squirrel always returns.

A squirrel? If I have one I have about 30. I have a lot of rabbits and deer too but I don't have much problem with my garden.
The biggest problem I have with squirrels is when they chew the lids off of buckets of grain.
I hate cleaning squirrels cause the hair gets all over the carcass.
A #110 conibear trap works great. I suspend it in front of the hole they chew in the grain bucket. I've caught as many as 4 in a day.

We have same problem with squirrels here. I try to leave them for the hawks however there's a pine tree over our yard and it likes to eat and drop large pine cones on us. New squirrel every year.

My daughter swears the squirrels throw acorns at her and her car.

Hi I got good news my chicks are getting better

Great!

Be careful with the glue traps.....it doesn't kill them. I have found chewed off legs in them or dehydrated bodies that starved to death.....be prepared to kill them. I use the black plastic snap traps with teath. I don't feel like I'm going to lose a finger when I set them. Good luck!!!

I'm sorry you don't feel well. Ginger ale(flat, no bubbles) helps.
I'm so sorry, I agree, you made the right decision....

I'm not fond of the glue traps either. My wife had mice in her car and used the glue traps under her seats.

Jeez....hard descions baseball, race, or garden.....i want all of them....someone want to come over and help me move the TV out to the garden

chickens and baseball. I listen to the game on the radio when I'm working outside.
Cards swept the Cubbies at Wrigley field for the first time since 1988, Then they go to Seattle and lose the first 2 games. Just by 1 run each. They were winning 3-1 going into the 9th Friday and lost 4-3 on a double, a walk and a home run.

Beside the squirrel has advantage I'm half blind and the sight on the pellet gun is not sighted. It pulls to the left I think or is it the right. Oh well he wins most days.

Ever heard of Kentucky windage?

 

[Pensmaster]

Good luck!

Thanks. Hope to get some of their chicks.

We use ginger root extract for stomach aches but not sure if it works for a bug.