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

[BantyChooks]

For those of you that have broodies do you check every day for extra egg contributions or just every couple of days?

I check every day.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Okay so here's my questions. What's up? What did I miss? Did runt lose more birds? Did he get corid?

Is that purple duck real or dyed? Where can I get one?

We picked up 64 hatching eggs from a new friend on Saturday and set them last night. So worth the hour drive there and back. We had a blast! I saw my first seramas(although I think they were a bit bigger that seramas normally are) @ Sally aren't the bigger ones C class?
I saw my first frizzles much cooler than I thought and cuter than I thought but I'm still not sure I would want them. I saw my first Sebastopol geese also cool but I didn't get too close. And they hand English shepherds! Awesome dogs! I told her she could move her whole operation to our house lol.

So we came home with 64 eggs like I mentioned and two young pullets. A buff Brahma and and blue silkie mix both sweet as sugar. I'm in love! Sally your Brahmas are on my want list now too. The more Brahmas we meet/get the more I like them. We now have two lights and a buff.

The eggs we got include silkie eggs for fun and to try to replace our lossed birds(mutters stupid fox and expletives under breath) from her mixed silkie flock which has been producing blues buffs partridge splash grey a few white black and porcelain. Super exited about these. I swear she also had a couple young chocolate silkie pullets which were beautiful and I would love one of those but I think she said they weren't laying yet.
There is also the possibility of some porcelain d'uccle eggs in the cartons with the silkie eggs as she also had a few of them. Although separate from the silkies. Her porcelain d'uccle roo seems to be some kind of silkie mix while her hens are pure. They're darling and the little roo was so comical with his silkie feathers. Despite his silkie feathering he seemed to be very much more d'uccle than silkie.

We also got lavender and black split American Orpington eggs. We love our orps and I'm super excited about them. Of every picture I've seen from people raising lavenders I think her stock had the least lemon(right?) leakage but one hen had pretty bad toes. We will keep an eye out for that of course.

Now for our resident genetics experts please....
The last eggs we got were silver pencilled rocks and mixed silver pencilled rock rooster over partridge hens. What will these chicks look like? If her and my knowledge of genetics is right and I used the chicken calculator correctly then the cockeral chicks from the mix should be sex linked and the pullets should be homozygous for the silver?

Silver pencilled rocks are something I've admired for quite a while so I can't wait to see them!!!!

Can you all tell I'm excited?

lol, not at all, Sounds like some fun chickies coming your way lol

Good Luck!!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

weed? Ok

Good with me....

 

[DuckGirl77]

Wondering this myself on my hova.
How do you 'fumigate'?

Ummm ...... I don't know yet, but I heard that was the best way to clean styrofoam bators.

I am so sorry!

The thermometer for incubation needs to be sensitive to temperature fluctuations and be accurate in the lowest plus or minus range possible. If the thermometer does not read in tenths, you do not want to use it! It other words, you want it to be able to read 99.5, not 98, 99, or 100.

I doubt that the fluke thermometer would work. the Brinsea spot check was made to do one thing, tell temps for incubation.

I am sorry about the bad hatch! Unless your humidity was below 25 or above 60, It was not the cause.

I clean my incubators with Lysol all purpose cleaner.

The Fluke thermometer does read tenths. I need to calibrate it, though.

The air cells were too small by day 18, so I was pretty sure humidity was the problem, but I suppose it could have been something else, maybe b/c they were in the fridge for a little while?

OK, thanks! That sounds easier than fumigating!

But "He" is a " she"!

Too true!

It also BAKED when its bottom is brown and make a hollow sound when topped on!

Yep! Why does everyone make it so complicated?

jk, thermometers are good! I just don't like having one more thing to wash. Washing dishes- even just thermometers- is just- just-

.

they are doing better though

That's good; you may still want to treat them just in case, though.

It's official! Duck eggs will be picked up from Metzer Farms tomorrow and I will be setting them Friday night! Started working on the duck house this weekend

Awwwwww-
but mine are cuter

running away from me



first time in water



















finally got them in their duck house

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SO PRECIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[runt325]

Okay so here's my questions. What's up? What did I miss? Did runt lose more birds? Did he get corid?

Is that purple duck real or dyed? Where can I get one?

We picked up 64 hatching eggs from a new friend on Saturday and set them last night. So worth the hour drive there and back. We had a blast! I saw my first seramas(although I think they were a bit bigger that seramas normally are) @ Sally aren't the bigger ones C class?
I saw my first frizzles much cooler than I thought and cuter than I thought but I'm still not sure I would want them. I saw my first Sebastopol geese also cool but I didn't get too close. And they hand English shepherds! Awesome dogs! I told her she could move her whole operation to our house lol.

So we came home with 64 eggs like I mentioned and two young pullets. A buff Brahma and and blue silkie mix both sweet as sugar. I'm in love! Sally your Brahmas are on my want list now too. The more Brahmas we meet/get the more I like them. We now have two lights and a buff.

The eggs we got include silkie eggs for fun and to try to replace our lossed birds(mutters stupid fox and expletives under breath) from her mixed silkie flock which has been producing blues buffs partridge splash grey a few white black and porcelain. Super exited about these. I swear she also had a couple young chocolate silkie pullets which were beautiful and I would love one of those but I think she said they weren't laying yet.
There is also the possibility of some porcelain d'uccle eggs in the cartons with the silkie eggs as she also had a few of them. Although separate from the silkies. Her porcelain d'uccle roo seems to be some kind of silkie mix while her hens are pure. They're darling and the little roo was so comical with his silkie feathers. Despite his silkie feathering he seemed to be very much more d'uccle than silkie.

We also got lavender and black split American Orpington eggs. We love our orps and I'm super excited about them. Of every picture I've seen from people raising lavenders I think her stock had the least lemon(right?) leakage but one hen had pretty bad toes. We will keep an eye out for that of course.

Now for our resident genetics experts please....
The last eggs we got were silver pencilled rocks and mixed silver pencilled rock rooster over partridge hens. What will these chicks look like? If her and my knowledge of genetics is right and I used the chicken calculator correctly then the cockeral chicks from the mix should be sex linked and the pullets should be homozygous for the silver?

Silver pencilled rocks are something I've admired for quite a while so I can't wait to see them!!!!

Can you all tell I'm excited?

no not so far but last week I lost two

 

[chickendreams24]

I understand your point, but it wasn't me that said that peafowl tast like bold eagle.
I want to understand a point, if it wasn't your national symbol, it was OK to eat it? Do people eat outer eagle species in the us?

What you've been told is correct so far as I know. Every bird of prey species in the US is federally protected.

I check every day.

I usually check every day but I do have one evil little girls that likes to go broody that I only check every third or fourth day BC she's so mean and nuts when broody the other hens stay far away from her lol I very rarely ever find any eggs under her that I didn't put there.

Okay so here's my questions. What's up? What did I miss? Did runt lose more birds? Did he get corid?

Is that purple duck real or dyed? Where can I get one?

We picked up 64 hatching eggs from a new friend on Saturday and set them last night. So worth the hour drive there and back. We had a blast! I saw my first seramas(although I think they were a bit bigger that seramas normally are) @ Sally aren't the bigger ones C class?
I saw my first frizzles much cooler than I thought and cuter than I thought but I'm still not sure I would want them. I saw my first Sebastopol geese also cool but I didn't get too close. And they hand English shepherds! Awesome dogs! I told her she could move her whole operation to our house lol.

So we came home with 64 eggs like I mentioned and two young pullets. A buff Brahma and and blue silkie mix both sweet as sugar. I'm in love! Sally your Brahmas are on my want list now too. The more Brahmas we meet/get the more I like them. We now have two lights and a buff.

The eggs we got include silkie eggs for fun and to try to replace our lossed birds(mutters stupid fox and expletives under breath) from her mixed silkie flock which has been producing blues buffs partridge splash grey a few white black and porcelain. Super exited about these. I swear she also had a couple young chocolate silkie pullets which were beautiful and I would love one of those but I think she said they weren't laying yet.
There is also the possibility of some porcelain d'uccle eggs in the cartons with the silkie eggs as she also had a few of them. Although separate from the silkies. Her porcelain d'uccle roo seems to be some kind of silkie mix while her hens are pure. They're darling and the little roo was so comical with his silkie feathers. Despite his silkie feathering he seemed to be very much more d'uccle than silkie.

We also got lavender and black split American Orpington eggs. We love our orps and I'm super excited about them. Of every picture I've seen from people raising lavenders I think her stock had the least lemon(right?) leakage but one hen had pretty bad toes. We will keep an eye out for that of course.

Now for our resident genetics experts please....
The last eggs we got were silver pencilled rocks and mixed silver pencilled rock rooster over partridge hens. What will these chicks look like? If her and my knowledge of genetics is right and I used the chicken calculator correctly then the cockeral chicks from the mix should be sex linked and the pullets should be homozygous for the silver?

Silver pencilled rocks are something I've admired for quite a while so I can't wait to see them!!!!

Can you all tell I'm excited?

lol, not at all, Sounds like some fun chickies coming your way lol

Good Luck!!

Thank you!!! So glad to have people who understand my spasticness. We have our last two fertile large fowl eggs in lockdown.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

What you've been told is correct so far as I know. Every bird of prey species in the US is federally protected.
I usually check every day but I do have one evil little girls that likes to go broody that I only check every third or fourth day BC she's so mean and nuts when broody the other hens stay far away from her lol I very rarely ever find any eggs under her that I didn't put there.

Thank you!!! So glad to have people who understand my spasticness. We have our last two fertile large fowl eggs in lockdown.

Good Luck!!

 

[daxigait]

i just wanted to know if there were things that were big no-no items lol

raw potatoes, onions, citrus, Apple seeds, and several others.

 

[runt325]

raw potatoes, onions, citrus, Apple seeds, and several others.

 

[daxigait]

Baby waited for me...literally busted out when I got here...I can finally breathe!