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

[kwhites634]

Quote: What can I tell you

Wanna come help me on the new building? I need an extra pair of hands.

 

[BullChick]

What can I tell you 

You "can" tell me that I am cute, sweet, wonderful, and the bestst person in the whole wide world!!

Wanna come help me on the new building?  I need an extra pair of hands.

Ummmm.... Sure. That sounds like a great plan.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Good! Seeya when ya get here

 

[LittleLakePhil]

You "can" tell me that I am cute, sweet, wonderful, and the bestst person in the whole wide world!!
Ummmm.... Sure. That sounds like a great plan.

You are cute sweet wonderful and the best person in the whole wide world

 

[daxigait]

Morning everyone! I don't remember who posted those duck foot slippers the other day, but I gave them a shot. I'd say if you can knit a glove or a sock you could knock these out in a day. Took me two tries to get the size right, but wasn't too bad.

Cool, O have not had time to think of trying to do it

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Good! Seeya when ya get here

All of which are certainly true, but you wouldn't believe me if I did

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Of the eggs due to hatch today, one hatched yesterday and 2 are zipping. Nothing out of the other 2 yet.

update? Pictures

Trying to kill eggs experiment...

Step 1. Remove 8 eggs from broody after 1 week incubation.
Step 2. Place eggs on kitchen counter.
Step 3. Leave eggs alone for one week.
Step 4. Place eggs in killerbator (Janoel 48)
Step 5. Open killer bator several times every day.
Step 6. Forget to turn eggs.
Step 7. Don't add water and see where humidity ends up.
Step 8. Wait until eggs pip externally, then raise humidity to 50%
Step 9. Open killerbator 5-10 times a day.


Experiment failed, lol. Six chicks fluffed, two externally pipped.

All joking aside, I wish I had this sort of luck with peafowl.

-Kathy

love it! i wish i could fail as well as you do!!

Just popping in for a minute...

I said I would get a few pictures....

Here is a somewhat odd hatch from a few weeks ago. I had traded some Serama eggs with somebody at a show, so my incubator was turned off for only about two days. So...out of those 10 eggs, three very cute black mottled chicks hatched. The others were not fertile. And of course, two eggs from some very small silkied seramas of mine somehow found their way into the bator. Those two hatched and are very tiny. And...a few days before these chicks hatched, I had a mother call duck hatch some babies but there were still two viable eggs in her nest. So...I put them in the incubator. One of these was obviously not a duck egg. A Silkie hen snuck one into the nest. The other looked like a duck egg. Same shape, size and greenish color. Well these two babies hatched the same day as the Serama chicks, but were both chickens! No duckling. The only possibility is an old Ameraucana hen that hardly ever lays an egg, and her mate who is a white d'Uccle roo.
Here is a picture of the silkie chick, the Am/Uccle and the two tiny silkied Serama chicks. All the same age and still in the same pen together.

So cute!! what a size difference!

I was worried about my "little lonely" chick. Boy did he shock me! I thought he'd get pecked at and pushed around. Turns out he is quite the fighter! He went up to the slightly older chicks, looked then in the eye, and pecked at them till they backed off! Ohmygosh it was so funny! They have accepted him now it looks like...no fuss. I will say that you could tell how happy he was when I set him in the brooder box. If a chick could smile, he was doing it!

LOL!!

So I got my incubator turned off again for another day, went to a Serama show and brought back some eggs! I didn't mean to. I have around 100 Seramas. I was admiring somebody's trio that they had for sale. I didn't really want them and they were more than I would have spent....but I found a buyer for them and in return was offered a dozen eggs from that trio. Into the bator!
Only two eggs were good. The rest looked a bit old and never developed. Then our electricity went off two different times. We have a generator, but it still gives the incubator a fit when this happens. Both hatched, but both were upside down and I had to assist. They were more than ready when I helped, but one just layed there for 24 hours before he decided he was born now. He then took 4 days before starting to eat, so I gave him baby bird formula to keep him going. His eating behavior finally kicked in and now he's catching up to the other one.

only 100 serama???

Mine just went back to the original nest, single chick in tow, and sitting on two new eggs.

are you going to let her sit again?

Eggs just follow me around like stray cats or something... Then I go to bed and there they are, all comfy in the bator when I get up in the morning.

very strange

If anybody's missing eggs, just let me know and I'll send them back.....

ME PICK ME!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhh no! no! no! NOOOO!

I can't believe I misspelled something! And Whites, of all people, caught my error!

Ohhhhhh my reputation, what will become of me?!

My reputation, my reputation ......

has been soiled

I just picked her up put her back, removed the other eggs, and she stayed. I think someone went in when she was off. I just hope they are fine since they are due next Thursday or Friday.

Oh, yay!! It looks like I get to keep my "Addicted to Quack" title even w/o a GFM!!

maybe we should alert the ducklady....

I won't be asleep, but I probably won't be on here. G'night!

Who is Jimmy Hoffa?

STEELING

Alright who knew that goats grow on trees?

yes, Quite Well !!

Dogs have been successfully trained to not chase chickens. Maybe eventually I can give these collies a real job and let them herd the chickens.

Also, I managed to get some paint on the coop. I'm still going to ask the husband if he will help me build a new one, especially since his dad and mom are both away for two weeks on holiday.

awesome, good luck on the coop!!

Thank you. I thought so too so I had discarded that one. How do the air cells look to you (I'm new to this) and is the clear bit at the bottom lnormal?

i dont discard any unless they stink

Morning everyone! I don't remember who posted those duck foot slippers the other day, but I gave them a shot. I'd say if you can knit a glove or a sock you could knock these out in a day. Took me two tries to get the size right, but wasn't too bad.

I WANT SOME!!!! they would be so cute on my daughter!

Good morning

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-Kathy

Hi Kathy!!!

 

[chickenlickin8]

Too large means they lost too much moisture so the humidity was low and vice versa. If they're way off from what they should be, then change it dramatically for a few days. If they're close then change it slightly.

I don't candle much but I accomplish the same thing by weighing the eggs.
One week is fine. Do you know when the ones that arrived yesterday were laid? That is the key.
You can improve the viability by keeping them around 60F, turning them a couple times a day and if they're to be held longer, wrap them in plastic to prevent too much moisture loss.

I believe the eggs were laid Weds. I hope to receive the rest of the eggs by this Weds. Two sellers were delayed on gathering eggs. So into the bator by Thursday. Thanks for the advice.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

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