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

[kajira]

dont see options for a turner for that

Yeah, I tried to google it before I started posting on this thread... I was hoping for an easy way out. LOL (i.e. not having to turn them constantly myself.) but I guess if you don't do it the hard way at least once, you won't appreciate the easy way once you get a "better" incubator. LOL (or that's what I told myself, and my daughter.)

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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its not a big deal esp for that amount of eggs, dont fret you will do fine.

 

[kajira]

its not a big deal esp for that amount of eggs, dont fret you will do fine.

Thanks.

My daughter's been running out ot the coop every hour to see if another egg has been laid to add to her egg collection now. She doesn't quite believe me, that since we have a history of usually two eggs per day amongst 4 hens, that the odds of getting more than the 2 she already collected was slim... but it hasn't stopped her from checking. lol

I love watching her excitement.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

ChickenCanoe this is for you!
The resl chicken canoe! ( pic by campingshaws! )

Nice. I'm at the top of a steep hill so I don't need to ferry my chickens to safety.

I actually have an associate degree. Just honestly McDonald's pays better than the police department as a manager and moving up is easy. Plus they pay for a college degree to be a store manager. And it is recognized by all businesses as a degree. It's the teenagers that are "entitled" that are employed by the Corp. That irk me. They want the money, but don't wanna do the work. Smh.

There are lots of jobs harder than management at McDonalds and don't pay as well. It's annoying when no one wants to pay adequately for strong skills.

Some pics of my pullets that just started to lay!

You have a rumples!!!

I know this is a chicken/duck/geese/other things thread, but ..... has anyone ever hatched parakeets before? I am expecting everyone to say no, but I just figured I'd ask. I really, really hate to throw eggs away, but I can't let mrs. parakeet kill herself by hatching three times in a row. Maybe I'll just try to store them and give them to her later.

Not that hard to hatch but hard to rear. So she has hatched 2 broods recently? If she wants to do it, I'd let her. That would be so much easier for you. She already knows what to do.

What do I do when the natural environment we live in, is 40-60+ % humidity every day? And, how do you up the humidity if there's not an option for it on the incubator? Also, where does one find a calibrated one? Amazon? Our feed store doesn't sell anything besides the brooder thermo.

I don't think that humidity is out of bounds. It was 95% here this morning.

These are the 2 best I know of that aren't prohibitively expensive.
http://www.brinsea.com/p-394-spot-check-digital-incubator-thermometer.aspx

http://www.thermoworks.com/RT301WA

I pretty much assumed, our first go round or two, we'd probably be lucky to only get 1 to hatch. It's why I wanted to time our first attempt with us recieving her silkies, (they will be house chickens) so if we only have 1 hatch, I have someone to keep the new baby company until it's ready to be integrated into one of our outside flocks.

Our easter eggers won't probably start laying until spring, since they are 2 weeks old now. (or I suppose they could start laying in dec/jan, but I don't know if they will lay during the winter.)

Shoot for at least 2 since they need friends.

I'd look for eggs from the EEs at the end of Jan or Feb. Days will start getting longer by then.

but I want a project tooooooo.

UGH THE RAIN WILL NEVER STOP. It rained today. It rained yesterday. The river is up and that Big Flood is pushing my way.

Drowned rats?? That was a DRY day! Three nights in a row I had to go out in the monsoon and carry them four at a time to the big coop, because I had locked the tractor and they didn't know where to sleep.

The sun came out here for the first time in days. Not a great deal of rain overnight but 2 inches the night before. That's after 3.5 om the 3 days before.
I hope you stay high and dry.
Usually I'm running the water bill up by now. It has been a swamp out there all summer.
This is what climate change looks like.

CC, I run a summer camp with my DH. We finished a week ago and it's retreat season now. We have almost 30 years of camp experience between us. He's the beard on the left. He's started backpacking and took the staff to Yellowstone last year.

That sounds awesome. The camp and the backpacking.

my brothers pulled my elbows out 3x when i was little
we are always here for you, if your internet will let you talk to us

rofl!! but but but why not

The doctors told us once the elbow gets pulled out, it happens much easier the next time. We got very careful and it didn't happen again.

Yikes! My kids have had their fair share of accidents. My 12 year old threw himself off a horse, not realizing it would hurt. (He was trying to scare me and got more than he bargained for.) no broken bones, we got lucky. My daughter's pony fell on her, literally, fell on her, on his side, when she made him go to fast and he slipped in the mud. She luckily didn't get any broken bones, and she learned a very VALUABLE lesson that day. (When your parents say it's wet, you better listen and just go slow.)

My 2 year old is always falling down and banging his head, he's between 21-22lbs so he's pretty tiny too, I've been lucky, that he always falls in front of my pediatrician, and gets a new bruise, so I've been luckly that she sees how he climbs even at the doctors office, and it's on record that he does that. So far, no hospital visits for bruises. I haven't had to take my kids in for broken bones... yet. *knock on wood* but I know with horses, animals, trees to climb.. it's just a time bomb waiting to happen.

The baby has had her share of accidents too - she rolled over and grabbed my daughters cat... who wasn't expecting the previously immobile baby to get a fistful of hair and cackle... so the baby got bit by the cat. (no blood shed, but it traumatized her.) and I whacked her head on a desk once when I was bending over. (she had a tiny bruise on her forehead, I felt bad.) LOL

Were you a preemie? I see you mentioned you were fragile. My 2 year old is "fragile" as in he bruises easily, due to being a preemie, and he's at risk for broken bones, due to his prematurity.

I luckily live in farm country, where kids routinely are rough housing, and getting hurt, my kid got an infection in her toe, from her chickens. She ran barefoot after I told her not too - and had a wound from a misquito bite she'd scratched. That was a not-fun ER visit to have it drained and packed, and then the follow up care til it healed. (she makes sure she wears shoes now.)

I try not to be over protective with them, but it's hard. they all do such stupid stuff sometimes.

Everything is bigger in Texas, including drives for help.

Including another $100+ worth of stuff for Duckling in my cart!

I was due March 20th. Born April 21st. Every single kid was 4-6 weeks late. No medical reason for it either.

Late bloomers. Maybe you were just too comfy in there.

They don't sell IQ........

And so sorely needed all around.

As long as they aren't turned "evenly" per day, so they get longer periods on both sides, does it matter if you turn 11 times one day, and 5 the next? I don't want to jostle them too much either. (trying to find a happy medium here!)

It doesn't have to be consistent, just turn as often as possible.

I don't have biological kids. Duckling is my niece that I am blessed to have a majority of the time. Her parents are trying to have another for me to raise.

I'm not even going to ask.

Cause apparently murder is still illegal.

In the army, I knew guys from parts of the country where pre-meditated murder was a misdemeanor.

I wish. Our house is 2 story, but the upstairs is so hot, I didn't even need to use a heat lamp for our brooder, and had to have the AC on to keep it at 90-95 and then had to keep turning the AC up as they aged haha. (I live in Texas on the border.)

I don't know of any houses around here, with a basement though... so that's not unusual for where we live.

I pretty much have 4 choices. (My daughters room - which then runs the risk of her messing with the eggs, since she's 5 1/2, it would be VERY tempting.) my bathroom, my closet, or the kitchen counter. (which, my 12 year old would most likely then mess with the eggs, since he's tall enough to reach, and if you tell him not to do something, he pretty much is guaranteed to do it.)

I'd put it upstairs. At those temperatures it would hardly ever turn on. And you'd never need to add water.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: awwwww I think I chicken wore out the kids, even HarmonyAnn is not spending near the time she had out there.

 

[Jessimom]

I seem to have lost all my quotes.....

I have one of the EXTREMELY few houses in California that has a basement. It currently has a dirt floor, and on the rare occasion we get rain - the water bubbles up and it becomes very slippery clay. So, until we can pour a concrete floor, we don't store too much stuff down there. The basement is the only way to get to the crawl space underneath our house.

I only broke fingers, toes and a rib growing up. Needed stitches twice. But not too many ER trips. My brother broke his arm. Overall we weren't as brutal on our bodies as some of you (or your kids) were.

But, we had WAY more chances to injure ourselves back then - no seat belts, helmets weren't required, riding in the back of pick up trucks. It's a wonder how any of us survived....lol

 

[Akrnaf2]

lunch main meal is smart, but how is that practical with working

People take their lunch break seriously here. I can't do it, so for me in working days only yogurt an fruits!

O no no not me! This is better

 

[Sally Sunshine]

thundering guess that means I will catch you all when the leaves dry again

 

[Jessimom]

thundering guess that means I will catch you all when the leaves dry again

Good night Sally! I hope the storm isn't too bad!

 

[kajira]

Nice. I'm at the top of a steep hill so I don't need to ferry my chickens to safety.

There are lots of jobs harder than management at McDonalds and don't pay as well. It's annoying when no one wants to pay adequately for strong skills.

You have a rumples!!!

Not that hard to hatch but hard to rear. So she has hatched 2 broods recently? If she wants to do it, I'd let her. That would be so much easier for you. She already knows what to do.

I don't think that humidity is out of bounds. It was 95% here this morning.

These are the 2 best I know of that aren't prohibitively expensive.
http://www.brinsea.com/p-394-spot-check-digital-incubator-thermometer.aspx

http://www.thermoworks.com/RT301WA

Shoot for at least 2 since they need friends.

I'd look for eggs from the EEs at the end of Jan or Feb. Days will start getting longer by then.

The sun came out here for the first time in days. Not a great deal of rain overnight but 2 inches the night before. That's after 3.5 om the 3 days before.
I hope you stay high and dry.
Usually I'm running the water bill up by now. It has been a swamp out there all summer.
This is what climate change looks like.

That sounds awesome. The camp and the backpacking.

The doctors told us once the elbow gets pulled out, it happens much easier the next time. We got very careful and it didn't happen again.

Everything is bigger in Texas, including drives for help.

Late bloomers. Maybe you were just too comfy in there.

And so sorely needed all around.

It doesn't have to be consistent, just turn as often as possible.

I'm not even going to ask.

In the army, I knew guys from parts of the country where pre-meditated murder was a misdemeanor.


I'd put it upstairs. At those temperatures it would hardly ever turn on. And you'd never need to add water.

Actually, upstairs may be a good option too - besides me having to run up the stairs 5-11x a day. haha. But, if I get my heart rate up, it would count as exercise, right? JK