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

[NaJoBeLe]

He would sell just the springs?

yep just the springs. I didn't get it. Then again a decent amount of the stuff on ebay I don't understand.

 

[kwhites634]

I'm as gone as the wild geese in Winter.
Time to get crackin'
BBL

 

[Chaos18]

yep just the springs. I didn't get it. Then again a decent amount of the stuff on ebay I don't understand.

That and the stuff people put on Craigslist.

 

[Chaos18]

I'm as gone as the wild geese in Winter.
Time to get crackin'
BBL

Toodles

 

[mlm Mike]

I'm looking into ordering chicks online, I know some of you have done it already, what was your best site to check

I've ordered from Meyer Hatchery, but they are close so I could pick them up rather than have them go through the mail.

Quote: X2, I have a whole mess of them.

 

[mlm Mike]

I'm as gone as the wild geese in Winter.
Time to get crackin'
BBL

 

[ocap]

Hi!
whats new on the pea farm?

Not much... Just hatched out the last two eggs, and I'm trying to sell a bunch of older chicks. Had a large female Muscovy duck die in a strange way, so gonna necropsy her tomorrow and see if I can find a cause.

What's new at your place? How you feeling?

-Kathy

just wanted to let you both know:
I visited the Legg web site again and he is raising both large and bantam cochin , Large cochin in 20 varieties, I don't know where some people get all the energy, he must have 30 peafowl varieties, amazing

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:

Quote: She was sleeping on the sofa and woke up when I started some laundry. I told her a billion times to lay back down. But I wasn't home yesterday so she missed me.
I am so glad there are other parents who say, fine, just sleep on the couch then. muwahhhahaaaaa

mornin MC

@BantyChooks only 4/15 eggs made it to lockdown. They were two weeks old at set but only one late death. The other 10 were either clear or blood rings, which seems high for local eggs. I'm going to consider flock nutrition because the girl feeds primarily corn.

I haven't moved them to the hatcher yet because they don't seem ready. AC are pretty small, and still a lot of veins. I'm going to wait for drawdown.

wow just corn!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Good morning one and all!

Incubator upgrade time

My last few hatches have been extremely wet and icky, and upon looking at the shell leftovers I notice there is an off-colour spot where the egg was touching the ground, which looks like absorbed moisture. There has also been a high rate of slightly open navels, which was a sign of too high humidity if I recall right?
I've had water slosh from the bowls and drip from the papertowels on the sides to the floor, which then makes there be quite a bit of water that some eggs were sitting on- Of course, I had papertowel underneath the shelf liner, but that got waterlogged quickly.
I am wondering if this might be a part of my low lockdown-to-hatch rates, as I lose most of the embryos in that period of time.
This high loss at lockdown (up to 50%) has occurred with eggs from multiple sources- None of them shipped. I know that is "normal" for shipped.

So I've been thinking about an upgrade... A grated platform that would let spilled water fall to the bottom instead of becoming squishy, icky, and possibly harming the eggs to some extent.

I was also thinking about running tubing thru the sides to where I put the bowls of water, which would reduce the # of times I had to open the incubator, which in turn might help hatch rates.

I might be completely wrong; which wouldn't be unusual, but I thought I'd give it a try. It can't hurt and might help....

@Sally Sunshine

@DwayneNLiz I know you had a shelf in yours....

yes shelf / shelves, depending on length, for stability you may need two or put a rod through the middle and zip tie to prevent sagging. I had a piece of plastic laying around I used in one. make it TIGHT! so their are not any gaps for little feet to get stuck in

Morning all. looks like one of my white leg horns decided it was time to start laying. Suspect at least two more hens have also with the smaller tan eggs. We will see How the rest of the week goes. Hopefully "RooToo" is keeping them all happy and I will be throwing some in the bator.

congrats!!!

morning

Good morning everyone!

Good morning Sally!

morning Michael

 

[BantyChooks]

I actually forgot about the feed bags, probably because mine are 100lb feed mill bags not the little purena etc ones ugh....   A friend was to send me some but never did!

What kind? I thought you had to sell off?

Oh wonderful!!!  how many do you have left?  when will they get processed? 

@BantyChooks


This is a beautiful Image!!!  you keep this and submit for calendar next year!!  and contests!! 

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