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

[BullChick]

Wrong thread, but did you know "breastmilk soap" is a thing? LOL

I had a 7 foot cubic freezer full of milk, and I was joking with my husband he should make soap out of it, so I didn't have to just throw it all away when it got too old to use for the kiddo.

(I ended up tossing it because I didn't have time to do anything with it, but apparently, it's also good for your garden.)

Yup! We have become so open about breast-feeding anymore, that all of the uses for the milk is staggering.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

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[COLOR=008080]Birthdays: deserteggs22 Oct. 2[/COLOR] [COLOR=008080]HAPPY BELATED!! MommaHen2Four OCT 6[/COLOR] Sally Sunshine AKA Sally shipped isabelle n choco leghorns not looking so great, four good air cells and good veining the others mostly clear cloudy, a blood ring and a roller with embryo, its early so I will let them in the carton and see what happens. BCM eggs all inferts last time, fingers crossed yet again! Because I really really love the spotted eggs! serama but we separated frizzled and straights at this point so roos are new to some, so no clue fertility AGAIN! Last time I set these GODZILLA Eggs the were inferts, and I dont know if she lets the BCM on her so I gotta at least try to set AND these DUCK EGGS ARE KILLING MEEEEEEE I MUST NOT SET THEM NO NO NO!!! BantyChooks AKA Banti, Bubbles or Chicken Little.... It depends who you ask Nothing till spring.... Though the enablers here are trying their bestest to make sure I give up. Chaos18 AKA Trouble, Ginger, or Chaos 2 ducklings hatched by broodies 1 Dom chick hatched by broodies 12 Dom eggs in the bator. MotorcycleChick AKA MC, Meebrong, or Abi Two Mourning doves under broodies due any day now. Update- I am down to one dove egg. Update- The lone dove egg hatched! daxigait AKA Dax or Daxi Broody quit day six Jessimom AKA Kathy @Jessimom mlm Mike AKA Mike Icelandic has 1 chick. Will be setting more eggs today or tomorrow. casportpony AKA Kathy or Kat @casportpony sasafras4u2 @sasafras4u2 attimus AKA Zach Hatching is on hold. Currently watching Marek's rip through my flock. megan805 @megan805 Leave a LightOn AKA LaLo @Leave a LightOn danielkbrantley AKA Daniel @danielkbrantley cabinchicky AKA Chicky @cabinchicky ChickenCanoe AKA CC @ChickenCanoe DwayneNLiz AKA Liz TEST RUN of new bator!! GO LIZ!! heatherfeather7 AKA Heather My broody is done with her hatch. Started with 12 eggs, 1 got crushed and died, 1 missing completely (think a snake got it), the remaining 10 hatched. 9 are with broody mama and doing great, 1 in the house with me ... Praying it survives! South OH Chicks I hatched 3 out of the 4 blue copper marans I set. One pip! Watermelon123 AKA Melon Barnyard mix eggs campingshaws AKA camping 0/15 LF eggs for science! Not sure what happened. Low early temps and a super high spike likely culprits. 6/15 Ancona duck eggs in lockdown last night. No pips yet. country lovin AKA TyAnna I just put some f2 olive eggers in the coolerbator yesterday and I have a couple mixes under a serama broody that should lay a spearmint green color. Roada Red AKA Dale I have the 14 serama eggs and I don't know how many I am throwing in of mine to test the homemade box bator. Akrnaf2 AKA Benny Honora I am hatching also, I have 4 eggs in the incubator (EE's and chocolate orp mixes), 5 eggs with broodies (also EE's and chocolate orp mixes). They are due to hatch on Monday. I hatched 3 eggs in the incubator (3 EEs and 1 Marans/Orp cross), the broodies hatched 1 egg (EE), and I also got 9 chicks in the mail. They are all doing great now. I have 13 chicks. Swimming in chicks. My yard is going to be a disaster. They are soooo cute though. metel I have 8 Ayam Cermani, 30 BCM's, about 40 Serama, 5 Cream legbar, 5 Icelandic, 5 mottled java, 3 watermaels, 4 brahmas, 2 favorelles & 2 orps and a partridge in a pear tree.....lol. Due to hatch between 9/27 & 10/5. So far 8 bcms & 12 seramas hatched. I think 1 AC has pipped and 2 other seramas have pipped as well-waiting to see how many more hatch within the next couple days. 12 more seramas in the little inucbator ans trying to decide if I want to try to hatch the other 12 that Fluff and Pigeon have laid (new roo in there so not sure how many will be fertile-I miss Stan

) Pensmaster I have 10 Altsterier eggs going should hatch 9-27-16. Under broody Altsterier hen. kajira 1 egg out of 2 that made it to lock down have hatched. and I have 18 more in my other incubator, due on the 21st of oct. Phage 2 sets of ayam cemani - one is for a friend


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day seven on my six ayam cimani eggs.and all are developing

 

[kajira]

Yup! We have become so open about breast-feeding anymore, that all of the uses for the milk is staggering.

I keep fresh milk in the fridge for my toddler. My kids don't think twice about the milk containers in there. They prefer almond milk, but I know my husband has stolen some for his coffee before when he ran out of creamer.

I grew up with nursing mom's and it never seemed weird to me to have milk in the fridge. It wasn't until I was online, on mom forums that I learned how much people bottlefed and how weird people felt about nursing.

True story : my mom went on vacation to Hawaii with my dad when I was only a few months old. My aunt breastfed me while my mom was gone, because my cousin was 3 months older and she was nursing her, too.

I've also nursed 2 children who weren't mine, when baby sitting, with permission of their mothers.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

@BantyChooks

My broody finished her hatch with 9 chicks surviving.

I have 6 eggs in the incubator seeing if they are fertile yet.

Also, my birthday is next month.

 

[Honora]

These bantam ee babies came out of the eggs I got from you

Aw, I love those babies!

 

[kajira]

@BantyChooks

My broody finished her hatch with 9 chicks surviving.

I have 6 eggs in the incubator seeing if they are fertile yet.

Also, my birthday is next month.

Happy early birthday ;o

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Quote:

we go to Tulum every other year!!! This year is it again!!!!!

I'm jealous now. Do you have room in your suitcase for me?
Have you ever been to Chichen Itza or swam in cenotes?
I haven't been there in years and I'm sure it is built up much more now.
I'm a big Mayan history buff. We've been to Chichen Itza, Coba, Tikal Tulum and smaller sites in Isla Mujeres and Cozumel.
I'm all about cheap vacations and we could go there for much less money and better water than a trip to Florida.
We used to go to either the Yucatan or the Nayarit/Jalisco area of the Pacific coast a couple times a year.
There was a charter company that would fly out of St. Louis to Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, Cozumel, Cabo and several Caribbean destinations. When the date came close and there were still seats available they would dramatically drop the price to fill the seats. I would check for sales all the time and we'd fly at the drop of a hat. We would never have been able to make the trips otherwise. Sometimes we would stay some nice places using the savings in airfare but sometimes we'd just go the whole trip on the cheap.
Once we got flights to Cancun for $25 each and I rented a Mayan hut on the beach with no electricity or running water for $50 per night. Then we'd go to Mayan towns inland or to Tulum for very cheap meals.
Usually we'd rent a house. One of our favorite places was Tankah Bay. That's where the Mayan hut was but also nicer houses just steps from the water and uncrowded is an understatement.
https://www.locogringo.com/mexico/vacation-destinations/riviera-maya/tankah-bay/
If you get there, try dinner at Casa Cenote. It's a huge, breezy, thatched roof open air restaurant right on the water.
My son and I went deep sea fishing there and they cooked the fish for us for dinner.
It's across the road from a cenote where you can scuba dive and go under ground all the way into the sea.
El Gran Cenote is awesome too.

Thanks!

These are the ONLY productive thing this year, and I don't see more than two. Corn is wimpy this year and the beans didn't even try.

Are they in a sunny spot? Did you have a lot of cloudy weather?

 

[hippiestink]

Are they in a sunny spot? Did you have a lot of cloudy weather?

Garden is in the south of the property so plenty of light. It's mostly due to the weeds; we had more weeds than garden this year and it darn near choked out everything. Next year we're laying out weed sheeting and the corn we get this year will instead be saved for seed.

Next year i experiment with Aztec Black corn, pinto beans, and either butternut squash or pumpkins again. The French beans turned out to be a bush variety and so don't work for Three Sisters, but pintos are climbers. I'm also going to be mulching and trying to grow wild strawberries.

Edit: Also, I just cleared out the coop and run so I can show you guys tomorrow just how much of a POS our coop is and what the inside of the run is like. We haven't put out the hay bales we use for the run in the winter when it gets muddy, but it's nice weather so you can see what it normally looks like.

 

[MommaHen2Four]

We make soap too, but we make Goats milk soap!

Ohhhhhhhhh I want some!

 

[kajira]

Not that it matters, but I did a quick candle on the remaining egg. It's still alive, and no closer to an internal pip. But, since it's still moving around, I'm crossing fingers it will decide to hatch itself in the next 2-3 days.... the issue is the new chick that's hatched is running over the top of it non stop, and the non-hatched egg, was the worse of the air sacs and is in a upright container. LOL

I'm going to have to move the littler bugger as soon as she/he dries off more to the brooder. She's quite happily chirping in there everytime I go in there now. Apparently she had a little nap and now she's full of spunk.