Incubators Anonymous

[jandrusrn]

I have my first duck pip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My first duck EVER!

Ooooh wonderful. Great stuff... yippeeeeeee

 

[Fabiola]

Added to my now 4 bators this week were 78 eggs on the 1st (turkeys, BYM with silkies, quail, button quail, pheasants, lemon cuckoo & lavender orps, BCM & a mystery duck), 87 eggs on the 3rd (australorps, white leghorns, golden buffs, barred rocks, seramas, OEGB, nankins, cornish, & some mystery eggs). 50 more arrived today from DMRippy (1 of my IA enablers...LOL) to be set tomorrow & included EE, OE & SBEL. Still to arrive are 12+ Ancona Ducks, 9 Rouen/Muscovies, 12+ Lemon Cuckoo Orps, 12+ Runners, 30 assorted chicks & ducks from Mrhein277 & 6+ phoenix.

Picking up Bourbon Reds & possibly some others tomorrow night in partial exchange for a pair of blue slate turkeys.

Can someone PLEASE take away my bators (NOT!!!!)

What do you do with so many chickens? I want to hatch lots of them, but I am afraid to get stuck with live merchandise that I need to feed..

 

[WinklerFarms]

It's exciting hatching new stuff isn't it? I just set for the first time some pheasants and quail. I can't wait for them to hatch! They were sent to me by maryruthlangdon. They are red gold x ringnecks and black melanistics pheasants and she didn't tell me what kind of quail.

 

[Nsampsel]

What do you do with so many chickens? I want to hatch lots of them, but I am afraid to get stuck with live merchandise that I need to feed..

Luckily, around here not too many people hatch their own, so people are even renting space in my bators for THEIR eggs. I charge $1-10 per egg (peafowl, rhea, emu & ostrich are obviously more than bantam chickens & I only charge 25 cents each for button quail, regular quail are 50 cents each & pheasants are 75 cents) depending on eggs si2e & incubation period. My stuff is selling faster than I can hatch it & I have a waiting list for several breeds. I have had people come from 2-3 hrs away or more to get chicks & started birds.

It's exciting hatching new stuff isn't it? I just set for the first time some pheasants and quail. I can't wait for them to hatch! They were sent to me by maryruthlangdon. They are red gold x ringnecks and black melanistics pheasants and she didn't tell me what kind of quail.

I got mine from Mary Ruth as well

 

[DMRippy]

Well put my eggs in lockdown, the ones I had an order for so I tossed in 30 more eggs for the pullet the snake ate......

Today was day 19.... I had about 6-7 pips already should have some chicks tomorrow. Not due till Tuesday.

The weather has cooled off and it is raining

again! we must have gotten a couple of inches at the farm as the 55 gal rain barrel was full

Couple of more showers like that and the creek will get back up to normal and start running more. (never dried up, just got really low)

 

[Arielle]

Well put my eggs in lockdown, the ones I had an order for so I tossed in 30 more eggs for the pullet the snake ate......

Today was day 19.... I had about 6-7 pips already should have some chicks tomorrow. Not due till Tuesday.

The weather has cooled off and it is raining

again! we must have gotten a couple of inches at the farm as the 55 gal rain barrel was full

Couple of more showers like that and the creek will get back up to normal and start running more. (never dried up, just got really low)

Here's a rain dance for you to fill that creek!!

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Thanks! Keep dancing and get your boys to do it too!

 

[DMRippy]

ki4got you get electricity back? or have you gone bankrupt feeding the generator?

 

[ki4got]

ki4got you get electricity back? or have you gone bankrupt feeding the generator?

um... i think the answers YES. yes power's back, just in time because the bank is dry.

 

[DMRippy]

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