Laree's "I CAN'T STOP MYSELF FROM HATCHING!!!" Hatch-a-long

[babymakes6]

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Royal Palms?

How much are you charging?

 

[Patchesnposies]

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It is very easy to "make"
TA-DA!
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Red necked candler!

Yes I did buy the plumber's helper for just this purpose

and I did have to drill a hole in the rubber. Other than that it is easy-peazy!

Oh heck! I can make one of those! LOL

I am sure glad that you posted a picture and showed me what it looks like......my husband would have had too much fun at my expense if I had asked him to put one of these together and I had "plumber's helper" on the list!

(Whadda I know from Plumber's helper? OY!)

 

[BHep]

@ babymakes6 and for everyone entertainment:


My GL Polish rooster "helping lay an egg"

 

[dsqard]

With "helping" friends like that, who needs enemies?!

 

[1muttsfan]

Here is my broody zebra finch's first hatchling, she would only lay her eggs in the grit cup silly thing

- it is tiny!

 

[Patchesnposies]

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Ohmigosh! I have never seen anything so exquisitely tiny in my life! How adorable!

(This is probably indelicate to point out....but, who knew that Zebra Finches also make gi-normous broody poops?!)

 

[josie63]

Where is the best place to order eggs, and have them shipped. I'm always afraid I'll fail at this option. I hatch my own egg's and some I get off of friends. But have never tried buying them. Do you have good results? When buying them.

 

[Lotsapaints]

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It depends on what kind of chicken you want to hatch..or like the rest of us we just like to hatch

there are many people on this board who have wonderful chickens and try their best to get eggs to you in great shape but the postal system is very hard on eggs. I know when I set eggs from my own stock I make sure they are the best I have as all of them seem to hatch...and that is the type of eggs I send out the best available as normally you'll be lucky to get 50% to hatch. I just had a broody hatch out 4 eggs and that's all I gave her she's doing such a great job too.

 

[NoseyChickens]

Stupid Broody!!!!!

She kicked her eggs out! She only had 2 duck eggs under her, a runner, and a call. I found the runner egg out from under her yesterday and the call egg kicked out this morning. BOTH internally pipped and dead! WTHeck?????

I have a broody Call Duck on 7 eggs due next weekend and a silkie on Wheaten Ameraucana eggs due at the same time. They better not mess it up.

Still waiting for my Dickey's incubator to arrive it shipped Tuesday. I have at least 3 dz eggs waiting it's arrival.

 

[tazcat70]

The thoughts that I could handle an out of control 3 year old boy and 2 puppies has finally drove me crazy....throw in all the chicks and a few ducklings and I am certifiable.

This part is kind of morbid so please skip if you feel the need.












I am sitting outside with a headless duckling teaching puppies to ignore their instincts.

Long story...my son escaped out of the house through the doggy door. When I found him he had opened the coop, climbed in the 100 gallon stock tank that currently houses my newest hatchlings. He has a duckling in his hand and I tell him to put it down. He drops it. I pull him out of the tub, the duckling is now safe in the tub. I glance around to make sure there aren't any others that are out. I don't see any so I herd him in the house and lock the doggy door. Get him off to school and then come out for a little quiet time and to check feeders/waterers. The pups follow me out. About 5 minutes later one of them walks up with the duckling in its mouth. Now insert into thee picture me trying to catch the puppy. I get the duckling and set it to the side. Go in the house to get some thing, come out, duckling is gone....the other puppy now has it. So again imagine me chasing the puppy around. I get the duckling again. I get the training tools.....repeat chasing puppies 2 more times. The final time, I end up with a partial duckling. We spend 10 minutes on ignoring instincts....and now they are alseep at my feet with the duckling laying a foot away. Ignored.

How do I get myself into these messes???

Do I trust them? HECK no!

*big sigh* I gotta go pack up eggs.