Bug n Flock
Songster
- Jun 13, 2015
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So, I have an incubator full of eggs. Well, two incubators full of eggs. But one is tiny and bad quality and I have my doubts if it will hatch anything out. Oh well 25 bucks to china via amazon, did I really expect it to work well?
Anyway on to the fun bit: I set about way too many eggs on May 18 for someone who doesn't yet own land and currently lives in the city. Chickens, guinea fowl, and duckies.
The Chicken eggs go into lockdown next week on Tuesday, but the guineas and ducks do not. I've juggled staggered hatches before with 2 species of quail, but they at least were only a couple days off from each other. The guineas go another week and the dycks go two weeks past the chickens!
*starts laughing* as if that weren't hectic enough, my man and I are driving out to look at a couple of potential properties a few hundred miles away.. we leave on Wednesday. So, ok no big deal: my mother will be watching my animals, I'll ask her to turn some of the eggs about 3x a day(or more if she can manage to), and I'll draw little chickies on the chicken eggs she can't turn for lockdown. Cool.
*laughs harder* but she is going away this weekend and will be visiting for the last time Friday afternoon and we won't be home until Saturday evening. Most of the animals will be 100% totally OK being ignored for this long every once in a long while (will be bringing the dog because it just makes more sense). The cat will have to try kibble for the first time in her spoiled princess life and get over it.
Will the guinea and duck eggs be ok not being turned for this long?
Will the chicks be ok in the incubator from the 8th to the 9th (maybe longer by a night since the trip is so condensed and we may need to stay the night in a hotel if my boyfriend gets too tired being the only driver)?
Will the hatch be ok being interrupted to turn the other eggs?
Where should I have the humidity?
Will the baby chicks running around be enough to turn the other eggs?
Anything else?
The next few weeks to months here are going to be crazy here but wow exciting! Can't wait to have baby duckies again!!
Anyway on to the fun bit: I set about way too many eggs on May 18 for someone who doesn't yet own land and currently lives in the city. Chickens, guinea fowl, and duckies.
The Chicken eggs go into lockdown next week on Tuesday, but the guineas and ducks do not. I've juggled staggered hatches before with 2 species of quail, but they at least were only a couple days off from each other. The guineas go another week and the dycks go two weeks past the chickens!
*starts laughing* as if that weren't hectic enough, my man and I are driving out to look at a couple of potential properties a few hundred miles away.. we leave on Wednesday. So, ok no big deal: my mother will be watching my animals, I'll ask her to turn some of the eggs about 3x a day(or more if she can manage to), and I'll draw little chickies on the chicken eggs she can't turn for lockdown. Cool.
*laughs harder* but she is going away this weekend and will be visiting for the last time Friday afternoon and we won't be home until Saturday evening. Most of the animals will be 100% totally OK being ignored for this long every once in a long while (will be bringing the dog because it just makes more sense). The cat will have to try kibble for the first time in her spoiled princess life and get over it.
Will the guinea and duck eggs be ok not being turned for this long?
Will the chicks be ok in the incubator from the 8th to the 9th (maybe longer by a night since the trip is so condensed and we may need to stay the night in a hotel if my boyfriend gets too tired being the only driver)?
Will the hatch be ok being interrupted to turn the other eggs?
Where should I have the humidity?
Will the baby chicks running around be enough to turn the other eggs?
Anything else?
The next few weeks to months here are going to be crazy here but wow exciting! Can't wait to have baby duckies again!!
