"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[chickenbelle]

I contacted him about one of those incubators, too. There is a 4 week wait at this point. I haven't gone ahead yet and handed over the dough and told him to get after it. Going to the DeRidder swap this weekend, so maybe I can sell some chicks to help cover it.

 

[Chris Herzog]

I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEALOUS !!!!!!!!!!! The heck with jewlery, give me that bator.

Congrats!!! LOOKS GREAT !!!!!!!!

I remember a time not so long ago when there was a lady on here dead set against incubators.....I wonder what ever happen to her! LOL....

Chris

 

[Chris Herzog]

Look what came in the mail yesterday! It was holding temperature within a tenth of a degree after only an hour of being plugged in! I can open it up, mess with my eggs, and it is back up to temperature withing minutes! The quality is absolutely FANTASTIC! Words cannot express how pleased I am with Hatchcraftincubators.com The incubator is very heavy and well made. It even has a power strip inside for me to plug autoturners into it.

The got him to make me one with drawers so I can hand turn my goose eggs. The drawers can be removed and replaced with autoturners for when I hatch my chicken eggs. I was going to wait until after my geese stop laying to buy the autoturners, but I think the hubby felt sorry for me after losing the lamb so he order three of them for me last night

Some ladies like jewlery, and some like incubator equipment!

Don't mind my mess! I destroyed that foam packaging trying to get this thing unwrapped!






I already have a few goose eggs in here. I will be setting at least 8 more goose eggs when I get home. Hopefully these will all be fertile! It's my goal to have this puppy filled up by the weekend!

A coworker of mine has a bunch of Peking ducks, and she wanted to do an experiment. She is giving me 3 dozen eggs. One dozen will be straight out of the nest (no washing, refrigerating, etc.), the second dozen will be washed but kept at room temperature, and the third will be straight from the nest and into the refrigerator without any washing. We want to see just how much these things effect hatch rates. I'm always up for an experiment! Especially when it involves the possibility of free ducklings as my reward

Nice! What ever happened to the refrigerator idea?

Oh on the ducks...10 -15 each!

Thanks,
Chris

 

[catdaddyfro]

Morning all! Where is Jeff today????

I need some genetics help. I can handle most genetics issues, but I'm not sure about the lavender gene. I have three Easter Eggers that are around 13 weeks old. Two were easily identifiable because they were black and white barred--one with much more white than the other. I knew they were a pair. The third was lavender. Until about two weeks ago when it really grew in its feathers it had looked solid lavender--now it is obvious it is also barred. I can't tell by the EE type comb on it so I don't know if it is male or female. Comb is very red which makes me lean towards cockerel...but it is much more lavender than white which makes me question pullet.

Can someone tell me how the lavender works with the barring genetics?

I also am not sure how the lacing genetics completely play out. While I was searching for a lav orp roo, I had my girls in with a gold laced wyandotte. We hatched out several of those eggs for our own laying pens. All are rose combed like the roo, but are either black or gold/dark brown chipmunked with dark eyeliner. The gold ones all have the larger combs. Will these later show lacing like their roo or be solid like their lav orp mother? I looked for a forum on lacing but couldn't find anything that would really help. I am assuming the blacks will carry the lavender gene, but will the golds?

That lavender gene is bout as complicated as Buff is or maybe worse LOL I know just enough to confuse myself so I would surely get someone else in trouble with my thoughts there, especially on EE's not such a good subject for genetic studies I find they are a hobgoblin of mixes to begin with IMO too much instability in color background on such, EE's are just mixes of some sort of blue egg-layer times whatever I have lot of them here. Factory/hatchery mutts, LOL is what most Americanas offered by hatcheries are. You can only get pure stuff(colors) from a breeder that has repeatedly bred over and over for that particular variety(s).

Jeff

not much help am I today,LOL

 

[Gracie9205]

Nice! What ever happened to the refrigerator idea?

Oh on the ducks...10 -15 each!

Thanks,
Chris

I tried the refrigerator with the incukits, and it was a total disaster! I couldn't get the temperature any lower than about 118 degrees!

I tried 2 different incukits, and had the same problem with both. I figured my sebbie eggs were too valuable to experiment with, so I just bit the bullet and ordered this one! So glad I did!

I contacted him about one of those incubators, too. There is a 4 week wait at this point. I haven't gone ahead yet and handed over the dough and told him to get after it. Going to the DeRidder swap this weekend, so maybe I can sell some chicks to help cover it.

It took about 4 weeks for mine, but it was worth the wait! He asks for a $200 deposit to start on it with the rest due when he ships. GO FOR IT!

 

[chickenbelle]

That lavender gene is bout as complicated as Buff is or maybe worse LOL I know just enough to confuse myself so I would surely get someone else in trouble with my thoughts there, especially on EE's not such a good subject for genetic studies I find they are a hobgoblin of mixes to begin with IMO too much instability in color background on such, EE's are just mixes of some sort of blue egg-layer times whatever I have lot of them here. Factory/hatchery mutts, LOL is what most Americanas offered by hatcheries are. You can only get pure stuff(colors) from a breeder that has repeatedly bred over and over for that particular variety(s).

Jeff

not much help am I today,LOL

This lav EE in question was a pure Lav Ameraucana roo over a Barred Rock if I'm correct...but could have been a cuckoo maran. The bird just looks really barred and not cuckoo to me.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEALOUS !!!!!!!!!!! The heck with jewlery, give me that bator.


Congrats!!! LOOKS GREAT !!!!!!!!

I remember a time not so long ago when there was a lady on here dead set against incubators.....I wonder what ever happen to her! LOL....

Chris

You are soooooooo right. That was ME !!!!!!!!!!! I totally blame people around me. If people would stop calling me and wanting babies, then I could put up the little bitty incubator that I have. But they keep calling and they want baby chicks, poults, geese and peas. I'm a product of my environment. Peer pressure is on the rise.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Well hello everyone, long time no see huh? Sorry about that.
A lot has happened since the beginning of this year. I finished HS and now I'm working at a very nice private equestrian center as a riding instructor. And I'll train a green horse every now and then.
I don't have a bunch of chickens anymore, I'm down to one old rooster.
That's about it, just thought I'd give y'all an update. Haha I'm like a ghost, man.
Oh and I need to get that list on the first post removed because there is no way to edit it and I have about 50 messages in my inbox with people asking to be added to it!

Hey good to see you check in Sassy! glad you have your "dream job"! maybe you can ask one of the mods to delete your list.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Look what came in the mail yesterday! It was holding temperature within a tenth of a degree after only an hour of being plugged in! I can open it up, mess with my eggs, and it is back up to temperature withing minutes! The quality is absolutely FANTASTIC! Words cannot express how pleased I am with Hatchcraftincubators.com The incubator is very heavy and well made. It even has a power strip inside for me to plug autoturners into it.

The got him to make me one with drawers so I can hand turn my goose eggs. The drawers can be removed and replaced with autoturners for when I hatch my chicken eggs. I was going to wait until after my geese stop laying to buy the autoturners, but I think the hubby felt sorry for me after losing the lamb so he order three of them for me last night

Some ladies like jewlery, and some like incubator equipment!

Don't mind my mess! I destroyed that foam packaging trying to get this thing unwrapped!






I already have a few goose eggs in here. I will be setting at least 8 more goose eggs when I get home. Hopefully these will all be fertile! It's my goal to have this puppy filled up by the weekend!

A coworker of mine has a bunch of Peking ducks, and she wanted to do an experiment. She is giving me 3 dozen eggs. One dozen will be straight out of the nest (no washing, refrigerating, etc.), the second dozen will be washed but kept at room temperature, and the third will be straight from the nest and into the refrigerator without any washing. We want to see just how much these things effect hatch rates. I'm always up for an experiment! Especially when it involves the possibility of free ducklings as my reward

Two words: AWESOME!
Jealous! (yes I am)!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

You are soooooooo right. That was ME !!!!!!!!!!!

I totally blame people around me. If people would stop calling me and wanting babies, then I could put up the little bitty incubator that I have. But they keep calling and they want baby chicks, poults, geese and peas. I'm a product of my environment. Peer pressure is on the rise.

No scovies?

And no blame on ME, of course!

I'm no enabler! (that would be JEFF)!