Bahahahahaha I quite understand. Only I'm the one doing the hugging. Not strangers. But if I've seen you before, yes. haYesterday at work I was randomly hugged TWICE. I'm not a hugger, no touchy! Lol if you get a hug, you're a special person
I almost stabbed hugger number 2, wish I was exaggeratingif it was a tazer day she'd have gotten a shock and I wouldn't be a sweetheart mommy who needs a hug, I'd be the Cray Cray from the news!
She grabbed my shoulder from behind hanging out of an elevator cleaning,I was in a zone scrubbing, whipped me around and I was ready to save my self from whatever was trying to get me and was ready
I was on the news last week, I work downtown nights and apparently many state workers are channel 9 fans lol the lady had a smile so big it stopped me instantly from my rush of what's happening (and the fact it was a woman) but could have easily been another news story.
I know Southerners are super friendly, very social and very huggy lol but please, please, please- holler or say anything if coming up on a stranger! Make your presence known before smothering them in those F size bazookas!
PHOTO BOMBED BY A CHICKEN NUGGET!!! Lol!!! I only have 6 chicken nuggets and they are always coming up to the front of the enclosure to get belly rubs. So when I went to try and take a picture of the funny "do" on the chick in the back I happened to get this funny picture. Made me smile. The friendliest chicken nuggets ever.
And this is cart #1 of 3 carts of supplies to get our new chicken house started.
Its a little (lot) overwhelming right now.
I am sure in a couple of days I will be saying hip, hip, hooray!
NO NOBuggles! LOL
I incubate eggs, always fresh from my chickens tooshy. I read somewhere on here that this lady claimed eggs that she had refrigerated, she incubated and hatched healthy chicks! I thought surely not. I would think the cold would kill the live ability.... so i thought i would try it and see. I kept them in the fridge for a week.. and they did grow and hatch! But their condition was weak, slow to hatch and lived only a day. So I am not sure her claim is correct... BUT it MAY be my inability to regulate the temps good enough too... so I MAY try it again.. but not anytime soon. Hated seeing them die.
BUT, Forever... you placed eggs with your broody after they had been in the fridge? Must have been my bator then... and my own inability to get it right. If you got them to live then I know it was my own fault. Dang it all!!!
I have only hatched 9 total and thrown out 17 dead eggs.... so yeah, I really started too early this year. Sometimes I wish we used central air again... Cold outside, its cold inside!
I still have 64 in there so lets hope. My 9 are doing great though .I have noticed tho, that my hen who lays these HUGE green eggs... none of them so far have made it to hatch... Most of them have been hers I had to get rid of. Not sure why those in particular. I'm putting hers in the bator everytime she lays one tho... so hopefully this weather will warm up so its easier for me to keep this cheap bator the right temp.
Post # 105
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725829/turkeys-for-2013/100
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725829/turkeys-for-2013/1890#post_11075319
Update on the turkey eggs in the incubator................
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For those who are new to the thread or who may have forgotten about my little experiment, I have 10 turkey eggs in the incubator. 6 of those 10 were eggs that had been in my refrigerator for about 2 weeks. I decided to take them out of the refrigerator and place them in the incubator along with 4 other fresh turkeys eggs that were picked one day. Yesterday was the scheduled hatch day but the eggs started rocking, pipping, zipping and hatching on Monday (1 day early). The first eggs to hatch were the fresh eggs that were NOT in the refrigerator. However the refrigerated eggs were rocking and zipping. Tuesday morning, 1 more poult (fresh egg batch) had hatched. Tuesday evening, (7PM) the other 2 (fresh eggs - NOT the refrigerated eggs) all hatched. Around 8:00PM the first refrigerated egg was zipping open. I could see the poult's beak and he was trying to break out. At 10:00 PM the refrigerated egg/poult had hatched all the way and was 100% fine. Perfect hatch from the 1st refrigerated egg. So that made a total of 5 eggs that had hatched at that time. I couldn't see every refrigerated egg because the babies were all over the place. But the remaining refrigerated eggs that I could see appeared to be zipping still. I could see their beaks trying to break out.
When I left out for work this morning, there were still only 5 poults that had hatched. So, I still have 5 remaining refrigerated eggs in the incubator. When I get home and if the zipped eggs/poults have not hatched, I will help them out of their eggs. I have to take the hatched poults out and transfer them to their brooder. So either way, something has to be done about the zipped eggs.
So that is the update that I have so far on my experiment with hatching turkey eggs that had sat in my refrigerator for 2 weeks. Refrigerated turkey eggs DOhatch! wink.png
Post # 16084
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/160883/louisiana-la-yers-peeps/16080
Pic of some of the poults from the refrigerated eggs.
