Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Sueg4332]

how do the eggs turn in that old bator??????

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Just so you all know, I woke my husband up with a full-on cackle because apparently when I read, I have a voice in my head. It said something weird and stopped my eyes, which went back up to re-read...There is finally a reason I can cite for why I don't like to call them 'bators now. I couldn't say why, prior...I just preferred the whole word.

Oh, dear...

I sat 17 eggs... chicken eggs, anyways.
I noticed you all have issues with keeping your bator closed, but my problem is...
I KEEEEEEP ADDING IN MORE EGGS!!! I have to chant, "DON'T PUT IN ANYMORE, DON'T PUT IN ANYMORE, STOOOOOOOOOP PUTTTTING MORE EGGGS INNN!!! YOU ALREADY HAVE WWAAAAAAAAY TOOO MANY!!!!"
Yeeeeah, I hatch too many, and can't get rid of 'em. I hatched like, 125 button quail since like feb 29th or so. I've sold... like 20. Tops. Is 1 an 2 dollars too much?
Hey, does anyone know why my eggs would die between days 12-16? And right before hatching? If I get them past the 16th day, they're generally fine.
And I usually only loose quail eggs before hatch day. It isn't my incubator either, because it wrks great and my quail hatch rates increase by 10% every hatch. Last time was 60%!
Can you enter an incubator/hatcher design in the 'ingenious inventions' contest?

I'm afraid I'm guilty of the same thing.

One of my girls laid the prettiest egg yesterday - I just had to slip it into the incubator!
And, yes, you can enter an incubator/hatcher in the inventions contest.

I have a prayer request if you all don't mind- I am experimenting a way to get rid of Mycoplasma gallisepticum in my flocks, one of the ways to do it is dip the eggs in a bowl of antibiotic water, and hope that the antibiotics destroys the disease before it infect the embryos. That way I can rebuild my farm with MG clean chicks from the infected stock. Please pray that God will allow the experiment to work. I have dipped all the eggs that I have set, to be on the safe side. I will have the chicks swab tested as soon they hatch.
Many thanks!

I am so sorry that you are dealing with this again. My heart breaks for you, and I will certainly pray that your experiment succeeds.

ANYWHOOS: I am sorry for being such a slacker. I am so busy with stuff, and just found out an old-old friend of mine lost his battle with cancer.

I am so sorry for your loss.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

48 hours:

 

[1muttsfan]

SCG, just had a wierd need to confess - and not to BF who may not exactly understand

There are 666 posts I need to read since Saturday.
....maytbe I shouldnt read them.
ANYWHOOS: I am sorry for being such a slacker. I am so busy with stuff, and just found out an old-old friend of mine lost his battle with cancer.
To anyone who has PM'd me, I REALLY am trying to get caught up. Really.
Back to work.

Laree, so sorry to hear about your friend

And - Laree's Back

 

[ambrosia]

This is so hard...! I want to sit and enjoy everyone's posts and pictures, but I am trying to get 55 gallons of maple sap cooked down to syrup...

So, no one say anything cool, funny, sad, nonsensical, or otherwise enlightening until my maple syrup is done.

Thank you.


HAHAHA

 

[ChestnutRidge]

There are six entries so far in the Most Ingenious Chicken Design Contest. You can see the submissions here. Entries will be accepted through the rest of this week until the end of the day Saturday, March 24th.

This is a great opportunity to let everyone else in on the brilliant and often simple solutions you have found for common issues so that the best practices prevail for the the benefit of chickens and their fanciers everywhere!!!

 

[ambrosia]

Spangled ~~~ if I can enter it, it would be fun to do..!

Someone tell me how and I will give it a whirl....

 

[SunnyDawn]

"Mark"ing my spot.

 

[CayuseRanch]

Gahhhh! Trying not to panic got home and thermometers said 98! It has been storming which caused the power to flicker so the space heater was off and the house may be a little cooler. Put my new brinsea spot thermometer in and it read 97! I don't want to do too much and fry them, so I plugged one of the vent holes and turned the heater back on. How long till I should bump it up?

 

[Spangled]

I woke my husband up with a full-on cackle because apparently when I read, I have a voice in my head.