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

[mbleily]

that is not normal. My niece (5 years old) used to do that . (40 years ago) Even worse yet he liked the animals after after they were dead. she drowned the guina pig I buried it. She dug it up, not once but 5 times. I spanked her little a-- good She left it buried. She killed the gold fish. Fed them milk. That one I let her get by with. Well one day I caught her holding the ducks under the water. Told her not to do that very sternly... When you turned your back she'd do it again.... Well I lost it decide to show her what it felt like. (I held her her under water till she blew bubbles) She never did it again.... Child have to learn there is a consequence to their actions.
And the girl loves me to death to this day. She would rather been with me than her mother when small. Spanking and all....Yes I believe in spanking in children and choke chain on dogs. Most of the dogs I groom are spoil rotten dogs and need to go to boot camp..... Done

I am with you on the spanking and I use a pinch chain on my dog.

I believe your niece wants to be with you because you give her boundaries. Most kids want to know the rules. If you don't give them rules they really don't respect you. And my dog loves his pinch collar. He sits and puts his head up grinning at me while I put it on. I admit he is a strong willed dog so he knows with me the only way he goes out is with the pinch collar. He is only 2 yrs so we are hoping as he ages he will get better about being off leash.

 

[karimw]

I'm ON it!

Got you covered!

I will be available all weekend and into the first of next week to provide assistance to anyone in need of a slap to temporarily calm down impending hysteria....

Mahonri --

Karimw --

Anyone else?

Whew! Thanks I feel better.

Got eggs in lock down I have dark eggs or dull flashlight can't see thru olive egg or the sorted marans eggs. so I think 80 or 81 eggs in the 2 bators. Really hope my batams hatch. I'll be happy with 50%....
Happy hatching Testing the new Brinsea 20eco. stuffed with sorted marans eggs 24 cuckoo, Bcm, wheaten I think.
Off to feed the group of animals outside. Have a outside breeding mare to see if she can go home Hope I hope.
And feed straving chickens
SueG
P I really want a big incabator Like the Brinsea. any suggestions on which to buy?

That is quite the horse you have in your avatar!

The Sheriff just got the new Brinsea Cabinet incubator.... as always, I'm envious... but I don't own acreage that I live on, nor a nice big barn etc....

Only $850.00 (for one)

I have the acreage, but now sales ability. If I owned something like that I'd need to be able to sell what I hatch!

 

[wolftracks]

I don't know if this is because they are shipped eggs or not? This is my first hatch since last summer and I am still kindof new at this. I do know that my local eggs hatch much better than the shipped ones but then I see people on here that have 100% hatches on shipped eggs.

Has anyone made an incubator out of a styrofoam cooler? I tried to make one last night because I thought it might be nice for hatching only when I have staggered hatches. I have a couple of eggs that are a few days behind the others. What I did was cut the top off and install a 5x7 picture frame glass for a viewing window then I cut a hole for an extention cord to go inside and plugged into the extension cord is a light bulb adapter and I put a 25 watt bulb in there. I cut holes in the sides for air and I am running about 105 on temperature. So I cut a few more air holes and it didnt cool down. I probably need a smaller bulb but they don't sell any lower wattage bulbs than 25 that will fit in a standard light socket. I thought about getting a night light but it says no larger than 4 watts....

Any suggestions?

Oh and I am so excited to be seeing hatching chick pictures. This is my favorite part!!!

Adding to what Sunny said.You need the thermostate now. You can buy a cheapy at HD or Lowes for less than 10 bucks. They are made for hot water heaters. Make sure that you connect your light source to the thermostat so the light will turn off when it reaches the correct temp. Leave a 1/4 to 1/2 space behind the thermostat when you place it on the wall of the cooler and get it as close to the bulb as you can without touching it. If it isn't close you'll get too big of a temp swing.


I was a 3 year old brat at my ggrandfather's dairy in Oklahoma. I loved going there and spent a couple of days when my brother was born. I was terrified of a rooster???? Now they are my favorites. Anyway he had hands that lived in small houses on his property. One of them had a daughter my age and we spent one day wrecking havac. First there was a calf tied to a fence that was just bawling. The momma was across the river. It was a narrow section, but river none the less. We decided to turn the calf loose so he could get to his mommy. The calf headed for water and my great grandfather and a couple of his men flew on horseback to rescue the calf from drowning. He was fine, but I got a lecture and a butt whipping and we were both sent to bed. After the nap, we got together again. We didn't want to hurt anything, but there were calves everywhere and we wanted to pet them. Went into one of the barns and there's this cute little calf and we decide to climb in and pet it. That little bull calf wanted nothing to do with us. We were luck he was now any bigger, cause he kicked the crap out of us. I can still remember how I was affraid I wouldn't be able to get out. He kicked my leg and OMG!!!!!!!!!! So he's making noise and we're crying and here comes my ggma running. I mean we were able to really move. Must have been all ove 5 minutes and we were already in trouble. These were my step ggparents and my grandpa still had a sort of German/Okie accent. He says "did you climb in with that little bull?" "No grandpa?" "are you lying to me?" "No grandpa." "Then WAY is you leg bleeding and you have a hoof mark on your leg?" I looked down and blood was pouring. My grandma snatched us both up and cleaned and bandaged legs and we got no dessert. Worse thing in the world, cause my grandma made boysenberry and cherry pies, because they were my favorites.

Three year olds that come in my house learn to take care of animals not hurt them. Hurt one, you're outta here and I don't care what your momma says. Been there done that. We just start them as babes, but if someone shows with a mean kid, I'll try and show they a nice way of doing things and if it doesn't click, watch them or keep them in a area they can't to any harm. Sometimes you just have to be unavailable to make sure no one is going to show up and bring the damger of an animal getting hurt and God forbid, a kid getting hurt by an animal protecting itself.

Sue you are so right about training. I may not have been able to be trusted around valves, but even as a little girl I could out train most adults when it came to dogs. I was getting paid at 12 to train dogs that no one could get to work. I was even paid with my first SQ GSD that I used in conformation, Junior Showmanship and Obedience. All started with my getting one for free out of the paper and the people had a Lab and a GSD. Both 4 months and they were affraid I was too young at 12, to take on a pup that was abused and scared of everything. My mom assured them I would have her working with me in a week. A week later they came to see her. She was happy, friendly and had gotten over her fear of riding in the car. Funny story about that later with a ride with my mom. Anyway they had an Irish Setter. I've owned these since and I don't care what anyone says, those dogs are dumb as dirt but when they get it they get it. They had spent a fortune on teaining and their dog was still a knucklehead. They started bringing him to me and after that, they got me lots of work from people who wanted to see a then 13 year old that could train. I only train my own now, but I do miss working with as many dogs as I used to. But I remember when Haltys came out. I've seen more dogs hurt with those than a choke. A quick snap and release is so much better than trying not to break the neck of a spinning dog. And even a pocket dog should be trained. Maybe not with a choke, but please!!!! Those little gremlins need to have some manners. Every dog I have owned, I trained. At the same time, I train kids with the dogs. Makes it easier. My kids when they were small could walk any dog I owned without a problem. Sometimes they had to reach up to hold a lead, but the dog knew to stick by that kid and if they gave a command that they were to obey it.

My cousin, who hated Chihuahuas almost as much as I do (Aunt raised them and showed and uck!) just got a rescue. She's one of those big chunky types and she fell in love with her. I have no idea why. We did an early Easter when my SIL's kids were here from Arkansas last month. None of my kids have pets. I take full responsibility for that. I was always dog showing and training and they got burnt out. So my cousin shows at my oldest daughter's house, who is close to a dog hater, doesn't want one in the house or even the yard, dog in tow. They had warned her that this dog hates small kids. House full of kids. After her having to crate or hold the dog and kids screaming when she growled or snapped, I said "hand me the leash." Went out 5 different times and worked with her and then showed my cousin what to do. She was amazing. The dog needs lots of work, but you can tell she's been jit, kicked, had things thrown at her and probably been clobbered by a kid. Makayla is a huge pest, but like the other kids in this family, she knows how to work our dogs. The dog was fine if an adult put her on her leash and Kayla grabbed the leash and started heeling her around the yard. She even climbed u for her to pet her and she could take the leash off, but not put it on. Reminds me I need to text my cousin and see if she's been doing what I taught her to do so I can have her do more.

 

[countrygirl911]

ok birds just cherped out side and my heart skipped a beat tinking that i have chriping from bator and then i realize i am at work and just the birds outside lol

 

[Cattitude]

Thirty eggs went into lockdown yesterday (Wednesday) at noon. This afternoon, two are pipping! I've had early hatches this year, even though I'm checking the temps with several thermometers and it appears to be spot-on in all incubators.

My internet is down at the moment so I'll be posting from my brother's computer when I'm over there. Hope everyone has a great hatch!

 

[BBAcres]

Sitting at work worried about the temp in my incubator. This is too much!! LOL hopefully my dad will be home soon to check it for me. He was not happy with me doing a dry hatch. I got a lecture last night about how he never hatched eggs like that and I'm crazy for reading it online and yada yada yada LOL. Bless him.

 

[Gvnam]

TWO OF MY CHICKS ARE HATCHING RIGHT NOW!
Early hatch??
They made pipped the shell and are breaking through as I speak. I can partially see their bodies and they are peeping!

 

[The Sheriff]

Correction: I only paid $750 for the Brinsea cabinet incubator. The day after I ordered mine, the 190 model went up to $850 because they now have the "cooling mode" which allows you to set it so the heat goes off for short periods of time. I didn't care about that feature anyway so I am quite happy saving $100! My four Cream Legbars due Saturday are in the hatching tray, 37 Icelandics, 1 Cream Legbar, and 9 Breda eggs are in the incubation trays on staggered hatch dates. My Brinsea Octagons are sold but I am keeping the Hovabator as a blow dry station for new chicks before they go into the brooder.

 

[chicken fever]

Ok guys n gals, first time Hatcher here! And I'm excited yet wiggin out all at once. I put my eggs in the Bator on the 17th at exactly 12:00pm. So is my hatch day tomorrow or Saturday? No pips yet but saw my speckled maran egg moving! Can't wait! Any advice on anything is VERY MUCH APPRECIATED! Happy hatching all!

 

[chick-among-us]

oh lordyI don't even have time to catch up on the posts today!! but I can tell ya I have the Marans popping like pop corn they started last night! So early for those! and AND the EE's and MY Am's from here are all hatching THEN there is Kari's and Johns nothing there yet...and of course nothing from my fluffy project eggs or Blue Am's in the sportsman...I used the hatching baskets modified a bit to fit my needs since I have line A's ,line B's, line As fluffy's all hatching in the same tray....sigh WHAT a DAY!! I have been going back and forth recording hatches and temps! they are fluctuating some..sold five birds makes a pen empty...always good...so fun watching the babies hatch...hope they ALL do...