Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

[MysteryChicken]

Thank you. If not I can always hatch more.

You're welcome.
Very true.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Another egg no good, that leaves two with clearly defined air sacks, but no pips yet. Fingers crossed, hopes fading.

 

[Sally PB]

I worked with a guy who often said, "Hope in one hand, $#!+ in the other. Which one fills up first?"

Still,

 

[NagemTX]

I worked with a guy who often said, "Hope in one hand, $#!+ in the other. Which one fills up first?"

Still,

A famous saying of my dad's! May have come from his time in the army.

 

[Sally PB]

I found myself saying it too. I'd say, "Think the surfaces will be any good on this file this time?"
"I hope so..."
"Well, hope in one hand..."
You talk like the people around you.

Anyway, hoping your chicks do well, @U_Stormcrow.

 

[Sally PB]

Any news?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Yes, lost one in the the brooder box, no idea how, laid ot flat like he was stepped on. Other two in incubator have done nothing. I will give up on them tommrow and not hatch in the barn again.

 

[Karoo permaculture]

Finally made it, im here, read every single post. I am glad you decided to split the hobby farm off from the thread, and im glad to see some promising progress

 

[Sally PB]

Sorry to hear that.

Do you think dust was the problem?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Dust? Maybe. Mold/Mildew? Possibly. Whatever my source of bacterial contamination in incubation? Defnitely. Also, when there is a distressed bird, I can't hear it - meaning opportunities to intervene are limited to just a few times a day