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[LoveMyChicklets]

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I am so glad they are working out well for you! I just love me geese, they have so much personality! I plan on starting up the incubator next month, so if Sam don't have chicks when you need them, just let me know. I can always throw some eggs in for you, as I will be hatching on and off all spring/summer.

Thanks Vicki!!!! I will definitely let you know!!!

Kathy

 

[SillyChicken]

Wow, nice job keyt!! How much yarn goes into making one of those?


So this morning my DH and I realized that yesterday was our 15th anniversary. We both thought the 26th was today..... how funny!

I sure hope this warming trend keeps going. The birds are finally venturing out from their coop during the day. Saturday I have to send some of the young roos to freezer camp so I hope it doesn't get cold again.

 

[RIRJen]

Good Morning!

Well, Sheldon was still working on getting out this morning. But really the hatch date is friday so I'm guessing that he/she will be out later tonight or tomorrow. I'm trying to keep myself from helping...but it's sooooo hard not to lol. I have had to help most of my chicks out from other hatches because with my old bator the humidity was poor and if I didn't help them they died.

I've got a great technique for it and have a 100% success rate with the ones I help. I got soooo tired of having healthy chicks not hatch because they couldn't get out. Sheldon had the membrane open a little bit more this morning but that's about it, although I know he/she has an outstanding and healthy set of lungs cause man can he/she Peep!

My daughter was like "Mommy I can hear Sheldon!!!". The other eggs are starting to really rock so I'm guessing Friday is going to be a very egg-citing (bwahahahaha) day for us

Oh, I did get a brooder set up finally LOL...I figured I needed to do it before I had a bator full of chicks and no where to put them!

 

[SillyChicken]

Congrats RIR... I helped my hens eggs too, I lost more when I left them with the hen, she seemed to smother them or something, so as soon as I heard peeping, I brought the egg in, and put it in a basket with a heating pad on low and a wet sponge in with the towel. It seemed to work ok. Once the chick was dry, 12 hrs, they were put out in the brooder with the rest of the chicks... After one of the hens seemed impatient about sitting on eggs, I took all the chicks and put them with her. She instantly became MOM hen, and did a great job with them.. I got about 30 chicks!

 

[keyt1969]

Thank you fifelake

Silly, it took about 17 regular skeins. Aric teases me it might have taken less had I not ripped it apart a few times lol. I'm really picky in my work. I'm a real perfectionist, especially if it's something I'm giving away, it's ordered or I'm going to sell it in a show. I can crochet anything, so usually when it says "advanced" on the pattern I don't blink. HA! Usually baby blankets are my thing but this one challenged me!
Now I'm going through all my scrap yarn and making "cancer caps" to use it up. It's so nice to do something easy for a change lol

 

[absoluteportal]

thank you

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Keyt, you do beautiful work!

 

[RIRJen]

My husband called me (I'm at work until 5pm) and I could hear peeping in the background!!!

He's like "I was sitting in the living room and I was thinking man those chicks are getting loud through their eggs...and then I got up and there's two running around like...well chickens...and they're bumping into all the other eggs" LMAO!

SO, I guess when I get home I'll have at least two chickies to play with! Good thing I picked up chick-start today!

Can anyone share with me thier preference on medicated and non-medicated starter feed and the positives and negatives they've experienced with both?
Thanks!

 

[Opa]

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Don't open your incubator to take out the hatched chicks until all the others have hatched. Opening it can stop the others from hatching.

 

[keyt1969]

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Jen,

The way it was explained to me, the medicated is really for those who hatch large amounts of chicks and plan to sell them for meat. The reason you sometimes see medicated more than non-medicated in stores is because ever since the massive "bird flu" epidemic, the non-medicated feed wasn't being sold as much. In fact, the lady that told me this runs the feed co-op in Mason and they don't sell the medicated because it's just not necessary. I only gave it to chicks for about 2 months, haven't bought it since.



Thanks Hillbilly Hen