New Englanders! Much ado about New England!

[fhdogs]

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Oh that's great! I just registered. Thank you!

 

[fhdogs]

Anyone else thinking of attending?

 

[spook]

cowchick, thank you , I sent that to the Poultry club in case anyone would be interested.
It is a super interesting site, I've enjoyed reading through it.

I took this day before yesterday, the snow is less now from the rain. We are catching up with you Ticks!

 

[Reinbeau]

Good to see, Spook, hopefully hubby will be able to get to the stone dust piles up north so he can bring bucketfulls down to me (they were still buried last time we were up there).

 

[spook]

It is slowly going, but don't be fooled by the bare ground...one wrong step and you will go through the frost!
Its a positive sight to see the drilled well running over ! It just rolls out of the pipe.

I'm so excited, we have a peeper and the start of a chip in an egg this morning! Wooohoooo! I am so excited!
Not sure how this is going to work, but others have had good luck with the egg carton method of hatching and this is what I'm trying. Only thing is, its day 19. So far only one- (probably a roo on top of that!)

 

[omelette'smom]

Okay....my interest is peaked! where would I read up on the egg-carton method??

 

[Reinbeau]

omelette'smom :

Okay....my interest is peaked! where would I read up on the egg-carton method??

My interest is piqued, too, but more by whatever you're talking about - what egg-carton method? What did I miss (which isn't hard right now, believe me, I'm missing a lot).​

 

[ticks]

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We got snow today. Made roads bad. But it was gone by noon!

 

[spook]

Ahh, Spring in New England Ticks, poor mans fertilizer. We should be getting a good spring one too, but hopefully that itsy bitsy amount is all we will get. Yesterday morning we had beads of white precip.
With the egg crate method its interesting, it keeps the little ones from rolling everyone, and also they "zip" quicker because they wont roll and loose traction.
I kept the eggs in egg carton tray top, tipping them frontwards and backwards making sure the pointy end is down. On day 18 place them in the egg carton and stop turning.

Apparently it gives you better survival rates.
Seeings this is my first hatch in this incubator, mailed eggs that I did not allow to settle, I was so excited over getting them in the incubator! The rate seems to be 5 out of 14.
Removed only 2 that died early - then I'm not sure about the rest. I know a few were dark, but may have died later. I didn't pull any eggs out after the last culling.

 

[omelette'smom]

Thanks......I had visions of a dozen eggs sitting on the counter with chicks hatching one by one. It was wishful thinking on my part that it was that easy! When I "get permission" I will hatch some.