New Mexico

[Colie <3]

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We're upper 90's I think we were supposed to hit 100 a day or so ago but I'm not sure we made it. Way too hot!!! It's only gonna get worse! So happy we finally scraped together enough money to get refrigerated air. Last summer all we have were evaporative coolers and once it broke into 90+ degree weather I was sweating to death even inside!

The windex bottle on my desk (inside, where it's cooled, in theory) has condensation......

Mercy lol At least on this thread we all understand dealing with the desert like hotness and wind! On other threads or talking to my friends back home they think I'm just complaining lol
I'd take semi-cool and damp compared to hot hot with no moisture. Something about me just flat out misses having grass!!

 

[Tikkijane]

Colie <3 :

Mercy lol At least on this thread we all understand dealing with the desert like hotness and wind! On other threads or talking to my friends back home they think I'm just complaining lol
I'd take semi-cool and damp compared to hot hot with no moisture. Something about me just flat out misses having grass!!

*nods* and water. And lots of trees........................ *sigh* The thing that gets me is the ~HOT~ wind. Cooler wind I don't mind- but when it's already 100 and blowing hotter, that's tough. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this next "storm" will actually bring us something.​

 

[Colie <3]

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*nods* and water. And lots of trees........................ *sigh* The thing that gets me is the ~HOT~ wind. Cooler wind I don't mind- but when it's already 100 and blowing hotter, that's tough. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this next "storm" will actually bring us something.

LOL I hear ya! When the wind blows and doesn't make you feel any better is such a let down. What irks me the most is the wind storms we get in El paso. Sand sand every where!! What I wouldn't give for an ocean or heck a lake!! Oh well at least we don't freeze to death for as many months as states further north. Definite trade off!

 

[dak]

Is anybody hatching anything?

I have 14 LF Lav Ameraucanas in the hatcher for blaundee due Tuesday and most have internally pippped already.

I also just set 15 Lavender/Self-blue bantam Cochin eggs.

 

[Colie <3]

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I was supposed to have some bantam lav ameraucanas hatch any day now but stupid me forgot to plug in the turner!! I noticed two days before lockdown. I had some developing but I'm really doubting they are going to hatch.

I'm bidding on a large combo auction for silkie, bantam favs, geese and peacock eggs right now. I hope I win them soo bad!!! I'm thinking of getting another brinsea to make sure I have room if I win. I suck soo bad at hatching lol I really want the octagon 40. (I think that's what it's called) since it has double the capacity of my 20 does. Also debating on getting the humidity pump. What's your input on that if you don't mind me asking? lol I'm jealous of your kick butt brinsea!

Question for everyone: I've heard of people using distilled water for the incubators. Why is that? So the humidity pump tubing doesn't get blocked up or is there another reason?

 

[dak]

Colie <3 :

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I was supposed to have some bantam lav ameraucanas hatch any day now but stupid me forgot to plug in the turner!! I noticed two days before lockdown. I had some developing but I'm really doubting they are going to hatch.

I'm bidding on a large combo auction for silkie, bantam favs, geese and peacock eggs right now. I hope I win them soo bad!!! I'm thinking of getting another brinsea to make sure I have room if I win. I suck soo bad at hatching lol I really want the octagon 40. (I think that's what it's called) since it has double the capacity of my 20 does. Also debating on getting the humidity pump. What's your input on that if you don't mind me asking? lol I'm jealous of your kick butt brinsea!

Question for everyone: I've heard of people using distilled water for the incubators. Why is that? So the humidity pump tubing doesn't get blocked up or is there another reason?

I have the humidity pump. It has a hard time keeping up with the desert air in the large 190 incubator. I do use distilled water because my well water has a ton of minerals that precipitate out and coats everything.​

 

[WriterofWords]

My quackers that are due June 1 or 2 are pipping today!

 

[jossanne]

I've got 5 that hatched last week, all mixed breeds. I've also got two standard cochin broodies sitting on about 12-15 eggs each that are on days 6 and 7. My sister called wanting chickens without having to do any of the work raising them to laying stage, so I'll get them a few months old and send them away to her house because I'm a nice sister.

She just wants a few for her grandkids to collect eggs when they come to visit. They just moved back to Virden, a little bit south of me on the other side of the mountains, and are living in their adobe shop while they build an adobe house to go with it, and have to work on a coop this summer so they're ready for these babies by August.

Fun story... last Monday I had two babies hatched, with 4 eggs still waiting. Tuesday morning I went out to check on them and there were still 4 intact eggs, but only 1 baby in the nest. The broody boxes are 10" or so from the ground, so if a baby gets out it can't get back up. I need to do something to fix that. Anyway... one of the babies had gotten out of the nest and it was stiff and cold. I was very sad because it looked like it was going to be splash. We were headed to town, so I got the little dead baby and put it in the bottom of a big plastic garbage bin to wait until we got home for me to bury it. Four hours later, we're home from town, and I hear desperate peeping. I headed toward the coop because I thought another baby had gotten out of the nest, and lo and behold, the little "dead" chick was in the garbage running around and peeping its head off. I guess the sun shining on the bin heated it up nicely inside and revived the nearly-dead chick. Her name is now Miracle, and she's not going to my sister's house.

That evening there were two eggs left that hadn't hatched, and I won't throw away an egg without checking in it to make sure the chick is dead, so I pipped a hole in the end of both eggs. One had died some time before, and one baby was moving around. So I put it back under mama, and a few hours later there was no progress and the chick was moving much less. I decided to hatch it myself, and picked it completely out of its shell and put it under mama. I decided it could die in the shell or have a chance out of the shell. That baby survived too, and after a couple of days it's just as active as the rest. This has been a fun hatch!

 

[dak]

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Miracle does seem appropriate. You will have to post a picture.

I help quite a few hatch if they are from shipped eggs. It seems to work just fine. Mainly, I just open from the top and have a look at the membrane. If it is too moist and veiny (not a real word I know,) I back off for a while. Otherwise, I peel it back and free the head and them let them sit in the reamining 2/3s of the shell til they kick free on their own.

 

[dak]

Frickn 4:40 in the morning and one of my Cochins boys is loudly proclaiming the day.