October-hatch-along 2019

[Maiahr]

1 out of 33 hatched! I will leave it in the incubator for another 12 hours (in total 24) before I take it out..

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Arr yes... I have worked for a.company with that mind set. Glad to have left it

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

1 out of 33 hatched! I will leave it in the incubator for another 12 hours (in total 24) before I take it out..

Yay!

 

[FortCluck]

I'm at 11 days today. Only 10 more days till hatch. I love this app because it shows me what's going on each day with the chicks.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I'm at 11 days today. Only 10 more days till hatch. I love this app because it shows me what's going on each day with the chicks.

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That is so cool! What's it called?

 

[FortCluck]

That is so cool! What's it called?

Hatchabatch... It can sync to your calendar too so it gives you reminders to candle your eggs. So simple for someone like me who forgets things easily.

 

[FortCluck]

I think their coffee tastes burned. I said this for years and now quality studies show many people think this. Luckily I live in the Pacific Northwest and we have plenty of independents and small chains instead of SB on every corner.

My husband drinks Starbucks coffee, but he makes it in our own drip system, he never buys it at Starbucks. He's a coffee connoisseur he can tell you every coffee he's ever drank and it's over 100+ flavors from around the world.

I like Starbucks iced passion tea, it's amazing but I usually only get it on hot days when I've done a lot of work on the farm.

 

[FortCluck]

Aahh we don't like Starbucks here.. they have a very discriminating policy against normal people.

Is this a table? I am still not sure what you mean by chicken tractor but I'll survive. I would like to see the end result. I have these moveable cages, but they are not proof against wild animals and we have lots here including rats and polecats . And a fox snuck some of my neighbor's 4-month chicks last night.

And I have at least one chick that hatched! Pip last night, as I said more than 24 hours earlier than planned and I hear it chirping now. I can't see it though And since there were a few pips I don't want to open the incubator.. After this hatch I may need to remodel this incubator to have a transparent lid.

A chicken tractor is a movable run that sometimes has a coop and you move it across the yard so that the chickens get new fresh grass everyday...

My chicken tractor is a complete shelter and run all in one. I'm able to move this with my husband's help across our grass/yard to different areas so that the chickens are in a different location every couple days. We will be putting wheels on it so that I will be able to just do it myself and then I can take the wheels off when it's in its location.

We are just testing them with our meat chickens, we are going to be making another one for turkeys but I'm sure we will have to tweak these first before we make one for them.

We are making quail cages too for mating quail. We are using PVC board for those and setting them on 5 foot high tables so they're at eye level.

We are trying to make everything movable because we will be moving in about a year to more land.

 

[john_wrightson2003]

@FortCluck How are the twins doing?

 

[FortCluck]

@FortCluck How are the twins doing?

Really good. I was going to take a video and post it tonight. It's crazy how fast chicks grow in an egg.