October-hatch-along 2019

[janiedoe]

It's called patience and perseverance. I honestly don't know where to find those items some days but we manage. I can only work 3 days at my job or chores start piling up. I've never attempted to sell 200. We had 50 point of lay RIR I sold this summer and folks were asking for more after they were gone. Praying it all works out. You see.... What happened was.... We have some pretty uh... Heartless... TSC employees. Ones who I have individually spoken with. They ALL have flocks of their own. I've attached a picture of how a *whole* brooder of 64 RIR were so severely impacted it took me two days to get them all well. Those were the third set for $0.25 each. The second set was a wonderful bantam/cochin assortment i am keeping and the first set was 147 black sex links I split with someone. The BSL were all in one brooder. A brooder that previously had ducks in it, and they were wallowing in a mush of duck and their own fecal matter mixed pine shavings and water. Had coccidiosis. We lost about 15 from the third batch. Otherwise all are thriving. The sex links ended up being a mix of BSL, Dominique, Barred Rock, black OEGB.

some days whenever the sun comes up I just want to put my head under the pillow and cry but by the grace of God I keep going. I am a firm believer that if these birds have not been purchased at $0.25 a piece from careless employees who simply did not want to do their jobs that they would have died a very painful excruciating death. It is what it is.

Hope you report that to corporate!

 

[janiedoe]

I agree. You surel

You're an amazing person

I agree with that!

 

[igorsMistress]

I have a jonoel8-48. I hatched start of september and had no issues with the humidity, filled base with water and just added an extra wet cloth in to bring it up a touch. But this time the humiditys just not happening. Going off surface area of base, is about 95% size of incubator, but thats under hatch tray so that would interfer alittle... I can't get it to stay over 50%. I have 2 wet cloths in there, as flat as I'm willing to put without them touching eggs. Would it chill the eggs to have the cloths layed under them abit?

You dont want the eggs to get wet so I wouldn't do that. I'm sorry, I've never used that brand of incubator so I'm unfamilar.

 

[igorsMistress]

Chick 2

 

[FortCluck]

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Chick 2

 

[BlueBaby]

@igorsMistress It look's like my NN Roger is doing a good job! One more of your egg's left to hatch!

 

[Don 27]

It's called patience and perseverance. I honestly don't know where to find those items some days but we manage. I can only work 3 days at my job or chores start piling up. I've never attempted to sell 200. We had 50 point of lay RIR I sold this summer and folks were asking for more after they were gone. Praying it all works out. You see.... What happened was.... We have some pretty uh... Heartless... TSC employees. Ones who I have individually spoken with. They ALL have flocks of their own. I've attached a picture of how a *whole* brooder of 64 RIR were so severely impacted it took me two days to get them all well. Those were the third set for $0.25 each. The second set was a wonderful bantam/cochin assortment i am keeping and the first set was 147 black sex links I split with someone. The BSL were all in one brooder. A brooder that previously had ducks in it, and they were wallowing in a mush of duck and their own fecal matter mixed pine shavings and water. Had coccidiosis. We lost about 15 from the third batch. Otherwise all are thriving. The sex links ended up being a mix of BSL, Dominique, Barred Rock, black OEGB.

some days whenever the sun comes up I just want to put my head under the pillow and cry but by the grace of God I keep going. I am a firm believer that if these birds have not been purchased at $0.25 a piece from careless employees who simply did not want to do their jobs that they would have died a very painful excruciating death. It is what it is.

Ugh geez poor things. Too bad buying them supports their chicken selling business. People don't care they are just trying to make a buck .

 

[Don 27]

I use to buy birds that were in need of help. Raise them up in a healthy happy home. Then I would humanely kill and eat them. I stopped because I was worried about my new free ranging red jungle fowl picking up a disease from them . You never know what a chicken could be carrying when you buy from a private seller.

 

[igorsMistress]

Chick # 3. Lockdown for next batch tomorrow.

 

[SSSophie]

I use to buy birds that were in need of help. Raise them up in a healthy happy home. Then I would humanely kill and eat them. I stopped because I was worried about my new free ranging red jungle fowl picking up a disease from them . You never know what a chicken could be carrying when you buy from a private seller.

You are 1000% correct. I have learned the hard way since August. Now I have since purchased some longtails and intend on breeding them. They were FAR from cheap.. so no more TSC. Besides, they provided me with all of the breeding stock I could have wanted - we have incubators so now it is just a process of adding bloodlines and selective breeding which I will be doing with the hatchery OEGB self blues, OEGB Wheatons, cochins, silkies, and frizzles. Im also breeding showgirls as soon as my oldest silkie starts paying rent. We already bred Austra-Whites from their april stock. <3 Addicted to the hatch!