OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

[FinelyFeathered]

contact the Ohio poultry association. Or, here's a state testers #
Candy is her name. 1 614-580-8228

Thank you Minihorse!! I will get in touch with her!! )

 

[cabinchicky]

FF can you please post pics????

 

[cabinchicky]

Well I lost my blue Cochin who had crop issue. she had been growing and gaining weight but yet still she passed. Such a sweet girl she was, good cuddler. so bummed.

 

[cbradio]

cabinchick, sorry to hear that. Stories like yours make me sad I don't have better relationships with my hens.


Question for all: I am having bad incubation problems. I can't seem to get the humidity correct for central ohio's natural humidity.

I have been incubating dry (chicken eggs dry, duck eggs w/cooling and misting) with unacceptable results.

What do people in central ohio, or for all of ohio for that matter use as their incubation parameters?

Thanks,

Cam

 

[cabinchicky]

Thank you Cam. She was only cuddle bug I had some just let me pet or hold them for a short time. The rest are like nope, nope, run!Hope you get you moisture issue resolved.

 

[minihorse927]

cabinchick, sorry to hear that. Stories like yours make me sad I don't have better relationships with my hens.


Question for all: I am having bad incubation problems. I can't seem to get the humidity correct for central ohio's natural humidity.

I have been incubating dry (chicken eggs dry,  duck eggs w/cooling and misting) with unacceptable results.

What do people in central ohio, or for all of ohio for that matter use as their incubation parameters?

Thanks,

Cam

I've been incubating dry and hatching dry for both duck and chicken with a 90%hatch rate. Guineas I incubated dry and hatched dry but chicks were sticky and had to be helped so those should of had more humidity as they were to dry in the shell. I'm hatching chocolate orps and cochins, ancona ducks and call ducks

 

[lil urbanette]

I really doesn't surprise me. I waiting for day when one needs a permit to hold a yard or garage sale. I am sorry to say this but our government is a sad sad thing. Pay into it over n over yet they keep finding ways to get more from us. Um really ppl, u need pay cuts not tax the rest of us to death My gears are really grinding today, I think I need a second beer.

We have to have a permit for yard sales here. And there's a limit to how many you can have each year !! I didn't realize you have to have a permit to sell fresh eggs is that just for swaps and farmers markets?

 

[cbradio]

When you say they were too sticky in the shell, do you mean you needed more humidity during incubation or at the hatch?

Thanks,

Cam

 

[minihorse927]

When you say they were too sticky in the shell, do you mean you needed more humidity during incubation or at the hatch?

Thanks,


Cam

more during hatch.

 

[big medicine]

We have to have a permit for yard sales here. And there's a limit to how many you can have each year !! I didn't realize you have to have a permit to sell fresh eggs is that just for swaps and farmers markets?

The way I understand it, you can legally sell eating eggs at your place. It's when you leave your property that the other rules kick in.

Now what I have done on occasion since my near run in at the farmers market, is take a cooler of "mixed hatching eggs" to our local swap. They have been refrigerated, and sell for the same price as the eating eggs I sell back at the house. They apparently fall under a different category. At least nobody with a clip board has materialized to tell me other wise, yet. (I always make sure everybody knows what they are getting, and why.)

I think they have those same garage sale laws in town here too. Never have figured why people would choose to live in town on purpose.