***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[faerielady]

Btw, I used p&b's 'bator, a Hova Bator 1588 with turners. Replaced the heating element before I used it at her suggestion, and she helped me calibrate it to the proper temp. With her help, I got 15 EEs to hatch (I only set 19, so that was great). It was *after* that when I had issues.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I was considering using sand in the nesting boxes of my LF... I wonder if that would work?

Oh! Robin's cochins are *most definitely* laying...

That would work also.

~Aspen

 

[Ksane]

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Kae, I've got sand in the run and as soon as I get my butt in gear and go get another load I'm going to have play sand in the coop. I love it and it's so much easier to clean. Just rake it around. I think sand would work fine for nesting boxes.
Yea, I'm back down to getting just 3 or 4 eggs a day now out of 12 supposed layers . Robin taught her Cochins to lay BIG eggs, too lol Robin, how'd you do that??

 

[faerielady]

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Their eggs are *huge*.

 

[Ksane]

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Their eggs are *huge*.

lol! I know! I always felt they needed one of those donut things to sit on afterwards

 

[Kassaundra]

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Nice photos! My fav's are the last two, of Oreo. He's purty!

I agree. Great pics.

We need to go shooting sometime!

That would be awesome.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Ah, I see!

~Aspen

 

[Kassaundra]

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Thank you, I've heard of blister beetles but never saw one. I've heard how evil they are and if you squish them they give you a rash, I need to do something to control them quickly before they decide to live here!!!!!

 

[Kassaundra]

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Thank you, sorry about your foot, I know it's hard to stay off and keep it elevated, but if you don't let it heal it will take more time to heal, or even could make it worse.

 

[Kassaundra]

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Oh man, I forgot how GOOD the Okies are at enabling...

I don't have an incubator for 2 reasons. 1 is that I had 15 hatch out of... 3 tries, over 90 eggs. Those 15 were from p&b's easter egger flock. One batch went the way of a curious cat (i.e. the entire incubator hit the floor). One batch, the entire incubator full failed. I know it wasn't the 'bator because p&b successfully hatched before and after me using the same 'bator.

Then I got hoodwinked in the course of "buying" a bigger 'bator by a con man (yes, I can say that, he's been convicted AND he cons people out of money for things he'll never provide AND I have a judgment against him), and completely lost the desire to hatch. Now I'm waffling about it, but I dunno if I want to set myself up for failure again.

If I would have just bought the birds that I wanted instead of trying to hatch them, I'd've saved myself a ton of money.

Or you could get a silkie, isn't that the same as an incubator?