Okies in the BYC The Original

[quenston]

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Woooooooooo Hoooooooo sure hope he gets him!!!

 

[quenston]

Was just thinking of all the different ways that you can get rid of coons and rememberd when my grandfather was alive he lived on the lake he would take fish guts and either pour anti-freeze over them and/ or smash a glass bottle in them. Just a rambeling thought!!!

 

[nnbreeder]

As long as the eggs don't freeze they will hatch after being kept in the fridge. Just bring them to room temp before putting in the incubator. A friend in Hawaii uses a wine cooler, it is a constant 69 deg. and a higher humidity then a fridge is.

 

[poultryand bees]

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How long can you "hold" eggs in the frig before hatching them?

 

[RonnieAtkeson]

Ive heard of others putting them in the fridge also but I just leave mine on the counter for up to 10 days. I usualy only turn once a day maybe twice. Sometimes I just put them in a top nest box in the coop until ive collected enough. I figure the hens dont turn them until they set on them so they should be fine.

 

[RonnieAtkeson]

The person with all the presale turkey poults has a -5 rating. That means 5 more negatives than possitives. The seller doesnt have a single + feedback, save your money. I thought the prices and quantities seemed way off.

 

[nnbreeder]

I just wanted to see if it would work the first time I did it. This old trailer gets too warm in the summer to store eggs on the counter as they start to devolop at 80 deg. and then they would cool too much at night weakening the embryo.

 

[poultryand bees]

Apparently, I have a guinea hen setting on eggs somewhere. This evening there were two guinea keets wandering around the back yard, with no "parent" in sight. One had made its way into the pen where the teenage birds are located and was hanging out under the adult bantam that I bought at POOPS - apparently it liked the feathered legs and the bantam didn't seem to mind. The other keet was just in the middle of the grass, cheeping. I put both of them into the brooder so they would be safer - they can wander in and out of the chain link fence that forms the teenager pen.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I had not realized that the embryo would start to develop at 80 degrees. I knew not to worry when the hens left their nest for a walk-around on days when the temperature was over 95% - that their developing eggs would be fine - but now I understand the importance of gathering eggs twice a day in the middle of the summer - folks who want eating eggs don't want to see anything that might resemble an embryo.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Guinea keets have amazing survival skills. I suspect that the guinea hen is setting on a nest that is at least 75 yards away from the rest of the birds and that the guineas migrated to the teenage pen because all those birds still have a high pitched cheep, which attracted the keets.

Turkey poults also have amazing survival instincts. A few years ago we had a turkey hen setting on eggs in a flower bed in the front yard. Hubby counted 15 poults from a distance when she was in the yard with them, but when he tried to catch the turkey hen to put her into a protected area with her poults, he could only find 11 poults. Later that afternoon, a neighbor came walking up and asked if we had lost any ducklings, because 4 of them had wandered over to their house and were found while pecking on their shoelaces as they stood in their front yard. Turned out that those turkey poults had walked more than the length of a football field, when less than 2 days old, to get to the neighbor's house. Why they didn't wander off the grass and into high speed traffic or get separated, or collapse from exhaustion - still amazes me.