Okies in the BYC The Original

[Buckguy20]

Hi Neecy, I know John will do well on the inspection and I will say a prayere for him and the J&M team.
I am gonna have Henny bring a copy of that pic to POOPS so I can show everyone.
When I look at that picture I can see five or six faces with a little imagination.
That one just jumped out at me. It is so clear.

 

[al6517]

Si a nara folks gotta hit the hay, 5:00 am tends to sneak up on me when I am sleeping LOL. I hope it's raining in the morning I need the rest and the rain. night all.

AL

 

[Buckguy20]

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Howdy Don, I am glad you could see it. Now I am gonna be looking for the dove.

 

[Brick243]

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I felt like a redneck when I was working for my BIL. We had bbq beaver sandwiches for FOUR days in a row. The fifth day I brought my own lunch. It wasn't bad the first day but was getting kinda yucky on the fourth one.

He also made bobcat jerky one time. I tried it. Not toooo bad at first, but the more you chew, well let's just say it was spit out and not swallowed.

 

[Poco Pollo]

I've been looking at the storm photo for a few minutes. I'm seeing an old man with a beard, some guy in a cook's hat, a cat, and a rooster.

 

[nnbreeder]

Henny right here is a wonderful article about dry incubation.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-DryIncubation.html

I have been doing it for years now and even in the Sportsman add a minimal amout of water, none in a Hovabator till hatching time. It is easier to control humidity in a room then it is to control it in the small space of an incubator. Most houses run close to 45% humidity anyways. The most important thing is the health of the breeders and the condition and shape of the egg shell. If when candled before setting an egg shell has a lot of light spots in it that is a pourous egg and it will lose too much humidity and the chick will either be dead in the shell or stick at hatching time. Plus candling will show any cracks that you may not see.

Trust me on this one. I store my hatching eggs in the fridge when getting enough to load a tray. As long as they stay about 40 deg. they will be fine, just warm them to room temp. before setting. Since I started doing this my hatches are right on time. The last eggs of my own that I hatched were all out of the shell 20 days and 23 hours from the time they were placed in the incubator. From what I have read an egg will start to devolop in temps 80 deg. and above and I have had hatches strung out over a couple of days before. Chances are it was because of how I was storing them.

Monty I have no idea on how long this project will take. I've got the comb size on some birds down to nothing like the one in my avitar but I am having problems with the upright stance.

 

[al6517]

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I tried the dry hatch method the last two hatches and I must say I do like it better, seems my results were more predictable. I am also going to start storing my eggs in the fridge prior to hatching, when you do this though can you collect eggs for a longer period
( 7-10 days )when you do it this way Les ?.

AL

 

[al6517]

The rain woke me up early about 3:00am and can't go back to sleep, it has been really coming down I like it though, I am afraid my poured slab will look a little ragged today. but I can fix that pretty easy.

AL

 

[poultryand bees]

Good morning, Okies
Hope everyone is getting some of this rain in just the right quantity to nourish the earth without getting chickens too wet.

My poultry projects are to learn better incubation techniques so that more of my eggs hatch. I want to focus on hatching guineas, Naragansett turkeys, peachicks, golden pheasant and quail. I also want to improve my brooder skills so that once those peachicks, pheasants and quail hatch, they stay alive longer than a few days.

I have come to the conclusion that with the smaller birds like quail and pheasants, I did better a few years ago when I was using a large box with a heat lamp, than this year when I used a standard commercial brooder. I think the smaller birds were able to get more even heat in the box - plus they couldn't crawl out of the sides of the brooder and end up on the floor.

I read the article on dry incubation - again - and think I may be putting too much humidity in the hatcher for the last few days of incubation. I am going to try candling my eggs at days 7 and 14 also and be more critical and cull more at that time.

 

[Queen Scoot]

good morning all still no rain here....for the past 4 days they have been calling for rain but still nothing....

hopeing today is the day!!!1
hows everyone today...weekend plans?
ETA ITS RAINING!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!