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[chippysmom327]

Today we let our extra golden laced wyandotte roosters free range for the first time. Looked like they had a good time. We were working in the garden and decided to try to get the roosters back to their run. They didn't like us trying to corral them and took off. My cat was in the way and they chased her and she went running and got all puffy. It was so funny. Poor kitty. Oh and I got my first mosquito bite of this year

I got my first mosquito bite too! I was swinging on the back porch and it bit my foot!

 

[sharron]

I once left the door to the attic of my garage open for a day no big deal so I closed the door the next day. Probably 3 days later I go up there AND THERE WAS A RED TAILED HAWK IN MY ATTIC! I just opened the attack double door and it flew away. But it was flying around like crazy. I dont know why it went in, in the first place. Maybe for the rats?

maybe, don't know hawks but the little wrens are always on the look out for a site for the nest that they think will be safe against cats and other critters, not to afraid of humans for some strange reason

 

[oletymer]

ISO a Black Copper Marans Rooster, I'll be at 84 Auction if anyone is bringing any please give me a holler..

 

[oletymer]

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Sharon do you breed finch?? Tylor got a set of Zebras and they already hatched out 3 eggs, trying to figure out why 1 is tan ?

 

[SilkieSensation]

ISO a Black Copper Marans Rooster, I'll be at 84 Auction if anyone is bringing any please give me a holler..

I have a blue copper marans roo. Will he work? He's not quite a year old yet, calm around the kids, low in the pecking order here & lost the points off his comb to frostbite. He's fairly friendly & not overly difficult to catch. Toss some scratch down & you can pick him up while he's busy making a pig of himself.

 

[oletymer]

Quote: give me a week to look around, ,if I cant find one I might be interested,, thanks for letting me know

 

[SilkieSensation]

 

ISO a Black Copper Marans Rooster, I'll be at 84 Auction if anyone is bringing any please give me a holler..

I have a blue copper marans roo. Will he work? He's not quite a year old yet, calm around the kids, low in the pecking order here

give me a week to look around, ,if I cant find one I might be interested,, thanks for letting me know

No problem. I'm culling a few extra roos from the flock soon & it was between him & another...but if someone can use him instead of him going in my freezer I'd rather give him the chance to pass on his beauty.

 

[ChcknNurse]

   Don't get the Rcom 20. I've had one for 3 1/2 years now and have not gotten more than a 60% hatch in 95% of the hatches. In the 3 1/2 years that I have had it, it has probably not sat empty for more than 6 months total. I used it from mid December to June and one of my friends used it from July to mid December all this time. The last hatch we did the temperature was 3 degrees lower than it should have been and the digital gauge showed 100.1 degrees. We had noticed that our eggs were hatching a day late on average so we checked it out. When it was new the temperature was low by 1 degree. It hatches eggs, just not as reliably as I'd like. Right now we have it running, the digital gauge shows 105.4 and the thermometers on the inside are showing 100 degrees. We will probably not use it again, unless this hatch turns out excellent.

Oh my goodness! Thank you for the warning! I was totally leaning to that one (the Eco model).

 

[ChcknNurse]

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Really, now where am I suppose to plant my cherry tomatoes..
I do believe this nest belongs to pair of little singing birds that hang out every morning, that's the only time I ever see them...
Watched them come out of my planter at sunrise this morning and just had to investigate....they look like little jelly beans.

Priceless! Lol

 

[ChcknNurse]

That's a good point, I had forgotten that. It does say not to run the humidity high. I did anyway and nothing bad happened but there was condensation in places there probably should not have been.

I think the best hatcher is a homemade one. After hatching a few times in the GQF Sportsman, I switched to the old Hovabator and Little Giant. The thing I didn't like about that was the horrific mess and if I opened it, all the warm, humid air dumped out on the floor and cool, dry air replaced it, making me very hesitant to take out chicks, but they were bowling with the partially hatched eggs and that seemed bad too.

I live the one I made, it can hold 120 eggs, more if I put in a second level of hatching cages. I keep the electronics outside sitting next to it, and run all the cords through the drain hole. I didn't bother to drill any holes at all, I keep the top slightly ajar and the inner sliding windows are intentionally not airtight.

The one I made is probably larger than you need, but it could be scaled down easily.

I think that is a great idea. Timing and lack of experience make me hesitate right this minute, though. But, hopefully I can get thru this and it will be a fun project in the next year.