Ribh's D'Coopage

[rjohns39]

Kris, I have a cabinet and every time I candle I rotate position in the bator just to be safe.

 

[Ribh]

@Kris5902 : That is excellent news! He's only just got home with you too!

These hatches are excruciating! I don't know how you all do it. If it's not one thing, it's another! But that's chickens for you. Wishing you all the best for the last of your hatch.

 

[rjohns39]

Oh and sorry Kris, that's great news on the kitty.

 

[rjohns39]

I've got incubation on the brain. I have to candle tomorrow. I was supposed to do it last Thursday. Last time I candled we think we had 130 or so developing, I should know more tomorrow. But I have one order for 70 chicks and others pestering me for smaller orders and hatching eggs. With my pig problem, I can't brood them in the barn, so 15 or 20 is my max, if I'm going to brood them in the garage. Once we get past these cool evenings (which I don't want to rush) I can put them in a shelter outside and grow them to size. I have an empty shelter in the upper pasture that they can go into. I need to get to the point where I have 50 girls and 5 or 6 cockerels.

 

[Ribh]

I've got incubation on the brain. I have to candle tomorrow. I was supposed to do it last Thursday. Last time I candled we think we had 130 or so developing, I should know more tomorrow. But I have one order for 70 chicks and others pestering me for smaller orders and hatching eggs. With my pig problem, I can't brood them in the barn, so 15 or 20 is my max, if I'm going to brood them in the garage. Once we get past these cool evenings (which I don't want to rush) I can put them in a shelter outside and grow them to size. I have an empty shelter in the upper pasture that they can go into. I need to get to the point where I have 50 girls and 5 or 6 cockerels.

So much to do, so little time. And space. Space is always my biggest problem when I have these brain waves...

 

[rjohns39]

I call it just in time farming or a little late.

 

[Ribh]

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I call it just in time farming or a little late.

...Oops! My post just got really confused!

 

[Ribh]

Cold & rather bleak this morning. We have rain coming across in spits & spats. Heard my lads go through this morning about 5am while it was still pitch black & absolutely freezing. It will be bitter out on the water. The one we are keeping will get dropped off here on the peak of the tide.

My girls are hardy & were busy stuffing their faces & admiring the view when I wandered out to say good morning & collect my first egg. Those Campines are excellent layers & lay really early if they are going to @ all. I have more white eggs than brown @ present & seeing I have mostly brown layers they are obviously doing a great job in the egg department.

 

[drumstick diva]

I'm always confused so it makes perfect sense to me.

 

[Ribh]

I'm always confused so it makes perfect sense to me.

Oh goody! A like minded soul. I always make sense to me but not everybody agrees with me on that one!