She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[BYC910]

wrong try again I hope your son is not sitting in your lap this late at night

 

[rossfam06]

 That was great
You'd better hurry and set some eggs, the blue kool-aid is flowing

Brinsea/ hands-off: 21
LG/ meddler: 0

Hahahahahahahaha! Sorry AmyLynn!

 

[rossfam06]

I think my set date is going to depend on what happens this weekend. I'm growing out 19 marans to sell when they come off the heat, and I have 3 more weeks to go on them. Now I have the polish that I just advertised, so I need to see how sales go, and what I want to set next. I'd like to set the booted bantams, but they are sporadic since they have young chicks themselves. I have a feeling this is going to be a rolling thread that compares techniques more than just a one time challenge, so head to head may not be as big a deal. If I have a good weekend, I could set Tuesday, but I'm going to play it by ear for a few days. I'm sitting on 84% right now, and possibly better by the time I get home, so I have proven my point...

Where do you live? In SC? I want a couple more hens for my layer pen. How much are your BCM?

 

[BYC910]

it was a good answer only half right I started to say what kind of egg is this I got to say your are very quick

 

[AmyLynn2374]

wrong try again I hope your son is not sitting in your lap this late at night

Actually my son is a nighthawk like his momma. He likes to be up at night and sleep in in the morning, lol, but he's not on my lap.

Hahahahahahahaha! Sorry AmyLynn!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

it was a good answer only half right I started to say what kind of egg is this I got to say your are very quick

Then I would have guessed a chicken egg...lol

 

[rossfam06]

I bet no one incubates those eggs in an LG

I thought about it but want to get better at using my LG before I try it.

 

[BYC910]

like I said you are very quick . my sponges in water don't seem to be working as well as when they did last week the humidity is at 63% tonight I'm a little worried but not that much.

 

[WalnutHill]

Oh yuck.

The day I went out to pick up my Leahy, I passed an old farmhouse with a Fresh Brown Eggs sign out front. I stopped to chat, and ended up bringing home a couple dozen ISA Brown eggs and a dozen and a half assorted bantam eggs to toss in my incubator. She is selling eggs out of her house, and had a bunch ready to go.

Of course I have 175 or so ISA Browns of my own...but I like to shop the competition.

I set those eggs at midnight last night, and by midmorning there was a vaguely unpleasant odor in the incubator when I went to turn the monster turkey egg. It was stronger a little later. I found a couple of eggs with smears of broken egg on them, and cleaned it off as gently as I could, but the odor was still there.

By tonight it was getting pretty sulphurous in my office. So I picked up each one of those eggs and did a sniff test. When I found the stinker I almost left the eggs needing a bath. I have a pretty strong stomach and can suppress my gag reflex quite well, but this was almost too much.

I tossed that egg out the doorwall into the garden, and it popped. I have never heard an egg "pop" before. Eeew. I don't want to see what kind of mess it made in my potato patch.

The other half of the story...a few hours before finding the stinker, I went to make dinner and figured I'd use a few of these bought eggs. Flat, runny, yolks falling apart...no freshness there.

Yuck.

When checking for stinkers, have a Clorox wipe in your hand (or dryer sheet, etc). It works like an air freshener to let you smell each egg individually, and tune out the background stench.

 

[BYC910]

part of the fun of growing up with my mother was getting to throw away the stinkers after the hatch. there always seems to be one or two when the hen leaves the nest. Momma had true free range chickens. We had to find the nest most of the time because they would never set in the hen house or even lay there. we new which ones were ripe and ready to through hold your nose here she go's .

Oh yuck.

The day I went out to pick up my Leahy, I passed an old farmhouse with a Fresh Brown Eggs sign out front. I stopped to chat, and ended up bringing home a couple dozen ISA Brown eggs and a dozen and a half assorted bantam eggs to toss in my incubator. She is selling eggs out of her house, and had a bunch ready to go.

Of course I have 175 or so ISA Browns of my own...but I like to shop the competition.

I set those eggs at midnight last night, and by midmorning there was a vaguely unpleasant odor in the incubator when I went to turn the monster turkey egg. It was stronger a little later. I found a couple of eggs with smears of broken egg on them, and cleaned it off as gently as I could, but the odor was still there.

By tonight it was getting pretty sulphurous in my office. So I picked up each one of those eggs and did a sniff test. When I found the stinker I almost left the eggs needing a bath. I have a pretty strong stomach and can suppress my gag reflex quite well, but this was almost too much.

I tossed that egg out the doorwall into the garden, and it popped. I have never heard an egg "pop" before. Eeew. I don't want to see what kind of mess it made in my potato patch.

The other half of the story...a few hours before finding the stinker, I went to make dinner and figured I'd use a few of these bought eggs. Flat, runny, yolks falling apart...no freshness there.

Yuck.

When checking for stinkers, have a Clorox wipe in your hand (or dryer sheet, etc). It works like an air freshener to let you smell each egg individually, and tune out the background stench.