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[FridayYet]

104 grams is huge!

 

[Ravynscroft]

I dont regularly weigh them anymore, but had to weigh that big sucker. I've gotten a couple large duck eggs, but she's pretty consistent now. And I've had a few really large chicken eggs but this one has to be tops! Especially since they've been laying for a few months now.
I thought all you had were calls? You have full size ducks too? 65g would be huge for a call, right?

The Calls are around 50g, full size... yes, that would be super huge, lol... I only have Calls for breeding... hatched out a pair of ducks for a friend then he decided to give them to me... fortunately for them, they both turned out to be girls... they'll be for eating eggs only... won't hatch Call crosses... they're a Mallard/Rouen cross...

This is one sitting behind Lady Grey... and they are exactly one week younger than her, lol...

 

[rossfam06]

@AmyPaperlady how are your eggs coming along????

I have had a heck of a day. I saved a little old chihuahua from being hit by cars on a gloomy raining afternoon. Spent all day trying to find her owner...if she has one. We may keep her if we can't find owners. Well trained and behaves very well with kids. I know she is some little old ladys best friend. And it breaks my heart that she is here with me and not her.

 

[kwhites634]

@AmyPaperlady how are your eggs coming along????

I have had a heck of a day. I saved a little old chihuahua from being hit by cars on a gloomy raining afternoon. Spent all day trying to find her owner...if she has one. We may keep her if we can't find owners. Well trained and behaves very well with kids. I know she is some little old ladys best friend. And it breaks my heart that she is here with me and not her.

WTG

Ya dun good!

 

[AmyPaperlady]

@AmyPaperlady how are your eggs coming along????

I have had a heck of a day. I saved a little old chihuahua from being hit by cars on a gloomy raining afternoon. Spent all day trying to find her owner...if she has one. We may keep her if we can't find owners. Well trained and behaves very well with kids. I know she is some little old ladys best friend. And it breaks my heart that she is here with me and not her.

Short answer: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...a-frieda-vs-the-brinsea-warning-pic-heavy/120 or so (also smart-alecky answer

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Of the 11 eggs that I had in the incubator, 6 made it to lockdown. So far, one BCM and one Sulmtaler have hatched, and there's a pip in another Sulmtaler egg. This is day 22.

The eggs under my broody...

I'd forgotten that her nest box is the one that has a leak above it. We had a rainstorm last night. Everything was soaked. Frieda did go back on before I went to work this morning, but when I got home this afternoon, she was done. She's on the roost tonight. I brought the eggs in, so they can warm up to room temp before I see if they will fit in the incubator. I set up a heating pad brooder in the pen in the coop that Frieda and the chicks were going to be in, and the BCM is all snuggly and warm in there (the Sulmtaler isn't fluffy yet, and will be moved out in the morning).

 

[WalnutHill]

A contribution to the spirit of this thread...

http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/atq/5284832354.html Craigslist listing for an 1898 "Ormas" kerosene incubator with a Reliable Poultry Journal guide to incubation and handwritten notes left by the owner. These notes are transcribed faithfully below (spelling, capitalization and punctuation corrections made for readability):
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[kwhites634]

A contribution to the spirit of this thread...

http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/atq/5284832354.html Ebay listing for an 1898 "Ormas" kerosene incubator with a Reliable Poultry Journal guide to incubation and handwritten notes left by the owner. These notes are transcribed faithfully below (spelling, capitalization and punctuation corrections made for readability):

Beautiful piece!

I had a wooden cabinet incubator given to me by a neighbor years ago when I was fooling with quail, but he must've caught some heat from the family; he decided a day later that he wanted it back.

 

[WalnutHill]

Here is a nice old redwood Farm Master in Pennsylvania dirt cheap http://williamsport.craigslist.org/grd/5298336897.html

 

[kwhites634]

Here is a nice old redwood Farm Master in Pennsylvania dirt cheap http://williamsport.craigslist.org/grd/5298336897.html

Somebody's sure to grab it up quick. I don't envision incubating more than once, maybe twice a year, for replacements, and only then if a broody hen fails me. I guess my Hova-bator will last me as long as I'll ever need it to. Last time (first hatch in 20+ years) I took out all the turner rails but one & still had unused holes.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Somebody's sure to grab it up quick. I don't envision incubating more than once, maybe twice a year, for replacements, and only then if a broody hen fails me. I guess my Hova-bator will last me as long as I'll ever need it to. Last time (first hatch in 20+ years) I took out all the turner rails but one & still had unused holes. 

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