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

[rossfam06]

I will send you a $20 gift certificate if you poke yourself in the eye

That would be a site to see.

Here are my two slate footed EE babies:

gold lacing and black and gold barring. Hatched out of a RSL egg





Silver lacing on the neck with barring on the wings. Hatched from a green egg.

They both have the Ameraucana "eagle beak"

Here is the Wheaten (with incorrect feet) at 10 weeks:


Here are feather footed EEs:

10 week old pullet

nice little cockerel, he's 10 weeks old.

10 week old pullet

I am really happy with these backyard mixes so far, they are growing out rapidly and feathered out beautifully. The pullets look nearly ready to lay, and they still have 12-14 weeks before I expect any action from them.

It looks like 2 or maybe 3 cockerels out of the bunch of 15 or so. I'll get a better look when we move them into the pullet pen Thursday night.

Beautiful birds!!!! I need some more with color feathering and colors.

Alrighty then. I got it now. Sure has potential.

My son dug out the safety glasses...lol

OMG that makes my eyes water just looking at it....but that's exactly how I felt-like ALL day yesterday! I know, I can't believe it happened again. They just really must like my eyes. Must be they have a thing for hazel eyes...lol

And why am I getting slapped for not knowing what it was?? I don't live an extreme life. I'm a boring single mom. I hold my own camera.

You probably laughed even harder....lmao

A little high???? That I believe.

I slapped you because GoPros have been out for a few years now. I am sure you have seen videos youtube. Most of them have been filmed with GoPros. I want to get one and make an attachment for chickens so I can put it on one of them and see where it takes them!

I jabbed myself in the eye accidentally the other day with the mascara brush. Does that count?

I do that all the time!!! LoL!!!!

Does he flick his wrists when he crows, as well? lol

"Err-rr-rr-rr-oooo, ya'll!"

He really is something!

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/998771/my-first-incubator-could-use-some-help

Somebody is having Little Giant bator problems^ if anybody cares to help.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/998681/help-turkey-eggs-hatching
And someone has some turkey hatching questions^

I am sure Amy is on it!!! She helped me out when I was/am having trouble with mine. But I think I have figured it out now.

Be careful, you might try for showgirls and end up with this...

Okay...so I just about fell out of my seat I laughed so hard!!!!

Is this a showgirl?

An even better response! Yall are crazy! LoL!!!!

I have some good news that I must share. My wonderful DH told me this evening that he fixed the small refrigerator in his garage by using parts from another one he found.... The good news isn't that he fixed his, it's that now I have a non-working one that I (he) can turn into an incubator!!! Yeah!!

YEA!!!!! I want to see progress!!

I think I have a quitter with one of my pea eggs. I noticed the other day that the veins were starting to recede from the air cell but I still saw movement in the egg. Now the veins have totally disappeared and the fluid in the egg seems yellow. Also when I move the egg I can see the chick sloshing around but no intentional movement from the chick. Is it a goner? Should I take it out now or wait till lockdown?

My SLP/BR egg was a quitter. It was not moving when I candled tonight.

So for Day 14 candle. I found that the BR egg was a quitter. However, I had made a pile of eggs (only 3) that I thought were quitters and well one was not!!! It was growing and looked great! Lots of movement and veining. So I placed it back with the good ones. So I lost one but gained one. Really not loss at this point. Hopefully by Saturday when I candle again I will have 15 going into lockdown!!!!

 

[WalnutHill]

I have been in the business world for nearly 40 yrs, and I have heard the term "take it to the next level" so many times it hurts. I've so many friends who have "cashed in" on their internet ideas by selling it to someone who could "take it to the next level". I am trying to do that on so many things right now, its hilarious...and the funniest thing is I am trying to go from C$10k, to C$30k...I really want to start a Kickstarter campaign, but they'd laugh..."what, you only need 20k? Are you serious?"

Oh if we could only get people to take organic food seriously...

If you could only get people to understand organic food, it would be a miracle. Those tend to be the same people who think chickens are vegetarian.

I keep a flock of 170+ layers and sell non-certified-organic, non-certified non-GMO eggs, as many as my hens can lay with a demand for many more. We used to have 400+ layers and couldn't meet demand. Same with turkeys...I raised 35 the last few years, doubled to 70+ this year. I have no idea how many turkeys I have right now. They are not organic, they are just heritage breed (Bourbon Red, Bronze, Narragansett). I can't raise enough to fill all requests. I have people driving from Indianapolis and Chicago for turkeys as I can't ship them for Thanksgiving.

Kickstarters are pretty cool, we bought into the "Coolest Cooler" campaign which was a resounding success. We will get ours eventually...

I will never cash in, I dream things up and promptly forget them until the next time I remember them...then forget again.

 

[NTBugtraq]

Buy yourself something to restore, either a house or a classic car. All your other worries, nay all your other priorities, will go down the drain feeding the beast that is a restoration project.

This advice comes from someone who has restored 20+ classic cars and a few 19th century houses.. retired licensed restoration contractor and retired widely known Firebird restoration specialist...yours truly, the turkey nut.

Don't we all wish we were still known for our finest moments?

 

[NTBugtraq]

From my experience with higher density stocking of standard class large fowl, 4-6 lb at maturity:

10 birds need 10 sq feet for 2 weeks
20 sq feet for the next 2 weeks
40 sq feet at one month
80 sq feet at two months
100 sq feet at maturity as a bare minimum

You're about 10% under, but if you cull 10% over time you will be fine, or if you provide run space in addition to coop space.

Mixing ages with chickens is risky. They do damage to weaker members. Turkeys don't as a rule.

OMG, I so hoped you would do this and you did, ty...

 

[BYC910]

I never got around to getting the silica. I put unpopped corn in there and the humidity actually got higher! I picked up some charcoal/carbon stuff at the store today. It's supposed to collect moisture. I just put it in tonight. I do not have central air but window units. I was afraid they would mess with the temp since you're not supposed to put incubators near drafts but I might have to try it!! Monday is lockdown. Thank you for asking, btw.

after I see the new post I go back and read pages I thought about charcoal It's worth a try. someone really needs to come up with a dehumidifier for a small incubator.

OMG, farmers with central air units, what a concept...??

as far north as your are I bet you run the heat in the summer time do you have summer up there don't you ?

 

[WalnutHill]

OMG, farmers with central air units, what a concept...??

A lot of folks on this forum are from climates where it is too HOT to incubate eggs. So yeah, central air is a possiblity.

We have it, and run it up to 10 days per year. Our house was built in 1822, insulation is scarce to non-existent, and air conditioning the place is about $50 a day so we only run it when temps are >90 in the day or >80 at night. On the flip side, we have over 65 windows and doors and 6 ceiling fans, so natural convection and cooling does right by us.

 

[WalnutHill]

Don't we all wish we were still known for our finest moments?

I am, and I duck and run when all but a few track me down. I never made much money from my finest efforts, and am making up for in now trying to prepare for an eventual retirement so I can go back to doing what I did when I was young.

 

[WalnutHill]

after I see the new post I go back and read pages I thought about charcoal It's worth a try. someone really needs to come up with a dehumidifier for a small incubator.

as far north as your are I bet you run the heat in the summer time do you have summer up there don't you ?

LOL no, it stays over 50 at night most of the summer so the windows stay open to catch cool air to guard against those 80 degree days.

 

[NTBugtraq]

If you could only get people to understand organic food, it would be a miracle. Those tend to be the same people who think chickens are vegetarian.
....
Kickstarters are pretty cool, we bought into the "Coolest Cooler" campaign which was a resounding success. We will get ours eventually...

I will never cash in, I dream things up and promptly forget them until the next time I remember them...then forget again.

I'm not looking to cash in, I am only looking to prove that minimal investment can yield good results. I think, the masses believe if you don't go big go home.

OMG, I so hoped you would do this and you did, ty...

Ty ty...

as far north as your are I bet you run the heat in the summer time do you have summer up there don't you ?

I designed this house 3.5 yrs ago, there is r60 and < 10% windows, heat loss is not a consideration winter or summer.

A lot of folks on this forum are from climates where it is too HOT to incubate eggs. So yeah, central air is a possiblity.

We have it, and run it up to 10 days per year. Our house was built in 1822, insulation is scarce to non-existent, and air conditioning the place is about $50 a day so we only run it when temps are >90 in the day or >80 at night. On the flip side, we have over 65 windows and doors and 6 ceiling fans, so natural convection and cooling does right by us.

Well, any house built in 1822, has a root cellar...

 

[WalnutHill]

I'm not looking to cash in, I am only looking to prove that minimal investment can yield good results. I think, the masses believe if you don't go big go home.


Ty ty...


I designed this house 3.5 yrs ago, there is r60 and < 10% windows, heat loss is not a consideration winter or summer.


Well, any house built in 1822, has a root cellar...

I could care less about the masses.

Yw, yw.

I have designed many homes for myself but I will probably never build one as I would always regret what I didn't build into it.

Yup it has a root cellar. Some forward-thinker around 1890 dug a well just outside the stone foundation and built a pump room completely underground that is an incredible natural wine cellar, 55-65F and 75% humidity year round. The rest of the cellar is a stone walled root cellar with lime mortared stone walls. Water comes in when it rains and is pumped out to the lawn downhill so it doesn't come back in. It's barely usable space and definitely not livable space. We fitted it with a dehumidifier to keep down the excess moisture and accompanying odor, but that makes the cellar warm.