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

[WalnutHill]

So I just got FB a couple weeks ago to talk to breeders. And I was messing around with it last night and found a hatching group. So I asked to join and boy, I don't think it's for me at all! There is a sticky about the way they hatch and you either hatch their way or leave! ie. All chicken eggs must be sprayed with 50/50 water/listerine daily, humidity must be measured by wet bulb, and "dry incubation" is the work of the devil, leading to all splayed legs, curled feet, DIS, and everything else. Humidity must be kept 60-70% the whole incubation, even 80...the higher the better because there is no way to drown chicks. And if you don't agree then you're not welcome. I didn't read the sticky (I didn't even know there was one) and made a couple helpful comments here and there and was instantly corrected and told I was 100% wrong. I completely missed the security of "he said/she said"! These guys made SC look like a saint!!

Well it's a good thing those experts are there to help keep the chicken population from exploding.

 

[RubyNala97]

Now what are these?? And don't say eggs.....lol

They are "paint" silkie eggs from Hollycroft Hens. Very nice breeder and very nice silkies. Check them out.

Double yolker... set or not set?

It's pretty heart breaking. I've followed a couple people that tried this year and it never ended good.

We could join the New Years hatch a long...lol  I haven't done that one- just the Easter one...lol 

That sounds good!...I'm serious, if she still has them I'll send them to you! You need a practice round at shipped eggs before the spring ship-a-thon.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

So I just got FB a couple weeks ago to talk to breeders. And I was messing around with it last night and found a hatching group. So I asked to join and boy, I don't think it's for me at all! There is a sticky about the way they hatch and you either hatch their way or leave! ie. All chicken eggs must be sprayed with 50/50 water/listerine daily, humidity must be measured by wet bulb, and "dry incubation" is the work of the devil, leading to all splayed legs, curled feet, DIS, and everything else. Humidity must be kept 60-70% the whole incubation, even 80...the higher the better because there is no way to drown chicks. And if you don't agree then you're not welcome. I didn't read the sticky (I didn't even know there was one) and made a couple helpful comments here and there and was instantly corrected and told I was 100% wrong. I completely missed the security of "he said/she said"! These guys made SC look like a saint!!

Wow!!! Talk about arrogance...maybe I should join the group....lol I've been 6 days tonight, w/o a cig or using the e-cig. (Determined to kick the habit. Part of me wants to smoke, my lungs are protesting though...lol) So, it would make a nice visit I'm sure....lol

I bet not one of them has ever had a 100% hatch either.

I'd be surprised. I am dumbfounded they even get half hatches with humidity that high.

 

[kwhites634]

So I just got FB a couple weeks ago to talk to breeders. And I was messing around with it last night and found a hatching group. So I asked to join and boy, I don't think it's for me at all! There is a sticky about the way they hatch and you either hatch their way or leave! ie. All chicken eggs must be sprayed with 50/50 water/listerine daily, humidity must be measured by wet bulb, and "dry incubation" is the work of the devil, leading to all splayed legs, curled feet, DIS, and everything else. Humidity must be kept 60-70% the whole incubation, even 80...the higher the better because there is no way to drown chicks. And if you don't agree then you're not welcome. I didn't read the sticky (I didn't even know there was one) and made a couple helpful comments here and there and was instantly corrected and told I was 100% wrong. I completely missed the security of "he said/she said"! These guys made SC look like a saint!!

"SC" & "Saint" should never be used in the same sentence.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

They are "paint" silkie eggs from Hollycroft Hens. Very nice breeder and very nice silkies. Check them out.
It's pretty heart breaking. I've followed a couple people that tried this year and it never ended good.
That sounds good!...I'm serious, if she still has them I'll send them to you! You need a practice round at shipped eggs before the spring ship-a-thon.

LOL You want me to fall of my high horse too???

That's cool! When are you setting them? I do enjoy silkies, I just wish I had better ones..lol I am seriously thinking about getting rid of the three I took from my sister (sight unseen) cause not happy with them at all. I appreciate her giving them to me, (well, she just didn't want them and I was willing to take them) but one is an egg eater and I haven't been able to break her, one lays eggs with quite a "mineral" deposit on them and the other is ok egg wise, but they all have these Godzilla awful looking feet. I figured maybe from past frostbite?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

"SC" & "Saint" should never be used in the same sentence.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@RubyNala97 some of my Silkies... not perfect colors, but good beards, crests and perfect feet... this other pic is fuzzy, but it's a couple juvies that were in the background of a pic I posted the other day...

You are making me want to raise them again! I always loved them, but they werent a best seller and here I needed to limit, but NOW since I had to sell most of my flock..... hmmmmm

And why did you never tell me this???
I'm in NY and the bugs are insane tonight. I couldn't believe you said that cus I was just thinking that!

We are looking to purchase a camp with family in NY but not eastern so I will assume the bugs are even more terrible there"? hubs is afraid of the big lakes snow effects

I got to our camp and hubby has been busy today. The other coop will be added to the other side, and runs on each side, to keep the breeds separated. The center will be our storage area and egg collection area, and water fill. The back couple of feet of the building will have an inside area for the birds to eat and drink, in the winter, where we can keep the water from freezing and snow out. He did pretty well without me today. Hope the rain holds off tomorrow!

awesome!

I love love hatching silkie eggs..I asked first if you ship eggs... here are some of my babies. And big girls. And a SG.

Oh My I love showgirls! they are bantam?

Coop set up is looking good WV! And Cynthia, your ShowGirl is really cute.

Here's Jack, who is filling out nicely,



And Grischa


Hoping to get chicks from them in the spring.

Orloffs? I also had them, they are the sweetest chickens in personality too! But we sold them off for lack of breeding space.

Cream Legbars, sunbleached and molting, lol...


Older pic of Cream Legbar pullets and Wheaten Sulmtalers...


Wheaten Sulmtalers molting...


Sulmtaler roo right now, lol...


Araucana Bantams...


Self Blue OEGB's...


Lav Orp roo, have him with Black Australorps for project...


Merry, my Lemon Blue OEGB...

does Sulmatar roo have a name?

he could never live here. I have stuff all over the place and bring more home all the time..love my stuff I could build a hundred pallet breakers and only buy welding rods. but since I keep those on hand I wouldn't have to buy them . my pallets get used to stack rocks blocks bricks or whatever I come home with on. this is my first coop got tired of things killing the hens needed a storage shed had a job tearing down a house the siding came from there the roof is a car port from there al most finished with it not good at painting never have time .

sweet!

Here is my latest, hatched last night. Black..had to put him/her in the fall decorations. Just starting to get the hang of those legs!




Happy Fall! I hear that some are getting warmer temps..like us. Not feeling very
fallish right now! But, in a few days, our temps will be dropping quite a bit, more like
our Sept.

someone is gonna enter some contests!! I love the little straw bale!

You got that right. I took three months and disassembled a 3100 square foot 2 story timberframe house with hand tools, saving all the wood and most of the nails. A few pallets can't be much of a challenge. I guess I should try before I talk, though.

Did you reassemble the frame elsewhere? I am always watching the show on TV that does the barns and makes homes. So cool but looks like really hard dirty work. need to be ox to handle that weight!

I gave them all Russian names - Jack started out as Jack Frost/Morosko since he had a ton of white feathers as a juvenile. He's not white anymore, so I just call him Jack now. Grischa is short for Gregory or Georgi - She's my little "Georgy girl"

Love the names and I too was going to ask how you got them lol

yea I got it bad off the rocker crazy

mad dog crazy long as I get my meds I'm safe though

LOL

Put some eggs in the bater. Set the hatchabatch app for setting tomorrow. 34 total, 21 from our flock and the rest from another farmer. Fingers crossed in 28 days I will have some baby ducklings!

oh crud, I wanted to set too, we have too much going on lately! I feel like buying eggs to hatch, I like hatching serama but I like hatching different stuff too.

Now for a good thought in history. I remember....when....

I got a computer in my house.

I remember when my first computer job was on a keypunch machine! I think the first apples came out when I graduated LOL I cant still here the clip clapping

Hi everyone! Im hardly able to keep reading up! Managing by a hair, and cant reply to half of what i want

Everyones 911 stories! Wow!

My story is simple but i think unique to this group so ill tell u, i was only 12! I was suposed to be in school but had played hooky cuz my mom was easy to get over on. We heard it over the trucks radio, and i remmember my mom like totally freezing in horror as she told us it was No Accident, something bad is happening. I lived close to Camp Villary in Slidell, LA and it was on a scary high alert, because NASAs Lockhead Martin is also within 30 miles. My mom was bein a drama queen spouting off how she heard they were huge targets... School the next day was incredibly Chaotic. No one had class we were all glued to the tv screens, teachers were crying everywhere.

WV im so sorry about your ducky

Sally that flooring and reno looks so neat!

Finished tonights candling/weighing. I got an average of 3.14% weight loss which added to my previous 3.46 is only 6.6% over two weeks. So again, the AH is n the flipn 50's all the time, we are sweatin buckets, but the eggs say to leave the settings alone...

If yall hadnt taught me to listen to Them first and foremost i would be adjusting because the loss is Spread from 2.1% all the way thru 6.46%!! I guess i expected it to be more uniform? Logical?

did you say these were your own fresh eggs or shipped that your weighing? I cant remember reading it.

Sally Sunshine here in Perry Co., Alabama eggs are selling in the grocery store for 5.+ and byc people are selling eggs for 3.+

My MIL wants us to move back to Alabama with her, I am debating moving to NY or South eventually. First we want to purchase a cheap camp so we can explore and get the feeling of the place, I am leaning to NY but y'all are making me think to head south! FIL lives in SC and hubs is going hunting there in october, so I have a feeling he will want to head south!

So, you vintage folks stayed up all night discussing milk, phones, and cars?
In mid 72 I was just a drunken glimmer in my Daddy's eye

LOL oh my you may end up being one of the youngins in the group!

I got my new eggs today!

7/12 had awesome air cells!! Hoping for babies in 3 weeks!! (Down to 4 eggs still developing in the bator).

GO babies!!

Double yolker... set or not set?

I dont, but if you dont mind a great possibility of bringing life for death have at it! I have done it and failed at hatch thats just bein honest, I know some have done it, but I dont assist or anything anymore.

We could join the New Years hatch a long...lol I haven't done that one- just the Easter one...lol

I am thinking about it this year, if my health keeps up.

great pic with the sun! sweet babies!

So I just got FB a couple weeks ago to talk to breeders. And I was messing around with it last night and found a hatching group. So I asked to join and boy, I don't think it's for me at all! There is a sticky about the way they hatch and you either hatch their way or leave! ie. All chicken eggs must be sprayed with 50/50 water/listerine daily, humidity must be measured by wet bulb, and "dry incubation" is the work of the devil, leading to all splayed legs, curled feet, DIS, and everything else. Humidity must be kept 60-70% the whole incubation, even 80...the higher the better because there is no way to drown chicks. And if you don't agree then you're not welcome. I didn't read the sticky (I didn't even know there was one) and made a couple helpful comments here and there and was instantly corrected and told I was 100% wrong. I completely missed the security of "he said/she said"! These guys made SC look like a saint!!

Ha Ha Ha!!! FB is the home of the ... well I wont mention,.... but people jump in to help without a clue as to what they are talking about, and I have to restrain from commenting nonstop!

looks like plan, I need to take in some vit D

Well it's a good thing those experts are there to help keep the chicken population from exploding.

yeppers!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Will I win the longest quote reply?

What is everyone up to today? Hubs took kids to the company picnic at an amusement park. I have to clean the garage as best as I am able!

 

[WVduckchick]

Double yolker... set or not set?

I agree with the others, I wouldn't expect it/them to hatch, but if you wanna do it for the experience and the possibility, then have at it! Just be prepared that the odds are against it.

So I just got FB a couple weeks ago to talk to breeders. And I was messing around with it last night and found a hatching group. So I asked to join and boy, I don't think it's for me at all! There is a sticky about the way they hatch and you either hatch their way or leave! ie. All chicken eggs must be sprayed with 50/50 water/listerine daily, humidity must be measured by wet bulb, and "dry incubation" is the work of the devil, leading to all splayed legs, curled feet, DIS, and everything else. Humidity must be kept 60-70% the whole incubation, even 80...the higher the better because there is no way to drown chicks. And if you don't agree then you're not welcome. I didn't read the sticky (I didn't even know there was one) and made a couple helpful comments here and there and was instantly corrected and told I was 100% wrong. I completely missed the security of "he said/she said"! These guys made SC look like a saint!!

Wow! Just wow.

 

[FridayYet]

Well it's a good thing those experts are there to help keep the chicken population from exploding.

Wow!!! Talk about arrogance...maybe I should join the group....lol I've been 6 days tonight, w/o a cig or using the e-cig. (Determined to kick the habit. Part of me wants to smoke, my lungs are protesting though...lol) So, it would make a nice visit I'm sure....lol
I'd be surprised. I am dumbfounded they even get half hatches with humidity that high.

on your 6 days! Here's to the next 6, and the 6 after that! Save up your nicotine money and buy yourself a present.

"SC" & "Saint" should never be used in the same sentence.

Will I win the longest quote reply?

What is everyone up to today? Hubs took kids to the company picnic at an amusement park. I have to clean the garage as best as I am able!

I have to go up the street to practice assembling the Model T with our Women's team. Since I'm a newbie (and relatively strong) I'll be manning the tripod to lift the engine for the first several steps, then going underneath to install the wishbone, helping to lift the body onto the frame, installing the radiator, then install the driver's side running board. Demo at the NM State Fair tomorrow! Men's best time is under 7 minutes, I think our first attempt was like 2 hours