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

[kwhites634]

I also wanted Legbars because of the egg color until I learned they were temperamentally more like the brown Leghorns I once had (spaz birds that would literally fly the coop when you opened the door, would go on the roof and not come down, etc). My "near Ameraucanas" were bad enough. Now I just want some easy to raise birds that can get along with birds of other colors and sizes and make nice egg baskets. They also have to be cold hardy, and a slight tendency to broodiness might not be a bad thing. But they have to be smart enough to get out of the way of a lawn tractor and even escape some of the lesser predators. There are few quality poultry breeders in the area, but a lot of breeders who buy/sell or breed low quality hatchery specimens of popular breeds. I won't try to compete with that. And there are a lot of sellers of cheap eggs, the Amish undersell everyone. So I will be out of the egg business.

If we move to the new place the birds will have room to roam. We will be looking at three properties tomorrow, all riverfront custom homes on 5-20 acres. Even with more land, I will have a smaller flock, I just want it to be self-sustaining and being able to grow my own broilers would be a plus. The coop will be a place to lay and roost and provide shelter in inclement weather. I'll have a brooder house and grow out pens for my turkeys.

And yeah, if someone figures out ship-a-thin, I'll take two, please.

Someone has "all their ducks in a row"

 

[frmboyinthecity]

sc, they just won the last one with a Hail Mary too. BYU fan here.

That's too bad Cynthia. I'm sorry.

I'm a USU fan, so I have to give you a hard time.

 

[meganhundley]

The pics aren't all that good. I need to invest in a good camera. My phone doesn't want to focus on the egg, it wants to focus on everything but the egg. It only does that in the dark though, weird :/

 

[meganhundley]

Where'd everybody go?

 

[kwhites634]

Where'd everybody go?

I be here

 

[RubyNala97]

I also wanted Legbars because of the egg color until I learned they were temperamentally more like the brown Leghorns I once had (spaz birds that would literally fly the coop when you opened the door, would go on the roof and not come down, etc).  My "near Ameraucanas" were bad enough.  Now I  just want some easy to raise birds that can get along with birds of other colors and sizes and make nice egg baskets.  They also have to be cold hardy, and a slight tendency to broodiness might not be a bad thing.  But they have to be smart enough to get out of the way of a lawn tractor and even escape some of the lesser predators.  There are few quality poultry breeders in the area, but a lot of breeders who buy/sell or breed low quality hatchery specimens of popular breeds.  I won't try to compete with that.  And there are a lot of sellers of cheap eggs, the Amish undersell everyone.  So I will be out of the egg business.

If we move to the new place the birds will have room to roam.  We will be looking at three properties tomorrow, all riverfront custom homes on 5-20 acres.  Even with more land, I will have a smaller flock, I just want it to be self-sustaining and being able to grow my own broilers would be a plus.  The coop will be a place to lay and roost and provide shelter in inclement weather.  I'll have a brooder house and grow out pens for my turkeys.

And yeah, if someone figures out ship-a-thin, I'll take two, please.

Good luck, looking at property tomorrow!!

Toes?

Before lockdown you should trace the outline of the aircells with a pencil. With shipped eggs sometimes the chicks have a hard time positioning, especially when the air cells are not in the correct spots and can pip below the air cell and need help. If you trace it will give you an idea of where they should be pipping. Just a thought. Someone on the detached air cell thread had a good hatch but had to help a few because the air cells were whacky.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Where'd everybody go?

Catching up... gonna take a bit and will prolly be a horrible multi-quote too, lol...
Good pics... those are going into lockdown tomorrow though? To me, the air cells look a bit small, my suggest is not to increase humidity til first pip, but others might have different advice...

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Catching up... gonna take a bit and will prolly be a horrible multi-quote too, lol...
Good pics... those are going into lockdown tomorrow though? To me, the air cells look a bit small, my suggest is not to increase humidity til first pip, but others might have different advice...

x2 if majority of eggs have air cells that small

 

[meganhundley]

Catching up... gonna take a bit and will prolly be a horrible multi-quote too, lol...
Good pics... those are going into lockdown tomorrow though? To me, the air cells look a bit small, my suggest is not to increase humidity til first pip, but others might have different advice...

x2  if majority of eggs have air cells that small

They're not really that small, they're just shaped so funky that in spots they look real small. I'll try to get a good pic of how big the air cells really are. I've had the humidity at 30 to 35 % most of the hatch. The first day or 2 or was bit high at like 50%

 

[Sally Sunshine]

They're not really that small, they're just shaped so funky that in spots they look real small. I'll try to get a good pic of how big the air cells really are. I've had the humidity at 30 to 35 % most of the hatch. The first day or 2 or was bit high at like 50%