Simulated Natural Nest Incubation~Experiment #1 So it begins....

[spaceylocust]

Bee, please don't delete any of your posts. People are at this thread by choice. If they are offended by something said, they can quit reading it. Very simple solution. You have been very honest about what you are doing, why you're doing it and who you are. That, in my opinion, should be applauded. Don't get your feathers ruffled about what people say. Just be yourself. After all, an opinion is exactly that, an opinion--including mine!!

I've learned a great deal from this thread and I appreciate everyone's input. Those comments that don't mean much to me, I skip and head to the next one.

 

[aart]

Bee, please don't delete any of your posts. People are at this thread by choice. If they are offended by something said, they can quit reading it. Very simple solution. You have been very honest about what you are doing, why you're doing it and who you are. That, in my opinion, should be applauded. Don't get your feathers ruffled about what people say. Just be yourself. After all, an opinion is exactly that, an opinion--including mine!!

I've learned a great deal from this thread and I appreciate everyone's input. Those comments that don't mean much to me, I skip and head to the next one.

She is being herself......I think she might have been on the debate team in high school, shoulda been a lawyer with her well penned and articulate arguments

 

[spaceylocust]

 

[enola]

Bee has not been here all day

 

[mlowen]

Just my two cents...I read the threads I do, because I think I can get some good, interesting information and certainly different perspectives. If I wanted to just have my own opinion validated, I'd talk to myself. ANY time I see stuff that doesn't apply to me, or "offends" me...I can just skim it. I look for info that I need/want and leave the rest. Being a grown up & all. Threads that do not give me what I am looking for, I just don't read.

I will probably never incubate or brood chicks. This experiment is fascinating and I'm loving the information.

 

[enola]

Now let's carry on this great conversation......

I am following this great thread because for what ever reason my rooster is shooting blanks. My incubator is full of eggs that are infertile. I have made a few adjustments in the feeding program. Two weeks after the nights are warmer if I am not showing fertile eggs. I will cull him.

He will go in the chicken's personal crock pot after I ring his neck. He will cook for about 4 hours, after cooling, I will serve him to the girls. Free protein and calcium. They will eat every bite!

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[LightningTFarm]

I'm with you, mlowen. I have been following this thread since the beginning. I think it is fascinating and I love Bee. I don't thing anything she said was wrong, nor was there anything wrong with how she said it. I just culled two drakes out of my duck flock today, and have more to go but my back started hurting to bad. If you are going to raise livestock, you sometimes have to do the hard thing.......

 

[Beekissed]

I think many are having that same problem here at the end of this hard winter...heard discussion on this on two different breeder threads. Could be why my young rooster is breeding, has red comb and wattles aflyin', but it's just not cutting it. Maybe later when it gets consistently warmer we'll have some fertility? Could this winter have literally frozen their nads off?

 

[LightningTFarm]

Well, enola, I plan on eating my culls myself, not feeding them to the other ducks!! That's part of why I am raising them, and part of how the flock pays for itself. That and all those lovely duck eggs!

 

[subhanalah]

I guess if you edit/delete posts it leaves you a little more deniability with those who weren't able to read those posts.