South Carolina

[WestKnollAmy]

Gotta love the emails from folks that hatch out chicks from shipped eggs and then complain because they don't hatch out well or die within a few days. Love the words "I kept the temp correct and added water when I was supposed to".

That tells me so much! Actually, it does. But thankfully, I don;t get many of these emails but like Kimberly and I had discussed earlier, everyone does it differently and hatching out or NOT hatching out chicks is usually something to do with the one setting the eggs. If they develop and hatch (and the buyer doesn't toss them on day 4 because they can't see a chick inside!) that is progress.
Why do some folks think that with shipped eggs you should get a 100% hatch? I am thrilled if I do and I actually have had it happen a few times but I have been hatching out thousands of chicks for a good long while!

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

Gotta love the emails from folks that hatch out chicks from shipped eggs and then complain because they don't hatch out well or die within a few days. Love the words "I kept the temp correct and added water when I was supposed to".

That tells me so much! Actually, it does. But thankfully, I don;t get many of these emails but like Kimberly and I had discussed earlier, everyone does it differently and hatching out or NOT hatching out chicks is usually something to do with the one setting the eggs. If they develop and hatch (and the buyer doesn't toss them on day 4 because they can't see a chick inside!) that is progress.
Why do some folks think that with shipped eggs you should get a 100% hatch? I am thrilled if I do and I actually have had it happen a few times but I have been hatching out thousands of chicks for a good long while!

I only hope for 50% hatch if the PO handles them. If I get better than that, I feel blessed.
I usually get good hatch rates out of my own, if DH doesn't turn the air down to 65 in the summer when he gets home from work.

I just filled up one incubator with eggs-orpingtons and a couple of silkies.
Amy are you going to have empty space in your incubator
when I get back from Newnan.

I only have 1 more incubator. Guess I may have to build one

 

[dixiebeast]

Oh ..pretty boy....ETA I qouted Joys qoute on your D'anver boy!lol I love him though!

Pics are great, beautiful roo!

 

[Keileigh]

You grew up near another poster that is on here, Blueberry Hill. She lives on a road behind Mountain Creek Church.
Remember the horses that were in the little pasture with the pond across from the Mountain Creek church? One of those was mine up until about 1983. I got married in 1980 but was born and raised right there in that neighborhood. Rode horses over to Paris Mtn State Park many, many days and trained for Endurance Riding up the mountain a good bit.
LOL Now I live off of Hwy 14 north of Greer so not far from where your hubby works!
I still have a horse in my backyard. I love the old butt head!

I do remember horses in that pasture, though I wasn't born until '81, so I might not be remembering yours. I was disappointed when they put a house on that land -- the horses, pond, and little stable were so picturesque, especially in the fall when the sugar maple beside the fence was brilliant. The area has changed a lot since I was little -- so many new subdivisions and traffic up State Park Rd. towards TR! My parents' neighbor across the street has been on that land since the 1940s, and she remembers counting cars with her husband on what's now East Mountain Creek Rd. -- anything more than two cars every 15 minutes was terribly busy. Mrs. Roberts, whose pasture was on the corner just up from where your horse lived, died in November. I think she was 103, and until very recently, it wasn't unusual to see her out in her front yard pushing a mower. When she was young her family owned a LOT of the land around there. It was taken by the government during WWI to serve as an artillery range for Camp Sevier, and she told a story once about trying to sneak back in one summer to get peaches from the trees near their house. They got caught, of course, and kicked out. They got the land back after the war, and eventually sold most of it. My mom has always been terrified that we'll be tilling the garden or something and come across an unexploded artillery round! Sorry for rambling -- there are so many stories about that place and I get carried away! and thanks, I'll have to look up Blueberry Hill. I'd love to come see your place sometime, especially since we're so close by. Have a great day!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

We used to have our horses in Mrs. Roberts pasture, too. Long before we moved them over to the little barn and pasture with the pond. My fiend and I liked to keep our horses up so we could have them clipped for winter riding. She did hunter/jumper and I did ...everything! I used to do endurance at the same time as some 3 day eventing and also ran barrel racing and timed events with the same horse. people said it could not be done but me and my little horse placed in the top 10 consistently in all events that we entered.
Amazing that Mrs. Roberts lived so long! Pebble Creek had been trying to buy her land forever and she would not sell. I did enjoy talking with her and listening to the history of that area since I was born and raised so close.
I knew the Pollards that live on State Park Rd there, too. Around the curve from the church. They had horses for many, many years. Haven't been by their place in a few years though so I am not sure if they still do. Always loved to see their Palominos. A color I have never owned but wanted to.

We used to be able to ride horses up and down State Park Rd without any problem with traffic and Mountain Creek Road, too. Those roads all back in the neighborhoods used to be so familiar to us and we tried to ride through Pebble Creek when they began building it up but the people who ran the subdivisions and Golf course did not want us in there because the horses pooped in the road and it looked bad.

We did not ride in the yards or on the Golf courses but they would stop us on the road and tell us to get out. Many times they threatened us and once called the police to which we had to stand around and wait for them to show up so we could prove once and for all that we could legally ride our horses on the public roads. they still tormented us though and we stuck to riding into the Paris Mountain State park for fun instead and later just hauling our horses up to Pisgah National Forest for days of fun.
It did build up fast in that area though!

Oh my! You weren't born til 81? Nope, you won't remember my horses then. We moved them closer to TR a few years after we were married sicne we lived more up that way and then bought this farm in '86 so all our horses were moved out here. We have only one old horse left now. He was our breeding stallion but I had him castrated when we sold all our mares when he was 10.

So nice to know someone from my old stomping grounds, even if it was a while after I left. My mom and brother lived over there until they passed away a few years ago and we sold Mom's house but my niece and nephew still live in my brother's house across the street from where I grew up. My how that area has changed! I was amazed to see a red light put in last time I went through there!

I would love to have you visit sometime! Most everyone on this thread that lives close to me has been here to the farm and I enjoy visits!

 

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

Yes, ppl love to visit your place
i need an Amy fix

 

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

I still have silkie eggs aval. No takers?

 

[thuyandme]

Greetings from the Lowcountry of SC. New to Forum. New To Backyard Chickens, trying to catch up to many of my neighbors who have been enjoying this for years! Building my tractor this weekend, will post pictures in process and when complete! Anyone else from the Lowcountry / Charleston Area?

 

[Joycats]

I still have silkie eggs aval. No takers?

I want them, just can't figure out where you are!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I only hope for 50% hatch if the PO handles them. If I get better than that, I feel blessed.
I usually get good hatch rates out of my own, if DH doesn't turn the air down to 65 in the summer when he gets home from work.

I just filled up one incubator with eggs-orpingtons and a couple of silkies.
Amy are you going to have empty space in your incubator
when I get back from Newnan.

I only have 1 more incubator. Guess I may have to build one

You, Miss Mary, understand the trials of shipped eggs. I feel lucky to get a 50% hatch, too from shipped eggs. I read on one website that even from your own chickens you should feel lucky if you get a 70% hatch each time. If that is truly the case, I must be doing something right because I get about a 95% hatch rate from my own here and if you only count some breeds it is 99%.
But I do try to up the possibility for my shipped eggs and my own here by adding extra vitamins. Something I feel commercial feeds and even local feeds are lacking in. Since I added a regime of vitamins I have recorded increased productivity and hatchability. But I also have stressed the point that Silkies need extra Vit. E. And that includes my Sizzles.

And of course, Mary! I would be happy to set eggs for you if you do not have space. It will only cost you......a jar of honey!