South Carolina

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I don't want your guineas......I want your brooder hutch!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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That stuff is not cheap anywhere. Not a big difference in price really that I know......unless you are a good customer to a "private owned" feed store that loves ya enough to order you some welded wire at cost.

It runs just a few dollars difference between TSC and Lowes I think.

 

[emptynester]

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I do have a wonderful husband, it's true.

And he lets me keep chickens in our backyard, and he has built pens. I just figure, since I have so many roosters...who will end up in freezer camp shortly unless they replace an old one who needs to be retired..... And then he can build a pen so that I can start to keep BLRW!! Doesn't that make more since? The good of the many outweigh the need of the one??

 

[emptynester]

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I so love Mr. Boots!! He makes me laugh every day. When he sees me coming to the run, he starts clucking and hopping around getting all excited- it is the cutest thing! And he is such a gentleman. All the girls like him! I think once this batch of eggs gets done in the incubator I might try and hatch some of his and see what happens.

School was long. I hit your neck of the woods about 10:20 ish and got home at 11. Maybe we can make plans to go grab a bite to eat together one Thursday before I go to class.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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That would be fun! I could see if hubby would baby sit!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Oh, to be down where you all are and smell the sea salt!

Hear the waves crashing to shore, see the gulls flying around and complaining about sand in my....er, toes.

I am so hoping to go to Charleston in Sept. Still waiting on the insurance adjuster to decide if they will pay for our new furnace and AC wiring.

 

[phoneman]

has anyone tried hatching eggs without putting water in the incabator until day 18. i have 57 ameruacana eggs in now.they have been in the incabator 10 days now what does anyone think about this

 

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

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Yup!! Doing that rt now. Humidity ranges from 35- 40% without adding water. Ive candled several times, and everything seems to be developing on schedule. No problems. The reason I chose to do it this time was b/c when it came time to add more water, I had trouble getting it to increase enough. My thinking is there should most def be an increase in humidity when going from zero to some vs. some to more.

 

[emptynester]

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I didn't put water in mine either. Set this batch June 20 th and they are developing just fine from what I can tell- It's my first time

I had to take the water out because the humidity was staying at 65%. Without the water it's staying at 40 %. I plan to add water the last three days.

 

[phoneman]

thanks for the support i have around 40 more eggs that i will add this weekend