Years back when we lived in east TX, I got an electrical job at a Tyson processing plant. Unless you have been to one, you can't imagine how many chickens these places process. The smell in the chicken processing area was bad but the plant where they make meal for dog food was horrible.(of course that's where they put me, being the new guy) They grind up everything not eatable. and cook it down to a mealy mush.The smell is indescrible. The thing that got me was the people that worked on the processing line. They would come to the cafeteria with chicken blood all over their white work clothes, smelling like a butchered chicken and order fried chicken. I only lasted a week there and didn't eat chicken for months. That was 20 years ago and I still flash back when I see chicken parts in the store or the brown powdery stuff in the bottom of the dog food bowl.lol.. they hatch out fine under broodies.. so I'll be darned if I'll leave the bator closed up and untouched at hatch!
If I'm paying attention to the hatch at all.. I'm opening the bator to check for pips.. removing chicks.. and for waterfowl checking with a candler to make sure they are all working out ok since some waterfowl can have a hard time breaking through those darn thick shells shells.
I've had a few shipped goose eggs with shells so thick the goslings couldn't even pip them.. but once I got things started for them and a few cracks added they made it out just fine
ah.. you get faster as time goes by... plus it gets a lot easier
the worst thing I ever had to do was work at the slaughterhouses (yup.. more than one).. the blood and guts never bothered me.. it was the smell of death that clinged to my skin, hair and clothes.. even in the cafeterias all the meat smelled of death..
I think I went vegan for a bit since all meat smelled like dead animals.. even the stuff I had at home
That's perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. You, my dear BNJRob, are dah bomb!!
I didn'tCurtis had some wonderful Cream Legbar eggs (two more than I paid for, even) for me and I also picked up four BCM eggs from him. Angie (Fowlrus) included 4 extra Muscovy eggs and 4 guinea eggs (gratis) for me. So, my haul home was 14 Muscovy, 8 Cream Legbar, 4 BCM and 4 coral blue guinea....
Guinea eggs!! Any with color??? You could have snagged some and sent them to me. DH had a Kidney transplant in Dec so it will be awhile before we will be going anywhere with a crowd. He doesn't like the guineas anyway, but if you gotta have tick eaters you might as well have pretty ones. For now since YOU aren't enabling me. I'll have to count on Melissa Rose. There is that little issue of a "rare/exotics auction"" or something. To say nothing of all her bators (sighs)well.. came back from Iduma empty handed.. they had lots of peafowl.. a few pairs of ring neck pheasants (and a single lady amherst pheasant).. chickens, guineas, tons of quail (all sorts), chuckar and pigeons.. a few rabbits.. some hatching eggs (guinea and some chickens) and a few adult ducks.. But as for what I was looking for.. they had only one little box of giant pekin ducklings.. one box with a single african gosling.. one box with 2 lonely little rouen or mallard ducklings (un-marked so it's a guess).. and a cage with two unknown goslings of different ages (I suspect mixed.. ).. but none that I felt worth staying around for. I was hoping for more goslings and ducklings.. but they just weren't there todayKili's husband snagged a cabinet incubator before it really hit the auction floor (lol.. a big no-no as far as the rules go.. but I ain't tellin!)and they had their eyes on a pair of the ring neck pheasants.. possibly some chicks (wyandottes)... and who knows what else(I repeat.. i am NOT an enabler.. I am NOT an enabler.. I am NOT an enabler) I did get to see Janice Castleberry and her husband again (they had a new baby zebra born last week and another this morning).. and I'll be going to their place in a week or so to get some infertile ostrich eggs from them if their two girls continue to laye
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I glanced at the several milk crates full of guinea eggs (yeah.. they had a lot).. they were marked by color.. didn't bother to write them down though since I didn't know of anyone here other than Kili that wanted them!
