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[Heidisgran]

it's very hard to remain silent when you know some advise is very harmful!! if someone gets offended because they have a giant ego then let them leave!

 

[hensfortherapy]

Well I hope MsJellybean gets her chicks some day. They are great therapy and there are many different approaches to keeping chickens.

 

[Heidisgran]

Well I hope MsJellybean gets her chicks some day. They are great therapy and there are many different approaches to keeping chickens.

yes there are! and I don't usually chime in but I've seen her and one other person in the last several months practically run off some regulars due to the constant snarky uneducated comments and the advise I've referred to was at great financial expense when followed!! but when anyone made a comment that they disapproved of they would flag them and cause drama...it's been going on for at least 6 mos...all but became their personal thread for a long while! needless to say I know the behind the scenes...there has been unbelievable drama due to egos....as you said many ways work in different situations! so ask yourself why would anyone become offended if your opinion differs??

anyway this thread use to be so much fun! spent so much wasted time enjoying catching up!!! hoping it gets that vibe back!

 

[deepeasttexas]

Then we really are neighbors, because I live on the north side of Appleby! If you ever want any duck eggs just PM me and we will work out a way to meet up. My late uncle and aunt, Stewart and Betty Todd, lived in Garrison for years.

Do you mean to eat or hatch ? Can't say that I have ever eaten duck eggs.

After reading another of your posts, I guess that was a stupid question.
My wife would like to get a duck for a pet. Do you think it could stay with the chickens so it would be safe ?

 

[SlipsWife]

I'm so disappointed. It looks like all of my CL eggs stopped developing. They are due to hatch Monday/Tuesday, I set them late during the day. Out of the 6 we set, one didn't develop, 2 quit around a week and it looks like the other 3 quit not long after that, maybe 10/14 days? The 3 bantam EE eggs have been looking wonderful, and today we only noticed movement in one. Both Turken eggs have been looking great and today we only saw movement in 1. The shipped eggs are to dark to really tell anything other than air cells. The few eggs I'm still not sure on still have a large amount of room at the bottom.

I'm not sure what I did wrong to have quitters at so many different stages. I'm not giving up, and not pulling any unless they are obvious, which a number of them are...I'm trying a dry hatch and plan to add a wet sponge on Friday when I remove the turner tray. I had a little issue with temps around 10 days when I removed a red plug from the FI4200. I've read to leave both plugs in to cause a little stress to the chicks. The temp issues weren't really drastic and were straightened out but this does seem to be the timeline most stopped developing. Should I have left the plugs in until hatch?

I candled Monday and everything looked so much more promising...that was day 14. The air cells on the eggs that weren't shipped and were from our own group that looked fine, are now tilted, if that makes sense. I put the home eggs in as a control, to see if I could hatch them even if the shipped eggs didn't hatch. I seem to have failed.

I have NN eggs coming next week and oversold my EE's because the shipped eggs we have are silkied ameraucana. Now I'm nervous to incubate the new eggs and wondering if I need to order a few EE's. If my own personal eggs aren't going to make it, the shipped eggs probably don't stand much of a chance either...

 

[TexasLisa]

This is a Good Note, congratulation Sis

32 years ... and they still romanticly walk up the hill enjoying the full moon .. every time she sees a skunk.

You are so special Hung!! How is little Charlie doing?

Lisa

 

[Heidisgran]

I'm so disappointed. It looks like all of my CL eggs stopped developing. They are due to hatch Monday/Tuesday, I set them late during the day. Out of the 6 we set, one didn't develop, 2 quit around a week and it looks like the other 3 quit not long after that, maybe 10/14 days? The 3 bantam EE eggs have been looking wonderful, and today we only noticed movement in one. Both Turken eggs have been looking great and today we only saw movement in 1. The shipped eggs are to dark to really tell anything other than air cells. The few eggs I'm still not sure on still have a large amount of room at the bottom.

I'm not sure what I did wrong to have quitters at so many different stages. I'm not giving up, and not pulling any unless they are obvious, which a number of them are...I'm trying a dry hatch and plan to add a wet sponge on Friday when I remove the turner tray. I had a little issue with temps around 10 days when I removed a red plug from the FI4200. I've read to leave both plugs in to cause a little stress to the chicks. The temp issues weren't really drastic and were straightened out but this does seem to be the timeline most stopped developing. Should I have left the plugs in until hatch?

I candled Monday and everything looked so much more promising...that was day 14. The air cells on the eggs that weren't shipped and were from our own group that looked fine, are now tilted, if that makes sense. I put the home eggs in as a control, to see if I could hatch them even if the shipped eggs didn't hatch. I seem to have failed.

I have NN eggs coming next week and oversold my EE's because the shipped eggs we have are silkied ameraucana. Now I'm nervous to incubate the new eggs and wondering if I need to order a few EE's. If my own personal eggs aren't going to make it, the shipped eggs probably don't stand much of a chance either...

if it's personal eggs I would be concerned with the health of the parent birds! maybe pump up their vitamins! it's been a hard winter for the birds...takes extra out of them

the empty spot on the small end is unabsorbed yolk...between now and Monday or Tuesday is a long time for a developing chick

another thing is these last several days they don't move much...they are absorbing and preparing for hatch day so don't give up on them

 

[hungnguyen]

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Don't feel tto bad. I had none hatched last month when I tried to incubate too. Incubation usually doesn't have high percentage. Try to use the hen or ... try again.

 

[hungnguyen]

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OMG !!! Granma, should I share this with Charlie Brown .... if he asks how EE eggs are made

 

[magpiesing]

Good day folks...We've been really busy this week putting up new 6 ft chicken fence and getting the garden fenced. Finished yesterday. No more escaping chickens. I guess mine are too heavy to fly over. Still going to cover it though...eventually.

Little ones are too big for their little coop so pen for them is next project.

My sebright is now happily nesting in her dog crate. She has six assorted eggs. Don't know yet if any are good eggs, gonna check them in a few days...been 6 days so far.

Sorry to hear about MsJellybean...I'll miss her and her recipes.
I haven't been here long enough to know the issues, just thought she was a sweet lady.
It's sad that people hurt others for any reason.

As for me, knowing almost nothing about chicken keeping, if I post anything in error I would hope that someone will let me know. I would not be angry and I would hope that nothing bad would come from my mistake.

On a sad note...my double yellow head Amazon parrot I've had for 35 years passed away last night, she was hatched in 1974, she was 5 yrs old when I got her. Don't know what happened, just know she hadn't been her self the last few days...she'd been entirely too quiet... LOL...not eating her favorite food...pecans. Anyway, it's ok. We only took her because she would have died if we had left her with my Ex. She was truly an obnoxious bird...she was loud , she squawked when the TV was on or when we tried to talk. She would bite almost anyone. But she was spoiled rotten and had a good life in a big cage. Which I won't miss cleaning. So she will be missed...sorta.

Well, on to the next project on the list.

Good day all...Magpie