My brother & I learned LONG AGO not to even attempt to speak to my mother until she finished the first pot & had the 2nd brewing. She makes no sense what-so-ever before then...lmao[COLOR=800080]Ha! Well, if you have to look at the upside![COLOR=0000FF]Oh Joy! Yet another chance to get 'chickens in snow' pics.[/COLOR] .![]()
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[COLOR=800080]That's the color my SLW's laid.[/COLOR]I cant speak for all Wyandottes, but mine lay a very light creamy tanninsh pink color. If that makes sense.WOw! you guys are a posting crazy crew!!that was a lot to catch up on and i have to say.. thats the first baby emu i have ever seen! Adorable!!
I have a question about eggs color. I want to set mainly my BLRW eggs in a week, (ok.. i was going to wait but I am setting these for my dad...) I didnt seperate them from the rest of the flock and I am thinking if I do now.. that they would stop laying for a bit while they adjusted. So, anyone out there know the difference in black astrolorp, buff orp and wyanotte egg colors!? Some are pretty tan, some are brown and some are light and have an almost pinkish tint. I want to set them all and keep the rest of the mutts for myself, but I am not quite ready for more chicks!! I was going to let a silkie sit on a few, but she seems to have stopped being broody...figures!
[COLOR=800080]I'm ashamed to admit I am still clueless about humidity. I don't have a scale to weigh them....Not sure what aircells should look like at different stages....Always went by what my Acurite said and now that I know they are wrong I'm even more lost. I sat down last night and read Brinsea's entire page on humidity and it lost me about half way through. I just don't understand. I am attempting to hatch duck eggs so I know humidity is very important, and I washed the eggs so have read I should up the humidity by 10% more. So, I put 2 pans of water in the bottom, and have slight condensation at the edge of the one door. My untrustworthy Acurites are reading 44% & 46%. I'm going to look up thermoworks and see if they have anything that can help me.[/COLOR]Unlike mammals, the hen determines the sex of her offspring. 17 degrees here now. Hopefully this is the last hard freeze. I found some interesting items for you hatchaholics. Here's a usb data logger for temp, humidity. The less expensive one is accurate to ±1F and 3% humidity The more expensive one is accurate to ±0.6F and humidity ±2% After your hatch you can track your temperature and humidity throughout incubation. http://www.thermoworks.com/products...perature_humidity_loggers.html#Specifications For those with a separate incubator and hatcher, this one is a two channel thermocouple with alarm. It's accurate to within 0.2% so I take that to mean at 100F, it's accurate to ± 0.2F http://thermoworks.com/products/handheld/TW8060.html#SpecificationsDITTO! GO CHICKIES GO!!
We had an excellent hatch of mutt eggs and ccl
But most are BOYS!!! How does gender get chosen and when? should I replace my roos?
[COLOR=800080]How exciting...I love fuzzy babies...any kind will do![/COLOR]About 24 eggs from my pre-HAL test hatch are on day 18 and moving into the hatcher tonight. (Clears out some more space in the incubator for the HAL.) Salmon Faverolles, Barred Rocks and BYMs hatching this weekend. Eggs are looking good with lots of movement:
In other news: One of my goats is showing signs of kidding today and another is imminent. Looking forward to a weekend of cute, fuzzy babies!
[COLOR=800080]Love it! This does about sum it up.... Good Morning! My mom likes to call me early a lot of mornings, her first words "Have you had your coffee yet?". She once took my kids aside and had a talk with them, her advice "kids, don't bother your mom or try to talk to her until she's had her coffee". I love my mom..no one gets me better![/COLOR]