The Front Porch Swing

[SonRise Silkies]

WHAT are you talking about????

I've started Nest #4 and this is the winner! I have 27 in the clutch and from just a few cursory candlings I have identified 3-4 that may not be fertile and the rest are developing right on track! Which means this method really works and I just didn't have viable eggs in the previous clutches...and this could turn into being the most simple method of incubation outside of a broody hen's nest!

I have read all the back pages [most of them] and I can't find what you are speaking of. PLEASE tell me! I asked this question the other day too, no one answers......

at least someone please tell me what page or post # so I can go find it. Please!

 

[SonRise Silkies]

Please excuse me for yelling.

I got excited

 

[Beekissed]

WHAT are you talking about????

I've started Nest #4 and this is the winner! I have 27 in the clutch and from just a few cursory candlings I have identified 3-4 that may not be fertile and the rest are developing right on track! Which means this method really works and I just didn't have viable eggs in the previous clutches...and this could turn into being the most simple method of incubation outside of a broody hen's nest!

I have read all the back pages [most of them] and I can't find what you are speaking of. PLEASE tell me! I asked this question the other day too, no one answers......

at least someone please tell me what page or post # so I can go find it. Please!

No worries! I'm sorry if I didn't see that you had asked previously....here's the link to the thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ral-nest-incubation-experiment-1-so-it-begins

It's a long thread now, so if you don't want to read the whole thing I can give you a run down after you read the first page and see what I'm experimenting with. As far as I can tell from research on the web, no one has done or is doing this method of incubation so I'm pretty excited to try it and also have it be a success.

 

[SonRise Silkies]

178 PAGES!!!!!!! Are you serious!!!!

I'll get back to you in a few days!!!!!!!
ps thanks!

 

[SonRise Silkies]

ooops was yelling again! You realize this is going to seriously cut down on my "swinging" on the porch while I read this?
Sounds veerrryyyy interesting! Also like work! I think I'll take my Hov-a bator.
I applaud you though, you got it figured out. You indeed Do have chicken brains. HUH?

 

[Beekissed]

ooops was yelling again! You realize this is going to seriously cut down on my "swinging" on the porch while I read this?
Sounds veerrryyyy interesting! Also like work! I think I'll take my Hov-a bator.
I applaud you though, you got it figured out. You indeed Do have chicken brains. HUH?

Work? I do nothing but look at the thermometer and turn the eggs X3 a day. That's it. You have to read about how it's all been streamlined now until there is really no work involved. And the materials didn't cost as much as a Hovabator.

I've read all about how fussy those incubators are....take out this plug, drip water onto the sponge on this day, lock down and don't open the hood, watch for humidity and temp spikes or dips and accommodate by adding this or that to the 'bator, etc.

Reading about all that is what prompted me to try a simple simulated broody hatch...and it's working.

 

[TexasLisa]

178 PAGES!!!!!!! Are you serious!!!!

I'll get back to you in a few days!!!!!!!
ps thanks!

 

[Blooie]

So true, reminds me of how the hairs will grow back out on your legs (after you've shave them) when you get a chill. lol

Shave them? The backs of our legs have to be shaved too? Sheesh, I usually just shave the fronts - the parts I see when I sit down. <sigh> Live and learn.

awwww...I saw and read what happened blooie.

Sometimes people and their way with words can rub the rest of us the wrong way.

I was the one who was out of line in this situation, and I know it. She posted a kinda sorta apology which I just skimmed while I was in Cody, so I'll go back and read it. I think I was just overtired. Sorry I went off. Not like me....

Goodmorning, everyone! After I caught up on the thread last night, my brain was mush. After a good sleep, the 2 things that stuck out in my mind was the example Lindz set how to be thankful even when things are going tough! And Bee's challenge to find things to be thankful for when you wake up in the morning. This morning, as I went outside at 5:45 to chore, I was thankful that the sky had light in the horizon. Thankful there was no wind. Thankful for our neighbourhood owl hooting good morning. Thankful for clean underwear. Thankful for coffee. Thankful for a job that I enjoy doing. It's going to be a wonderful day. Hope you enjoy it too! See you after work. Maybe someone will bake cookies today... with chocolate in them.....

Um, do they hafta have chocolate? How about just a few without. I'd be ever so grateful!

Getting the duck food up to speed is the next "tweak".

Um, they like popcorn. Does that help?

ooops was yelling again! You realize this is going to seriously cut down on my "swinging" on the porch while I read this?
Sounds veerrryyyy interesting! Also like work! I think I'll take my Hov-a bator.
I applaud you though, you got it figured out. You indeed Do have chicken brains. HUH?

HA! I'm not the only birdbrain on this porch!

 

[Blooie]

Okay, I feel much better. Read what she wrote, and issued an apology of my own. Dad used to tell us that when you make a mistake, the apology is a good start, but the actions afterwards are what count. So now it's totally up to me to watch my temper, mind my words, and let things that shouldn't affect me slide off, like chicken poop off a cell phone. (But that's way beside the point!)

 

[LindaB220]

Work? I do nothing but look at the thermometer and turn the eggs X3 a day. That's it. You have to read about how it's all been streamlined now until there is really no work involved. And the materials didn't cost as much as a Hovabator.

I've read all about how fussy those incubators are....take out this plug, drip water onto the sponge on this day, lock down and don't open the hood, watch for humidity and temp spikes or dips and accommodate by adding this or that to the 'bator, etc.

Reading about all that is what prompted me to try a simple simulated broody hatch...and it's working.

Yes, I think you should do a simple one page outline on the streamlined version. I missed a lot of the middle of it.

I mentioned on the other FF thread about raising mangle beets for fodder in place of some grains. Here's an article on it.
http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/FS053E/FS053E.pdf