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[perchie.girl]

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Dark plastic and you can hang a shop light in there... That will keep the temps up.


Dad used to have to smudge Orange groves before going to school when he was a teen

deb

 

[Peep_Show]

Okay you chicken sexperts. Any guesses on gender of this six-week old TJ's chick? (the aforementioned sky pilot...yeah, flighty)

 

[perchie.girl]

Sorry guys​

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(CNN) -- A strong storm over the Bering Sea -- the remnants of Super Typhoon Nuri -- will bring intense winds, massive waves and heavy rain and snow to coastal Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.​

But don't ignore it just because it is a sparsely populated area with residents who are accustomed to severe weather. The powerful storm will whip the jet stream, causing a ripple effect that will carry the cold air to the East Coast.​

This arctic outbreak will funnel down through Canada over the next week, bringing a deep freeze to the eastern United States, with temperatures forecast 20 degrees below average.​

we will likely get a taste of that as the fringes roll along the Pacific rim... Last time the jet stream touched down at my house the humidity went to about 10 and the temps went to 5 degrees. I lost a pipe in the green house .....

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

Okay you chicken sexperts. Any guesses on gender of this six-week old TJ's chick? (the aforementioned sky pilot...yeah, flighty)

To me it looks pretty rooish large come coming on and not much of a tail. What kind is it?

 

[hennible]

Yeah... I just can't decide... That chicken has a very broad beak, kind of just makes it look masculine....

 

[Peep_Show]

Not sure because it was a supermarket egg. Some sort of production white, like a California White or Austra White. Hatched out yellow with black dots.

 

[chickadoodles]

Good luck it is cute. What's the story with the supermarket egg. I would never thing to hatch a supermarket egg.

 

[Peep_Show]

It's from a store called Trader Joe's (a chain predominantly in the west, I believe) and there's a forum thread on BYC with a club of those that have hatched their fertile eggs. Kind of a novelty, kind of a challenge. Those that live in CA have a better hatch rate than those of us elsewhere. I had 3 of 12 that formulated this time, but only one hatched. Luckily I had other eggs going so the chick is not lonely. I usually use the TJ eggs as filler in the incubator. At $2.99/doz it's the cheapest fertile eggs out there!

 

[perchie.girl]

It's from a store called Trader Joe's (a chain predominantly in the west, I believe) and there's a forum thread on BYC with a club of those that have hatched their fertile eggs. Kind of a novelty, kind of a challenge. Those that live in CA have a better hatch rate than those of us elsewhere. I had 3 of 12 that formulated this time, but only one hatched. Luckily I had other eggs going so the chick is not lonely. I usually use the TJ eggs as filler in the incubator. At $2.99/doz it's the cheapest fertile eggs out there!

Yep Sprouts too... for those who are interested they are kept at 45 degrees once they get to the distributor and are guaranteed to be in the store within 72 hours? any way very little time from being laid to putting in the store. There is a code on the carton but I never tried to figure it out...

Key is the carton says fertile...

deb

 

[Peep_Show]

The code is the Julian date...what day of the year the eggs were packed on, a 3-digit number near the Use By date. So you wander into the store knowing what today's Julian date is and look for the highest number closest to today's date.

And you could always do like I did...ask a clerk if there's anything fresher in the back. Got some eggs that were just 3 days packed that way vs. the 10-day old ones on the shelf.