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[Chickielady]

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the goldish one looks like a BO to me, and Monicas was just saying she wanted some white Polish~~~~
The bobcat scream we heard close and behind our barn...sounded exactly like a cougar scream.
Even checked the 'sounds' websites and the two cats sound alot alike, enough to make you run like hell with all your body hair standing straight out...almost like a half human scream.
I know what you mean by the scream coming from right outside.
Super creepy huh ?!?!

 

[Chickielady]

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I'm so sorry to hear that Jessica... That is a sucky day...

And congrats on the hatching of your eggs! Hope everyone comes out ok for you.

What an awful day !
You set the eggs at 21 days ?
Turkeys at 28 days ?
Well, it seems they are hatching OK, or you have a thermometer that is 10 degrees off like I used to have...mine was 10 degrees too cold, so that hatch was 24 days !!!

 

[Chickielady]

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well, The first Ameraucana to hatch brightened my spirits......It is the prettiest blue! And VERY loud! lol oh and I so far have 5 pheasant out of 21! and still some time to go!!! I did good on my first try I think!

Awesome girl !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have done excellent !!!

Hope all goes on just as good !!!!

Get a few different thermometers and check all in the bator to see if they all read the same...all you can do~
But congrats !!!

We wanna see pictures !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are going to be so addicted now !!! and where is BF ???
He is going to be fascinated and addicted too !!!

 

[Jessica Rabbit]

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I'm so sorry to hear that Jessica... That is a sucky day...

And congrats on the hatching of your eggs! Hope everyone comes out ok for you.

What an awful day !
You set the eggs at 21 days ?
Turkeys at 28 days ?
Well, it seems they are hatching OK, or you have a thermometer that is 10 degrees off like I used to have...mine was 10 degrees too cold, so that hatch was 24 days !!!

Pheasant eggs were set at 21 days, chicken eggs were set at 18 days, turkeys are still in the bator

The thermometer is calibrated correctly.....and the hygrometer so I have no clue what is up!(the only reason I know is because in my business we have to have the good stuff for drying out homes and businesses

) lol Today is day 24 for the pheasants and the majority are hatching today! Already have nine lil buggers and more have already zipped! YAY

The humidity and temp are all over the place now...... not sure what to do but they all seem to be doing great

Here are some new pics!

This one is my FAV so far and no clue what it is.....I am too new to this

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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these are WAY too cute.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Not really so majestic as it is more CREEPY when you walk into a lake into the mountains, turn around and walk out, and realize that there are CAT tracks INSIDE your tracks, following you in. Talk about make all of the hair on your neck stand up. We didn't have a gun, stick, knife....nuthin'. I have got a bit smarter since then.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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What an awful day !
You set the eggs at 21 days ?
Turkeys at 28 days ?
Well, it seems they are hatching OK, or you have a thermometer that is 10 degrees off like I used to have...mine was 10 degrees too cold, so that hatch was 24 days !!!

Pheasant eggs were set at 21 days, chicken eggs were set at 18 days, turkeys are still in the bator

The thermometer is calibrated correctly.....and the hygrometer so I have no clue what is up!(the only reason I know is because in my business we have to have the good stuff for drying out homes and businesses

) lol Today is day 24 for the pheasants and the majority are hatching today! Already have nine lil buggers and more have already zipped! YAY

The humidity and temp are all over the place now...... not sure what to do but they all seem to be doing great

Here are some new pics!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9346.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9345.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9344.jpg
This one is my FAV so far and no clue what it is.....I am too new to this

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9343.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9342.jpg

I am afraid to ever try incubators....but these are sooooo cute. What is the green crystally stuff? I have no clue as I have never done the 'bator thing.

 

[Jessica Rabbit]

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Pheasant eggs were set at 21 days, chicken eggs were set at 18 days, turkeys are still in the bator

The thermometer is calibrated correctly.....and the hygrometer so I have no clue what is up!(the only reason I know is because in my business we have to have the good stuff for drying out homes and businesses

) lol Today is day 24 for the pheasants and the majority are hatching today! Already have nine lil buggers and more have already zipped! YAY

The humidity and temp are all over the place now...... not sure what to do but they all seem to be doing great

Here are some new pics!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9346.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9345.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9344.jpg
This one is my FAV so far and no clue what it is.....I am too new to this

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9343.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55726_img_9342.jpg

I am afraid to ever try incubators....but these are sooooo cute. What is the green crystally stuff? I have no clue as I have never done the 'bator thing.

The green stuff is Grogel

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...638539&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_875wt_1137

 

[Chickaholic]

I am so excited tonight!!! Mygood friend Jess has had chickens and pheasants hatching all day!! Just wanted everyone to know I put my eggs on lockdown tonight (a day early) because we were having babies trying to get out!

So as of right now we have three that are trying and we are trying to wait patiently!!

Temp is good and Humidity is getting there!! Please keep your fingers crossed for me, we had really high temps in the beginning for a short while so I am hoping for a few happy healthy one!!

 

[Chickielady]

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I am thrilled !
But the dig-proof expensive coyote proof fence I just put in is no match for a bobcat...what a beauty it is, too !
So, off to bobcat-proof the pens now~
Had lotys of opposums before elsewhere.
They eat your tree fruit and dog food or cat food left out, and can be a pest with shallow fish ponds, but I have not lost a bird to a possum.
Rats are really bad, they can take eggs and chicks.
Snakes are bad although we just have racers and garters here and DH said he saw a big brown snake, must have been a brown rat snake ?
I am not sure.
Biggest pest here is the crow.
He flies in, walks right in the henhouse and steals eggs and brings lice and disease and there is nothing we can do but birdnet the entire half acre pen.