Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Sclark73]

I just got a call from a lady that wants me to hatch 300 production red chicks but she only has 1a rooster covering 70 hens. Trying to find her some more roos.

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And we just checked what each tray in the monster bator will hold and its 15 dozen per tray for a large brown egg. You can fit more with regular eggs. So I have 10 trays in one incubator, that's 150 dozen minimum!

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[jvls1942]

good morning,

not much happening here yet.. no rain to speak of yet.. a small storm is due here after 9AM..

locking up the dog will do nothing to break it from chasing chickens.. sure she won't be able to chase while she is locked up, but as soon as she is turned loose , off she will go..

I never tie up my dogs as a punishment.. because there are times they have to be tied and then they are confused as what they did wrong.. when I call Gus to come to get tied, he comes right to the coop and lets me snap the chain onto him.. then he crawls inside the coop and lies down.. He knows that it is not permanent , so there is no fuss..

exposure , exposure , exposure,, You have to put the dog on a leash and get her in amongst the chickens.. when she makes a wrong move, you have here right there, a slap on the arse and NO !! with it , is not going to do any harm, physically or mentally ,, You would slap a child on the butt to correct it, wouldn't you ??

I do not agree with a squirt bottle .. With Maremma and any LGD, you do not want to make them afraid of anything.. these dogs have centuries of independent thinking bred into them.. work with them .. they are so easy to train..

I am not an "expert" so you don't have to do as I say.. I am only saying what works for me ..

Now I have to get a bunch of eggs ready to go into the bator.. I might wait to put them in until this afternoon, though.. it depends on if I can fill a whole flat with the ones I have collected already.. 4 dozen to a flat ..
60 to a flat if I use the blue ones.. that is for guinea eggs only ..

cuppa is gone. prolly more posts since I started this one..

..........jiminwisc..........

 

[jvls1942]

stacy, the lady does realize that she is not going to get production red chickens, right ?
you can hatch the eggs from production reds, but they are a hybrid and the eggs will not hatch true.

you might get the egg laying gene, and then again ,,,, and don't expect to get a bunch of red chickens..

I would explain this to the lady before you go ahead.. she might not know ..

Is my math correct ? 10 trays would be 1800 eggs ?
that sounds about correct,,

 

[Sclark73]

stacy,  the lady does realize that she is not going to get production red chickens, right ?
you can hatch the eggs from production reds, but they are a hybrid and the eggs will not hatch true.

you might get the egg laying gene, and then again ,,,,  and don't expect to get a bunch of red chickens..

I would explain this to the lady before you go ahead..  she might not know ..

I was trying a little but she was a bit hard to get thru. She's suppose to call me back in a few days. Im trying to convince her to let me use the prod eggs I get and have been hatching as they are all production brown layers. They are nice and heavy if you want to butcher also. Only difference is they come in an array of colors. She has an egg selling business so in all reality the color of the chicken doesn't matter, just the output.
And yes your math is correct, that's alot of darn eggs.

 

[jvls1942]

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Hey Jim, did you ever have this happen?!

 

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And while I am at it, this is Tiny's new mommy

 

[jvls1942]

And while I am at it, this is Tiny's new mommy

my eyes are not that good, that is a bunny, right ? Nope, but I never had rabbits..

but it doesn't surprise me,, those turkeys are great mothers ..

 

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The first picture is of a tom nesting the eggs.
The second is Dozer mothering the bottle kitten.

 

[Sclark73]

All that time you spent searching Jim for that wrench and I found it in the tub! I have the 110v bator running and working on tearing parts from the other 3 220v machines to make the best of them. Im still not sure how im going to do this as I don't think I can wire another 220amp in the house but I have plenty in the barn. I don't want it out there though. My only other option is to gut the 110 and put all those parts in the 220 machine.