Good Morning! <=2017

Post by **WLLady** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:27 am

Good morning everyone....sun is shining and looks to be another beautiful day! hopefully the temps don't nosedive to the weekend like the weather report is threatening. fingers crossed. my youngsters were a bit chilly this morning at -5. -9 this weekend i may need to set up a lamp for them. Have a pip in the incubator this morning on a turkey egg...they're actually "due" tomorrow....
do you guys remember the chef that contacted me last year and started that whole dark cornish nightmare thing? LOL. talked with him again last night and he's interested in getting more chicks. i guess the recipe was a success with the ones he got last year before they all stopped laying. so...here we go again! LOL. i am trying the 1C difference with them this hatch. so far no pips, but it's still a day early for them. crossing all my fingers and toes....
not much else new.

Hope the turkey is doing better KB!!!

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:41 am

on that.

My hatch due next wed is 4 dozen: it was 6 dozen, but candled out 2 dozen due to fertility. From a 3 dozen egg purchase half not good. We suspect eggs from one breeding pen were not fertile.

Enjoy the day...4 days of rain coming and it'll get cold again.

(How to tell you are talking to a Canuck. Every conversation includes a comment on the weather.)

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:07 am

Good morning, bright and sunny here, time to collect sins of omission from the front lawn, dog is complaining there is no more room.
Lucky two and 3 of his wives have gone to Autumn's, so it's time to put together Wyandotte breeding pens, not sure how the one handed butt trimming is going to go.
Planning to spend the sunny afternoon watching Ameraucanas wading in puddles. :)
Have a safe one!

Eggsaggerate · Post by **Eggsaggerate** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:47 am

Killerbunny wrote:QR_BBPOST And to crown it al I went down to close up the turkeys and it looks like Stephen has got hurt. Maybe slipped in the mud or something. His neck seems crooked and he looks scared. I've put him in a coop on his own so we'll see what the morning brings. He was fine 1/2 hr earlier.

Symptoms sound similar to one of my meat turkeys, if he is with another tom maybe the results of a fight see

Post by **Killerbunny** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 11:04 am

He is 2 yrs old and yes is in with his son (not now). I suspect that is what may have happened. I haven't seen any hard fighting just shoving but could be. He can eat and drink and is starting to walk forward sometimes. I am supporting with vits,electrolytes and Metacam as an anti-inflammatory.
May be just something that takes time. He will not be culled because of his lines unless he gets very bad and also I would need to PM head and neck.

hayladee · Post by **hayladee** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 11:09 am

Morning all, up at 5:30, packed hubby an overnight...he's going to check out a piece of equipment for his company and had to leave for the airport at 6....met him in the barn...ugh...somehow a plug came out of an automatic waterer and the scrape alley was flooded in the cattle barn as well as several pens mostly soggy....and my skid loader is in the shop for repair. Called the neighbor and borrowed theirs, unfortunately it does NOT have a cab and heat like mine....frozen toes from a hole in right boot and walking in 8'' of "nutrient enriched water" and 2 hours later I'm in warming up and the scrape alley is dried up, bedded and silage is done. Currently warming frozen toes then out to start cleaning out flooded bed pack...yeah, my day started out shi**y and will continue thus this afternoon! Oh and another highlight....the state road crew is out front trimming trees along the road. On a good not as I sat here warming up I checked on Euskal Oiloa chicken breeders in Pa and found one only about 50 miles from here in Lancaster county....called him, (he sounds Amish) and he said he has a 6 week waiting list and that these chicks cannot be sexed as chicks so I'm looking at $12 a chick straight run...thinking about it, will wait to see what I hatch.
Another thing this breeder told me .....if I breed a white leghorn to my CCL roo it will not dilute the blue egg coloring offspring but will enhance the egg color and breeding these CCL/L chicks back to a CCL will result in the offspring being "superblue" egg layers..... any opinions as to whether this guy knows what he is talking about.....I'm very new at this stuff and can be easily misled, lol~

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 11:40 am

Good morning everyone.

Last morning, I set up 2 incubators... with chicken eggs. My genesis hovabator, which was used only once.... and not to hatch in even. Its very brand-new looking still. Just abit of water scale in the troughs.

I didn't check them until last night, about 6pm. NO HEAT. Everything is running fine in it. Fan.. digital readouts.. telling me that the set temp is 100F, but that its only 68F inside. Tells the humidity... blah blah blah. I re-plugged in. Heat lamp comes on, but goes right out.

Emailed Berry hill. Told him everything here. Wanted to know where it was stored... power surges.. stuff like that. Told him it was in the bedroom, sitting on a spare bed. And, all the above. I also phoned, after 10pm... cause he hadn't emailed yet. like.... I would like to get this matter resolved right away, so the eggs are NOT too far off the ones I got cooking now. So, I sent another email. I should have said.. if they were going to outright replace it... that I just can't hop in the car, and zoom to St. Thomas... with an afternoon bus run. Well, I COULD have, if I had of gotten someone right away. Of course... NO one answered their damn phones. Probably screening me out, lol.

I bought it June 14th 2015. So... its got a year warranty.. so they'd better do something. I just went thru the GD hassle of shipping eggs... and did anyone know that Purolator doesn't ship live embryo's.... eggs... perishables?? LIKE WTH??????????? Drove all the way to the Hamilton Airport, thinking that they would get it out cheaper/quicker. Had live embryo's on the box... cause a friend told me not to put hatching eggs on it, or it immediately gets flagged as a football... lol.... and they said thats their policy. I said "Ya.. sure, maybe if being shipped to the states". He said no, and I had already declared that there was live things in the box.... HOLY F... I was ready to strangle that old dude in that office.

So... my friend... lol... said, go to Canada Post. They didn't even flinch one way or the other, and out it went. So... don't anybody use Purolator, lol.

Anyhow, I see a nightmare brooding with this incubator. Of course, If I have to ship it back.... I don't have a box big enough, blah blah blah.. another trip to a post office... blah blah blah. I wish people would leave me alone, lol.

ross · Post by **ross** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:16 pm

Another reason I don't mess with incubators . Got 2 hens sitting 10 chanty eggs under chanty banty & a mutt sitting on 12 - 1/2 chanties . Let Mother Nature look after for me . Luck

Post by **Killerbunny** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:28 pm

Have your hens talk to my hens please Ross!

Bobbi · Post by **Bobbi** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:12 pm

Thanks Baron... LOL!