Pearce Pastures: Where did I go?

[Southern by choice]

Morning Pearce! Candling is great! We candle at 5 days, 11 days sometimes day 15/17. The only problem is dark eggs, even our EE eggs, depending on the green color and how dark it is, you can't see through the shell. You can see the air sack usually, but not if there are vessels or a blood ring. When I can't see then I leave the egg and at 15/17 day I will smell each egg (I've got a good sniffer )
If it smells, it goes. Sounds like you may have gotten a hova bator. They are good little bators. The auto turner is a must! All our eggs incubate 2 days early . Everytime I think it's about time to take them out of the turner, there are usually a few already pipped.
Remember you can also "Tylan Dip" your eggs to irradicate MG carriers! That's a good thing if you will be selling day old chicks.

Congrats on your new adventure in hatching.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Thanks Southern! It is a Farm Innovators model. I love how easy it was to get the temp and humidity stable. I am ordering the powdered Tylan you talked to me about. This batch will likely end up being eaten once they get bigger since we don't really need more layers at this point. With the next batch we do, which will probably be in the Spring, I will do the dip just to be safe since my son might want to sell some.

 

[Bridgemoof]

That's a really great and thoughtful gift for your kids, and to have eggs ready to hatch. Yay! That will be so exciting on Christmas if they hatch! We had some eggs that were supposed to hatch last year at Christmas. One was born early, so we named it "Early Jesus."

 

[Southern by choice]

There is another "trick" in incubating that I find works well. Everyday lift the lid to your bator for at least 5 minutes. It will take another 20-30 minutes for temp/humidity to stabilize but this mimics the hen getting off her nest to eat and drink. In nature this is natural, they get off once a day, usually morning. The newer cabinet style incubators are also now trying to cycle an "off" time to mimic "mom".


This will be fun to follow! I my poultry.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

My dad is driving home from work tonight, when a kid turn right into him, smashing into his door full on, tossing his van into the air, and then takes off, not bothering to check if my dad is even alive still. They were right in front of the high school, and the kid tries to duck into the back parking lot of the school, of course not realizing there is only one one in and out so it didn't take long for cops to find him.

My dad is banged up but, praise God, alive and nothing broken (don't know how because the van is totaled and is unbelievably smashed up). But get this...the kid JUST got his license and had another teen in the car with him (against the law in Indiana), left the scene of an accident, and tried to evade discovery. Did he get arrested? Nope. Ticketed? Nope. Oh, but he apologized, right? HA!

I am fit to be tied! You almost killed my father, took off instead of checking on him, tried to hide, broke an additional law by having an underage passenger, but 'eh we will let it slide? After I calm down, I might be making a call tomorrow to get some kind of explanation.

 

[Roll farms]

So glad your dad is ok.

Can't think of anything nice to say about the rest of it, so I'd better just be quiet.

 

[Southern by choice]

By Law the officer does have to decide who is at fault for insurance purposes, I don't think this is over. The officer still has to write a traffic accident report.

Most importantly, your dad is ok! I hope he still went to the hospital.

 

[bonbean01]

So glad your Dad is okay!!!!

If I got either of my kids or stepkids an incubator....they'd think...what the @@(&%%^&(&_@&^(@&&@% !!!! Now...if I got my granddaughter, the wanna be farmer one she would probably pee her pants with excitement And my daughter would say...thanks Mom sarcastically but get into it first hatch

As for candling...the quail with the many spots on their eggs were hard to candle...the bantam's white eggs were easy...now the dark brown Rhode Island Red eggs were impossible...they are too dark.

 

[CocoNUT]

Oh Pearce - I'm so glad your father is OK! Seriously!

As far as the kid walking away scott-free...the accident still has to be written up. It SHOULD'VE been done at the scene! I wonder if his dad is someone "known" in town or something? That kinda stuff irritates me. Again, keep us updated on what becomes of the ticketing or what have you and how your father is doing. I'm sure he'll be sore later...that sucks. Thank goodness he's ok though - cars can be replaced, he can't be.

An incubator? Man...your kids are lucky! I've been trying to tell my DH to make me one...since last year! Although he's probably smart to not build me one...since we'd be covered in chickens if he did!

@bon - my mom would roll her eyes if i told her i got an incubator! Heck...I could HEAR her rolling her eyes and SIGHING at me when she finally realized we have a lamb! (She thinks this is a phase....)

 

[bonbean01]

hahahahaha Coco

Once she meets your lamb she will be in love