Say it with me..
I will buy no eggs until it is time....
I will buy no eggs until it is time....
I will buy no eggs until it is time....
Think it's helping??
That would be awesome to have 2 bators and a hatcher! I'm in heaven.. LOL
Here we go... Buckle your seat belts please!
I will buy no eggs until it is time...
I will buy no eggs until it is time...
I will buy no eggs until it is time...
I will buy no eggs until it is time...
I will buy very few eggs until it is time...
I will buy no eggs until it is time...
I will buy no eggs until it is time...
I will buy no eggs until it is time...
I will buy no eggs until it is time...
lol I looked and YES you are.
SSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Just keeping my head down and hoping for outbidders.
I don't know how to keep myself away from the bantam silver ameraucana eggs on eggbid...
Moxon--we're here for you. Remember your mantra--forget your inner child. Be strong. Be wise. Feed the pig.
Hey, I don't remember silver ameraucana bantams on egg.bid! Maybe I could go and just look at what else has shown up in the last few hours....
Yes, yes, You'll be fine. Strong, wise, pig....Gotta go.....
Here, let me help you forget your inner child too. Be strong and wise. Feed the chickens.
http://www.eggbid.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=1222475175
Ha! I already looked!
Ooooh, lemon, blue and grey d'uccles...
See...it's not so easy being good is it?
LOL I'm stayin out of this..
Catscan, there is ALWAYS room in my bator for your eggs.. Just go with it.. LOL
ZZ....the extreme enabler....
You heard ZZ! It is in writing. Apparently she is unaware of the true magnitude of last nights egg bender.
Egg bender....snicker...you make it sound like you were drinking them!
LOL Well, I'm just tryin to be neighborly... he he he
Do you realize how many "spots" we have between us?
Good thing Ed has 5 acres! LOL
I was drinking--in the great diversity of chickendom!
I love Ed.
LOL
You've got dmail...
I moved the coop frame today... (sometimes it would come in handy to have a significant other) I'll be walking like a chimpanzee tomorrow..
But it's level and in the permanent place. I will never try to build a coop without plans again... I've worked on it enough to have two built by now and it's still 1/2 way framed. Oh well.. sorry to vent here..
I'm gonna love it when it's done.
I've got eggiez to keep me busy in the meantime.
catscan and CMOXON, regarding bantam silver ameracauna eggs...
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ZZ, you poor dear Chicken Head. Please have a nice long soak in the tub. I will keep watching over your babies.
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CF
This message was edited Sep 28, 2008 1:59 AM
Ah O
Uh...too late...
Thank you Great CF! I knew it was you!!!
lift off is in full swing
Commander Josh & Commander Jordan, I set up a new thread for our communal pips.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/907646/
I have a question not to offend but are yall really paying that much for these eggs?
I can buy all of those breeds eggs $5 dozen chicks $2 each Adult birds $10 to $15 each and all are show quality.
I'm blown away how much the bidders are paying for 6 eggs>>>>Just absoulutly astonished..............
I have a trio of lemon blues just like those and i gave $25 for them.
Depends on the breed, but I'm generally paying $10 to $15 for a dozen + eggs plus shipping usually another $12. I can't get them locally - eggs or chicks. I can get chicks by mail from Sandhill Preservation (in Iowa) but only straight run and only in minimum of 25 order.
WOW!
The only eggs I've seen locally are white leghorns and barred rocks.
Didn't mean to sound like it's outragous to pay that much.
I was just like OMG at the prices for hatching eggs :)
I truly understand the supply and demand thing :)
Catscan,
do you have the website that compared the incubators? HeeHee-My DH asked me if I wanted to get one! So I cautiously asked-like the one we had before?(i had no luck!) and he said no a good one.
I do, saanansandy--I'll look it up and report.
Okay here it is--I think it gives a slight advantage to the Little Giant--but I can't keep the RH up in it without sponges--ZZ has both and much prefers the Hoverbator--better RH control and easier to clean.
http://www.poultryconnection.com/quackers/incubator/batortest.html
This message was edited Sep 29, 2008 10:29 PM
Just saw this thread. Read where someone wanted to know if they should write on the eggs with pencil or a marker. I'd say pencil cause a marker has chemicals in the ink which might get into the eggs.
Just a thought.
MollyD
ZZ - how are your eggs now? Have you done any candling yet? I candled eggs that I put in on the 24th and had visible development in some. Maybe you will see something now?
There are definitely changes.. in the eggs... My eyes are not trained to know what I'm looking at enough to really know.. Out of 7, there are 2 that I'm sure aren't good...They are clear or have a moving bubble or dark dot..
The others are growing... The dark area is bigger.. no spider veins yet that I can see.. but the dark area is growing.. and no sloshy stuff.. no moving bubble...
Is that what I'm looking for? Tell me those are my babiez.. Tell me I have showgirls in there!!!
Probably those are your good ones. Mine I can see a reddish/brownish dot and on some of them I can see veins coming out from it. I should try to take some pix tonight and show you. The reddish brownish dot doesn't move within the egg though. It tends to be stationary against one side.
We have spider web veins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can see the dark area is sooo growing.. on 2 the webbing is definite.
This is where you learn to NOT get too eggcited and drop em! OR even come close and faint.. LOL
Waaaahooooooo!!!!! Awesome news ZZ!! I knew you'd see 'em. Another thing about getting too excited is not pushing the flashlight into them so hard that you crack them. I can barely contain myself when I see the veins and I have to put the egg down before doing the happy hatching dance.
I will start another thread when the actual countdown begins.. but I just candled my eggs and saw a BABY MOVING INSIDE!!!!!!!! I have a tiny Serama kicking around and it is only 1/2 ripe! LOL
There are some Silkies too.. I'm goin nutz here.. One lifted what I swear was a wing stick lookin thing.. LOL Oh gosh.. The babiez are KICKING!!!!!!!!!!
No more spider veins.. we got life!!!!!!!! What a miracle of life.. I mean this is the best thing ever.. I cooked up some babiez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They stop turning Next Wednesday.....
You go girl!!! You cooked up those babiez just perfectly! I think that candling at the moving-baby-inside-the-egg stage is the coolest thing. All of a sudden it goes from being an egg to a chick! Poof! As they get closer to hatching and you candle, you are likely to see no more movement. This is because they are totally filling the egg except for the air space, so you don't see them move because there is no air space to view them moving in. Then at pipping time, you can see some have broken the internal membrane but haven't pipped yet. You can see their beak waving around and hear peeping. It is so exciting and of course the hardest thing is just not opening all the eggs to "help" which would result in killing them all. I am going nuts right now with 7 pips and no babies. Can't even see fluff yet so colors are unknown. ARGH!