[TheForge] was solar cells OT: POL: chickens

[peter fels]

Well then...Help us out with the nuclear physics please Mike.


On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Mike Linn wrote:

> Its readily apparent you guys know a hell of a lot more about raising chickens, than about nuclear physics..   ;-)
> 
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> My last batches of baby chicks came from Murray McMurray. Last year I
> ordered their 25 dark egg layer special.  They sent an extra baby hen
> chick, (probably for potential death loss), plus an exotic breed rooster. 
> Every single one lived. I've still have all 27 of them alive... and the
> eggs are wonderful. In addition to their ground oats and corn, bugs and
> lawn clippings,  I  feed the hens  house food scraps, as we don't have a
> cat or dog.
> 
> For maybe 40 years, I've occasionally  hatched batches of geese and
> turkeys in my various incubators. Chicken eggs get a pretty high
> percentage of hatch, but fewer turkey and worse percentage of goslings
> hatch.  The best percentage hatches that I have gotten on goose, duck, and
> turkey are when I have the incubator up and running with chicken eggs in
> it.. while I  let the turkey hen or goose hen sit on her nest up to 2
> weeks, if she makes it that far... then move her eggs to the incubator.
> 
> Otherwise,  the coons, a skunk, or some other monster always seemed to
> disrupt the hen before she made it full term.  After nearly getting zero
> live goslings from the hen to maturity..  I sent semi artificial.  and
> raised up nearly 50 live baby goslings that way... but few of them were
> goose eggs, that I tried to run full term in the incubator.. and that year
> was bad for coons... I had none were from the momma goose that made it
> full term on her nest.
> 
> Dann
>> 
>> Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu wrote:
>>> The laws of physics are really tough on folks that
>>> hate technology<G>.
>> 
>> 	Ain't that a bitch.
>> 
>>> Now back to chickens:  Tractor Supply Company had chick day and the
>>> wife got 6.  Now only 4, but doing well.  Almost time to move them
>>> out of the brooder in the living room, to the condo on the deck.
>>> Omelets.
>> 
>> 	TS has some good breeds in terms of eggs.  We got a dozen last year to
>> replenish those that god damned golden eagle ate (I WILL shoot that
>> sumbitch one day) and they are laying very large eggs.  The geese are
>> laying as well.  Hope they survive this year.  All the eggs went bad,
>> save one, last year due to the high heat.  The one that hatched was
>> promptly eaten by something in the night.  It makes me angry so I don't
>> think about it.
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