2014 breeding season begins, post your results

[casportpony]

If Cobalt were mine and weighed about 6kg he would get 3ml of Safeguard for 5 days in a row *and* a metronidazole tablet twice a day. Birdbrain, my offer still stands, I'll mail it to you if you PM me your address. Talk to your parents first, of course, and have them call me first if they want to. You have my number.

-Kathy

Not to change the subject but, how do you dose the metro tabs? One tab twice per day? Is that 250mg?

Do you have a recommended dosage for say 2 month olds?

I would weigh, then dose at no less than 30mg/kg once a day and no more than 60mg/kg twice a day. This can be done by putting a 250 mg pill in a 12ml syringe, then draw up water to the 10ml mark. Now one has 10ml of water and each 1ml has 25mg of medicine in it.

-Kathy

 

[PlatteRiverPs]

Thank you!!

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Ivermectrin will IMMEDIATEDLY shrink the size of a gapeworm where safegard takes several days and that may be too late.

 

[casportpony]

Kathy,find that broody!! I never had a bit of luck with eggs sent to me from Bayhorsebonnie in California with Marans eggs,,but the truth be known,,I'm well served here with Bronze birds if you know what I mean?

I think I may have found a Cochin hen.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Ivermectrin will IMMEDIATEDLY shrink the size of a gapeworm where safegard takes several days and that may be too late.

Maybe next time I'll try both.

-Kathy

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Coax her with bread

 

[casportpony]

It zipped and is doing well, but the egg I was worried about died.

Will do an eggtopsy on it tomorrow.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Coax her with bread

She doesn't need coaxing, I just have to figure out how to get her moved to a place where she'll stay put and incubate pea eggs. right now she's in the main coop, which has way too many hens laying eggs in her nest.

-Kathy

 

[MinxFox]

Minx,old trick is once your incubator is opened up about 10 minutes,if the egg is good it will be retaining heat,if not it will be significantly cooler than other viable-growing eggs of the same age. I have 3 big trays in my Humidaire bator,each one is almost over capacity full,and when I turn them twice a day,by the time I get to the last shelf it's fairly easy to feel ones that are cooler than others. Naturally this cannot be felt on eggs just a few days after incubating started but eggs 2-3 weeks old you can tell easy enough without candling.

Wow that is yet another great tip! I love all of the little tricks to telling if an egg is good or not. I take this egg out of the incubator pretty quickly when I candle it and since it is the only one in there it doesn't take long for me to open up the incubator and turn it so next time I will have to pay more attention to how warm it stays. I think it is retaining its heat. I candled it today and darn if I could hardly see anything. It seemed dark. I keep blaming the shell and I hope it is just the shell making things difficult to see. Also I don't spend too long candling it because it is more precious to me than one of my own bird's eggs because I know my birds can just give me more eggs, but this one is special. Before I touch the egg I wash my hands really good, etc.
Do good eggs get lighter or different feeling when you pick them up?
I don't want to get my hopes up too much but I am really anxious to find out if this egg is good or not because normally by now I would have been 99.9% sure that an egg was good or not good.

And I made the mistake of already thinking about the flooring of the peachick crib. I normally use old towels, but that is gross to have to wash so I was thinking maybe some kind of plastic mat like what you have inside car floorboards or at your front door would be a good flooring for peachicks? I would want the kind with small raised areas so that they could get some grip. I dunno I was trying to think of a better solution than using towels because maybe it would allow me to keep a peachick in the house longer.

Anyways, I shouldn't put too much thought into that yet.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Kathy,
My grandma used to use a clothes basket,lined with straw and put a piece of plywood over the top with a brick on it to house broodies. Granny faithfully let her off the nest twice each day and the old broody white rocks would sit until the earth would stop turning.