2015 Peafowl Hatching Support Group - Eggs and Chicks!

[Birdrain92]

Me? I didn't take that picture.

-Kathy

I want a camera that can take photos that well. Hopefully when I get a new phone I can take that good of quality photos to post here.

 

[Garden Peas]

I want a camera that can take photos that well. Hopefully when I get a new phone I can take that good of quality photos to post here.

A substantial part of the problem you are experiencing (aside from perhaps the lack of a good macro lens) is that when cameras went digital, autofocus took over the world. In the "old days"

of manual focusing, we might not always get it right, but the decisions as to where precisely to have the focus crisp was made by the operator, not the software in the circuit board. I find it exasperating beyond words to get the darn digital focused, snap the photo and wait while it re-focuses (often losing the crisp focus on the spot I previously selected) AND losing the shot because the bird/child/objet de photo MOVED while the @#X! camera was deciding what it wanted to do. I have lost more good photos since the advent of digital than I have ever gained as a result of the fancy new technology. I know, digital is what we have now, and there's lots of bennies. But oh heavens do I miss the old SLR with manual focus and a few good lenses to suit the need of the moment....

(And yes, I spent a ridiculous amount of time a couple months ago, trying to get an inadequate digital camera to get a clear photo of a yolk in a bowl -- never got an acceptable picture, despite numerous attempts. Maybe if I had a really good, high end digital with appropriate lenses, idk...)

 

[Garden Peas]

Apparently one of my two "late-quitters" wasn't quite as far gone as I thought...



The other one hasn't experienced this result. We'll see in a day or two if this one makes it

Edited to add -- the staining on the egg is from getting rained on and spending the night in the mud & puddles. I almost didn't set this one, and I kept if far, far away from the others, because I thought it was likely to be contaminated. Go figure.

And also edited to ask --
@DylansMom , was this the egg turner that you had? Mine's doing really well so far, though I had to re-position all the little racks and adjust the spacing between them. There doesn't seem to be any particular strain on the little yellow arms, and I've had it really full. Maybe there was a tweak to the design? It's working great for me...

 

[casportpony]

Sigh... three more hatched. Of those three, one is fine, one has a huge belly and probably isn't gonna make it thru the night, and the third has a huge, bulging eye. Any of you every seen that before?

-Kathy

 

[Garden Peas]

Sigh... three more hatched. Of those three, one is fine, one has a huge belly and probably isn't gonna make it thru the night, and the third has a huge, bulging eye. Any of you every seen that before?

-Kathy

That's just weird. Have you been playing with your x-ray machine and gamma ray guns again?

Oh yeah, and try the EnteDerm plus multi-antibiotic therapy on the funky belly baby -- see if it changes anything?

Hmmm, huge bulging eye -- did you cross to a goldfish?

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I'll take some pictures of the big bellied chick... truly the biggest belly I've seen yet. The eyeball one does look like a goldfish, lol. EnteDerm looks like a good one to try, but I'd have to buy it.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Apparently one of my two "late-quitters" wasn't quite as far gone as I thought...



The other one hasn't experienced this result. We'll see in a day or two if this one makes it

Edited to add -- the staining on the egg is from getting rained on and spending the night in the mud & puddles. I almost didn't set this one, and I kept if far, far away from the others, because I thought it was likely to be contaminated. Go figure.

And also edited to ask --
@DylansMom , was this the egg turner that you had? Mine's doing really well so far, though I had to re-position all the little racks and adjust the spacing between them. There doesn't seem to be any particular strain on the little yellow arms, and I've had it really full. Maybe there was a tweak to the design? It's working great for me...

Hope it makes it.

-Kathy

 

[Garden Peas]

I'll take some pictures of the big bellied chick... truly the biggest belly I've seen yet. The eyeball one does look like a goldfish, lol. EnteDerm looks like a good one to try, but I'd have to buy it.

-Kathy

I really like the EnteDerm -- I am going to ask the vet to send me another couple of tubes so I can keep it on hand for the birds. It was from a script for the dog after surgery, and it worked really well. I've used the leftovers on two different peachicks so far, and it seems to work really well on them too. It's got great stuff in it.

I really want to see pix of goldi-eye -- that's just weird. Does it seem to have sight in it? Is it protruding, over-sized, or perhaps partially out of the socket? Maybe I don't wanna see pix after all

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I haven't taken any pictures yet, but it looks like this:




-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

So here is a decent picture that I took with my cell phone: