4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[Blarneyeggs]

Gosh, I have been trying to keep up with everything.  I entered a bunch of contest.  Was there a grumpy bird contest or did I just make that up?

If there is, I believe I'm married to him...will get pics directly.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Finally did it!! My 1st Article Submission.....for that BYC Contest!!

My Article is being submitted because I almost lost my Beautiful Blue Cochin, Fluffy due to Vent Gleet this past Summer. What a stressful learning experience and WOW hard to find information to treat naturally. My girl was so thin and so wasted away and this treatment was AMAZING so I just have to share everything I learned in the process this past summer, and trust me I kept ALL the information I found and all the pictures I took when I was trying so hard to figure out what was wrong! So sharing is hoping to help someone else in that same stressful situation to get through and have the info they need at hand.


Vent Gleet aka "Nasty Chicken Butt"
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/vent-gleet-aka-nasty-chicken-butt

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Yay Sally!

How is it that this thread went two whole hours without a post? Is everyone dressing up their birds in party hats and posing them with bottles of booze?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yay Sally!

How is it that this thread went two whole hours without a post? Is everyone dressing up their birds in party hats and posing them with bottles of booze?

LOL!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Blarney did u see the pic from Pentamom? I crochet a hat and she put it on her spoiled hen and sent me a pic.... Come to think of it, she didnt post it did she??? LOL

 

[BHep]

OK FOLKS..............PLEASE VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE BABY PICTURE


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/732147/nydh-contest-7-cutest-baby-picture-contest-pole

 

[ronott1]

NYD Hatch-a-long Digest for 12/27/2012
75 posts yesterday
Main thread was the #5 most active thread

BHep is looking for Judges for the cutest baby contest. You may not have entered a picture to be a judge! Then a couple of pages later the Judges were found!

herducks is down to 7, with 3 for sures.

crissycriss has lost hers in a power outage.

michaelf has 6 out and more pipping! Then there were 13 with more pips!

mrheinz77 got more suggestions for saving on the feed bill. Get free mash from a brewery and ferment your feed were two options. Also, some of us need to get over shyness to ask for these things from people that have them.

royalT hatched a single OE yesterday.

Cynthia12 candled and 7 are doing great!

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy (Hi Aspen!) has not been able to get feed out before dark the past couple of days or so. When is lock down?

Blarneyeggs learned that a storm is coming her way! PA is going to be cold and snowy for the next several days.
Then we started talking about thermometers, Digital vs manual. Lots of opinions were expressed.

Blarney eggs and Sally Sunshine were having humidity problems!
Post 5424 has the Day 16 Development picture

gamebirdsonly had an incubator failure--temps down to 59...

5Days Till Hatch Day!

missydcpc had a frozen coop door! Dang in must be cold there!

RavenWood is hoping for something to hatch and wants suggestions for setting up a brooder.
Razadia found her missing chick!

Contest 22 is open for entries!

Kismet found a wayward hen roosting outside the coop and put it back in with the others. The next morning there were Fox prints outside, so the hen was saved!

Sally Sunshine entered an article contest! Vent Gleet Click here

Time to vote on Baby Pictures! Click Here

Be Back Tomorrow!

 

[gabrielle1976]

Sally I want to thank you for that article I had a little chucker last summer that got pasty butt and I didnt find it till it was really bad , I got him cleaned up and pooping but a few weeks later I nocitced he had stuff on his butt fethers and his vent looked kinda yucky and he smelled , I gave him bathes and plucked out the feathers taht got rotted from that stuff sitting on them betweens baths but I could not get rid of it , I asked about it but no one knew what it was and he never got better , I ended up giveing him to Uncle dave to put out of his misery as nothing seemed to help and he was such a little skinny fellow it just didnt seem fair to tourture him all the time . Now I know if I see it again what to do .

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Blarney did u see the pic from Pentamom?  I crochet a hat and she put it on her spoiled hen and sent me a pic.... Come to think of it, she didnt post it did she??? LOL 

No! I haven't seen this. She's not been on at all. So very sad about the dog killing her whole Christmas hatch.

 

[Brookhavens]

That's a great idea with the sharpie, how do you calibrate one of those liquid types of thermometers?

You calibrate the glass thermometers by filling a glass with crushed ice and then adding water to the top. I let in sit for a few minutes and then stir it up. Put the thermometer in and it should read 32 F or 0 C depending on what type of thermometer you have. There are tons of videos on Youtube that show how to calibrate both thermometers and hygrometers.