5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[mstricer]

i was worried about my slow growing fridge baby but the cute lil bean is dancing for joy lol~oh and my twins i thought i may have lost has 3 (not 2) dark moving patches? ugh the suspense lol

Great picture

 

[chickengirl1193]

Good info. I'm constantly tweaking diets, whether it be for meat, egg or DP breeds. On the flip side of your situation, the birds I'm working with (and all the others with the same breed in the US) are a little on the light side. The hens are close to standard but the roos are a little light.  For the near term I'm going to be starting them all on 22 % protein. At 8 weeks, I'm splitting the sexes and drop pullets to 16% till POL, I'll keep the cockerels on 22% till 12 weeks and drop them to 18%.

I'm fortunate to have a friend that wholesales a wide variety of feeds for all types of animals from parrots, to ferrets, to goats, to dogs, to fish.
Grower feeds are available in protein percentages of 16, 18, 22, 24 and 27. Layer/breeder feed in 17 and 20%. And now she has various types of organic feed.
She also has a 36% poultry concentrate and fishmeal that is about 65% protein.
I also get various types of peas, sunflower seed, wheat, barley, oats, flax and buckwheat. I both grow those and sprout them for chickens. Sprouting increases the vitamin and protein content of the seed/grain and reduces the digestive inhibiting mycotoxins that are present in most seeds.


I've been trying to get a ride for a rooster from St. Louis to Ohio.
I thought OTR truckers could be a good option for transporting individual rare birds around the country.

If chicks are packed with sufficient numbers, like 20, they should be fine in the cab if it is comfortable for a person. In the back of the truck they might need a heat pack.


I've been a nutrition Nazi most of my life which is the basis regardless of species. For poultry, I've done a lot of research, I worked in the commercial poultry feed industry, I've attended lectures by and spoken to poultry nutritionists.

As for your one bag of layer. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Danger of excess calcium is a cumulative issue, so feeding for a short period shouldn't have long term effects. To detox birds, changing the diet and plenty of water is the only remedy. You could try getting the grower now and mixing the 2.

We've had a lot of cold, snow and ice. It may now hit 60 today but will be back in the teens by the end of the weekend with 4 days of rain and snow on the way. Winter is just starting. I just had my generator gone over and it got delivered today. I feel much better now that I'm prepared for power outages.

I'm getting my grower feed tomorrow so everything should be okay dc

 

[Penny Hen]

Someone posted a link to this video in the Texas thread. I just had to share it here. It had me

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http://www.wimp.com/chickenpolice/

"There will be NO Bunny Frolicking here! Now Move Along!

 

[insanity]

Well I pulled all the duds and left the 5 good ones for this hatch a long but my bators where soooooo empty. I couldn't take it so I set 12 from a friends mixed flock, 18 from my mixed flock last night. Maybe if I keep running the bators full of mutts my DH will let me order some Orlorf and SFH. He doesn't like mutts.He thinks purebred (cat, dog, etc) is always better.

 

[ronott1]

Well I pulled all the duds and left the 5 good ones for this hatch a long but my bators where soooooo empty. I couldn't take it so I set 12 from a friends mixed flock, 18 from my mixed flock last night. Maybe if I keep running the bators full of mutts my DH will let me order some Orlorf and SFH. He doesn't like mutts.He thinks purebred (cat, dog, etc) is always better.

I hope you get some!

Ron

 

[Nonyah Biz]

Someone posted a link to this video in the Texas thread. I just had to share it here. It had me

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http://www.wimp.com/chickenpolice/

 

[ChickenCanoe]

With all the discussion of turning eggs I thought I'd share this link.

http://www.pasreform.com/academy/frequently-asked-questions/incubation/26-relevance-of-turning.html

I just weighed all my eggs and collectively, they're perfect. They lost 5.2% in 8 days. Humidity has been up and down but around 30%.

 

[SilkieSensation]

 
Good Morning...............
This really off topic but would appreciate help...........
I ordered eggs  Tuesday..................paid though pay pal
Have had the account for a long time and never had a problem
The seller contacted me last night saying she had not received payment...................
I checked on it............had received an email receipt  that payment had been
sent to her address but it may not show on my account for a few days?????????????
Anyone else having a problem..........

Hmmmmm.  That seems a little hinky to me...  I would contact Paypal if I were you, to find out exactly what the problem is.  I haven't had any problems with mine (knock on wood).  As far as I know Paypal payments should be instantaneous.

Sounds good. I like your plan.

Nekkid egg women are particularly scary.

Send her a copy of the receipt in case she can spot something wrong. It's possible the address was wrong or she missed the note from pp.

Thanks. I did send my copy of the receipt to her...no reply and it says she has not picked up the money.
Guess it will work out one way or the other........
Thanks everyone for your help.............
Eggs will be toast if she sends them today or tomorrow.......
and sure don't want someone thinking I did not pay fro my order..............
Time to start cleaning, always takes my mind off worries..............

The only time I have ever seen paypal not get there within 15 minutes is if it is what they consider an "electronic check." It usually happens when using a checking account that has not been verified instead of a credit or debit card attached to the account.

 
Someone posted a link to this video in the Texas thread.  I just had to share it here.  It had me  .
http://www.wimp.com/chickenpolice/

"There will be NO Bunny Frolicking here! Now Move Along!:cd

Love it!

 

[carriebain]

I had two early death I just opened. One was a early quitter and the other was a recent death, it looks like it stuck to one side of the shell and the air sack was over half the egg. I'm down to 7 marans eggs with growth,3 trader joes and 2 feed store. So 12 out of 50. The rest were all clears

Do I need to Change anything? My humidity is between 20 and 30%

 

[ronott1]

Do I need to Change anything? My humidity is between 20 and 30%

At this point, you are checking the air cell for size and adjusting humidity based on that.

It sounds like humidity is fine.