California - Northern

[chrissyr]

Onion? How does that help?

well we were worried about the yolk not being absorbed. I haven't done it myself. on the assisting thread ron put up "I THINK" where it talked about it. so from what i've heard, if the yolk is exposed, you keep the chick in the bottom shell and put a couple of chunks of onion to the side. put the whole chick in little container. the onion supposedly prevents bacteria and help in promoting the absorption of the yolk. I will ask the lady for sure on details. But we were going to do it if the yolk wasn't absorbed. it had been like 36 hours since external pip and when i opened up the top there were still veins. i had it too moist wetting the internal membrane and we think it affected it not absorbing the yolk as fast as it should have. it was time to help but the yolk not being absorbed would have posed a risk for bacteria. i don't know if it would of worked but was going to try it. when we opened him up, he was absorbed but the umbilicus was swollen and exposed. so i just put on vetricyn. They were happy and healthy. gave a drop of poly vi sol 2 x's a day for couple days. ducks need more Vit B, gave a little of that and BAM….@chiqita ends up with a duck scarf

 

[PetRock]

well we were worried about the yolk not being absorbed. I haven't done it myself. on the assisting thread ron put up "I THINK" where it talked about it. so from what i've heard, if the yolk is exposed, you keep the chick in the bottom shell and put a couple of chunks of onion to the side. put the whole chick in little container. the onion supposedly prevents bacteria and help in promoting the absorption of the yolk. I will ask the lady for sure on details. But we were going to do it if the yolk wasn't absorbed. it had been like 36 hours since external pip and when i opened up the top there were still veins. i had it too moist wetting the internal membrane and we think it affected it not absorbing the yolk as fast as it should have. it was time to help but the yolk not being absorbed would have posed a risk for bacteria. i don't know if it would of worked but was going to try it. when we opened him up, he was absorbed but the umbilicus was swollen and exposed. so i just put on vetricyn. They were happy and healthy. gave a drop of poly vi sol 2 x's a day for couple days. ducks need more Vit B, gave a little of that and BAM….@chiqita ends up with a duck scarf

I have an American friend who lives in the Netherlands. She told me that the doctors there tell patients to put a cut onion in their room when they are sick. I remember a fantasy book series that I read where they kept bowls of cut onions in rooms to keep away evil bug things. LOL!!!

 

[lawatt]

I have a broody hatch question...do you have more success when you give all of the same type of egg? Do yours go better when all the eggs are the same age? or does it make a difference? With my only broody girl on bot her hatches she got up within a day and a half of the first chick hatching and left the others. The second go around the little hybrid was the first out and he was OUT

...on all wheel drive... she had to get up to keep him from killing himself she also hatched two well mannered SPW but she left 3 unhatched SPW eggs in the nest. They were all fully formed and one had pipped internally. So what I am thinking is that more of the SPW would have hatched if I hadn't thrown the hybrid egg in there. Any experience with this?

i would definitely use eggs that started incubating on the same day (i'm not sure the egg's time since being laid matters, unless one is REALLY old) -- every broody i've had (and i had a BUNCH last year) has left the nest after 3-4 hatched, and if any eggs were slow to hatch, they got left behind. now i have an incubator, so i can try to "finish" any eggs that left abandoned, but i've definitely never had a broody wait around for slow hatchers.

 

[lawatt]

When I was helping Cheryl with her chickens, her Silver Penciled Plymouth rocks and her Tolbunts went broody all the time. I have 3 SPPR hens from her stock at the farm and not a 1 has gone broody. They are in the layer flock in the field instead of shut up in breeding pens so maybe they are too busy foraging to go broody! My Ameruacanas seem to be the broodiest in my flock but are not the best sitters or moms. My BW AM did a good job last year. I'm hoping that she goes broody again this year because she is a failure at egg laying. I have a whole bowl full of wind eggs that she has laid over the course of the last two years. She just left me another one this week.

my two SPPRs came from Cheryl's flock, and they both went broody twice last year -- and were GREAT moms.

 

[sewandgrow]

For anyone interested. I have a friend who lives 1/2 time in Shasta and 1/2 time in San Rafael. I just sent 48 chicks with him to drop of in Orland for a customer. He charged them $40 for delivery, but it beats the $80 it would have cost in shipping, plus the birds got there in 3 hours instead of 24.

I asked him if he would be willing to transport birds for other people and he said "Sure" so I just wanted to put it out there in case anyone is interested. I know Jeff (Papabrooder) and TLS ranch (and others) are up North so if you ever have chick customers in the Bay Area this may be a good option for you.

Yep... I am an enabler.

It would be so great if we had a list of chicken transporters within CA. I really don't like shipping live birds and ride shares seem to be such a good alternative. Who cares if the passengers happen to be chickens.

I think Wolftracks was involved is something like this & I think it was called a chicken train.......I don't know if it is still going or not.

 

[ronott1]

I think Wolftracks was involved is something like this & I think it was called a chicken train.......I don't know if it is still going or not.

It was the egg train. It was a great idea!

 

[sewandgrow]

I too have read an article on onions absorbing bacteria. So much so that they said to always throw away any unused part of an onion you use (EVEN IF YOU REFRIGERATE IT)because it will absorb bacteria that you will later eat if you use it. It said they used to put a peeled onion in each hospital room to absorb the air borne bacteria. It was interesting............Who knows????

 

[Audio51]

I too have read an article on onions absorbing bacteria. So much so that they said to always throw away any unused part of an onion you use (EVEN IF YOU REFRIGERATE IT)because it will absorb bacteria that you will later eat if you use it. It said they used to put a peeled onion in each hospital room to absorb the air borne bacteria. It was interesting............Who knows????

Not according to Snopes...

http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/cutonions.asp

 

[lizanne]

lizanne how is this little one doing?

That one is doing really well. I put it in the brooder with the rest when I got home from work. I think it might have curled toes, so I'll pull it out and put little shoes on it in a bit. I've had a hard time with this hatch. I had another one in the bator at the same time (a Silkie). It had pipped over 48 hour earlier, so I opened it up a little more to help. I noticed that the yolk wasn't absorbed (but I wasn't sure it was going to, because the chick was mal-positioned). I left it as it was this morning, but when I got home from work I saw that It had busted out of the egg it's self. The poor thing's yolk still hasn't absorbed, and some of the sac is broken - no blood, but some yolk leaked out. I put it on warm wet cloths inside the bator, and gave it a little sugar water. It's still alive and peeping, but what else can I do for it?



I have another one in the brooder that has a leg problem. It's leg goes backwards. Is that still called spraddle leg? I know that if they go to the side you can put a brace on. This one just has one that goes back. The other one is normal.

 

[alibra]

I didn't get a chance to boast about my $50 find