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[ronott1]

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Jason, after I get back I'd be happy to hatch eggs for you (about 15 minutes between our houses, LOL). My incubators are always running and I have three. I'm only expecting about 4 dozen eggs when I get home, plenty of room.

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I actually bought two. That's how I ended up taking 2 incubators on vacation with me to Oregon last February and again a couple of months ago to Tahoe. I bought a plug in power bar first ($20) and the car adapter directly from GQF for the Genesis Hovabator ($10). They work great!

It also works in a power outage emergency.

Deb

Yes! I had to run my Genesis off of a Battery for 6 hours last winter when they replaced a transformer here. Worked great!

I have a battery charger set up to keep the battery charged. If it looks like there will be a power outage, I hook up to the battery. The battery should keep the incubator running for 48hours+.

 

[zooweemama]

Naked necks...and not the chicken. My 2 FBCM are mating machines. They have stripped the neck feathers off 3 of my young pullets.18-20 week olds (not sure which is which now). Copper is especially vigorous and my little bantam Blue Laced Wyandotte rooster gets ticked off and dive bombs Copper (who is a zillion times bigger than he is). Foghorn (the banty wyandotte) seems to have asserted himself top cock BUT it still hasn't stopped my Marans from plucking the heck out of my young pullets. Is this ok, are the roosters being too aggressive...I don't know what to do. They are now going after the big hens (29 week olds) and that's when Foghorn gets ultra ticked off- I think he has claimed them?? LOL He even makes Copper and Samson (my 2 fbcm roos) run away!

So...back to the naked necks...help?

 

[PGRanch]

Got up at 3 am today to make breakfast for the duck hunters. Now I can't sleep. I saved my hens eggs for myself. Oh how I have missed fresh eggs with deep colored mile high yolks. They were delicious!

 

[Miss Molly]

Jason, after I get back I'd be happy to hatch eggs for you (about 15 minutes between our houses, LOL).  My incubators are always running and I have three.  I'm only expecting about 4 dozen eggs when I get home, plenty of room.


I actually bought two.  That's how I ended up taking 2 incubators on vacation with me to Oregon last February and again a couple of months ago to Tahoe.  I bought a plug in power bar first ($20) and the car adapter directly from GQF for the Genesis Hovabator ($10).  They work great!

It also works in a power outage emergency.

Deb

My family already thinks I'm out of my mind I cant wait to tell them they make a car adapter ...LOL " Good to know"

 

[Miss Molly]

Yes! I had to run my Genesis off of a Battery for 6 hours last winter when they replaced a transformer here. Worked great!

I have a battery charger set up to keep the battery charged. If it looks like there will be a power outage, I hook up to the battery. The battery should keep the incubator running for 48hours+.

I'm going to have to get one. Great for back up

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Jason, after I get back I'd be happy to hatch eggs for you (about 15 minutes between our houses, LOL). My incubators are always running and I have three. I'm only expecting about 4 dozen eggs when I get home, plenty of room.


I actually bought two. That's how I ended up taking 2 incubators on vacation with me to Oregon last February and again a couple of months ago to Tahoe. I bought a plug in power bar first ($20) and the car adapter directly from GQF for the Genesis Hovabator ($10). They work great!

It also works in a power outage emergency.

Deb

now that is Chicken dedication . incubators on vacation.

 

[juststruttin]

I was thinking the same thing. I would be in so much trouble from dh if I ever brought a incubator on vaca with us.

 

[ronott1]

Naked necks...and not the chicken. My 2 FBCM are mating machines. They have stripped the neck feathers off 3 of my young pullets.18-20 week olds (not sure which is which now). Copper is especially vigorous and my little bantam Blue Laced Wyandotte rooster gets ticked off and dive bombs Copper (who is a zillion times bigger than he is). Foghorn (the banty wyandotte) seems to have asserted himself top cock BUT it still hasn't stopped my Marans from plucking the heck out of my young pullets. Is this ok, are the roosters being too aggressive...I don't know what to do. They are now going after the big hens (29 week olds) and that's when Foghorn gets ultra ticked off- I think he has claimed them?? LOL He even makes Copper and Samson (my 2 fbcm roos) run away!

So...back to the naked necks...help?

First congratulations! If the pullets are squatting for the boys, they you will have eggs from them soon

Second, keep them apart for most of the day. The Roos do not need to be with them all the time.

It is usually within two weeks between mounting squatting and first eggs.

You may get one today

 

[Happy Chooks]

Naked necks...and not the chicken. My 2 FBCM are mating machines. They have stripped the neck feathers off 3 of my young pullets.18-20 week olds (not sure which is which now). Copper is especially vigorous and my little bantam Blue Laced Wyandotte rooster gets ticked off and dive bombs Copper (who is a zillion times bigger than he is). Foghorn (the banty wyandotte) seems to have asserted himself top cock BUT it still hasn't stopped my Marans from plucking the heck out of my young pullets. Is this ok, are the roosters being too aggressive...I don't know what to do. They are now going after the big hens (29 week olds) and that's when Foghorn gets ultra ticked off- I think he has claimed them?? LOL He even makes Copper and Samson (my 2 fbcm roos) run away!

So...back to the naked necks...help?

Mating like heck is normal for young cockerels. But you have 3 cockerels and how many hens with them? There may not be enough hens to go around?

I was thinking the same thing. I would be in so much trouble from dh if I ever brought a incubator on vaca with us.

Me too. Might as well just shoot myself if I ever suggested it.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Some sad news here.

I had a pullet that several months back was wobbly on her feet. She was about 13 weeks at the time and when I inspected her I found a huge infection from a wound on the back of her neck. I gave her 2 shots of penicillin 3 days apart and she seemed to recover fine.

She's now 21 weeks old and a few weeks ago she started being wobbly on her feet again. I inspected her and found no injuries, but did find that she has no meat left on her - all you feel when you hold her is her keel bone and her crop. I knew it wasn't anything contagious, but couldn't figure out what it was. No symptoms other than wobbly on her feet and it didn't look like Mareks, didn't look like cocci, etc. I dosed their water with vitamins/electrolytes, just to be on the safe side.

A friend had told me that maybe her organs suffered damage from the infection she had. She is still the same size she was at 13 weeks. I started feeding her a scrambled egg every night, which she would gobble down.

Last week, I thought, I wonder if older pullets can get wry neck? So I got some vitamin E and started adding that to her egg. I did quite a bit of research on it and I'm now convinced that's what she has. Her head is always tucked into her body and when you pick her up, her neck gets kinda floppy. I also read that an injury can cause wry neck, so she's probably had it since the infection.

As of last night, she's no longer eating for me, I only got a couple of bites of egg in her, so it looks like I'm too late. I'm just kicking myself for not seeing it sooner.