California - Northern

[Meg2000000]

Deerling - Can't wait to see pictures! Congratulations on the hatch!

Laura - Hahahhahaha! Mine prefer Spanish flamenco guitars!

Mendocinosunris - It's nice to see you back!! That's a weird bulge. I would think it was too small for something to be up with the crop (the only time I've had impacted crop, the crop was HUGE!!) Maybe it's a tumor?? Eek I hate to say that!

 

[debs_flock]

Hi everybody! It's been a while since I've posted - hope everyone's doing well.
I have some questions about a cochin chick. It's perfectly healthy, but it seems a bit bizarre. It's a month old and has got some wonky feather thing going on. Is it a frizzle??
I'm pretty sure it's got the slow feathering gene, because it's outgrowing its chickie down, & it's starting to look nekkid.





..and what the heck is THAT??!?! It looks like a blister full of air between its neck and shoulder. It doesn't seem to be painful, and it doesn't look infected, it's just there. I've never seen that before.

The "bubble", I wouldn't worry about. Just watch the chick and see if it disappears.

The feather issue, if no one is picking on it so that it's not wear and tear, then I would watch it for a strange fraying gene. It showed up in some Icelandics and I'm sure other breeds as well. I don't think they had a specific name for it, they were just calling it frayed. The feather web doesn't close up normally and feels almost brizzley, like a pipecleaner. I'd just continue to grow out the chick and see what it does.

Frizzled looks like a normal feather, just curled backwards like the drake feather on a duck. That's a bit of a generalization, they do look a bit frayed on older birds, but not chicks. Sorry, I'm just giving you the abridged version answer, I have 8 bins of chicks/quail/goslings to clean.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Do you guys think it would hurt to stack a few eggs on top of eggs in the turner in a genesis 1588? Just for a few days till I get rid of infertile?

 

[ronott1]

Do you guys think it would hurt to stack a few eggs on top of eggs in the turner in a genesis 1588? Just for a few days till I get rid of infertile?

Take the turner out and hand turn them--x on one side and o on the other. You can get a lot of eggs in there even without stacking them.

Look up Tetris stacking in a hovabotor

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Take the turner out and hand turn them--x on one side and o on the other. You can get a lot of eggs in there even without stacking them.

Look up Tetris stacking in a hovabotor

Ok that's a better idea I just count on the turner because I hate to open it too much especially this time because I have a lot of money in there lol eek

 

[debs_flock]

Do you guys think it would hurt to stack a few eggs on top of eggs in the turner in a genesis 1588? Just for a few days till I get rid of infertile?

I've done that before and it worked fine for me. As soon as I can see if I had eggs to pull, I just put the extras into their spots.

You'll also find if you want to hand turn the few, you can fit about 4-5 cups from a cut down egg carton along the edge of the turner by the motor side. Just don't put them too close to the motor, it does generate heat. Then you can just hand turn those few eggs until you find a spot for them.

 

[zooweemama]

I'm about ready to set some more duck eggs. 18 this time. I am trying to hatch out Appleyards. I will cheaply sell of the mixes and Pekins and hang on to the all the Appleyards I hatch. I will grow the SAs for 8 weeks and sell off all the girls, keep all the boys and grow them for the table. Hopefully the price tag on the girls will feed the boys so growing them will cost me little. These ducks are so BIG!

 

[lawatt]

A string quartet....
Of mealworms!!!
Strum strum strum strum..eat! Eat!.. Eat! Eat!

Laura - Hahahhahaha! Mine prefer Spanish flamenco guitars!

I think you should go with woodwind players.

you guys crack me up -- in the BEST way!!

edit: and either the music or the humor WORKED, as Amelia #1 just laid an egg again! hurrah!

 

[chiqita]

Hmm, I think I'm going to need an incubator for hatching. I just want to stagger hatches too much, haha. I've been trying to find bantam Favorolle eggs and someone just offered me some (well, the chance to buy them) but at that point they'd be a week and a half or more behind my others and I just don't know. Do any of the cheaper incubators work for lockdown/hatching?

Still air incubators work for hatching.

 

[zooweemama]

Take the turner out and hand turn them--x on one side and o on the other. You can get a lot of eggs in there even without stacking them.

Look up Tetris stacking in a hovabotor

What? Oh my goodness it's a real thing?