California - Northern

[ChickNmamma]

I'd be interested in the bantams! Especially the PW! Where are you located?

I am in Jackson, CA. PM me please...

Wow, great shot! Love his eye color.

 

[Ali707]

UCD just sent me the October News letter from CAHFS, the place that we send dead birds in for Necropsy.

Hey this is super cool! I learned a ton! Feel free to share these whenever you get them.

 

[Ali707]

I called them up to get the exact name of the test. I had them also test for coccidiosis. The sample is gathered fresh in the morning and try to get sample from more than one chicken. They emailed the results to me in two days.

Do not use USPS to ship.

Happy Saturday!

I am finally getting back to this now that I have a second to breathe. Not really, but I am making a second. Does it have to be SUPER fresh? I picked up whatever was in the tray from the last three days, but now I see that may not be fresh enough. I am always running in the morning to get my daughter to school, let the chickens out, give them their food, yada yada yada. You know the morning routines... I am sure you have one. I am just not a morning person, so I am always rushing. Plus I only had ONE shoe this morning. How is it that stuff gets packed in different places when you move?

Anyway I picked up a big old pile of it too! Because you never know when you might not have enough chicken poop on hand!

I guess I can throw out what I collected and get tomorrow mornings........

 

[amyfamily]

I am in Jackson, CA. PM me please...

I pm'd you.. Thanks!

 

[juststruttin]

Do heat lamps use much electricity?

It varies from month to month based on your usage and cost per watt.

For example: this month a 250 watt heat lamp would cost me $12.45 per month. This price will go up in the winter because the more power you use the more you will be charged per watt. In the winter, we usually pay twice as much per watt so that same 250 watt bulb will cost $24 to run instead of $12.

Keep in mind. Burning that bulb may actually cause you to pay more per watt for all the electricity you use since it could bump you up into the next bracket. So in this case it is hard to gauge what it really costs you.

You can find out what a heat lamp cost you to run by looking at you PGE bill. Find the price you pay per watt and enter that # into the calculator below. Here is the link
http://www.electricity-usage.com/El...Lamp&Watts=250&CostPerKWH=.074&HoursPerDay=24



You might want to try this tomorrow or you are likely to have nightmares. LOL

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: I read it too. Really interesting information. The donkeys surprised me though.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Beautiful pictures Nikon!

MossyOak - how's the baby this morning?

 

[ronott1]

I am finally getting back to this now that I have a second to breathe. Not really, but I am making a second. Does it have to be SUPER fresh? I picked up whatever was in the tray from the last three days, but now I see that may not be fresh enough. I am always running in the morning to get my daughter to school, let the chickens out, give them their food, yada yada yada. You know the morning routines... I am sure you have one. I am just not a morning person, so I am always rushing. Plus I only had ONE shoe this morning. How is it that stuff gets packed in different places when you move?

Anyway I picked up a big old pile of it too! Because you never know when you might not have enough chicken poop on hand!

I guess I can throw out what I collected and get tomorrow mornings........

Collect it in the morning. They only wanted a little bit--something like 10Grams. A large egg is 57G, so not much at all.

Fresh is better. I would pack it into a little box with an ice pack.

Cheers!

 

[MossyoakLane]

Beautiful pictures Nikon!

MossyOak - how's the baby this morning?

So far so good. She was not ready to hatch, so most definitely squished by mama. Last night, after peeling some shell off the membrane I could see her umbilical cord was still attached. So I stuck her in a soup mug to finish off. This morning it has almost detached and she is peepin very loudly and moving around quite a bit, so I am taking this as a good sign. I also gave her a little drop of poly-vi-sol on her beak last night to give her a little extra oomph.

We have cats, and I was very worried about the safety of the brooder box with no lid, so I stuck the other one that hatched in the incubator last night, since it has a lid. I will get some pictures today.

I cannot believe she kicked 2 babies out of the nest. The first one she actually picked up by the toe and tossed to the corner after I tried to stick it back under her.

We have 3 more bresse pips. I am a bit worried, as at least one of those pips was there yesterday afternoon, and there has been no more progress since. I guess we will see what happens.

 

[ronott1]

So far so good. She was not ready to hatch, so most definitely squished by mama. Last night, after peeling some shell off the membrane I could see her umbilical cord was still attached. So I stuck her in a soup mug to finish off. This morning it has almost detached and she is peepin very loudly and moving around quite a bit, so I am taking this as a good sign. I also gave her a little drop of poly-vi-sol on her beak last night to give her a little extra oomph.

We have cats, and I was very worried about the safety of the brooder box with no lid, so I stuck the other one that hatched in the incubator last night, since it has a lid. I will get some pictures today.

I cannot believe she kicked 2 babies out of the nest. The first one she actually picked up by the toe and tossed to the corner after I tried to stick it back under her.

We have 3 more bresse pips. I am a bit worried, as at least one of those pips was there yesterday afternoon, and there has been no more progress since. I guess we will see what happens.

Good Job!

The Bresse egg with the pip should be fine for now.