California - Northern

[UrbanFarming]

I know where that is!

I do like Santa Cruz! My DH lived in Ben Lomond when he first started working at UCSC. He prefers the weather in Santa Cruz but I want some land which means looking further out.

In the Ben Lomond area you can definitely find space, but its so hard to live there in the winter. Lots of nights with no power and trees blocking roads. If you get serious about moving down here check out the outskirts of Soquel or the Aptos/Corralitos area. Lots of land and less winter weather issues. I grew up in Corralitos on 3.5 acres. The weather is usually beautiful (out of the fog line) and its so quiet and "country". If my mom hadn't given us a house in town ( I know, super lucky!) we'd want to buy a house out in Corralitos with some land.

 

[Audio51]

Quote: The Advantage site says it contains an adulticide (imidacloprid) and an insect growth regulator (pyriproxyfen). SCATT contains Moxidectin

 

[ronott1]

Yes....I egg-topsied today. Of the 9 unhatched eggs, 2 were completely yolk so either infertile or very early death. One was Marans and one was OE. The Marans may have had a tiny embryo.

The other 3 Marans had 2 about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way along. The 4th one was fully formed with only a little yolk unabsorbed.

The 2nd OE was fully formed.

All 3 of the remaining Mottled AM were fully formed, 2 were smaller eggs and the 3rd one was the one I thought might be cracked and I sealed it with nail polish top coat right after I got them. All 3 of them looked mottled.

With so many fully or nearly full formed chicks I am wondering if the humidity issue I had was a big factor in them not making it to hatch. I am thinking I might try to get back on Luvinblue's egg list for some more of those.

Are you wanting egg-topsy pictures or live chick pictures???

Both of course.

Humidity could have been a factor if it was high enough to lower the Oxygen level. Sadly they were shipped so it was more likely from shipping damage. There just is not enough energy in the embryo to make it all the way to hatch. A hatching egg has a limited amount of energy(not the perfect word but understandable for this discussion) to both recover from damage and hatch.

I am reminded of a Lecturer here that crashed on a Cycle race. He had broken bones and eventually had a knee and hip replacement. A Nurse from Stanford told him that he needed to eat to heal. Healing takes a lot of energy and he did eat a lot of calories and did not gain any weight.

A chick embryo only has the resources that are in the shell.

 

[PetRock]

In the Ben Lomond area you can definitely find space, but its so hard to live there in the winter. Lots of nights with no power and trees blocking roads. If you get serious about moving down here check out the outskirts of Soquel or the Aptos/Corralitos area. Lots of land and less winter weather issues. I grew up in Corralitos on 3.5 acres. The weather is usually beautiful (out of the fog line) and its so quiet and "country". If my mom hadn't given us a house in town ( I know, super lucky!) we'd want to buy a house out in Corralitos with some land.

I love the Aptos/Corralitos area! Love Nisan Marks and the farm land in the Corralitos area! DH just wants to stay away from the Watsonville area. A large number of his union workers live there and they aren't too happy with him most of the time. When they strike, they even have picket signs with his name on them. All he wants them to do is their job! If everyone would just do the work that they are paid to do, life would be so much easier, at least for my DH!

 

[casportpony]

I'm pretty new to incubating and still trying to get mine dialed in. @Audio51 , when you did your eggtopsies, did you happen to notice what position the fully formed chicks were in? I ask because I've been having lots of issues with malpositions like foot over head. beak over wing wrong end pips and pips not in air cell.

-Kathy

 

[lawatt]

okay, here are the chicks!


two silver campines -- a third has hatched (that's 3 out of 3 eggs set, hooray!), but only about ten minutes ago, so it's still drying out in the incubator


and three blue isbar/SFH crosses (also 3 out of 3, double hooray!) -- one splash and two blacks. will be very interested to watch them grow & see if the distinctive mottling from the SFH side kicks in...!

 

[casportpony]

okay, here are the chicks!


two silver campines -- a third has hatched (that's 3 out of 3 eggs set, hooray!), but only about ten minutes ago, so it's still drying out in the incubator


and three blue isbar/SFH crosses (also 3 out of 3, double hooray!) -- one splash and two blacks. will be very interested to watch them grow & see if the distinctive mottling from the SFH side kicks in...!

Congrats, very cute!

-Kathy

 

[ronott1]

I'm pretty new to incubating and still trying to get mine dialed in. @Audio51 , when you did your eggtopsies, did you happen to notice what postion the fully formed chicks were in? I ask because I've been having lots of issues with malpostions like foot over head. beak over wing wrong end pips and pips not in air cell.

-Kathy

The Mal position is very common in fully formed chicks that do not hatch. It usually is an indication of when they died not that the position killed them. They just did not make it to turn.

Also look for internal pip. They likely did not pip because they did not move into position. They died around day 18 or 19 if so. Look that up in the hatching problem trouble shooter.

 

[tommysgirl]

I have 5 and all seem to be mottled. Don't know sexes yet of course, but I will only keep one or maybe 2 pullets and the rest will need homes no matter what sex they are. I would love them to go to someone here, so if you want them they are yours!

Were are you located?

Oh Goody! I am in Lake County. Where are you? @Audio51 If you don't end up having have two mottled girls I will also happily take a blue or black or splash girl if you have any.

 

[chiqita]

The Advantage site says it contains an [COLOR=535252]adulticide (imidacloprid) and an insect growth regulator (pyriproxyfen). SCATT contains Moxidectin[/COLOR]

Oh that is interesting! I googled moxidectin and I thought advantage came up. I will have to recheck now.