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[CackleJoy]

Im so ****** Dx ugh someone give me new eggs please?

If you have a way to get them to you from Karen's party, I can send EE eggs. They are fun to hatch

Miss Molly on this board used to have brabanters. I don't know if she still has them and I haven't seen her in a long time. She lives in Newcastle, but still lists chickens for sale on Craigslist, I've seen her ads.

I have tried since November to hunt down Miss Molly and her Brabanters. Which CL town/area should I be looking for?


Anyone know what causes yolk sac infection?
Had some chicks die and sent 2 in for necropsy. Since then none others from that batch have died. The cause was yolk sac infection. That is so strange to me! Is that contagious? All that died were from the same farm (shipped eggs) and then the last one was a hatch mate, also shipped in, from another farm.

I don't know anything about this. Always something new to learn!

On a positive note - incubator is a poppin! Maybe 20 hatched so far...

 

[KristyAnn]

Coop about half way done
GOOD WORK!!




So you can kind of see how the arrangement is going to be the small coop will be back against the wall and only about a foot from base of the big one.

The large door on the side will be for cleaning the vent on this side can be closed,
There will be another large door opening on the currently open side. The design does allow for me to move it away from the wall to add and additional nest box if need be.
The run will extend perpendicular to the coops about 12 feet long and 6 wide. That should give me some room to add some forage plants and other "toys inside. Im planning on putting a shielded water tank on the right side behind the large coop for the nipple feeder. Should make it better for keeping the water cool using the coop to shade it too. I really hope to have things done by tomorrow so I can paint the coop and start adding the run and transition the Dels. Then clean up the small coop lock them out and then after a day or two send the Buffs outside.
This should get the brooder ready for new chicks. The fosters will need to be gone at 8 weeks.

 

[Audio51]

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This is the way I do my Marans eggs.

Hey does anyone live near quincy? Ill be at the fairgrounds tomorroq if anyome has extra hatching eggs.

Nikki....I won't be in Quincy, but if you can't get any other eggs I can get you a couple of dozen Rock Island eggs from my SaveMart and ship them to you. I set a dozen and and 3 have hatched and 2 more are pipped. It's only Day 20. I think they are California Whites becasue they are all yellow. Or you might check the grocery stores in Quincy.

Coop about half way done





So you can kind of see how the arrangement is going to be the small coop will be back against the wall and only about a foot from base of the big one.

The large door on the side will be for cleaning the vent on this side can be closed,
There will be another large door opening on the currently open side. The design does allow for me to move it away from the wall to add and additional nest box if need be.
The run will extend perpendicular to the coops about 12 feet long and 6 wide. That should give me some room to add some forage plants and other "toys inside. Im planning on putting a shielded water tank on the right side behind the large coop for the nipple feeder. Should make it better for keeping the water cool using the coop to shade it too. I really hope to have things done by tomorrow so I can paint the coop and start adding the run and transition the Dels. Then clean up the small coop lock them out and then after a day or two send the Buffs outside.
This should get the brooder ready for new chicks. The fosters will need to be gone at 8 weeks.

Nice work, Chris!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

That idea make sense.
What about really large eggs?
Some I had started last Saturday. I didn't weigh them at first , but on day 6 they are 68-72 grams .
They're pretty big eggs. Is there any way I should be treating them special?
I guess for me, I keep thinking because they're bigger that they need more moisture loss

i never weigh mine just take out the clears lol I do the same for all my eggs
white and blue eggs seem to be easier to hatch and hatch well at any.
My Rcom is easy to control the genesis not so much so there is a range of 47-20% in that one add water goes to 47 let it go down to 20 or 25 depending on what time I see it.
still hatches good

 

[BCollie]

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Yes it was, why?

I just saw her posting a question asking for feedback about "Should I get a Marans Roo or an EE Roo?" She is the one I had arranged to pick up 2 English Buff Orphs from for Chic CAN and then texted me that she was sick after the time we had already agreed to meet. And...oh...BTW...one of the 2 pullets had gotten "stepped on" by another chicken and she didn't want to sell it. She said it was OK for me to come and get the other one but she would leave it in a box on the front porch and I could leave the money under the mat. I did that and brought it home until Chic CAN and I could meet up. Since it was going to be a couple of weeks I didn't want her to be lonely so I put her in with my meat birds. Within a few days she was starting to sound congested....and then one-by-one the meat birds started to sound congested. I asked her how the other pullet was doing and she said it died. It made me wonder if that one had really been stepped on or had gotten sick first.


Wow, that's crazy! Sorry to hear that happened to you. Did your meat birds make it?

 

[Audio51]

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Yes it was, why?

I just saw her posting a question asking for feedback about "Should I get a Marans Roo or an EE Roo?" She is the one I had arranged to pick up 2 English Buff Orphs from for Chic CAN and then texted me that she was sick after the time we had already agreed to meet. And...oh...BTW...one of the 2 pullets had gotten "stepped on" by another chicken and she didn't want to sell it. She said it was OK for me to come and get the other one but she would leave it in a box on the front porch and I could leave the money under the mat. I did that and brought it home until Chic CAN and I could meet up. Since it was going to be a couple of weeks I didn't want her to be lonely so I put her in with my meat birds. Within a few days she was starting to sound congested....and then one-by-one the meat birds started to sound congested. I asked her how the other pullet was doing and she said it died. It made me wonder if that one had really been stepped on or had gotten sick first.


Wow, that's crazy! Sorry to hear that happened to you. Did your meat birds make it?

Yes...my birds all recovered and no one else got sick, but I kept the separated from the rest of the flock. Last I heard from @Chic CAN hers was still making the noises but seemed to be feeling fine.

 

[member 142084]

Yeah she is and coughs on occasion. I am medicating, but not sure. May babies seem fine, but she is not with my adult flock. The babies are above her and also being treated with Vetricyn for now. I spray it on their food. I also have an herb weed to feed them, the noise is slowing down hopefully goes away.

 

[BCollie]

Vicki - Crazy! My friend knows of her, talked to me, & said that apparently she goes through animals like crazy.

 

[BCollie]

Yeah she is and coughs on occasion. I am medicating, but not sure. May babies seem fine, but she is not with my adult flock. The babies are above her and also being treated with Vetricyn for now. I spray it on their food. I also have an herb weed to feed them, the noise is slowing down hopefully goes away.

Hope she gets better soon!

 

[SpringPeeper]

UGH am I the only person left on the planet without an incubator? lol.

I kind of want a little bitty Brinsea so I am limited in what I can set (to allay the "Hatch ALL the eggs!" feeling), but I did also send my husband the link to the home-made incubator page here.

And the whole hatching store-bought eggs thing sounds way more appealing then it should.