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[ronott1]

Ahhh does this mean I have to close my flock permanently? How in the world can people keep their chickens completely disease free? Is it even possible? I have had zero issues with my ducks and I've had them longer.

No, Cocci is every where and chickens build a resistance to it as they get older. That is why the 6-11 week age is critical for Cocci. You may need to give them medicated feed longer.

If it were a contagious virus that is always present then you would have to close the flock.

Bye,
Ron

 

[Miss Molly]

Ok, I had to reband some of my chickens, so I finally have a rough count of my chickens. I have at least 250 from chick to layers up in redding. I didn't count my current hatchlings which are pipping and popping and jumping out of their shells for the next few days. Over 120 eggs when into lockdown. when I left yesterday, the first ones had started and there were about 15 hatched. so by the end of the weekend I will likely have over 350 chickens!!! the nice thing is that my grow out pen chickens are starting to feather out and I am beginning to see which ones I will keep for breeding and then will hopefully be able to sell off some of the excess in a month or so. AND, two weeks away from incubating my first eggs. I will have the cream legbars first and the jubilees should start laying any day now. I've kept them separated so once she lays I will have pure eggs from her.

Exciting!
Happy Thursday to all!

OMG, you sound like me... What the heck are we doing...

I am out of control..... Must have more Chickens!!

....I had to have breeding trio's of everything. What am I thinking...I need to figure out what I really want and sale the rest... But I love them all....

 

[ronott1]

Hey everyone!

Just taking a break from coop building! I wanted to update on how my first incubation is going.

I set my eggs yesterday morning around 2:00am. I set 17 eggs. My hens are RIR and GSL and the roo is Ron's Dorking/Americuana he gifted me a month or so back

Hens...



Drae'...


Heres the bator...
its been holding around 99.8F- 101.9F and my room humidty in the high 30's im doing the dry incubation method so this is ideal room humidty correctk?


I have 6x thermometers. 2 digital hygrometers and 4 of the regular thermometers including the one it came with




I'm not really hoping for a high hatch rate, just want to make sure my setting are correct and I'm getting development.
I'm buying Basque eggs from Mrs. Fluffy this week so I need to practice some.

any tips from the pros??

Have a cool afternoon!

Is it a still air?

With those, you average the temp between the top and the bottom to 99.5. There should be a thermometer at the bottom of the eggs and one at the top. So, 99 at the bottom and 100.5 at the top?

Ron

 

[zooweemama]

No, Cocci is every where and chickens build a resistance to it as they get older. That is why the 6-11 week age is critical for Cocci. You may need to give them medicated feed longer.

If it were a contagious virus that is always present then you would have to close the flock.

Bye,
Ron

Ok should I also pick up some medicated starter too?

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Yes, but you don't really need that until the corid treatment is done.

Bye,

Ron

 

[zooweemama]

Yes, but you don't really need that until the corid treatment is done.

Bye,

Ron

Ok. TY. I'm sorry to be such a post hog right now!

 

[ronott1]

Quote: It's ok!

That is what we are here for.

Ron

 

[chiqita]

Thank You Jules!

The only quail I have eaten is Valley Quail. I did buy quail eggs from an Hispanic store once. They were kind of fun.

My daughters want me to hatch some but now I don't think I want to.

What about Pheasants?

Ron

Cots taste a lot like Turkey to me. Not wild or gamey. But I don't like wild and gamey, so I was happy! and OMG people REALLY? 12 pages from last night??????? I'm never going to catch up!

Now back to reading....

 

[MonsterClucker]

Is it a still air?

With those, you average the temp between the top and the bottom to 99.5. There should be a thermometer at the bottom of the eggs and one at the top. So, 99 at the bottom and 100.5 at the top?

Ron

Nice! Yea I have the still air.Yep I have those fishtank thermometers, one on top of the eggs, and like wedged in between them. So 101F is to high?

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: I keep saying the same thing! Then I say, if I have a separate coop/run for each breed, if I get rid of a breed, it will give me more options for the breeds I keep. But how do you decide what breeds to get rid of? They are like popcorn............................."Oh look, a chicken!"

I have taken so many photos of chickens in my travels, a naked neck deep in the jungle at a village in Panama, dozens of feral chickens on Kaui, etc, etc, etc.! They are all just so appealing.




And yes, I do spend a lot of money on my chickens. They are one of my hobbies and I don't really expect to recoup those monies. We have the advantage of being retired and nothing to spend on other than our hobbies.

Kids all grown up, they are on their own!

Deb