Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[MROO]

Keep in mind that a hen gets off the nest daily and that internal egg temp lags way behind ambient temp. A brief cooling won't be a problem.

It's not the temp drop that scares me ... it's my nervous butter-fingers!

 

[MROO]

New things for my birthing kit, now turned hatching kit:
Liquid bandage (a new bottle, the old one is way too old)
Plain birthday candles (way easier to mess with that the giant ones)
Extra tube of plain Neosporin (I have plenty, but with a kid and a farm... extras are better)

Thanks for the liquid bandage idea CC!

So the wax was an okay panic go-to? The whole time I was doing it, I was worried about it being the right thing to do. I knew I needed something to stabilize the pieces and seal the cracks, and that was my first-best thought.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

So the wax was an okay panic go-to? The whole time I was doing it, I was worried about it being the right thing to do. I knew I needed something to stabilize the pieces and seal the cracks, and that was my first-best thought.

I read where plenty of people have used candle wax very successfully to seal cracks at the beginning and baby does just fine. I'm sure beeswax would work too.
Just have to watch at pipping in case baby pips through the wax, though I doubt it sounds like this will be the case for your crushed eggs.
If baby does pip at the wax, it can be scraped off with a fingernail.

 

[FortCluck]

So the wax was an okay panic go-to? The whole time I was doing it, I was worried about it being the right thing to do. I knew I needed something to stabilize the pieces and seal the cracks, and that was my first-best thought.

Liquid bandaid is definitely something you need to buy at the store plus triple antibiotic ointment. Some people put nail polish on cracked eggs DONT... It works sometimes, but never worked for me and usually I just toss broken eggs (not ones like yours that have an actual viable chick). Usually cracked eggs under a broody would come into my house, I just had one because my broodies SUCK so bad that I honestly do not even know what to do with them at this point. They leave their chicks outside alone and do all kinds of stupid stuff that is driving me bonkers. I was just yelling at my black Cochin because DHS is about to come get her babies and put them in the brooder because she is a complete idiot.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

So the wax was an okay panic go-to? The whole time I was doing it, I was worried about it being the right thing to do. I knew I needed something to stabilize the pieces and seal the cracks, and that was my first-best thought.

Or, in other words, yes. I think it was a good panic thing to do.

 

[FortCluck]

Or, in other words, yes. I think it was a good panic thing to do.

How are your eggs doing?

I try to read my hatch a long threads but sometimes there are too many pages and I skip (I know i'm a PRICKly cactus). I have some more Polish Deathlayers brewing but that wonderful polish of mine is now hiding her eggs... I am going egg hunting tonight with my husband because we will find them. I feel like that movie the Punisher "Whoever you are I will find you" My polish knows she can't outsmart me.

 

[featherhead007]

She’s such a cutie and she looks so small now without all the fur haha

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You took off enough fur, to build another cat!

 

[ShrekDawg]

You took off enough fur, to build another cat!

probably! Or two! She’s normally sooo fluffy!!!

 

[featherhead007]

How are your eggs doing?

I try to read my hatch a long threads but sometimes there are too many pages and I skip (I know i'm a PRICKly cactus). I have some more Polish Deathlayers brewing but that wonderful polish of mine is now hiding her eggs... I am going egg hunting tonight with my husband because we will find them. I feel like that movie the Punisher "Whoever you are I will find you" My polish knows she can't outsmart me.

Polish? Oh, yes she can!

 

[featherhead007]

That’s a good idea!! Although doesn’t it turn off if you hit the pedals or something? So that might not be good. But it’d at least be a start maybe.

Put the sticky note over the key slot on the ignition switch. Then you won't speed, you won't even start!