Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: spitzhauben

 

[Waffle]

spitzhauben

Awesome haven't heard of them before!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I don't have but a minute but I have a question.

You know the cancer risks from heated plastic water bottles? well our ckn waterers get warm and even hot in the summer, can the toxins stay in chicken carcass and even their eggs?

I will get on laptop when I can to read... Happy busy Friday everyone!

I am going to keep posting these until I find answers! lol


ANOTHER question!!

I miss OZ did I mention that?

Anyways.... I keep running into the issue of Meal Worms and Mareks!

http://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource000791_Rep813.pdf

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[FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman]Marek’s is highly contagious and spreads by bird-to-bird contact, by contact with infected dust and dander, and by darkling beetles and mealworms that live in the chicken house, although the virus has no affect on the beetles or mealworms. [/FONT][/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman]question.... All these univ. statements about darkling beetles and mealworms (I found numerous readings on this) but I cant figure out if the meallies I raise are the same as they are discussing!!! [/FONT][/FONT]

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: They are awesomely cool, more so in person. Everyone goes straight to that pen like magnets to metal and I get "what are these? do you sell these?" SOON!!!

 

[sumi]

Quote: You are right, Silver. Ducklings take around 24 hours from internal to external pip and then another 24 hours from external pip to zipping. But these are just averages, some take longer!

 

[silver1313]

one of Harmony's temporary tiny serama roos "noName"




my two I don't know whats from CPL


That front one reminds me of my tiny !!!



the ugly stage spitz LOL

even at the ugly stage they are pretty freaking awesome !!

 

[TweetyNPetey]

I only got 6 hours of sleep... Gonna go back to bed for an hour before I go to the stable. But I'm gonna go check on the egg first. Be back in a second

 

[TweetyNPetey]

Egg hasn't started zipping yet... Hopefully he will by the time I get back.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Today's Summary 5/10/13 (current as of 9:40 pm)
For those that missed it last night i had a helpful DS who turned the temp up by accident and i had temps of 115 !!!
guess what ?!?!
day 10 candle of batch 2 shows no ill effects... only had to pull 2 clear ones tonight !!!

I captioned sally's picture... any other takers ?

doug is sure he has the wiring thing done right this time
and has some saddled shaped aircells he asked sallly about
(pics on post 15221)

gardening mama said congrats to doug and admired mrs doug's shoes !!
and assured renne her eggs were not odd

i am glad doug and gardeningmama appreciated saucy secretary

waffle informed tony that the chicks posted earlier were silkie crosses

mikkles eggs came and unfortunately 9/15 had moving air cells and 1 was cracked...these are the polish...

all goes well
(know what ya mean about a box looking like it was drop kicked !! )
and mikkles also wished doug and mrs doug good luck for today

tony set 25 eggs and said these may be the last (are they rir? ) and he was working on a rooster home i believe it was and pics to come eventually I am sure (right tony? hint hint lol )

mikkles wished tony good luck with the eggs and sent bubba the roo to his new home last week

toastnjelly has some saddle shaped cells going into lockdown and asked for sallys advice as well ( keep scrolling it will be there )

and here it is : make sure to mark air cells and if they don't pip with everyone else you may have to assisst (see link in sally's sig) usually the chicks are malpositioned but not like wrong end pipping - so if an assisst is needed you need to internally pip and search for a beak or "feel" for the wing ..look to the article for more advice ... may even want to pre read it !! ( i am rereading it again myself just in case)

chicknfun's supervisor Nibbles the cat loves to give her the stinkeye for the camera !!

doug has an awesome big black barn cat and kills pest very well while ignoring the little chicks



tweetynpetey explained that robins incubate at similar temps but on average for only about 2 weeks
unfortunately said robin eggs got bumped and cracked on the good news side we have an internal pip on the ducky egg at day 25!!!!

doug and mrs doug would like to introduce us to miss destiny laine hodges ...




aww such a cute ultrasound we send you and mrs doug many many well wishes and

sumi has finally gotten to her destination with a few no comments that she will tell us about tommorow hopefully
chicknfun got the chickens moved .. finally !!

chicksooner gave a broody update ... 5 days til hatch day and she is finally settling down a bit !! she only went for a hand once this morning

rbaker said being nice to nurses they prevent doctors from accidentally should be applied to vet techs as well !!

rennerae wondered how an egg came out of her chicken scrambled ...
motorcycle suggested the chick got hungry waiting and began cooking its own yolk when she interuppted hee hee


and sally wondered if there were any effects on chickens from the waterers getting hot and that is a good question

wished us all a very happy busy friday !!

for now

Secretary Silver

Quote: Yea there the Production reds. Almost finished the house. Was short a few boards so have to go back to Lowes and get a few things. Can never get all the things I need in one trip.

6x6 is HUGE!! It's like a smal barn in there for what's going tp be maybe 10-12 roos. But the way I see it, the boards come in 6' lengths. So why not just make it 6x6. It's going to cost the same if I made it smaller. Just would be wasting 2' of boards. And all the work cutting them. LOL Pics later to come!!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Its a tin brower. Its just got mercury thermometers in it. I think its from the stone age!!! I can't afford $200 on a new one though right now

I bought a Vick's therm/Hydro. That thing works great!! $20