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

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi Sally and company.

I've got turkeys and goslings hatching in two differnt incubators today. (and for another day knowing goslings)

Hope ya'll are doing well.

There she is, wondering what was up! Pics pics! you know how we love to see baby goslins too!

I like my turkey they are not like chicks though, and my button quail stink imagine that, the tiny mongerals smell worse than anything else!
oh and I now have cotournix in a pen and eggs in the bator.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sally, are the you don't know whats Bantam MF Cochins? Gorgeous Serama, and Absolutely Love the Spitz!!!

Your birds are the picture of health!

Thanks Mich, and no I don't think she has cochin.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: UPDATE PLEASE

 

[Marty1876]

Sally, I adored my button quil! Can I get some eggs from you? We lost ours when Julia forgot to lock the cage door we kept our 4 "pets" in. Our cat was quick. She was so sad, as we'd kept them for a few years, and that was her first accident.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Learn CPR: Save A Bird’s Life, BTW I posted this in seriousness, had a discussion in PM and this came to be investigated if there is an actual procedure for Aviary techs! Therefor I added to the Hatching 101 article wither or not it gets put to use IDK, but I found it so I added it!


Now I am off.... its a rainy day but I still have work to be done!

Learn CPR: Save A Bird’s Life



CPR can save a bird’s life in the correct circumstances, so learn how to perform CPR on your bird with these tips.



http://www.birdchannel.com/bird-diet-and-health/bird-emergency-care/bird-cpr.aspx





EDITED TO ADD..... (yes researching again, its what I do! )

SmallScale Poultry Flocks Resources
a PDF Filled with Informative links to EVERYTHING POULTRY!
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/animal_health/pdfs/Small-Scale_Poultry_Flock_Resources.pdf






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[cochins1088]

I brought home 2 new chicks yesterday.

Once every year, the high school hatches chicks for baby animal day. It's when students bring in baby animals so that the younger kids can come and learn about them. Anyways, they were opening up the eggs that didn't hatch and found 2 still alive. They took them from their shells and left them. A friend of mine called asking me to come in to check them out because they wouldn't dry. When I found them, it was obvious what had happened. The infamous broken yolk sacs. The poor babies very covered head to toe and their vents were sealed because of it. Thankfully their navels had sealed.

She told me that no one is willing to take home the 2 weak crusty chicks and since it's Friday, the teacher will cull them at the end of the day. I felt bad for them so I took them home with me. They had curled toes, and they were a huge mess. It took me forever to get them clean, but they are now fluffy and active in the spare incubator. What am I going to do with them...

 

[TweetyNPetey]

Ok. Just got back from the stable. I'm all tired out. But I'll update before I take a nap.
Ducky is probably taking a nap from the hard work of piping. Still hasn't started zipping

 

[sumi]

I brought home 2 new chicks yesterday.

Once every year, the high school hatches chicks for baby animal day. It's when students bring in baby animals so that the younger kids can come and learn about them. Anyways, they were opening up the eggs that didn't hatch and found 2 still alive. They took them from their shells and left them. A friend of mine called asking me to come in to check them out because they wouldn't dry. When I found them, it was obvious what had happened. The infamous broken yolk sacs. The poor babies very covered head to toe and their vents were sealed because of it. Thankfully their navels had sealed.

She told me that no one is willing to take home the 2 weak crusty chicks and since it's Friday, the teacher will cull them at the end of the day. I felt bad for them so I took them home with me. They had curled toes, and they were a huge mess. It took me forever to get them clean, but they are now fluffy and active in the spare incubator. What am I going to do with them...

You are going to love them and take care of them and make them better, that's what!

Thank goodness you were around to save the poor things. After that bumpy start they deserved to live.

 

[sumi]

Ok. Just got back from the stable. I'm all tired out. But I'll update before I take a nap.
Ducky is probably taking a nap from the hard work of piping. Still hasn't started zipping

How long ago did it pip? They can take forever to start zipping, seriously. And then they can take forever to zip too.

 

[cochins1088]

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Well they are gold stars (sex-linked) and 1 is a boy... I have too many roosters already, and I don't really want a mutt rooster... but I will love them all the same and I will try to find them good homes.

and talk about a bumpy start.. The high school is horrible with hatching, these 2 are probably the lucky ones.

They had 3 incubators full of eggs and only 1/4 of them hatched. 1/2 of them died fully formed because of humidity issues and another 1/4 died because the kids tried to dye some of the chicks, but it was too late in incubation so those embryos were stabbed and they passed away. Of the 1/4 that hatched (about 30 chicks), half of them died throughout the day. They weren't allowed to sleep for over 6 hours while the kids were crudely handling them.

A few of the chicks were trying to rest, and one of the adults thought that they were dying so she threw them in a bucket out in the cold. Thankfully someone found them, put them under a heat lamp, and saved some of them. All and all, I was told about 20 survived and I'm sure that more passed away on their ways to new homes. Poor babies...