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

[Sally Sunshine]

I definitely think I need to add a supplement to the feed I give my breeders. I have my free range birds hatching perfectly healthy chicks left and right but the chicks that my breeders (who are in chicken tractors which I move every couple of days) hatch out keep coming out with horrible orthopedic/neurological problems.

So, this last hatch that I had, I had a silkie come out with a neurological problem and another that was just a bit mushy/sleepy. I already had suspicions about vita E/selenium deficiencies so I poached up a yolk from one of my free range birds (assuming that the free range yolks would contain a proper balance of nutrients). The neurological silkie had this weird problem where it was walking on its hocks to the point where its head was between its legs and it could barely lift its head and would hardly open its eyes. I had it in a sling.

I gave them the poached egg yolk and within an hour that one silkie was up and walking. He's still got a little hitch in his giddy-up but he is very energetic and is now the first one at the food dish. The sleepy one is also looking great. I've already started adding a supplement with Bcomp and Vita E/Selenium

sorry your having such issues

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: how many piglets does a pig have? I am so out of the loop of late!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

adding, and if you send me to a "here, let me google that for you" I will SCREAM lol

 

[ozexpat]

adding, and if you send me to a "here, let me google that for you" I will SCREAM lol

I am on my phone so I won't do it but if I was near a PC I would lol

They average around 10 piglets a farrowing. 40 piglets at 50 each will cover my feed costs up until now.

I have 9 sows. 3 pregnant and Mrs oz is at the local version of ups picking up semen for AI as I type for the next three

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[DaveOmak]

I am on my phone so I won't do it but if I was near a PC I would lol

They average around 10 piglets a farrowing. 40 piglets at 50 each will cover my feed costs up until now.

I have 9 sows. 3 pregnant and Mrs oz is at the local version of ups picking up semen for AI as I type for the next three

OZ, so you AI from a "super" boar.... good marbling, lots of meat on the belly for bacon (my choice).....

My neighbor AI's about 600 Angus every year..... I've watched him a few times..... That can be a real messy process..... He's been known to change clothes a few times a day.....

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[ozexpat]

OZ, so you AI from a "super" boar.... good marbling, lots of meat on the belly for bacon (my choice).....

My neighbor AI's about 600 Angus every year..... I've watched him a few times..... That can be a real messy process..... He's been known to change clothes a few times a day.....

I have a picture of Mrs Oz in Brown shorts with white polka dots and pink rubber boots holding a bottle attached to a pig.

Afterwards she said she needed a cigarette. (she does not smoke)

Pigs actually stay pretty still if they are timed right. A little back pressure and they act like you ARE the boar.

 

[DaveOmak]

I have a picture of Mrs Oz in Brown shorts with white polka dots and pink rubber boots holding a bottle attached to a pig.

Afterwards she said she needed a cigarette. (she does not smoke)

Pigs actually stay pretty still if they are timed right. A little back pressure and they act like you ARE the boar.

I s'pose that picture is locked away.... somewhere you can't get to it.....

About my neighbor..... I have no idea what a cow is thinking, when his arm, up to his shoulder, is inserted in the magic spot to fulfill the deed... they sort of let out a forlorn bellar, shuffle their feet and sometimes let go, out of their south end.... if you know what I mean....

 

[rbaker0345]

I have a picture of Mrs Oz in Brown shorts with white polka dots and pink rubber boots holding a bottle attached to a pig.

Afterwards she said she needed a cigarette. (she does not smoke)

Pigs actually stay pretty still if they are timed right. A little back pressure and they act like you ARE the boar.

Thank you so much for that visualization. I feel like I need a cigarette now (and I don't smoke either)