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

[Sally Sunshine]

Another question... I bought the electrolytes and probiotics and it says to mix both into a gallon of water - then it says to also provide plain water... UGH! I bought a guinea pig type nipple waterer, but only one. I am using nipple waterers outside and I want them to learn how to use one from the beginning. Do I need to go get another one for plain water ??

I only offer the one! so they drink it!

 

[familypendragon]

I only offer the one! so they drink it!

See, that is what I was thinking, LOL! And at what point do you switch to plain water?

 

[familypendragon]

I also have the Grogel plus B. I am not going to overload their systems will I??

 

[ozexpat]

I also have the Grogel plus B. I am not going to overload their systems will I??

way too "natural" for me.

I just posted a how to fumigate eggs with formadehyde and potassium permangenate.

I guess my eggs aren't organic huh?

 

[loveourbirds]

Quote: doing what you and i are doing, i dont think we can be natural. i do use some of the homeopathic remedies, but i have sulmet, corid, tylan and ivomec in case i need it. im pretty sure tsc has me labeled as a drug addict, cause i pick up 2 - 25 packs of 28 ga needles when i stock up.

 

[ozexpat]

doing what you and i are doing, i dont think we can be natural. i do use some of the homeopathic remedies, but i have sulmet, corid, tylan and ivomec in case i need it. im pretty sure tsc has me labeled as a drug addict, cause i pick up 2 - 25 packs of 28 ga needles when i stock up.

The saving grace is I know everything that has made contact with or been absorbed by my poultry.

 

[loveourbirds]

Quote: i admit i do raise my meat birds differently than i do my show birds. if a $75 -$100 chicken is sick, its gets the best i can give it. if an extra rooster being raised as a meat bird gets sick, i give what the USDA lists as safe and hope for the best. the main difference is, im not going to eat that expensive chicken.
i also have 3 hens for "eating" eggs. if i have to medicate them i do it like the meat birds. i know how long to dispose of the eggs, and i usually do it a little longer than the medicine calls for.

 

[ozexpat]

We had a major power outage. 10 hours. The battery was good for 6 of them but I have had pipping guineas, 40 guinea eggs, 21 duck eggs. 5 peafowl and 5 turkey slowly dying.

Power just came on

Here is hoping

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I only do a few days on that unless they are serama then they get it for over a week. I only use grow gel for weak chicks or assisted chicks. and that's before any water

 

[Sally Sunshine]

So much for the empty bators, stupid broodies. LAST time I said didn't I, why did I try it again! Two eggs crushed two half eaten chicks. I had DH towel her and put her back in the brahma run and I took the rest and I am attempting to save what's left. One splash is assisted out that was totally crushed, she seems fine but huge wet chick, stupid broody had way too high humidity with all this rain, she needed to add some rice to her nest! Two more have pips, another one was dead in shell huge and wet. I will be lucky if I get three chicks out of the eggs, but at least I am fairly sure the first one assisted is a splash! That makes three splashes for us!

I wanted to share the Blue gene/Partridge genetics for those of you who don't understand them..... We really really want a splash roo and a few hens... this is why....


Partridge x Partridge = 100% Partridge
Partridge x Blue Partridge = 50% Partridge and 50% Blue Partridge
Partridge x Splash Partridge = 100% Blue Partridge
Blue Partridge x Blue Partridge = 25% Partridge, 50% Blue Partridge and 25% Splash Partridge
Blue Partridge x Splash Partridge = 50% Blue Partidge and 50% Splash Partidge
Splash Partridge x Splash Partridge = 100% Splash Partridge