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

[familypendragon]

Hello everyone. Ive been very very sick for several weeks. I cant remember if I told it on here. I have a prostate infection that I am just finishing my 3rd round of antibiotics for. I have a bulging disc in my back that I am finishing my 2nd round of steroids for. My wife is due Friday. I finally went to work a few hours Thursday and Friday. I still have a long way to go with my back. Several months of taking it easy and not lifting. I still have to have more tests because my PSA was very high and I am going to have a biopsy to see if I have cancer. Im going to try to go back to work this week and I could use everyones prayers.

Now. Ive lost 20 of my 3 month old chickens over the last few days. I lost 10 yesterday. Of course they are my prized BLRW's It seems everytime I get them this old they start dying. Once they get older then the only way I lose one is because I have a hawk that's the size of a tom turkey. Im sure its coccid and I must have the disease in my soil or something. Im not going to raise any more chicks. Ill sell all my equipment next spring when the prices are high. I will probably sell most of the chickens that are left at that time and I have 7 or 8 chicken tractors that I will sell. I still have probably a hundred birds total but the Hawks have taken several of my best birds. A buddy watched this particular hawk dive down and take a full grown chicken. Anyway. Thanks for including me in your prayers.

Ill continue to check in from time to time. God Bless everyone.

I am so sorry, will have you all in our prayers.

 

[familypendragon]

I moved my chicks all outside to the outside brooder coop since its starting to turn cool I want them to have a chance to acclimate more easily. One end of the coop is nice and hot and the other isn't so they can go back and forth without shocking their system so much. I have some older chicks that have been out for a while and are used to getting put up in there at night. Well they were mad and wanting out so I decided to leave the little door open for a while. I think one of our roos went in and killed a chick One of my only 3 Apenzeller Spitzhauben (cute little splash mohawk chicken) that I hatched myself. I could kick myself. It was such a bad day otherwise I wasn't thinking straight. The 2 year old woke up at 1:45am - 15 minutes before I was due to go to bed and then stayed up till 4:30am - one hour before we had to get up and get his brother ready and to school. So I got 1 hour sleep and then had a very cranky, screaming, half naked two year old I had to drag to the car and wrestle into a car seat. I so wasn't thinking "one of the roos will kill my chick while I am gone". *sigh* Then we came home and I had to carry my shoeless 2 year old (he's nearly 40 lbs and I am disabled with back, hip, leg and foot problems from 9 years in the army so that alone HURTS) and then I fell up the porch stairs carrying him. I managed to NOT drop him but ripped up my entire body pretty good. And then I found my dead chickie and have also concluded my ENTIRE flock of over 100 rare/endangered birds - most of which are between a week and 2 months old - are passing around the fowl pox virus thanks to the recent rain and bloom of mosquitoes after our record breaking dry spell. I.CAN'T.WIN.... UGH! And 2 days ago my dogs ate another chicken - a golden laced wyandotte roo. Luckily I hated that roo and he bit me every opportunity he got. But that makes 20 chickens they have killed since April. They went under the crawl space under our house and out the other side through a wall to get to them. So - more fencing in my future with my messed up body - fun....

 

[ozexpat]

if you are hatching such quantities you should consider vacciations for pox and newcastle disease

here is my thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-how-to-go-about-vaccinating-a-backyard-flock

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I moved my chicks all outside to the outside brooder coop since its starting to turn cool I want them to have a chance to acclimate more easily. One end of the coop is nice and hot and the other isn't so they can go back and forth without shocking their system so much. I have some older chicks that have been out for a while and are used to getting put up in there at night. Well they were mad and wanting out so I decided to leave the little door open for a while. I think one of our roos went in and killed a chick

One of my only 3 Apenzeller Spitzhauben (cute little splash mohawk chicken) that I hatched myself. I could kick myself. It was such a bad day otherwise I wasn't thinking straight. The 2 year old woke up at 1:45am - 15 minutes before I was due to go to bed and then stayed up till 4:30am - one hour before we had to get up and get his brother ready and to school. So I got 1 hour sleep and then had a very cranky, screaming, half naked two year old I had to drag to the car and wrestle into a car seat. I so wasn't thinking "one of the roos will kill my chick while I am gone". *sigh* Then we came home and I had to carry my shoeless 2 year old (he's nearly 40 lbs and I am disabled with back, hip, leg and foot problems from 9 years in the army so that alone HURTS) and then I fell up the porch stairs carrying him. I managed to NOT drop him but ripped up my entire body pretty good. And then I found my dead chickie

and have also concluded my ENTIRE flock of over 100 rare/endangered birds - most of which are between a week and 2 months old - are passing around the fowl pox virus thanks to the recent rain and bloom of mosquitoes after our record breaking dry spell. I.CAN'T.WIN.... UGH!

And 2 days ago my dogs ate another chicken - a golden laced wyandotte roo. Luckily I hated that roo and he bit me every opportunity he got. But that makes 20 chickens they have killed since April. They went under the crawl space under our house and out the other side through a wall to get to them. So - more fencing in my future with my messed up body - fun....

oh no pentdrag!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

if you are hatching such quantities you should consider vacciations for pox and newcastle disease

here is my thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-how-to-go-about-vaccinating-a-backyard-flock

there it is, thanks lol

 

[Gardeningmama]

Hello everyone. Ive been very very sick for several weeks. I cant remember if I told it on here. I have a prostate infection that I am just finishing my 3rd round of antibiotics for. I have a bulging disc in my back that I am finishing my 2nd round of steroids for. My wife is due Friday. I finally went to work a few hours Thursday and Friday. I still have a long way to go with my back. Several months of taking it easy and not lifting. I still have to have more tests because my PSA was very high and I am going to have a biopsy to see if I have cancer. Im going to try to go back to work this week and I could use everyones prayers.

Now. Ive lost 20 of my 3 month old chickens over the last few days. I lost 10 yesterday. Of course they are my prized BLRW's It seems everytime I get them this old they start dying. Once they get older then the only way I lose one is because I have a hawk that's the size of a tom turkey. Im sure its coccid and I must have the disease in my soil or something. Im not going to raise any more chicks. Ill sell all my equipment next spring when the prices are high. I will probably sell most of the chickens that are left at that time and I have 7 or 8 chicken tractors that I will sell. I still have probably a hundred birds total but the Hawks have taken several of my best birds. A buddy watched this particular hawk dive down and take a full grown chicken. Anyway. Thanks for including me in your prayers.

Ill continue to check in from time to time. God Bless everyone.

It's always darkest before the dawn! Hang in there Doug, it can't rain forever....My bet is when you're holding that new baby in your arms, all of these troubles will just wash away! Prayers to you and your wife...GOD BLESS!

 

[sumi]

I moved my chicks all outside to the outside brooder coop since its starting to turn cool I want them to have a chance to acclimate more easily. One end of the coop is nice and hot and the other isn't so they can go back and forth without shocking their system so much. I have some older chicks that have been out for a while and are used to getting put up in there at night. Well they were mad and wanting out so I decided to leave the little door open for a while. I think one of our roos went in and killed a chick

One of my only 3 Apenzeller Spitzhauben (cute little splash mohawk chicken) that I hatched myself. I could kick myself. It was such a bad day otherwise I wasn't thinking straight. The 2 year old woke up at 1:45am - 15 minutes before I was due to go to bed and then stayed up till 4:30am - one hour before we had to get up and get his brother ready and to school. So I got 1 hour sleep and then had a very cranky, screaming, half naked two year old I had to drag to the car and wrestle into a car seat. I so wasn't thinking "one of the roos will kill my chick while I am gone". *sigh* Then we came home and I had to carry my shoeless 2 year old (he's nearly 40 lbs and I am disabled with back, hip, leg and foot problems from 9 years in the army so that alone HURTS) and then I fell up the porch stairs carrying him. I managed to NOT drop him but ripped up my entire body pretty good. And then I found my dead chickie

and have also concluded my ENTIRE flock of over 100 rare/endangered birds - most of which are between a week and 2 months old - are passing around the fowl pox virus thanks to the recent rain and bloom of mosquitoes after our record breaking dry spell. I.CAN'T.WIN.... UGH!

And 2 days ago my dogs ate another chicken - a golden laced wyandotte roo. Luckily I hated that roo and he bit me every opportunity he got. But that makes 20 chickens they have killed since April. They went under the crawl space under our house and out the other side through a wall to get to them. So - more fencing in my future with my messed up body - fun....

 

[TweetyNPetey]

I moved my chicks all outside to the outside brooder coop since its starting to turn cool I want them to have a chance to acclimate more easily. One end of the coop is nice and hot and the other isn't so they can go back and forth without shocking their system so much. I have some older chicks that have been out for a while and are used to getting put up in there at night. Well they were mad and wanting out so I decided to leave the little door open for a while. I think one of our roos went in and killed a chick One of my only 3 Apenzeller Spitzhauben (cute little splash mohawk chicken) that I hatched myself. I could kick myself. It was such a bad day otherwise I wasn't thinking straight. The 2 year old woke up at 1:45am - 15 minutes before I was due to go to bed and then stayed up till 4:30am - one hour before we had to get up and get his brother ready and to school. So I got 1 hour sleep and then had a very cranky, screaming, half naked two year old I had to drag to the car and wrestle into a car seat. I so wasn't thinking "one of the roos will kill my chick while I am gone". *sigh* Then we came home and I had to carry my shoeless 2 year old (he's nearly 40 lbs and I am disabled with back, hip, leg and foot problems from 9 years in the army so that alone HURTS) and then I fell up the porch stairs carrying him. I managed to NOT drop him but ripped up my entire body pretty good. And then I found my dead chickie and have also concluded my ENTIRE flock of over 100 rare/endangered birds - most of which are between a week and 2 months old - are passing around the fowl pox virus thanks to the recent rain and bloom of mosquitoes after our record breaking dry spell. I.CAN'T.WIN.... UGH! And 2 days ago my dogs ate another chicken - a golden laced wyandotte roo. Luckily I hated that roo and he bit me every opportunity he got. But that makes 20 chickens they have killed since April. They went under the crawl space under our house and out the other side through a wall to get to them. So - more fencing in my future with my messed up body - fun....

*big hug*

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Ok everyone I just set eggs that had been shipped and 23/24 have rolling air cells. Some have little bubbles too. What are my chances of hatching these?

 

[familypendragon]

Ok everyone I just set eggs that had been shipped and 23/24 have rolling air cells. Some have little bubbles too. What are my chances of hatching these?

From my experience I got 2 of 40 in that scenario and they were 100% assisted - but I have heard others have much better luck. Sally what ever happened with your package of eggs shipped upside down??