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

[darkbluespace]

Hello darkbluespace....

you should be able to start to see the wing tips shoot out more sideways in frizzles about a week if you look close! and then by two you should be able to tell for sure!

Thanks! The one that looks like it might be frizzled came from an egg labeled "smooth". I guess I'll know for sure soon enough... hoping for a couple... a frizzled roo would be cool!

 

[sumi]

Sally, sorry I didn't get the notifier for the tag and I didn't check the thread for days. We had a death in the family that took my time and my mind off BYC this past week. Congrats on the new daughter

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I get plenty LMAO!!

Sally, sorry I didn't get the notifier for the tag and I didn't check the thread for days. We had a death in the family that took my time and my mind off BYC this past week. Congrats on the new daughter

sorry to hear sumi

 

[rbaker0345]

My Walker Hound has had such a hard life. She was a discarded hunting dog when I found her on the side of the road, skin and bones with frost-bitten pads. She has kidney issues and all of her teeth are missing, she's seven but she looks to be about fourteen... Such a hard life. So then last Thursday night my husband had her outside and she got a bug up her backside about something and went running off right into the road and got hit by a car. The good news is that she survived but she ended up with a broken femur. The break was displaced and so bruised that the best course of action was to amputate. I just got her back from the vet. I have been a vet tech for a lot of years and almost nothing phases me. I can watch most surgeries while eating lunch (except for anything that has REALLY necrotic tissue or excessive amounts of puss like a pyo or something, I can watch an abscess being lanced while I eat, but any more puss than your average abscess and I have to put the sandwich down) but boy did I cry lika baby when I brought her home. Its so different when its your own animal. I don't feel like such a baby though, the tech who helped my vet said that she couldn't help but cry too. It is so bruised and the incision is so huge. She's recovering from the anaesthesia right now. I have to remember to warn my husband that she'll probably start crying once the iso and the ket/val/morphine wear off. What a mess. I can now tell all of my hound-dog-deer-hunting neighbors that I am the proud owner of a $900 three legged hunting dog with bad kidneys and breast cancer. Not too many people can say that.

 

[Eggdicted2014]

That's awful! I hope they gave her a lot of pain meds to get her through the recooperation. Poor girl. Aťˇ least God knew what angels to leave her with.

 

[rbaker0345]

That's awful! I hope they gave her a lot of pain meds to get her through the recooperation. Poor girl. Aťˇ least God knew what angels to leave her with.

Thank you. If I weren't a Buddhist, I would believe it was providence. We just got a large settlement for hurricane damage, so we actually had the money to pay for it. If we hadn't gotten that money, she would have had to be put to sleep.

Then my other dog starts breathing really fast this morning. Her resting respiration was 130 where it should be about 30. So I had to take her to the vet and she has a really bad heart murmur (which we knew about) which is causing some congestive heart failure. She's now on meds to keep her comfortable until the eventual end, but she's 14 with a 4 out of 6 heart murmur so that's to be expected.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Sorry for your pet troubles, I know how hard it can be.

-Kathy

 

[City farm]

Well this little girl looks awful. . She was just hatched this morning. She was under our broody Cheryl, so I brought her in when I noticed this sticking out. I wrapped her in wet paper towel, put her in an area where she couldn't move around in the incubator.since it's been so hot here over the summer we had hardly any success rate with our broody hens. Our girl decided to go broody again.. we ended up getting eggs from a friend. They are in the incubator, & are due to hatch Saturday.I have been gone all day at work, so i could not do much to help her.. just got home and reading up on what to do. What is the success rate on these little guys.. Hope I posted in the right area..
I sprayed on some vetericyn, wound & infection treatment..
I probably just messed up the eggs in the incubator.. We got the eggs just in case we had another failure with our broody.. The first chick came out fine, the second one is this one in the photo. There was another chick with the same yolk sack, just did not look as bad. However, this other chick seems weak. I will have to read up on what went wrong.. Thanks in advance

 

[City farm]

Good morning,
The two chicks are still alive.. I can't believe they are.. the 2nd one does not look good.. Anyway,
Who has day old chicks??

Ooppsss meant to post in Arizona thread

 

[rbaker0345]

Oz, I have a question I think maybe only you could answer. I have a suspicion that my birds may be infected with haemoproteus which is malarial-like. Its not having any effect on adults, but the occasional hatchling is coming down with strange malaise and sudden death. Being the rabid microbiologist that I am, with a microscope just sitting there, waiting, no begging me to use it, I would like to stain and treat for this. My questions are this: 1. giemsa stain- what do I need and what's the procedure?
2. what dosage of quinine do I use to treat a chick or duckling, or is there something better that I can use to treat?


Not sure its actually haemoproteus but just want to get my ducks in a row in case the stain comes up with it.