EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[daxigait]

You've got it. You're smart enough to come around.
I meant to say that it isn't an indictment on you. You just need to understand that for grammar/spelling Nazis it is akin to hearing fingernails scraping on a blackboard.


Brilliant. I think I remember that ditty.

I have blood smearing on all of my waterers and feeders.
The blood vessels are very close to the surface of combs and wattles. If you massage and squeeze them, you'll get blood to ooze.
Watch for swelling and heat. If there's a lot of swelling feel them and if there's extreme temps, they're infected. That doesn't necessarily mean they need meds. But since you only have one, just check for infection.
Over the years I've had lots of Mediterranean roosters with black tips and wattles. They all recovered fine though I'm sure they weren't happy.

Well, he was feeling well enough to fight with my blue Ameraucana. I was worried about both of them. I wish there was a nice way to introduce cocks. I split them after a while putting them on opposite sides of the roost and quickly shut off the light. Hopefully they won't hurt each other too much. My Am. is much bigger, but the Penedescas is a determined fella.

I have one hen with a bit of black, and my HRIR cock has a touch of black on his wattles and the very back of his comb. We were so damp at fifty five at five am with misty drizzle, 32 by six, shifting to icy rain followed by below zero temps by dark. I don't know how to deal with moisture and cold like that. That causes bone deep cold as my shivering horse and goat testified Saturday night.

 

[daxigait]

You've got it. You're smart enough to come around.
I meant to say that it isn't an indictment on you. You just need to understand that for grammar/spelling Nazis it is akin to hearing fingernails scraping on a blackboard.


Brilliant. I think I remember that ditty.

I have blood smearing on all of my waterers and feeders.
The blood vessels are very close to the surface of combs and wattles. If you massage and squeeze them, you'll get blood to ooze.
Watch for swelling and heat. If there's a lot of swelling feel them and if there's extreme temps, they're infected. That doesn't necessarily mean they need meds. But since you only have one, just check for infection.
Over the years I've had lots of Mediterranean roosters with black tips and wattles. They all recovered fine though I'm sure they weren't happy.

I shared that on the old thread mentioning I came up with it to help when I was teaching.

 

[daxigait]

I was goin' thru my pic files and found this... I forgot how much a wet silkie could look like a scrub brush

He looks rather annoyed

 

[daxigait]

I should have gotten the photo of my olive egger standing on TOP of the water/ice. She looked SO confused... 

- Ant Farm 

That would have been a great calendar picture.

@DwayneNLizHelloooooooo. Where are you? What ARE you doing

 

[daxigait]

The hose froze, and I had to go to work. This wasn't too bad, and this way they could have the water underneath without me needing to haul water from the bathtub to the outside repeatedly...   Thankfully, shouldn't be a common occurrence here.

For future reference it you grab the hose about four feet from the end with your left hand and arch it up and over at least just above your head with the other hand about fine feet down the hose while you count to ten ( more is a waste, and less may not work) then move the left hand to the right and repeat to the end it will drain enough not to freeze.

 

[daxigait]

Ugh. This is a collapsing hose, but since it's sometimes under pressure for a little while as I do chores, it doesn't flatten out as much as is ideal any more. The left over water was frozen - I probably could have gotten it going eventually, but no time for it. 

@daxigait
  - what was that cat bed warmer thing you were referring to? 

- Ant Farm 

It is a microwaveable cat bed warmer. Don't know what mine was anymore, but it is something like this one.

 

[teaton]

Can anybody tell me what kind of chick this is? They are all black with black beaks some have yellow dots on thier head some have a little yellow on the belly, and they have black and yellow feet.

 

[daxigait]

It works!!!!!

Way to go. I am intimidated by trying to make a Bator.

 

[dan26552]

Way to go. I am intimidated by trying to make a Bator.

Thanks. It's really not that hard. Even taking the less trodden road which my brother and I did it's not hard.

 

[dan26552]

My brother in law helped my brother and I put our bator together, his dad has an old fridge that doesn't work any more, he and my brother are now plotting how to turn it into a bator I've created monsters.