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

[daxigait]

Was that a reference to my discussion about losing egg color?

Yes, mostly about crossing lines. Usually you just end up with multiple problems over the one issue your group had to begin with.

 

[daxigait]

She quite reminds me of a similar case in my last trio, which happened before I joined BYC. It was a weasel, not a martin, but pretty close overall.

It was about 10 at night, and I heard non-stop quacking. I went outside to find a weasel sitting on top of my duck, about to slit its throat... I chased it away and attempted to take its head off, but missed. The duckling had a non-functional leg for several months, but eventually recovered without even a limp. Hoping this is the same way...
Thanks you two.... I'm trying as hard as I can to save her.

You are doing great. Far better than I am or would.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

2 eggs still alive. One has a terrible saddle air cell for some reason tho, which wasn't there at day 7...

So with the fluctuations of the temp, I decided to bump up the bator temp by 0.5 F, it now has been steady at 100.00 and 99.5. Which before it was set at 99.5 and was fluctuating between 99.5 & 98.5! Now its a half degree vs a whole one!

Wish me luck

sounds much better!!

Good evening all... I think I'm finally done Christmas shopping. Whew!!!
Lost one of my SLWs yesterday... it flew over the fence and went right in my dog yard.

that stinks

sorry

In my world, water is good for 4 things
fishing,
bathing,
drinking over ice,
and mixing at room temperature with Scotch

why on earth would you want to ruin a perfectly good scotch?? have you ever heard of whiskey stones?

I highly recommend you type up another page that is an executive summary. Perhaps with an outline and a numbered list of most important tasks for each day.
Important points can be missed in 4 single spaced pages.

Drinking
hydrating garden
hydrating chickens
canoeing
fishing
bathing
essential component of snow
essential ingredient for beer making


Oh, yeah. We forgot that one.

LOL!! her poor chicken sitter
mmm beer
what if you have an incinerating toilet? then you can make more beer with the water

Didn't someone on here say that honey has curative properties?

Raw honey, yes very much so

Yeah, but that'd make a huge mess.

you put it in the wound and wrap it, it helps to draw things out similar to drawing salve

and you 2 just reminded me that someone gave me a quart or so not that long ago, i should dig that out

Mmmm..... Pancakes...
That's another thing- I don't want to seal the punctures up. It goes against everything I've learned about human medical care... If you're not 100% certain the wound is clean, sealing it seems like a very bad idea.

mmm i had pancakes for breakfast today
agreed about wanting air to get to it, you are doing great!

Hitting rocks on skis is a bummer.

and difficult to repair, and can be very painful

You should see the gouges it puts in the bottoms of skis.
Not to mention that it will immediately put the brakes on and usually throw you for a loop.

have you ever taken an old set of skis and gone sand skiiing? lol we used to do this at old gravel pits in the summer

She quite reminds me of a similar case in my last trio, which happened before I joined BYC. It was a weasel, not a martin, but pretty close overall.

It was about 10 at night, and I heard non-stop quacking. I went outside to find a weasel sitting on top of my duck, about to slit its throat... I chased it away and attempted to take its head off, but missed. The duckling had a non-functional leg for several months, but eventually recovered without even a limp. Hoping this is the same way...
Thanks you two.... I'm trying as hard as I can to save her.

 

[daxigait]

A friend of mine actually gave me a vet who sees poultry's number, but I couldn't afford anything but 1 visit, I don't think. And you know how it goes... One appt just don't work for injuries.

Yes, I know. The only Avian vet in town charges 50-60 dollars just to walk in the door.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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I appreciate that. That is why though I have meds the only thing I gave her besides the water with probiotics and electrolytes mixed in and eggs was the 10cc of Epson treatment. I figured the worst that would do was make her thirsty. I will try them when they open, but I won't be off work in time to do anything. I hope it is not the m word. The others are vaccinated, but not the HRIR because I got them from a breeder as untreated day or two day old chicks, and the two I bought from Fred's hens.

How old is she?
The m word doesn't jump out at me as a possible problem. Some of the symptoms do, like the emaciation while eating, but the diarrhea doesn't.
I'm 80% sure it is intestinal.

The best vet I ever used didn't mind telling you about things you could do yourself, that he'd do if you brought the animal to him...dogs, in my case. As a field trialer himself, he understood that when you're keeping multiple dogs...6 or 8, possibly, you couldn't be running to the vet every time one got the sniffles or needed shots. I still have scads of needles & syringes from giving my own shots. Even gave my own rabies shots before the "nanny state" made it illegal.

I love that. A vet visit has gone from 10 or 20 when I was young to 100 or more.

I had a hen going downhill fast the caused me to call the best avian/poultry vet in the area thinking I could get her right in. It was early on a Friday. They said they had no appointments till the following week. I said she wouldn't make it to the following week. They said to bring her in and they would keep her under observation over the weekend. I said I could observe her here. I needed to know what was ailing her so I decided to drive her to the Mizzou vet school in Columbia for humane euthanasia, necropsy and lab work. Over a 6 hour trip. It turned out to be cancer. I'm glad I didn't take her to the vet for 'observation'. She would have been miserable and died without knowing what happened and if they sent her for necropsy, It would have cost me at least $100 more than it did.

Yes, mostly about crossing lines. Usually you just end up with multiple problems over the one issue your group had to begin with.

Ah! It is complicated and everyone's situation is different. Dealing with a small gene pool just complicates it that much further.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yes, I know. The only Avian vet in town charges 50-60 dollars just to walk in the door.

I know. That's why I've only sought vet help a couple times.
One jerk, the closest avian vet with poultry experience, has multi tiered fees. Men pay more than women. Some women in our chicken group recommended him saying he only charged them 10 or 15 dollars. He charged me 60 and didn't do anything.

I guess that is on a par with women paying more than men for car repairs.

 

[daxigait]

@ChickenCanoe3/26 hatch so almost nine months. Not laying yet. Comb still pinkish.

 

[BantyChooks]

You are doing great. Far better than I am or would.

It's you all who gave the instructions... I'd be still sitting there hyperventilating without all the help I received.

 

[daxigait]

I really wonder about dehydration. Since we had such cold temperatures for the first time the only water source was the horizontal nipple waterer. Normally there is also the standard plastic round gallon waterer.

 

[dan26552]

Morning!