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

[BantyChooks]

Can I toss leftover spaghetti to the chickens?

Yep

 

[daxigait]

Almost!! e

I was looking forward to your day seven with you.
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[kwhites634]

Dumb question for any electrical types in here: When joining two 14ga wires, what size wire nuts do I need? 14ga? Do wire nuts even come in gauges?

Quote: Only if meatballs & tomato paste are with it

 

[daxigait]

Yep

Good, I did not want to waste the meat and stuff but I used a canned sauce instead of making it, and I don't like it. I ate two servings and just don't want any more.

I have also decided to stick with spaghetti squash. It is much better than noodles in my opinion.

 

[daxigait]

Dumb question for any electrical types in here: When joining two 14ga wires, what size wire nuts do I need?  14ga?  Do wire nuts even come in gauges?
Only if meatballs & tomato paste are with it  

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[dan26552]

I was looking forward to your day seven with you.
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I can't wait.

 

[kwhites634]

. Somehow I managed to combine posts unintentionally

 

[ocap]

Dumb question for any electrical types in here: When joining two 14ga wires, what size wire nuts do I need? 14ga? Do wire nuts even come in gauges?
Quote: Only if meatballs & tomato paste are with it

wire nuts are different sizes and color coded, I am trying to remember, call Lowes or Home Depot, I think two fourteens are joined with yellow nut, twist them together and snip the longest one to equal length before you put on the nut

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm sure it's uncomfortable for her and painful, but since she's drinking, I would think that internally everything's ok, and if it was more than soft tissue injury (extensive though it is), meaning skeletal/spinal cord, she would not have survived. Meaning that she may not be doing it because it hurts, but you might need to, as Dax says, force the issue and straighten her neck - I may be reading this completely wrong, but she's GOT to eat or she won't heal (including enough to straighten her neck), and (don't know another way to say it), maybe you need to see if you can get her neck closer to the right position even if she doesn't want to or it hurts her.

While trying to figure that out, any thoughts about a higher concentration sugar solution as a brief stop gap while you look at the tubing options? (Since there has been very little to no calorie input for several days now while her body is in a stressful situation that if anything would call for higher calorie needs.) There's not enough in Sav-a-Chick to be significant calorie input for an adult bird, I'm thinking...

Just tossing out ideas, you've probably thought about all of that, and you're the one looking at her/with her. Did you get other input from the duck folks on BYC?

Forgot to add: I had thought about a sugar water, but doesn't that cause diarrhoea?

 

[BantyChooks]

The guineas are now going after Jazzy. That's the final straw.