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

[DwayneNLiz]

Ha! Look at all those old cabovers. I drove one of those when I first drove a truck before I taught school. Then I went back to driving later, and most cabovers are long gone now.

Have you seen that movie?? its a good one!!

I can't believe at anything hatched considering they were shipped in freezing weather, the week of christmas, and lost in the mail for a whole week!!!

strong babies there!

 

[dan26552]

I want geese!!!!!!

 

[Akrnaf2]

BOKER TOV Mel!

 Benny-hope you are having a wonderful day!! 

 

[Akrnaf2]

Good morning Ken!
Every bumble foot begins with a scratch or broken skin!

 

[duluthralphie]

It's deformed! Look at its feet!

 

[Chaos18]

It's deformed! Look at its feet!

And it's face.

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[Akrnaf2]

IMO that toe is rotten from gangrene! It will kill the chicken if not removed!

 

[duluthralphie]

I think Benny makes a good point. What prevents unwanted bacteria from entering the edges of the hole, 'specially given the chickens' habit of walking in all manner of bacteria-laden,potentially harmful stuff? What prevents the hole from closing just like pierced ears will without earrings in them? If the feet are muddy, how can you even see a small hole in the foot?

I agree, with the hole leaves open edges and a chance for bacteria. I have tried other methods of marking chicks. None are perfect.

However, there are a lot of things I have to do I do not like. I am required to check my flock of for MS and MG every 90 days. this requires poking the birds and taking blood. I am required to test for AI every 3 months which means trachea swaps. They require I do several birds on one swab, which to me is spreading a disease and bacteria. The USDA Vet and State Vet say it does not matter and the chances are low.

This is my first time with toe punching. I am not sure how I will like it. I need to keep strains separate and in some cases know the parents and lineage of the chicks.

I put the chicks on 1/4 in hardware cloth, something many do not like. I am not the biggest fan of it, but it does keep the area drier than paper lining and bedding.

I am constantly trying to refine my hobby and find better ways to do things. I worry about the bacteria, I suppose I could try a little peroxide in each hole but that runs its own risk. I have also read they may need to be repunched in a couple weeks, Something I do not look forward too.

If I lose a bunch from this batch because of infection, I will try another method, what I am not sure, but I will look for other answers.

I had thought small "parrot" leg bands would have worked. I tried them last year. Do you know how many of them are Houdini wannabes and can escape leg bands?

I sold 3 Buckeyes I had by mistake because they escaped the legbands. (my only 3). They went as SS's which means someone was disappointed in their SS and I was in losing my Buckeyes......Chicks change so much in the first few weeks and can be mistaken so easily.

I assume my wife or kids or the neighbor that works for me some sold the buckeyes. I surely could not make a mistake myself. My last mistake was in 1993.

 

[dan26552]

It's deformed! Look at its feet!

Don't you know, she's working on chickens with webbed feet.