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

[dan26552]

No - no cutting. Soaking daily in medicated antibiotic solution and then ointment and padding. Vet said no cutting only soaking and wound care and patience. Scab came off two nights ago - nothing under it, so I either caught it early or it started to resolve itself. In another few days, I'll take him back out when I'm sure it's all closed up. 

OMG, you're killing me!!!!!!! 

Great job! Sorry about the curled one. 

These make ME want to be a pet rabbit!!!!

Hey stranger!!!!!  Pens has been updating us on the situation, and insists he is safe - he didn't have to evacuate (we worry, of course...)





 (x1,000,000) Good luck with the surgery! (When is it again? This week, right?)



Still bored? 

@meltel, I lost the quote, but sorry your OT session was so bad/painful. 

OK, I'm off to lay down again - gotta get the lingering ickies from this migraine gone. I need to be up and at 'em tomorrow and sharp at work tomorrow. Monkey doesn't get his foot soak tonight - I need a break from the tonight (and he's getting a lot better, will probably head outside soon).

- Ant Farm

Thanks.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Nice job, chicken hawk!

thanks.and we have extra

 

[microchick]

I spent all night with those little eggs calling "Candle me! You know you are dying to peek inside". So I caved.

11 eggs. 11 viable embryos and good air cells

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Go Babies!

 

[Phage]

 

KATHY!!!!

Hi Sally!!!!   As I see in these posts, you have some stuff to deal with soon!  I hope it goes smoothly and you have a QUICK recovery!  The Babies are ADORABLE!!!

 


Hey stranger!!!!!  Pens has been updating us on the situation, and insists he is safe - he didn't have to evacuate (we worry, of course...)






OK, I'm off to lay down again - gotta get the lingering ickies from this migraine gone. I need to be up and at 'em tomorrow and sharp at work tomorrow. Monkey doesn't get his foot soak tonight - I need a break from the tonight (and he's getting a lot better, will probably head outside soon).

- Ant Farm

Hi Fire Ant!  I'm so sorry you are dealing with a migraine - they are NO FUN It's been years since I've had a bad one..  I hope you have the good meds they have these days to help treat them!



Does anyone know if certain breeds of chickens are more susceptible to coccidiosis?  I have 12 silkies born Thanksgiving, 11 Isbars born 1/1 and 5 of my AC babies born in January - all in an outdoor pen.  I found 1 Isbar dead yesterday morning.  No signs of anyone else sick or any blood in the poo.  This morning, 4 were sick, 2 worse then the other 2.  All Isbars.  I gave everyone Corrid in the water.  The 2 worst, I took inside and forced them to drink water.  Had some Corrid in the food, and one started eating.  That was the  worst one, and it had bloody stools.  The second never got better and died.  The 2 I left outside, are all back to normal.  The one inside seems to be better, it's up walking around.

All my babies I give medicated food to for the first month.  This week they started getting non medicated food.  NONE of the other birds are sick.  A friend got the same Isbar eggs from the same person and she lost 2 or 3 birds to this.  None of her other birds got sick.  And her birds were about the same age as the ones I just lost.  She hatched hers a month before I hatched mine.

I have never lost birds to coccidiosis.  And I don't think the one still inside would have survived without the Corrid.  

So, is it possible that one breed is more susceptible, or is it possible that is spreads in the eggs and the chicks are born with it?  And when I moved them off medicated feed they got sick?

I wrote this lengthy reply that BYC just ate

Long story short Jessimom- yes.
And I would keep them on medicated feed for another month.

 

[Phage]

I spent all night with those little eggs calling  "Candle me! You know you are dying to peek inside". So I caved.

11 eggs. 11 viable embryos and good air cells .

Go Babies!

Awesome!!!

 

[dan26552]

So interesting note, my guinea eggs day 23 haven't started drawdown yet (or haven't gotten very far anyway) but following in the the footsteps of the last batch my 7 duck eggs day 22) have started drawdown, go figure. Looks like my duck eggs are right on Schedule with the first ones. They're right on time with the others, which internally pipped day 23 and externally pipped day 24, I wonder what's up with that. Oh and it looks like I have two quitters on the guineas. :/

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

So interesting note, my guinea eggs day 23 haven't started drawdown yet (or haven't gotten very far anyway) but following in the the footsteps of the last batch my 7 duck eggs day 22) have started drawdown, go figure. Looks like my duck eggs are right on Schedule with the first ones.

They're right on time with the others, which internally pipped day 23 and externally pipped day 24, I wonder what's up with that.

Oh and it looks like I have two quitters on the guineas.

They heard what happened with the temperature drop in the first batch. I still maintain they want out of those eggs before something else goes wrong...

 

[BantyChooks]

They heard what happened with the temperature drop in the first batch. I still maintain they want out of those eggs before something else goes wrong... 

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

You know those numbered zip ties the the gnomes stole from me? The ones I spent something like 2 hours looking for this weekend before ordering more?

I just found them. In a small box on the sofa, that I SWEAR was not there this weekend. I guess the gnomes waited until it was too late to cancel the other order to return them.

 

[BantyChooks]

Kristin, why aintcha asleep?