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

[microchick]

@Duluthralphie, I am so sorry about your turkey. Of course you are mourning what you know is coming. When you know it's not if, but when, the anguish is terrible.

We lost our oldest dog a couple of weeks before Christmas to what the vet confirmed was a stroke. She was 13 but it happened fast. We found her unable to stand at 6 pm and she passed in my arms at 11:30 that night. Vet said that there wasn't anything he or us could have done to save her. She was my baby and I 'd had her since she was 5 weeks old.

Since Chickens can have heart attacks, (I've lost two chickens to sudden death from heart attacks) I see no reason why poultry can't also have strokes.

Bless you and your wife for helping him to peacefully pass over when the time comes.

 

[kajira]

I built a cage to put around my incubator. The incubator is sitting under my kitchen cabinets so the cage is made to slide around it. It has three sides. No top or bottom. I set an O ring screw into the wall and run a wire around it at night to secure everything in. I have a heavy paving brick wrapped in a wash cloth wedging it in from the front. DH asked me if I really thought it was enough to keep our big Tom from pulling it away from the wall so I scrounged up the head of an 8 pound sledge that had lost it's handle and added it to the ballast. You have to understand, when I say Big Tom cat, I mean Jimmy weighs good 18 pounds and looks like a dwarf mountain lion.

But as my way of thinking goes, if one fail safe is good, three or 4 are better. Since I'm in the house right now during the day, I or my husband can keep an eye on things. At night, the felines are banished to our hobby room.

.sb

This is why mine's in the bathroom. My big cat is like 25lbs

 

[microchick]

I thought about the bathroom but we heat with wood and except for the bedrooms and bathroom the house has an open floor plan. If I use the bathroom or the spare bedroom and close the door, the room temp is going to drop too much.

25 pounds?

And I think our boy is a dwarf mountain lion, LOL!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Good Morning all. First off, I did not give JJ vancomycin, @Fire Ant Farm I knew it was a antibiotic of last resort, I did not know the history and why, thanks. The reason I have it here is because it is an antibiotic of last resort, I also knew it was semi specific to certain bacteria and not a good broad spectrum antibiotic. Had I used it would not have mattered on the food chain, as JJ is a dead end bird if he lives. He will never farther another poult and is not going to be eaten, he will be cremated. He has never laid and egg . Unless and eagle or coyote gets him and someone eats them it is out of the food chain. I am thinking he threw a blood clot and has had a stroke. His actions are more like human like a stroke than anything else I have seen. He can lift his rear up but not his front. his head lays on the floor and drools. My Wife the nurse thought he had a broken leg because he could not bear weight on one side. The bones all look good. I have no idea if a turkey has hemispheres in their brain and which side each hemisphere controls. Either way I am going to give him a day or two in the house. If he does not get better I am going to build a gas chamber and lie him in it. I assume it will take a can or more of either to fill the chamber. I know the ugly connotations of gas chambers. When ever I use one I think of the holocaust and the terrible "showers". That said I find it the easiest way for me to put down birds and the ,most peaceful way for them. When I buy my case of starting fluid each spring I am sure the guy in the farm store thinks I am nuts. No one needs that much starting fluid. It will be an act of mercy on my old friend when I lay him in the chamber. I will miss him. But I am not going to dwell on it or bother any of you anymore with it. I am in grieving is all.. @daxigait thanks for asking for my best story about him. I have so many, he truly was a feathered dog to me. The time he went around and around the house trying to figure out how to get inside because he heard us inside and wanted to be with us. I have a couple pictures of him, I know I am boring some of you, sorry... Followed by a short video, the video shows his personality. JJ was my secret Service agent protecting me from the young Toms. In the video there are two royal palm toms that want to attack me from behind JJ is keeping them away from me, as he does not allow any thing to attack me. Actually tow videos, the first is JJ and a rooster trying to fight to be boss, neither one was real bright. This one is short but it shows JJ trying to drive the "mean" toms away from me.

Yes, I assume he loved his feed "shaken not stirred"

 

[Pensmaster]

I have them under a heat lamp inside. My goal today is to construct a brooder in the big coop. I will put the mhp and rope in it. I have been too busy, and I wanted them to be a week to ten days old before I moved them out. Doggy pads and paper towels are easier in the small space.

Good idea

 

[daxigait]

@Fire Ant Farm
Is this too high?

 

[Phage]

Good Morning all. First off, I did not give JJ vancomycin, @Fire Ant Farm I knew it was a antibiotic of last resort, I did not know the history and why, thanks. The reason I have it here is because it is an antibiotic of last resort, I also knew it was semi specific to certain bacteria and not a good broad spectrum antibiotic. Had I used it would not have mattered on the food chain, as JJ is a dead end bird if he lives. He will never farther another poult and is not going to be eaten, he will be cremated. He has never laid and egg . Unless and eagle or coyote gets him and someone eats them it is out of the food chain. I am thinking he threw a blood clot and has had a stroke. His actions are more like human like a stroke than anything else I have seen. He can lift his rear up but not his front. his head lays on the floor and drools. My Wife the nurse thought he had a broken leg because he could not bear weight on one side. The bones all look good. I have no idea if a turkey has hemispheres in their brain and which side each hemisphere controls. Either way I am going to give him a day or two in the house. If he does not get better I am going to build a gas chamber and lie him in it. I assume it will take a can or more of either to fill the chamber. I know the ugly connotations of gas chambers. When ever I use one I think of the holocaust and the terrible "showers". That said I find it the easiest way for me to put down birds and the ,most peaceful way for them. When I buy my case of starting fluid each spring I am sure the guy in the farm store thinks I am nuts. No one needs that much starting fluid. It will be an act of mercy on my old friend when I lay him in the chamber. I will miss him. But I am not going to dwell on it or bother any of you anymore with it. I am in grieving is all.. @daxigait thanks for asking for my best story about him. I have so many, he truly was a feathered dog to me. The time he went around and around the house trying to figure out how to get inside because he heard us inside and wanted to be with us. I have a couple pictures of him, I know I am boring some of you, sorry... Followed by a short video, the video shows his personality. JJ was my secret Service agent protecting me from the young Toms. In the video there are two royal palm toms that want to attack me from behind JJ is keeping them away from me, as he does not allow any thing to attack me. Actually tow videos, the first is JJ and a rooster trying to fight to be boss, neither one was real bright. This one is short but it shows JJ trying to drive the "mean" toms away from me.

Sorry to hear this Ralphie. He sounds truly special. Thank you for sharing the pics and videos. I had a peahen (my avitar) who was like that to me. She broke her neck and I eventually had to put her to sleep (it was very peaceful - I got isoflurane aesthetic from a vet friend) but was so devastated I gave away all my birds. A million

 

[Phage]

@kajira
   I think you missed the whole point of the education your DH was giving your DS on the fence. That is a useful skill for a youngster to have. 

Let's say he is at a field party and 3/4 hammered on the beer his friends stole.  He tries to evade capture and runs into a cyclone fence, with this skill he gets away scot-free.

Or he is caught in a compromising position by a angry father with a shotgun...again escape is possible.

There are countless other reason like this to learn to climb a cyclone fence.  I think you should be thanking your DH instead of bawling him out for this skill he is imparting to your son........

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@Fire Ant Farm
Is this too high?

How many chicks? If they are going to be 1 week old already, that would probably be fine (it would be too tall if this was for new hatchlings). If you can, try to flare out the sides more so that there's a bit of a slope (you can do it and it'll still stay up). What'll happen is that chicks will pick their spot depending on how much heat they need/want. If they want a lot, they'll cuddle up against the "wall", and if they need less, they'll sleep in the middle. (Does that make sense?)

- Ant Farm

 

[microchick]

SQUEEEEEEEE! I just shined the LED through the canopy and sure enough! I've got my first internal pip. To make sure I wasn't imagining things, I clucked at it and sure enough, the little mouth opened and closed.

GO BABIES!