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

[Pensmaster]

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! 

 

[Hawk12]

Here's an update on my life with my chickens. To catch anyone up who isn't familiar with what happened, I lost most of my flock to a massacre by my neighbors dogs about a year ago. The only survivors were a serama mama and her 3 babies that were being housed in a separate area. I had spent hundreds getting a flock started of specialty breeds, they were young and in their coop when the dogs came over and got into the coop and killed all of them. It was devastating...but here I am nearly a year later and these are the birds I have now; 4 partridge brahmas (1 rooster, 1 hen and 2 month old chicks), 2 mauve orpington pullets, a pair of chocolate orpingtons, 4 barnevelder pullets (2 black and 2 blue), a pair of silver laced orpingting teenagers, an assortment of other layers (for the eggs) and 11 babies. I ordered 10 chicks from My Pet Chicken that arrived last Tuesday. I sold 4 of those chicks and then went to the feed store and bought 5 more...haha, love chicken math. Speaking of...after I bought my chicks, my husband told me to go count how many chickens I have!!! Count them?? Who counts how many chickens they have? He apparently doesn't understand chicken math! I'll have to fill him in one of these days. I gave my seramas back to the lady I got them from because they weren't fairing well with all of my full sized chickens. Anyway, I must go feed all those birds but wanted to fill you in first.

 

[dan26552]

Good morning! Good luck with the hatch, yes the cats are probably hearing chicks now. One of my dogs is my early chick indicator. He likes to watch the chicks in the brooder, too.

Is that a BC?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I will never get it......
No sweat, Benny. You just keep on typing, and we'll just keep correcting

 

[runt325]

hi yall i need an idea for a roosting rack i am going to put one in the hen house possibly today possibly 3

 

[BullChick]

Least stick with fudge stripes and not poop sprinkles for me please.

But poop makes it tastier!

 

[Pensmaster]

But poop makes it tastier!

You can always wash it down with this.

Afternoon Abi.

 

[Pensmaster]

Hi Whites. The neighbor with the fence driver was lending it to me so I could fix my fence. Wasn't on his property. Really nice guy we trade things all the time. Already fixed the fence and returned it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Chick Boost™ should be mixied with fresh clean water, provided everyday for the first 8 weeks, at which time they can be switched to Egg Boost.

Chick Boost™ introduces beneficial bacteria to the crop which assist the chick in developing a positive bacteria culture in its digestive tract. Commercially hatched chicks are raised in a clean enviroment and are not exposed to natural flora found in the hens digestive tract. Because of HCl gastric secreation which starts at day 18 of incubation, a newborn chick is at high risk for disease. More than any other animal chicks should be provided beneficial bacteria right after birth.
Beneficial Bacteria in the digestive tract help to crowd out the bad bacteria. This is known as selective exclusion and will help the animal fight off bad bacteria.(E. Coli, etc). A healthy gut leads to a healthy immune system to help combat disease and stress.
Chick Boost™ mixes easily into water and is recommended that as soon chicks are born that the water is made available to them.
1 –10gm scoop is included, mix 1 scoop per gallon.

There is another product that is produced by the same entity, HenBoost, it is a little less in the % min/max of nutrients but also apperantly contains an enzyme for digestion, which when I had previously compared the ingredients they were pretty much the same, except the Chick Boost was stronger.
@BantyChooks

Looky what I got yesterday! I am soooooo eggcited!

But now I have to purge the eggs I started last week to get these in there

I am broken in two about it, the bator my friend has doesn't have a turner right now, and I am not capable of hand turning them, and the eggs I placed last week wont be ready for lock down for another 10 days otherwise I could use her bator as the hatcher.... and these new eggs can't wait that long as the eldest ones were pulled on 2/18! At least the purged eggs wont go to waste! I will be giving them to my dogs to eat! They love eggs, fresh and warm so this shouldn't be any different than say Balut.....

Set 49 eggs today!


And my 9 one week olds are doing fantastic on their fermented chick feed!

Here's the group of Altsterier the hen set and hatched on September 27.

My 11 OEGB eggs are officially in lock down. I slowed down turning them late Thursday afternoon. I was seeing a lot of twitchy rocking in a couple of the eggs and about three more wouldn't stay in the position I put them in when I turned them so I gave up. I started keeping the humidity up yesterday and keeping an eye on them. My Brinsea handbook says it's okay to top off the water reservoir as long as you don't do it more frequently than every 6 hours and/or see any pips. Since I didn't see any signs of a pip, I topped it off and checked a couple of eggs for internal pip. None yet so now the waiting begins.

I did 5 years as an OB nurse. Delivered two babies when the doc didn't get there in time. I've worked with Alzehimers and dementia patients, including my own parents. I've done CPR 3 times, but I tell ya guys. THIS is what I consider real stress! LOL! I even have been listening for peeps with my stethoscope and standing over the incubator yelling PIP BLAST YOU! at the top of my lungs.

There is never any Xanax around when you REALLY need them.

really that stressful? and you have gone through that stuff!!! bawahhahhahhaaaaa

hmmmm you need more bators!!

Quote: Good morning to you all
Yummmy!
ant cake??
I thought it was ants as well

 

[BantyChooks]

Hi sunshine