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

[Hawk12]

I am so happy about the brahma, my dad has two boys and a bunch of girls from my flock yet, not sure they started laying or not, I can always trade eggs for his eggs if you would like to try again and add more of the big ones..


hi sweets
interesting!! you gonna try growing some?

I would love to trade eggs for eggs. My rooster is currently separated from the hen so her eggs aren't fertilized. I will put them back together in about a month when it warms up a little and they can live in the outside run together. So maybe in a couple months

I hope you are healing well. Don't over do it, don't want to re-injure yourself

 

[Pensmaster]

I am so happy about the brahma, my dad has two boys and a bunch of girls from my flock yet, not sure they started laying or not, I can always trade eggs for his eggs if you would like to try again and add more of the big ones..


hi sweets
interesting!!  you gonna try growing some?

This pond isn't far from the chickens. I have some in containers it does grow fast.

 

[AlleysChicks]

I am so happy about the brahma, my dad has two boys and a bunch of girls from my flock yet, not sure they started laying or not, I can always trade eggs for his eggs if you would like to try again and add more of the big ones..


hi sweets
interesting!!  you gonna try growing some?

Hey Sally when using a water worm to check temp how long do you leave it in the bator before checking temp?

 

[BullChick]

The "beans" is a good idea.

I wish it were that easy!

yeah yeah medication it was good till it starts to run low  Hi MC

 

[runt325]

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.

I am so sorry for u and I am praying for u

 

[BullChick]

Someone gave birth a year ago (the picture I found was from the 23rd). Whoever it was, happy belated birthday to your little one!

 

[Phage]

this was "Patty" I got her and Barry from Bill and Sheree Paterson-he is my chicken vet and friend. Got them as a gift when we lost Consuela our mutt chicken. Her and Barry-named after the Pattersons (Bill + Sheree= Barry and Patterson was Patty) were quite the pair. Barry will miss his old girl. I am so sad I never got a bird from them-some hatched but didn't make it.

This is Barry.
I will miss her but I tried everything

It was the humane thing to do. Bill has a trio of birds for me. I haven't decided if I want them. I have not had luck with the Malaysian line but maybe this was meant to be.

I will know in the next couple days.

Sorry to hear this. It is so hard when a good pet dies as they really are part of the family.

 

[runt325]

Someone gave birth a year ago (the picture I found was from the 23rd). Whoever it was, happy belated birthday to your little one!

hi

 

[runt325]

@meltelI am so sorry for you

 

[Phage]

Today someone delivered 52 eggs for me to hatch for them.

They are weird asian birds - O' Shamo and the like.

Guess they will go into the bator tonight.