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

[kwhites634]

Quote: Never mind

 

[BantyChooks]

Better make that 2 dates; never happens on the 1st date...at least it never used to, but all bets are off these days

Bwhahahahahaha!!

 

[jkelly5359]

Welcome!! Are you sure it is alive?

I'm useless at assisting, so I'll let others help.

Yes, I have been candling every morning just to make sure because I really haven't had much hope for it making it this far after losing all of the others and doing mountains of reading about the development and incubation processes.... but nothing really tells you how to take drastic measures lol there have been a few personal experiences that have shed a little light on the process but nothing real concrete.

Thank you for the welcome! I've gotten a lot of my info from this site over the past couple of weeks, the site and threads are extremely helpful!

 

[BantyChooks]

@KenworthToyMan

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Make that 2 dates

 

[Chaos18]

I just have goats mostly for pets... but I plan on milking mine. Look into trying to get ones you can bottle feed. they bond better to you and your daughter.

Mine that I haven't bottle fed, it took a lot of work to tame them, and the ones who weren't handled hardly at all, I can't even touch and it's a nightmare to even get close to them.

(Think cattle roping, and three people jumping onto the goat to get it to hold still for any hoof trimming.)

You'll need to do some research on how to trim their feet. Like horses, they do need maintenance if they are pets and you don't eat them at less then a year old.

Bottle fed babies usually make the best, because they are used to being handled, cuddled, but you'd need to find someone who'd be willing to fork over brand new babies. You want them with mom for the first 3-5 days, then switch to bottles. They need the colostrum, you can do milk replacement/colostrum - but it may be worth paying extra to have someone else bottlefeed the babies FOR you and just get them after they are weaned to solid foods.


My other recommendation is due to how prone to goat-bloat, keep Gas-X strips on hand. putting one on their tongue works better than any baking soda concoction you can syringe into them when trying to save a goat.

Gas-X strips work for that?

 

[kajira]

Yes, I have been candling every morning just to make sure because I really haven't had much hope for it making it this far after losing all of the others and doing mountains of reading about the development and incubation processes.... but nothing really tells you how to take drastic measures lol there have been a few personal experiences that have shed a little light on the process but nothing real concrete.

Thank you for the welcome! I've gotten a lot of my info from this site over the past couple of weeks, the site and threads are extremely helpful!

I had an egg, on day 24, similar to the one you are describing. We tried to assist it to hatch and it died shortly after we tried to rbing it into this world. our other egg, hatched fine, on it's own.


When we were able to take it all apart and look closer, it had a lot wrong with it.

If a baby can't get out of the shell on it's own, be prepared for it to die when you try to help it

 

[kajira]

Gas-X strips work for that?

Oh yeah. Better than ANY old fashioned home recipe. LOL

I lost a baby to bloat, and when my other one started having problems, I tried all the baking soda crap and my 90 year old vet told me to use Gas, X strips.

Never had a problem with bloat after that. LOL

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm getting 2 eggs/day sometimes, but usually 3. Of course, I only have 3 layers ATM. The oldest crop of juvies should start contributing soon; they're 25 weeks old now, born May 29th.

I thought I'd lost one of the layers last night. The birds in her pen had been out scavaging all day, which they normally are on alternating days. They've never once failed to all come home by last light, but when I went out to lock up, there was one missing; only 2 birds in the coop, where there should have been 4...rooster was also missing. Naturally, my 1st thought was predation, but there was no sign anywhere. I found the rooster bedded down in the shed I'm building, but no sign of the hen anywhere (she's his favorite, judging from her sparsely feathered back), so I gave up.

I went out a little while ago to open up; going first to the juvies' coop. As the door raised, guess who was the 1st one out. She'd flown over the 4' fence separating the two pens.

The rooster is telling you to turn the new building into a coop.
I occasionally am a bird short and then find it in another building.
One building intended for an adult pair is a bit cramped with 3 cockerels and 2 pullets (hatched May 30). One of the cockerels has taken up lodging with a group of much younger cockerels. One of the pullets moved into an adjacent pair size unit with an adult pair for two nights but went back home last night.

we dont know for sure... we have a family farm and home close by, they have good selections. but if we find somewhere else where we could have more of a choice for different breeds, that would be good too. i am mainly looking for buff orpingtons and partridge silkies

IMHO, silkies need much more care than 'real chickens'

, especially up north.
Peruse these two excellent breed charts for some of the wonderful breeds available.
http://www.albc-usa.org/documents/chickenbreedcomparison.pdf
http://www.sagehenfarmlodi.com/chooks/chooks.html

Then if you can't find any locally, there a tons of breeders on the following list that may ship.
http://agriculture.mo.gov/animals/pdf/poultry_yearbook.pdf

Morning everyone!

I just got a call from my post office. She thinks all my goose eggs are broken. Gonna have to get refunded on ebay, I guess. She's bringing me the box, but told me it doesn't look promising.

That's a bummer. Please let us know how they were packaged.

no she told me a diffrrente humidity these first fourteen days

Humidity is a suggestion. All eggs are different. Most people shoot for 35-40% throughout and raising it to 65-70% the last 3 days but these are guidelines. To be more accurate, either candling or weighing will tell you whether it needs to be higher or lower.
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idk its been a couple months

There have to be hundreds of websites with hatching instructions.
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/166/care-and-incubation-of-hatching-eggs/

Thanks - I guess i'll have to wait until spring for the geese. Wishful thinking.

Maybe some survived.

 

[ocap]

Oh thank you! I will take a look.

you can find them cheaper if you are not going to breed or milk , but don't tell her I said that.!!!! I found a lady in KS that bottle feeds all her kids to make them tame, she was on Craigs list