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

[mlm Mike]

I know their odds of making it are about 1 in 10. So... definitely low odds... but my daughter insisted we try. Because of the low odds, I told her she could keep it, if it survived.

If you don't try, it would have zero chance, so 1 in 10 beats that.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

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I am not about to be the first one hurt by it either..not worth the risk.

How did your grandpa day care go yesterday? Did they wear you down?

 

[Sparkle110]

What type of meat bird? Cornish X or different breed

The ones that grow like crazy, I thnik they are cornish somthing

the geniticly modifyed ones...

 

[Razadia]

I'm back and I have some bad news. This morning I had to bury Henrietta. It looks like a raccoon drug her off the nest last night after making a meal out of her spine and the leg it was dragging her out by. It managed to push the gate forward just enough squeeze through, but it couldn't actually pull her fat butt out through the gap. It destroyed her eggs in the process. I'd had her for 4 years and she was the last of the dog attack survivors I had kept.

 

[Pensmaster]

The ones that grow like crazy, I thnik they are cornish somthing

the geniticly modifyed ones...

Yes the Cornish X I'm not sure they are modified just very well cross bred.
I've my eye on some on eBay that are not crossed so they say.

 

[Pensmaster]

I'm back and I have some bad news. This morning I had to bury Henrietta. It looks like a raccoon drug her off the nest last night after making a meal out of her spine and the leg it was dragging her out by. It managed to push the gate forward just enough squeeze through, but it couldn't actually pull her fat butt out through the gap. It destroyed her eggs in the process. I'd had her for 4 years and she was the last of the dog attack survivors I had kept.

Awe that is sad. Darn skunks and raccoons. Skunk trapped this morning here. Knew he was around by the signs he left just couldn't get him to take bait till last night. After going through a skunk attack years ago I've been very pro active in setting traps. Also in double checking cages but there's only so much you can do there.

 

[Pensmaster]

It was around 60 this morning, now it is up to 70 with 55% humidity, and a nice breeze. Just came in from weeding. Hopefully I'll be heading out to the lake after supper.

Still have weeding to do at the corn patch but that's going to have to wait skunk is in trap at the spot i need to weed. So working on wasps where I'm hanging the sun screen awning we put together yesterday. Very nice breeze here as well. What we call the Delta Breeze even thought the delta is very far away we still get the effects of it.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I don't know what it is about wild bunnies but I've tried this myself and known others who have tried. . it has never been very successful for anyone I've known. Best of luck!

Shalom to all
To survive they need to have symbiotic microbes that helps them to digest the plant matirials they eat and to eliminate establishment of patogenic bacteria and the only way they get it is to eat........their mother poop.
Read this
http://www.rabbit.org/care/babies.html

 

[kajira]

I'm back and I have some bad news. This morning I had to bury Henrietta. It looks like a raccoon drug her off the nest last night after making a meal out of her spine and the leg it was dragging her out by. It managed to push the gate forward just enough squeeze through, but it couldn't actually pull her fat butt out through the gap. It destroyed her eggs in the process. I'd had her for 4 years and she was the last of the dog attack survivors I had kept.

I'm so sorry

 

[Razadia]

Awe that is sad. Darn skunks and raccoons. Skunk trapped this morning here. Knew he was around by the signs he left just couldn't get him to take bait till last night. After going through a skunk attack years ago I've been very pro active in setting traps. Also in double checking cages but there's only so much you can do there.

I wish I could get traps big enough to catch it. The ones I have are only big enough for squirrels. I'm fixing the gap problem today as soon as I figure out what it's going to take to get it fixed.

I'm so sorry

Thanks Kaj.