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

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daxigait said:
I swear, sometimes chickens are so dumb. I have a young pullet last night that did not want to go in the coop. I ended up having to go all over the barnyard finding her if in big weeds or grass. She would run and hide around the corner and because chickens can outrun us especially when you have to open and close gates. Of course, this was instead of going to the run because she was too stupid to go in the for the door shut so she was panicking. Then she wouldn't even go in the run so I could get her there first, dumb chicken. Or is it dumb owner that just didn't let her figure out what predators are all by herself since I have better things to do?
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You need a nice extendable fishing net. :clap
They are most helpful for the body and mind....lol. And the chicken's life.:lau
 
Honora said:
Awesome, congrats! Sounds like everything is going well. End of February? Could be born on my birthday. :) I know the labor goes so fast when you have had kids already. With my third I barely made it to the hospital on time & it didn't feel any different than when I was laboring with my 2nd and only at 6 cm. How many other kids do you have?
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This is pregnancy #5.
The only labor that ever hurt, was the one induced with pitocin. So I always wait for labor to resemble that, and it never does. My labors are pretty much pain-free, until transition and then my transition state, where it actually hurts, is under 20 minutes. Usually. I know that could change, but that's been my history so far for non-induced labors.
 
Farmer Connie said:
All the splay legged ones survived except one. I think there was 5 total. All the umbilical cord probs died. The first one died from bleed out from cutting the cord off. Even with a powder coagulation product. The others we just crumbled the shells off the cord so they didn't have a ball and chain. They passed away slowly one by one in a couple of days after.
About 20 drowned in the shells.
The photos are from that problem batch.
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Can't find a cord pic from that hatch but this one was prior to buying a real hydrometer.. Tiny barred rock that passed from the ball and chain syndrome we call it.
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Humidity has not been my friend. That is why that video knocked my socks of with late stage water testing.
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That would've been depressing to deal with, especially the corded chicks. :( That's an eye opener that humidity affects the chicks so badly. I did my first 4 months of hatching without tested equipment and then cooked a hatch. So I've calibrated temp an hygrometers since...lol. I still managed to screw up my first hatch this year from being too cool, so I only got one out of that hatch. Thankfully she is a pullet...lol.

My issues have been due to temps...and so far that's resulted in die off in the shell. I did have one with splay leg from the cool temps...and I had to put it down.
 
daxigait said:
Well, it is officially a rotator cuff injury. An MRI and possibly surgery if it is the ligament that I can ill afford. Not to mention it means I can't leave my job till it is delt with :(

I so wish that bull had been mine so I could have just shot him and called the meat wagon.
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:hugs
 
daxigait said:
Well, it is officially a rotator cuff injury. An MRI and possibly surgery if it is the ligament that I can ill afford. Not to mention it means I can't leave my job till it is delt with :(

I so wish that bull had been mine so I could have just shot him and called the meat wagon.
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That is the resolts of the incident that you have had with that" Hamburgers on legs" AKA bull of your freind?
 

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