howd you know i was hungry when i went? lol
That's the way it works. I learned 50 years ago that if you shop hungry, you'll buy 3 times the amount of food.
Good morning all!
I wonder if my crazy chickens learned a lesson last night about sleeping on top of the run instead of going inside since they are likely drenched from all this rain?
It is a heavy rain which we need so badly!
I hope and pray you'll retrain them to bond with the building at night.
Nope, haven't heard a word. I just hate it when people ask me questions and I can't help them, and I hate to tell them "I just don't know" but I'd darn sure rather send them to people who can help than give them stoopid advice that may well cause more harm than good!
That's for sure.
Anyone read this...
Chickens vaccinated against Marek’s disease rarely get sick. But the vaccine does not prevent them from spreading Marek’s to unvaccinated birds.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous/
In fact, rather than stop fowl from spreading the virus, the vaccine allows the disease to spread faster and longer than it normally would, a new study finds. The scientists now believe that this vaccine has helped this chicken virus become uniquely virulent. (Note: it only harms fowl). The study was published on Monday in the journal
PLOS Biology.Abstract
This may come as a surprise but I'm not a believer in vaccines for poultry. This article is disturbing because vaccinating against Marek's is so widespread.
I've never vaccinated for anything. I believe in breeding for resistance. Just as all bacteria have elements of the population that are naturally resistant to an antibiotic, there will be chickens naturally resistant to Marek's. Some humans survived the bubonic plague and their descendants are more resistant to disease and early death from various causes. Breeding for resistance is how we defeat these diseases.
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yer just so gentle Paddler
Every time I opened the incubator a chick would shoot across the table, drop to the floor and keep on running.
I figured they would be better off dropping the 2 feet into the box and I wouldn't have to traumatize them by chasing them around.
Ok, this might be pic heavy, however I candled again this morning, and see a big difference. Now I am thinking it maybe day 15-16? Honestly, I don't know what draw down looks like. I will look it up and see.
I am putting the pics of yesterday and today. See the difference?
YESTERDAY:
TODAY:
And this one is of the bottom of egg this morning:
Ok, what day do you think it's on now?
Thanks everyone.
I'm not a big proponent of stopping turning at exactly 18 days or raising humidity then either. The humidity only has to be higher at pipping. Turning becomes less important in the third week. I would leave them 2 or 3 more days. If they look sufficiently full by then, I'd raise humidity, lay them down and let them do their thing.
Sometimes I'll set them on a smooth flat surface and let them roll. When they stop, I mark that as the top when I set them back in the incubator. The high side should be where to larger portion of the air cell is.
Did anyone see this question a few pages back? I haven't seen an answer so I'll take a stab at it...
If it was me, I'd eave them alone yet. If your incubator is kinda "junky" in your words, your temps might have been a little low and slowed development slightly. If you do try the water candling (and there is a distinct difference between water candling and float testing!) then check every egg first for hard-to-see cracks or tiny pips before you put them in the warm water. Put one in at a time -- you aren't testing for freshness, you are checking for signs of life, which would be little ripples around the egg on the surface of the water that indicate movement inside the egg. Give it a few seconds in there for the water to settle from the egg going in, then watch. Dry the egg, mark it with your finding, and get it back in the incubator. Then do the next one.
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Not in goose eggs. Chicken eggs are hard enough.
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You know I'm not a big candler. I've only hatched goose eggs once. They were from a Canada nest that had been taken down. After floating them, it was realized they were about to hatch so instead of killing them, we put them in my hatcher. They hatched about 4 days later and then gave them to the Canada Goose welfare place.
