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

[OneMountainAcres]

Does anyone have links for sour crop treatment? I've got a customer in BR with a hen on death's door. All I can find are old articles.

@casportpony @Sally Sunshine @BantyChooks

I know not to vomit her. Is generic monistat really the best option?

Edit to add: I found the article by Two Crows so I passed that along. He has a vet but it's not a chicken vet. So... :/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/impacted-slow-and-sour-crops-prevention-and-treatments

I know they say not to vomit the bird but that's what I did with one of mine. She was only 6 weeks old with sour crop. It took at least 3 days of vomiting to manage to get all the tangled grass out of her crop. She grew up to be a big beautiful hen.

 

[Akrnaf2]

?!!?!!?

YOU ARE REALLY ASKING WHO IS BAMBI?

Good evening, Westley!

beutiful!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I lean more toward the natural way of things when possible. I only hatch replacements when needed, and in the incubator only when I don't have a broody hen. These pullets will lay when nature tells them it's time to lay; I can wait.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I lean more toward the natural way of things when possible. I only hatch replacements when needed, and in the incubator only when I don't have a broody hen. These pullets will lay when nature tells them it's time to lay; I can wait.

When they do, I'd love to see the eggs

 

[Pensmaster]

I went into walmart on halloween and their Halloween stuff was all missing and they'd had it all converted to christmas.

in like half a day. I'd been in the walmart the day before, and there'd been not a single christmas decoration anywhere.

They move fast.

Home Depot and Lowes have Christmas out a couple weeks ago.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I lean more toward the natural way of things when possible. I only hatch replacements when needed, and in the incubator only when I don't have a broody hen. These pullets will lay when nature tells them it's time to lay; I can wait.

I'm with you on the natural way thing. My wife gets frustrated when we don't have enough eggs to keep her from buying them.
We all have different agenda. I'm breeding to improve this bird so my schedule for hatching and butchering is unique.
I'll probably start light on the mature hens sometime in December when I know they've all completely recovered from molt and have had a good rest.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Home Depot and Lowes have Christmas out a couple weeks ago.

I was going to mention that. Crazy.

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

Marmots are a closely relates species that lives in the Pacific Northwest. We have ground hogs here in the Midwest.
Other subgenus live across the Eurasian continent.

Don't worry we eat people, only when we ARE VERY VERY HUNGRY!

So did the Donner party and the Peruvian soccer team.

It was the Uruguay soccer team.....

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: There should be plenty to see. If nothing happens to any of them, I'll have 2 RSL hens & 8 BCMxRSL hens. Mr. Tucker has to be a happy camper!

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for your loss.

-Kathy