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

[BullChick]

Have you asked Duckling for help?

No. I probably should have. On the other hand, I would then have to keep finding her, and be too intoxicated to do so!

Not that I am advocating drinking, but maybe you should start with a handicap

Sadly, I thought of that.

I'm back, bought a cheapie phone to get me by till I repair the other. I think I like this phone better :/

 

[ocap]

Is nobody going to give an opinion about the cock by himself in quarantine? It is supposed to drop into the teens tonight get up to 29 tomorrow, and back down to 14.
Will he be OK? Should I risk an extension cord and bulb or a pair for company?

all mine are in pens alone

 

[BantyChooks]

Good news. My neighbour's hen with the broken leg (I took the splint off a few weeks ago) is now walking fine with nearly no limp.

 

[daxigait]

Good news. My neighbour's hen with the broken leg (I took the splint off a few weeks ago) is now walking fine with nearly no limp.

Go field medic Banti!

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Good news. My neighbour's hen with the broken leg (I took the splint off a few weeks ago) is now walking fine with nearly no limp.

 

[Honora]

At Tractor Supply, 10 ounce Corid powder (20% amprolium) is $20.
Liquid 16 ounces 9.6% is $16.

Try comparing it to an oral/ medical thermometer. They are very accurate and being close to incubation temperature, it will really show the accuracy of your thermometer.
I've had thermometers that were accurate at low temp and way off at incubation temp.

What breed is she?
Pretty late in the year for a hen that just recently raised chicks.
We used to make cages out of welded wire fencing and a few pieces of lath or small dimension lumber and baling wire. It doesn't have to be much. Just to hold a chicken, water and food and be able to suspend it.

You're posting in the right place.

I look at candling differently than most. Probably cause I can barely see into the egg and can only tell the difference between a clear and a dark mass.
I don't remove anything that isn't leaking or stinking unless it is completely clear at 18 days.
I may have miscalculated the date but I once had an egg that hadn't hatched on day 24 and did an eggtopsy only to find a live chick about to hatch.


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I had a little yellow and clear dome spaceship looking thing that came with quail eggs when I was little. I didn't know what I was doing and nothing hatched.

I think my broody is broke, fingers crossed. I moved her to a small coop away from the eggs & she seems to be walking around now & not sitting. I will keep her there for a few days & hopefully she will not go back to her old nest under the bush when I let her out.

 

[BantyChooks]

Go field medic Banti!

LOL, thanks you two. It was welcome news after Rocky's outcome...

 

[Lucky Lemon]

LOL, thanks you two. It was welcome news after Rocky's outcome...

I can imagine!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Awe! I remember when my 3 were that little!

 

[Honora]

@ChickenCanoe my broody is a bantam Orpington. I should have known she was going broody when I saw her all fluffy like this a few days ago.