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

[dan26552]

HA HA HA you think? ?????  

I know.

 

[mlm Mike]

Well, I am so torn. I am so worried about the cock, but what about quarantine? I t is supposed to be much colder going into the weekend and his comb and wadfles look bad. Since he is from Paddler. Should I just put him in a dog crate in my main coop. He will not deal with the extended cold with his case of frostbite.
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Is the other coop warmer? Do you have a few spare pullets/hens to coop him with? I'm not certain how being alone in a crate will be warmer for him, unless the coop itself is warmer.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: She got these words from a book written in the 1920s - the point the essayist (Anne Fadiman) was making was about the vocabulary used in that era vs. now - this was just a book about cats, and the author didn't expect anything else of the reader except that they were an average reader interested in cats, and the reader was fully expected to know these words. She was making the same point you are - the level expected of an average reader now. All of that being said, a word needs to be useful to be used, and if it is used, it will be remembered. I like $10 words, but mostly ones that are interesting and useful.

I looked them all up at the time, and STILL don't remember what most of them mean even after doing that (except retromingent - that was kinda gross...). That being said, I liked mephitic (autocorrect made it into mephitis above). It means stinky.

- Ant Farm

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:

Quote: Hi Paddler! what is eagle days?

 

[campingshaws]

I blew out these eggs this morning for breakfast. I'm obsessed with the gray ones! Need to find out who's laying them.

 

[kajira]

I blew out these eggs this morning for breakfast. I'm obsessed with the gray ones! Need to find out who's laying them.

those are super cool.

How do you blow the eggs out:

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Overpriced, but good to see someone wants me

Hilarious.
I love you man!

Did you know that the poor Did You Know thread hasn't had a single post for well over 24 hours?

You better get busy. I've done my part.

All the teacher of the student , the School Counselor and the school principal seats together and see all the student grades, and absence from school and decision are taken about the future of the student in the school and info flow all around that helps us to be informed about our students, this discussion take place twice a year.

Good plan.

I thank you both very much.
I love very much to chat with you all, its fill my curiosity to know how people in other places of the world see things!

Indeed, it takes hours upon houers, but it is very important! In this way students don't get lost!

My work in the student foreign exchange field taught me that people's values are very similar regardless of where they come from.
That work also showed me the difference in the bulk of educational systems.
The majority our colleges are excellent while the majority of our primary and secondary schools in the US leave students largely unable to make the leap to college.
The system in many other industrialized countries is more seamless between grades.

Whether in primary, secondary or adult education, it is so easy to get lost here.

Ours is supposed to start anytime now. 3"

We were supposed to have snow this morning. I never saw a flake but things were wet.

Not at all!
There are 5 rhino species
2 Africans the
Broad lipped rhino AKA white
Narrow lipped rhino AKA black
And 3 Asians
Indian rhino
Java rhino
And the most indengierd
Sumatra rhino

Is it the Java or Sumatra that is really tiny by comparison?

Hi guys! I need some advice again. Today is day 20 of my first incubation ( I originally thought today was day 21, and then I realized I had been calculating it wrong) anyway, I'm down to 4 viable eggs out of 8. They had all been moving and rocking until today. I only witnessed 2 of them moving. Totally normal? Or should I be worried? I mean, I am worried

but should I stop!?! No pips, no peeping in shell. Also I had read in the incubation thread to keep the temp at 98-98.5 degrees for the last three days. I have a still air, should I bump it to 99-99.5? Thanks in advance!

No need to worry now. Any damage done is already water under the bridge.

I know I had read for a still air to keep temps for day 1-18 at 102, which my thermometers usually read 101.3-101.9. I keep telling myself they are resting, but I'm a worry wart! Lol

IMHO, those temps are way too high. One must always consider that a thermometer can be off.
Commercial hatcheries use 99.5. That is ideal and what forced air should be. A still air uses the temp of 100.5 IF measured at the top of the egg. That would make internal temp at the center 99.5. So in a still air, it is all about where the temperature is being measured.
An embryo can survive at 98 but can die at 104. If you are measuring 102 and it is off by 2F, it could be 104.
If you're measuring 100 and it is off by 2F, the embryos will survive regardless of whether it is high or low.
Toward the end of incubation, embryos have some metabolism that allows them to deal with larger temporary swings.
The key word is temporary. A long time at high or low temps is always a problem.

You should meet chicken hawk!

Really!

I'm sure her and I would great make great friends, we can worry together

I don't think that's the best idea Akrnaf2 has come up with.

Well, I am so torn. I am so worried about the cock, but what about quarantine? I t is supposed to be much colder going into the weekend and his comb and wadfles look bad. Since he is from Paddler. Should I just put him in a dog crate in my main coop. He will not deal with the extended cold with his case of frostbite.
??????

Well, here's all I can tell you about quarantine. Ideally it is 40 days as far from your flock as possible.1/4 mile is ideal.
That isn't possible for most people. None of my birds has ever died from a disease so let's consider outcomes. If that bird had a disease, it isn't one likely to show up but it could be one your birds aren't resistant to. So even after quarantine, if a bird that is resistant and brings in a disease he may never show symptoms during quarantine, but it could still impact the home flock. Quarantine won't impact that.
My best advice is to look him over closely for lice and mites (which my birds don't have) and then do with him what you would do to protect your birds from frostbite.
I just don't think the temperature is the problem. I still have a hen that wants to sleep in a building all by herself. I'll get some pictures of some roosters and their housing.

Is that main coop heated?
I'd still keep him somewhere cool/cold because re-acclimation would be an issue if brought into somewhere warm.
If he already has frostbite, he'll likely lose some comb and wattle but he'll survive.

She got these words from a book written in the 1920s - the point the essayist (Anne Fadiman) was making was about the vocabulary used in that era vs. now - this was just a book about cats, and the author didn't expect anything else of the reader except that they were an average reader interested in cats, and the reader was fully expected to know these words. She was making the same point you are - the level expected of an average reader now. All of that being said, a word needs to be useful to be used, and if it is used, it will be remembered. I like $10 words, but mostly ones that are interesting and useful.

I looked them all up at the time, and STILL don't remember what most of them mean even after doing that (except retromingent - that was kinda gross...). That being said, I liked mephitic (autocorrect made it into mephitis above). It means stinky.

- Ant Farm

I want to remember mephitis as well. I looked it up when I responded.

 

[campingshaws]

I make two little holes in the egg and make them bigger with a pointy grinding bit from the dremel (I don't use the dremel itself). I stick a bread tie in the hole and swirl it around to break the yolk and albumen. Then blow! I use the insides for scrambled eggs. Fill the egg with water, shake, and blow again! Then it's all done.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Hi Paddler! what is eagle days?

That's when the Mississippi river freezes over and the eagles move down to Alton, IL, St. L. MO and points south to find open water so they can still fish. There is an old Chain of Rocks bridge where they have eagle education events and spotting scopes to let people view bald eagles perched along the banks.

 

[minihorse927]

Dangit banty! You sent it to Ohio!