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

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Are you gonna keep them, or sell them, or?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Are you gonna keep them, or sell them, or?

my local pet store won't buy them for some reason they don't but fish from people I dont know where I could sell them if I could I would.but I will keep a couple but I have 28 I won't keep them all.its a guppy and Molly take and I want to keep more guppy too

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I am done with my paper on hatching chickens.it is 6 pages long

 

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Sounds like time to be looking for more tanks on Craigslist !
Seriously, do you still have the Oscars or other large fish? It might sound gross but it doesn't hurt to grow your own feeder fish. In other words, feed the baby guppies and mollies to the big fish?

What are you going to do with that paper on hatching chicks? Is it for school?

 

[Phage]

Having watched a bunch of you tube videos on bumble foot surgery done by chicken owners - many of whom cut VERY aggressively, I worry that is that there is a real risk of cutting a tendon to a toe. Cut tendons rarley heal if left, making the bird's foot potentially damaged for life.
Will try to find a good pic of the anatomy and post it.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

​Sounds like time to be looking for more tanks on Craigslist !
Seriously, do you still have the Oscars or other large fish?  It might sound gross but it doesn't hurt to grow your own feeder fish. In other words, feed the baby guppies and mollies to the big fish?

What are you going to do with that paper on hatching chicks? Is it for school?

yes for school and I have a 75 gallon tank outside

 

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That's great! I was thinking of a smaller one for raising baby fish til they were big enough to feed to your bigger fish....

 

[meltel]

About half of my nests have hardware cloth bottoms with removable plywood floors. Once in a while I take everything out and hose them out. When I reassemble, I dust with DE and sometimes shoot 5% Sevin dust into the corners before I put nest pads back in. I sometimes sprinkle some DE in the nest pads as well.
That way there shouldn't be anything remaining on the eggs. I don't eat egg shells anyway.
What do you use for nesting material?
I've used straw, dried grass and pine shavings but excelsior nest pads are my favorite (and the hens' favs).
I have plastic nest pads too. They're washable/reusable.

I'm still not sure I get the house hippo thing. Maybe I'm just dense.

There is a CEH cream but I haven't been able to find a source in the US.
There is a store/lab near here called Cheryl's herbs. They make their own ointments, oils and extracts.
I bought Calendula cream from them and extracts of both Echinacea purpurea and Hypericum perforatum (St. John's Wort). I added drops of both to the C cream.
After cleaning the foot thoroughly, I soak it in a warm Epsom salt bath for about 20 minutes. Thoroughly dry the foot, apply the cream mixture to the wounds and swollen areas.
Then cover with cotton pads and wrap with vet wrap and surgical wrap. Keep the bird on fresh dry bedding.

http://www.oocities.org/gymnogyps_gray/bumblefoot2.html
http://www.oocities.org/gymnogyps_gray/bumblefoot4.html

there's a little on bumblefoot here
http://avianmedicine.net/content/uploads/2013/08/34_orthopedic.pdf

I used to do the invasive surgery to remove the puss ball but quit doing surgery when I learned how U of Ky treats their raptors.
Many vets here no longer do surgery. It has a tendency to delay healing.
Of course that depends on how bad it is. Sometimes it helps to get the lump out if it is huge.
I've had quicker healing than when I did surgery.
I've also injected the site with a combi-biotic.


I'm old too. Much older than you. However I did work in automation and was fairly deep into computers.
Depending on how your site preferences are set (others may help with that), if someone quotes your post, it will show up in your e-mail.

X2 on Sandhill for slips.
And heirloom corn and potatoes as well.

How many hours are your heat packs good for?

They say 72 hours. But I don't trust the post office.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

​That's great! I was thinking of a smaller one for raising baby fish til they were big enough to feed to your bigger fish.... 

I don't have them anymore

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I believe it's a photoshopped joke/message. Note at the end of the video the mother and baby hippo are in the closet and then in the wild. It shows that parents should talk to their children about NOT everything they see on TV is real.

Thanks.

my local pet store won't buy them for some reason they don't but fish from people I dont know where I could sell them if I could I would.but I will keep a couple but I have 28 I won't keep them all.its a guppy and Molly take and I want to keep more guppy too

They probably won't buy them because of the fear of disease.

I am done with my paper on hatching chickens.it is 6 pages long

Did you run spell check and a grammar checker on it?

They say 72 hours. But I don't trust the post office.

How many chicks are you shipping and are you using one heat pack? Are you putting any barrier between the chicks and heat pack?
I've never used a heat pack so I'm just trying to figure out the packing method.