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

[chicken hawk 33]

he is a nice looking bird congrats Seth

lol, not even close but at least one can keep up their hatching addiction without too much chicken math

thats great! 

thanks I am putting him in a pen with my silkie and black frizzle.does anyone know what breed turken he is

 

[kajira]

My daughters dog, doesn't hurt the chickens, but chases the chickens/turkeys.... my big male turkey's starting to get fed up with it. I'm going to have to get him a shock collar (the dog, not the turkey) to get him to stop before the turkey decides to stomp the little dog into the ground.

It all started when he played this chase game with my EE astrid. He'd chase Astrid, then Astrid would turn around and chase him back.... he thinks it's this great fun game... but astrid's the only chicken who liked playing it with him. He hasn't figured that out yet.


And, someone gave me a stomach flu thing, I feel like i'm going to die. My husband's on animal duty tonight.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@daxigait
Duckling went from a miserable germ factory with a frog nebulizer Wednesday, to a happy little kid yesterday.
From snot bubbles to soap bubbles!

So glad she's doing better!!!

Quote: The bottom part of it will be on a base of firebrick, and I also have an old grill mat hanging around somewhere. I went down the rabbit hole on YouTube last night looking at rocket bread ovens and pizza ovens. There are a couple ways you can do it. But it's more work than I really want to put into it. I bake in a cast iron pot, though, so I might be able to improvise something with a platform, a deflector, and a dome of some sort. I've just got too much to do to play around with that at the moment. (The rocket stove on the other hand is literally stacking bricks and you're done.)

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I like to put them on in the house and listen to them while puttering, one after the other - I know them so well I don't even have to watch...

Yuuuuuuup.

Quote: Everything's bigger in Texas. Unfortunately.

Quote: This is exactly what I did when I needed to wash the yolk off of my shipped eggs.

chicken Canoe this is for you!!

I did some reading about this - apparently there's some controversy about it not being very good for the bees... But I can't remember why at the moment.

C'mon, silly... You know that if I was Elsa, I'd have frozen Texas already.

I am doing good, down pretty much off the pain meds, but still need backup at times. still cant eat but its doing what it needs to, heal
sleep is getting mirserable uncomfy now not on pain meds, so I get up walk sit walk lay walk sit think of some wonderful foods I would love to eat right now

Gentle hugs and healing vibes for you, Sally.

Quote: Again?! (sigh)

My new doe and I are headed home.

SHe's a sweetheart!!!

Help if you can....



I will have posted this a couple times. JJ seems to be dying. He is my oldest first pair of birds. Ethel was killed by a fur bearing critter, that I hope died a slow painful death....

I found JJ on the floor of the coop not moving. His head is swollen and he is very lethargic. He was in a Tom fight the other day. what Tom isn't this time of year. I told JJ he was too old for this kind of behavior. I am worried he has internal injuries in which case I can do nothing, or he has an infection from the head injuries. His head is swollen.

I have some liquid Vancomycin here. I have calculated the dosage to .25 ml. Based on human dosages.

I need to know if anyone knows if vancomycin is harmful to turkeys? If I do not get a definite answer I will be trying it, I am desperate.

I know I am not clear headed when talking about JJ. He is like a feathered dog to me. Losing him would be devastating. The WWD is with him know. we set up a hospital room in the hallway for him.

Thanks





Think of JJ as my duck... I love him more than you duxers love your duxs!! Thanks

I am so very, very sorry - I remember you talking about JJ and how much you love him.

Ralphie, this is all I was able to find on vanco... It sounds like it won't kill them, you're just not supposed to use it?

STRICTLY PROHIBITED -ILLEGAL TO USE lifetime withdrawal Sounds like if it's lifetime they have to be alive after use???
Fluoroquinolones (Baytril, Cipro, etc)
Metronidazole (Flagyl) and other drugs in this family (Nitroimidazoles)
Chloramphenicol
Clenbuterol (ventipulmin)
Diethylsilbesterol (DES)
Glycopeptides (vancomycin,etc)
Nitrofurans (Furazone, etc)
Cephalosporins (excede, naxcel, etc)
Antivirals

FWIW/future reference, the reason vancomycin is prohibited is for the protection of human health - so it's banned in any food animal/agricultural animal. (It's an important antibiotic for patients who have really serious infections, and if there is too much use of it int eh environment, more bugs get resistant to it and it'll stop working for people. I don't think it would hurt him, the prohibition is because of the human use of the antibiotic. (The entire problem with a group of very resistant bacteria arose entirely due to use of glycopeptides in agriculture in Europe in the 1980s...)

Thanks all.

I think it is too late to try anything, the WWD is just holding cold compresses to his head.

Benny he has lots of open wounds, he has scabs all over his head and snood. They have been having turkey fights for weeks now, day in and day out.


His head is burning up. I am not going to give the vancomycin, it is too late he is just lying their dying. I think as close to comatose as he is trying to get liquids into him would just make him uncomfortable and maybe make it worse.

Thanks all

Thinking of you - very very sorry.

I'm inside taking a break and having a PB&J. I've been clearing parts of the yard for the new growout tractors, and taking out saplings, and hauling wood around, and having a very special personal relationship with my JawSaw and my wood chipper. But I'm rehydrated and the sandwich is consumed, so I'd better get back out there - I also have chicken chores to do before it gets dark. I'll be back later this evening.

- Ant Farm

 

[DwayneNLiz]

My daughters dog, doesn't hurt the chickens, but chases the chickens/turkeys.... my big male turkey's starting to get fed up with it. I'm going to have to get him a shock collar (the dog, not the turkey) to get him to stop before the turkey decides to stomp the little dog into the ground.

It all started when he played this chase game with my EE astrid. He'd chase Astrid, then Astrid would turn around and chase him back.... he thinks it's this great fun game... but astrid's the only chicken who liked playing it with him. He hasn't figured that out yet.


And, someone gave me a stomach flu thing, I feel like i'm going to die. My husband's on animal duty tonight.

hope you feel better, and i would let the tom attack and just keep an eye out, then maybe the dog would have a new respect for it and them

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I like to put them on in the house and listen to them while puttering, one after the other - I know them so well I don't even have to watch...

I did some reading about this - apparently there's some controversy about it not being very good for the bees... But I can't remember why at the moment.

- Ant Farm

unfortunately i think the movies are too old for my daughter to watch and enjoy, but hopefully soon

i wonder what is bad about those hives, i really like them

 

[AlleysChicks]

Gotcha.

Found this under the sink. Can't find anywhere on it about teflon. What do you think?

 

[kajira]

hope you feel better, and i would let the tom attack and just keep an eye out, then maybe the dog would have a new respect for it and them

If wally wasn't like 5lbs and would probably be easily killed by a turkey, I would allow it. but he's tiny

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Gotcha.
Found this under the sink. Can't find anywhere on it about teflon. What do you think?

perfect, just check your clearances to make sure it wont melt things around it

this is a bulb that you would put on a vanity mirror, so should def be teflon free

 

[fire370]

Got babies hatching today. Lots of them.

Also, supper is smoking away on the smoker. One of our family favorites, smoked meatloaf.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

Can you take a pill for it?

Nope, but CDLD (crazy duck loving disorder) contagious. (Ralphie....

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