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

[Fire Ant Farm]

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[BantyChooks]

Thinks Canucks are uncivilised? Hatches several hundred chicks per week? Married a Polack? (Not Roman Polák, the leafs player)

 

[Pensmaster]

Time to call it a day.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Time to call it a day.

Me, too. I was going to go to bed early. Oh well.

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Thinks Canucks are uncivilised? Hatches several hundred chicks per week? Married a Polack? (Not Roman Polák, the leafs player)

Makes enough sauerkraut to feed all of Québec and then some at a time? Doesn't brush his chooks' teeth enough? Debates for several pages on whether or not cattle roost? Lives on a sand dune? Raises giant toads? Has had some strange avatars?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Keep going - I'll check back in tomorrow. (Delightful mental image...)

 

[Akrnaf2]

[COLOR=333333]I am having problems with my chicks. 4 of my baby turkeys have died and 2 of my chickens so far more coming I fear. The chicks become lethargic sometimes loose their appetite then die on the ground. I have them on straw and they have been on the stuff for a couple weeks. The 2 chicks were from a younger batch and all of my turkeys are from the same hatch. The brooders are 50 feet away from each other in separate rooms. This exact thing happened last year and killed nearly 1/2 of my chicks. I need some help and quick. I already have them on medicated water mix of tetracycline.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=333333]Any Ideas please. [/COLOR]

Double check your breeder temp make sure it's not too hot also change out the straw for pine shavings it gets moldy very very quickly

I've heard something about it, but didn't have the time at the moment to look it up further.

Seriously??

they are not prime sorry

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Pine shaving have terpens that have anti bacterial anti viral and anti fungal properties.
If you don't know that the pathogen is a bactetium you are making a bigger problem to them by giving them un-needed antibiotics that kills the prebiotic bacteria that they have in their intestinal tract, making them more prone to fungal problems.
Check your feed, do they get all they need?

 

[Phage]

Despite the rotten start, pretty decent day. In the morning was teaching in our largest classroom (set up for small group work) - it has the very best view on campus, always makes me smile. Then additional work, some one on one teaching in the afternoon, then home. I promptly crashed ("just closing my eyes for a minute") - several hours later, I woke up and realized that no building work is getting done today (my hands/wrists are still swollen, so that's probably for the best). I'll just need to do more tomorrow. I'm going to try to go to bed early and get some catch-up sleep tonight. I know I'm getting old now - I was invited to a big party tonight (for Fiesta) with good friends and adult beverages, but sleep is vastly more appealing. :/ Went out to collect eggs at dusk, caught that little baby possum mid-stride int eh center of the coop floor. It had that look on it's face like, "busted" (and I'm sure it remembers that I'm the one that gave it its unpleasant ride through the air yesterday. Skipped the photojournalism this time and just donned the orange gloves, grabbed it by the tail, put it in a paper sack, put paper sack inside an old potting soil bag, and sorta kinda dropped a big 20 pound stone on the top of it. Repeatedly. (I think it was the same one - I will keep watching in case it wasn't.) (Sorry Kajira) - Ant Farm (edited - forgot photos)

I admire you for so many reasons

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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(Insomnia strikes - that's what I get for napping for 3 hours.)

 

[Akrnaf2]

 
Of course! 

But, I thought we chatted in the other thread.

Other thread???


You guys hiding from me again?

Yes! The " How to laugh on Ralphie without him knowing that" thread!