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

[The Duck Ladie]

I want a brownie

But I want in my hiking clothes and breeches more I think

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER SATURDAY! RAINY OR NOT, HERE IT COMES!

Thanks, MC!!!! It may be rainy later this evening (I hope!!!)

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Actually, it's because of the power tools - in this case, the pneumatic stapler. It aggravates my carpal tunnel syndrome.

(So I've been reading on how to get rid of possums...)
I believe it was Chaos ( if not, it should've been) who posted about catching them in a live trap, then giving them swimming lessons in a barrel.
Yup - lots of ideas. Meanwhile, I'm just going to keep killing babies as they turn up in the coop.

Tried necropsy of sick hen. Got this far before the smell got to me and I decided I'm pretty sure why she looked so bad. I did not pull all that out, that oozed out due to being under pressure.


ETA: The smell reminded me of the egg that exploded in my incubator.

Ugh - guess you know what it is, no need to go further. Sorry.

Good morning my friends. I hope you are having a great morning. I did chores, and then sat with my week old kids in the shed letting them play around me, and having them come up to be pet(wonderful to see my buck pass on his loving personality - friendliest Boer kids I have ever had) while it rained and rained. Since it was and is raining plus early the power was out I had a perfect excuse to stop and enjoy life. Since the chickens don't mind the storm, they were out. There was a funny moment, when one came around the shed corner. The little doelings cocked Thier heads wondering what she was

Allie and Annie (Dam is Abigail so they get A names)



@Akrnaf2 Shabatt Shalom! Your namesake Benny is a beautiful red roan buckling with a black dorsal stripe. I didn't get a picture last weekend so here he is the week before at two weeks.

So glad you are having a "forced" rest - once the tractors are done, I'm hoping to spend a little more time each day with the chickens (there are so many of the new ones this year, they don't know me as well as I'd like them to). Oh, and those photos are adorable!

Where do you guys get your broodies???? None of my EE are even going broody

I don't know about you, but for me, I only get broodies when I don't need them.

I have been debating treating my chicks for coccidia. I don't have symptoms yet and they are on medicated feed, but we have had rain for a week and expecting 3-6" today plus rain tomorrow. We already had standing water so runs are mud holes and puddles. It has been wet for ten days now. Chicks are from the third week of February and the middle of March. If I treat the adults too, does anyone remember the egg withdrawal time?
What do you think?

I've done that before (preventative dose, 0.06%). No egg withdrawal.

Quote: Could be you were thinking of Wazine - there's no official withdrawal time but most folks say 2 weeks.

Well, good news is that I was able to fall back asleep. Iffy news is that I JUST woke up again. I guess it's good because I obviously needed the sleep, but that was NOT part of my getting-stuff-done plans for the day. I've drunk my super strong tea, now off to get some stuff done...

- Ant Farm

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Well, good news is that I was able to fall back asleep. Iffy news is that I JUST woke up again. I guess it's good because I obviously needed the sleep, but that was NOT part of my getting-stuff-done plans for the day. I've drunk my super strong tea, now off to get some stuff done...

- Ant Farm

glad you got some rest

dont work too hard

 

[BantyChooks]

Ugh - guess you know what it is, no need to go further. Sorry.

- Ant Farm

Yes, no way was I going further with that stench. I can still smell it on my hands even though I wore gloves and scrubbed well afterwards. Definitely waited too long to euthanize.

 

[BantyChooks]

glad you got some rest

dont work too hard

X2

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Yes, no way was I going further with that stench. I can still smell it on my hands even though I wore gloves and scrubbed well afterwards. Definitely waited too long to euthanize.

hindsight, oh well its done now

 

[BantyChooks]

hindsight, oh well its done now

Ayup, still, a good reminder that chooks are good at hiding illnesses. I gotta admit I don't watch the layers near as much as I should, so didn't catch it until she became lethargic.

 

[kwhites634]

GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER SATURDAY! RAINY OR NOT, HERE IT COMES!
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Good afternoon

Somehow, I missed a bunch of pages this morning.
Musta slept too fast
Cleared up over here.
Thanks once again

 

[duluthralphie]

I have a sad story to tell... Hopefully Liz will not get upset with my telling it.


As you know, or some of you know, I sent Liz some legbar eggs about a month or so ago. Some arrived scrambled, She tried hatching them but nothing came from it. (Other than smelly eggs)..

I felt bad so I decided to send her some Chicks. We made a deal where we both put something into it and were both out some. I have to say she is a fantastic person to deal with.


I sent those chicks on Monday from my Sunday hatch. I sent her 16. I was promised they would be there Tuesday by 3pm. I even asked the postmaster here on Friday before I shipped them. "The last pickup is 5pm, the plane leaves for the east coast here at 6pm, how will they make the flight? it is a 90 minute drive to the airport not in rush hour....

The postmaster said no problem the flight never leaves on time and they hold the plane for these next day priority packages.



Well, Guess what? They don't hold the plane and they really do not care. Those chicks as near as I can tell spent 22 hours sitting on a cold loading dock in St Paul. Why they go to St Paul from Minneapolis when the Airport is in Minneapolis is beyond me...

But they sat there. The tracking was not updated, until all of a sudden Liz had them around 4Pm on Wednesday. BTW it was Cold here!!!

She opened the box to 4 dead ones and I think 9 died total, (check with her for full count)...


Luckily, we had the insurance on them and after some work on her part she got a partial payment, enough that we can try again on May 8th from my hatch on the 7th...

This time I am driving them 25 miles further to a post office with a 2 pm pick up and 25 miles closer to the airport..

Wish us luck..

I have felt like a failure chicken an egg shipper to this point with her.

You do not know how badly I want this to work. I expect a dead one now and then, but 9,,,NO way...


Lucky also for us we followed all the rules including NPIP# on the box and so forth..

I just want to tell you what a great job she did pursuing the USPS to get the insurance payment.

Good Job Liz!

 

[BantyChooks]

I have felt like a failure chicken an egg shipper to this point with her.

Not your fault, that's horrible on how long they took to get there.

At least they paid some of it.