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

[ChickenCanoe]

Wow, they get deluxe accommodations!

After a few days, I let them out to forage.

It isn't always that nice. Sometimes I let them brood with a flock.
I have one now on 2 week old eggs in a high nest that I'll probably move to one of the apartments today or tomorrow. The Bfoot rooster is in one now.
Since that photo was taken I've installed horizontal nipple waterers. One high for the hen and one low for chicks.

 

[Christinecam]

Crazy humidity, isn't it?
U of KY uses a CEH ointment to treat bumblefoot in raptors.
All I could get before was a Calendula cream and extracts of Echinacea and Hypericum. They didn't mix well because it was like trying to mix oil and water. I did use it successfully on 3 other birds in the past but the cream is now expired.
If daily soaking in Epsom salts and the herb treatment doesn't help in 4 or 5 days, I may have to break down and take him to the vet. He's my most valuable rooster since he is not from my flock's gene pool.
I just want it cured before the infection gets into his bone.

Oh no! Get better Sweet Roo'

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Current weather, 59F, dewpoint 58F 97% humidity. It's supposed to dry out a bit as it heats up.
I'm going to an herbal infusions class this morning at Cheryl's Herbs.
Herbal Infusions
This class will incorporate the use of Medicinal Herbs with our oils. We will make some herbal infusions that you will be able to use alone or with essential oils in some other products.
I will be making a bumblefoot treatment of Calendula, Echinacea and Hypericum. I have a rooster with a persistent case.



Whatever works for you. I just figure they've been hatching chicks without human intervention for millions of years.
I put broody hens and their eggs in their own apartments with fresh bedding food and water. I sometimes don't check on them for days at a time and then only to peek in the window to make sure there is still water.
If it is cold, they may come off the nest once a day for about 15-20 minutes but will skip some days. If it is hot, they may come off for a couple hours a day.
They know what they're doing.



Do you have a Premier catalog? They send them to me all the time because I bought a couple of their brooder heat plates.
I helped a friend install the same system you have. It works well for them.

THE fox? As in singular? Don't they have brothers, sisters, a mom a dad, aunts, uncles, cousins, offspring?

Ooooh...I was just learning what herbs I could grow on the window sill the other night. That sounds class sounds like a great learning experience! Hopefully that can help your rooster.

I agree completely with you about the hens doing it for millions of years. I just want my eating eggs and to see what's going on. No micromanaging here...I'm just curious. If I have a total change of trajectory like the other day...the hens can still be handled without losing their minds and losing chicks. She just previously hatched keets and one fell from the nest. Had to put the little fellow down.
The hens gotta do it on their own. I don't want anything less.
I like that they put up with my interference.

I was getting the Premier catalog. I don't think I got one last year, I had to search everything on their site. This was purchased as a trial fence for the time being. So far in the one day we've had it...I LOVE it. Much, much easier than I expected. It helps we just got rain. The ground was nice and soft to set the posts...lol.

I didn't see it...but I assume it was a fox. It plucked my favorite guinea from the edge of the road in broad daylight while I was in the yard. Oh, I imagine there are more.. There are always "more" It will be the family.

Getting the guys to crack out the cage and I'll set my smaller cages. Pretty sure I'm not going to catch the old ones. Can't see anyone getting a shot in. I feel very bad for the foxes. They have no idea what they've brought upon themselves. There's gonna be a hurt real bad. But then there will be no more of this fox family.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Sheep herding.

Hope it doesn't get too hot for that.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Oh no! Get better Sweet Roo'

We have about 4 good avian vets that treat poultry. Trouble is, they're all at least an hour away. 3 through city traffic to a posh part of town and you need an appointment. The other I've been to before is a country vet way over in Illinois. I'll probably go there because treatment may be cheaper.

 

[mlm Mike]

After a few days, I let them out to forage.

It isn't always that nice. Sometimes I let them brood with a flock.
I have one now on 2 week old eggs in a high nest that I'll probably move to one of the apartments today or tomorrow. The Bfoot rooster is in one now.
Since that photo was taken I've installed horizontal nipple waterers. One high for the hen and one low for chicks.

I've always let them brood with the flock, or wherever they choose. This year they seem to be choosing the buck barn.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Normally I'm Leary of conspiring chickens and chicks but I can't help it!! Brain washed.

It's ok You fit right in with the rest of us that way.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Is anyone familiar to this book? "Genetics of chicken colours "
They want 94 Euro for it.

 

[mlm Mike]

Hope it doesn't get too hot for that.

LOL, not a chance, we'll get to the mid 70's today.

 

[mlm Mike]

Is anyone familiar to this book? "Genetics of chicken colours "
They want 94 Euro for it.
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