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

[Akrnaf2]

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.

CC, you can't operat it yourself? It isn't a big issue, I have done it several times.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Is anyone familiar to this book? "Genetics of chicken colours "
They want 94 Euro for it.
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I'm not familiar...I do wish I knew it all though...lol

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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

Oh nice!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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 to see what's going on. 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.

I wish I had an appropriate perimeter to install an electric fence. 2+ sides are solid thick brush and big trees with the coops backed right up to that mess. It would take a while to make a fence path and for various reasons I'm a bit reluctant since that is my property line.

Here's the class.
https://www.cherylsherbs.com/home/upcoming-class-list/

I do feel for the foxes because they were here before my chickens and I and they'll usually only take one.
I don't feel bad for the coyotes and raccoons because they're invasive species and I don't feel bad for the mink because the bloodthirsty b+++ards will kill every bird and eat nothing.

 

[mlm Mike]

Oh nice!

Yes, but it will bring out the fair weather herders, people that only come when it's not to hot or to cold.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Is anyone familiar to this book? "Genetics of chicken colours "
They want 94 Euro for it.
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Yes I am familiar, I've been wanting to bite the bullet and order it since it came out. I actually called and spoke to the author. She's very knowledgeable and writes in a way non-geneticists can understand. I called her to find out how much information in the Extremes book was about combs and egg color.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

CC, you can't operat it yourself? It isn't a big issue, I have done it several times.

Yes, I've done it several times as well. However, surgery is no longer the first prescribed way to treat here. For this rooster, I've cured the bumblefoot on the pad but he has 2 huge boils on each side between toes that I've afraid are affecting bone. I think the vet may be able to prescribe a better injectable antibiotic - all I have is Combi-Pen.

I can't afford to lose him. His genetics would be virtually impossible to replace without a couple trips to Spain.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yes, but it will bring out the fair weather herders, people that only come when it's not to hot or to cold.

I have a friend training a young border collie on sheep now. Part of the time at a farm with sheep and part of the time at Purina.
Once trained, he'll them be trained to run geese.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I wish I had an appropriate perimeter to install an electric fence. 2+ sides are solid thick brush and big trees with the coops backed right up to that mess. It would take a while to make a fence path and for various reasons I'm a bit reluctant since that is my property line.

Here's the class.
https://www.cherylsherbs.com/home/upcoming-class-list/

I do feel for the foxes because they were here before my chickens and I and they'll usually only take one.
I don't feel bad for the coyotes and raccoons because they're invasive species and I don't feel bad for the mink because the bloodthirsty b+++ards will kill every bird and eat nothing.

It would be harder to fence through bush and trees. But not impossible. I'm used to running smaller gauge electric wire fences for the sheep. I liked this a lot better and it adapted to the terrain better than expected. I have it too close to the big tree though...a coon could climb up and drop into the enclosure. I'll have to rectify that.

We've had a love/hate with these foxes. They are great for hunting rodents/gophers and we see them out working all the time...but with their young, they become veritable killing machines. This is the 6th guinea to go missing. It's been a slow progression. I wasn't sure if the missing were nesting...I know now. In the past they kill 8 or so chickens at a time here, we take the young ones out and it all stops.

I'd much rather not have to kill any predators. But it's a necessary evil with chickens. So far no trouble with mink/weasels. Coyotes were an issue one year with sheep.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Yes I am familiar, I've been wanting to bite the bullet and order it since it came out. I actually called and spoke to the author. She's very knowledgeable and writes in a way non-geneticists can understand. I called her to find out how much information in the Extremes book was about combs and egg color.

Is it worthwhile the price?