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

[kwhites634]

I re -defined the English grammar here,in fact I still do! That make me the winner! (And I don't mean to the hotdogs! ) and I know it is written like this "weiner"

You have that, indeed!

 

[kwhites634]

You're a silly.

Just 'cause you're on a diet don't mean you can't look at the menu

 

[kwhites634]

Morning Mike we are actually colder than you today. 49 to start going to 79. We have had snow in the mountains.

2 of the 9 chicks left to fend for themselves with the broody in a mixed bunch of birds are still going. Not a predator safe area either.

Staggered hatch is progressing 6 chicks from the retrieved 15 eggs have hatched. Still have two broodies watching too many eggs as the hens keep piling them on and kicking them out. I retrieve the kicked out ones when I come home at night. They are usually cold when I pick them up. No room to separate hens so it is what is is.

Been waiting on you; need a question answered. Why are some coffee beans a very dark brown, and shiny, and others tan, like shelled Cashews; much lighter, with no gloss at all?

 

[kwhites634]

No, sorry, I don't know what you are talking about .

It was a woven, or plaited tube made of some sort of plant material, I believe. You put a finger in each end, and as you tried to pull both fingers out simultaneously the tube, because of the way it was woven, tightened up, preventing the fingers from coming out. Called a Chinese Torture....(something)

 

[BantyChooks]

It was a woven, or plaited tube made of some sort of plant material, I believe. You put a finger in each end, and as you tried to pull both fingers out simultaneously the tube, because of the way it was woven, tightened up, preventing the fingers from coming out. Called a Chinese Torture....(something)

I loved those.

 

[mlm Mike]

ATTGTW BBL!

 

[daxigait]

@kwhites634 no comment on the mice buckets?

 

[BantyChooks]

ATTGTW BBL!

In English please?

 

[Kiki]

We used to call them Chinese handcuffs
Looks like they call them Chinese finger traps now.

Chinese finger trap - Wikipedia

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Help, I have an emu egg I have damaged MASSES of membrane on, lots of blood, it is clotting but what do I do?

This turned out still alive during eggtopsy!! (I am experienced at diagnosing death in eggs accurately, all I can say is no pulse, no movement, no body temperature, and rigormortis at 3 days plus overdue are apparently not 100%, or else it was soon enough that I rescusitated it by accident)

The story is, 2 days after all other eggs hatched, Emu egg 8 still hadn't pipped internally. Every day it wiggled and rocked, confirming life, until today, 3 days overdue and no internal pip, no wiggling anymore. After a few minutes the egg temperature was dropping, consistant with a dead egg, not a live one with body temp.

We carefully opened a tiny 1/4" hole in the bubble end, and listened with stethoscope. No Heartbeat: no wiggling: temperature dropping.

We increased the hole incrementally until I could clearly see the membrane, confirmed that there was no movement, no pulse, touched the membrane and confirmed no movement no pulse, going cold now.

We were by now certain of death, the fetus was cold and rigid, consistant with rigormortis, showed no movement or pulse to stethoscope or finger. We proceeded to eggtopsy ... opened the membrane over the air cell, significant dark semiclotted blood was present. We accessed the head, which probably involved some chest pressure, and it started breathing!! Now pulse and breathing are present as per normal.

I have cleared the nostrils and placed cling film over the open air cell end (excepting for a small breathing hole) and placed the egg back in a high-humidity incubator (normally emus are hatched at 40%RH, so I've used 75%)

I have no high hopes of course, but what can I do that might give him/her a chance?

thats amazing!! good luck and keep us updated!!

Ok thanks for that I'm a bit frantic ... Keep looking in the tiny peephole to check baby is still breathing ... s/he is, for now. There appears to be no further bleeding.

Poor little one looks miserable and gasps slightly. I'm not surprised so would I.

However, I do note with more positivity that baby is breathing deeper and more often now than only 20 minutes ago. (So glad I have that peephole).

Now I suppose only time and more time will tell ...

Lazarus may well be very fitting ... ! Poor little one will be lucky to make it yet but for now he's stable and breathing is a little easier ... a good sign I think.

lol, I need some heat, my feet are cold, had to put socks on.

sally? are you incognito??

You ever get stuck in one, like with the Chinese finger thingies we played with as kids?....may be before your time.

No, sorry, I don't know what you are talking about .

chinese finger trap

We've had coat days, then suddenly shot back into the 80's. A few more days of it then back to 60's for highs.

you have the same weather as me!

@kwhites634 no comment on the mice buckets?

they work great!!!