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

[duluthralphie]

Good question
I am not a nerd so I wouldn't know. I am perfectly normal.


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Yep,, perfectly normal......

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Good question
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Freezing.

Then you'll want to shrink wrap or vacuum seal to ward off freezer burn.

Yes, I know him, we have talked before.

Collaboration for bringing eggs from the EU?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Then you'll want to shrink wrap or vacuum seal to ward off freezer burn.


Collaboration for bringing eggs from the EU?

Not with him.....but All of our breeds here, came through this long and Winding road. .....and we do have some nice variety of them!
If you have a way , I can make sure that you will have some black Pendensenca fertile eggs, to refresh your stock.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Lost a cockerel (9 months) today. He came out of the coop yesterday lethargic and with a pale comb. He was picking at his legband which I discovered was below his spur and had dug into the top of his foot a bit.
That's all I could see wrong with him but he had no fight in him.
30+ other birds in the building were fine. I was about to leave of Tgiving at the in-laws' house.
I put him in a cage with food and water. When I got home he was a bit more lively and I rigged better accommodations for him on the back porch out of the reach of raccoons.
This morning he hadn't touched his food and he died just a little after noon.
I'm on my way to get a box and freezer packs to ship him to the vet school for necropsy and lab work.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Lost a cockerel (9 months) today. He came out of the coop yesterday lethargic and with a pale comb. He was picking at his legband which I discovered was below his spur and had dug into the top of his foot a bit.
That's all I could see wrong with him but he had no fight in him.
30+ other birds in the building were fine. I was about to leave of Tgiving at the in-laws' house.
I put him in a cage with food and water. When I got home he was a bit more lively and I rigged better accommodations for him on the back porch out of the reach of raccoons.
This morning he hadn't touched his food and he died just a little after noon.
I'm on my way to get a box to ship him to the vet school for necropsy and lab work.

Any Ideas?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Any Ideas?

Virtually none.
It was fine Wednesday, not good yesterday, dead today, all other birds from same building fine, no other symptoms except lethargy, pale comb and the foot irritation.
I should know something in about a week.

This always (3rd time) happens to me on holiday weekends.
Maybe holidays make chickens sad.

 

[kwhites634]

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You really like mayo, don't you?

That I do

 

[duluthralphie]

T

That I do

Would you rather give up Mayo or the Em dash?

 

[mlm Mike]

The chickens are going to be getting the turkey scraps from cleaning the carcass today and maybe a pumpkin or two.
I'm going to the farmer's market tomorrow to get some fresh veggies for the soup from the carcass.

Someone on another thread said they were deep frying a 60 pound turkey yesterday.

I wish I could remember to feed scraps to the chickens.

Lost a cockerel (9 months) today. He came out of the coop yesterday lethargic and with a pale comb. He was picking at his legband which I discovered was below his spur and had dug into the top of his foot a bit.
That's all I could see wrong with him but he had no fight in him.
30+ other birds in the building were fine. I was about to leave of Tgiving at the in-laws' house.
I put him in a cage with food and water. When I got home he was a bit more lively and I rigged better accommodations for him on the back porch out of the reach of raccoons.
This morning he hadn't touched his food and he died just a little after noon.
I'm on my way to get a box and freezer packs to ship him to the vet school for necropsy and lab work.

Sorry to hear this. I hope it's nothing that could effect the others in the flock.

Would you rather give up Mayo or the Em dash?

Wow, that's tough decision!

 

[BantyChooks]

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Then you'll want to shrink wrap or vacuum seal to ward off freezer burn.


Collaboration for bringing eggs from the EU?

Thanks.

I wish I could remember to feed scraps to the chickens.

I feed mine quite a few scraps. They got a whole box of day old bread the other day.