HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

[Sally Sunshine]

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[Sally Sunshine]

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[Sally Sunshine]

Biotin

Deficiency
High death rate at 19 to 21 days of incubation(Yes have had more than normal not super high),
Embryos have parrot beak(do not have this),
Chondrodystrophy(slipped tendon-have had this just lately. These are heavy meat-type chicks),
Several skeletal deformities-(no),
and webbing between the toes( got one today).
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Chicks are in a deficient state inside the egg, so hens are going to need vitamins in the water.
I will be changing feed companies. Local mill must have botched the vitamin mix. I am just about the only one who orders so feed may be old or deficient.

Biotin is present in feed-stuffs in both bound and free forms, and much of the bound biotin is apparently unavailable to animal species. For poultry (and presumably other species), often less than one-half of the micro-biologically determined biotin in a feed-stuff is biologically available (Scott, 1981; Frigg, 1984, 1987). ​

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interesting

 

[Sally Sunshine]

more eggs to set!!! so much for no more setting eggs!!! muwahhahaaa

 

[Lilmissesmom]

more eggs to set!!! so much for no more setting eggs!!! muwahhahaaa

She's addicted! Lol those speckled egg's are georgeous!

 

[Lilmissesmom]

She's addicted! Lol those speckled egg's are georgeous!

And the she's addicted part was in a Pauly Shore voice. Lol

 

[junebuggena]

5 pips. Still no chicks.

 

[Lilmissesmom]

5 pips. Still no chicks.

Praying they hatch fine

 

[junebuggena]

Praying they hatch fine

No doubt that tomorrow morning, the incubator will be full of chicks.

 

[Lilmissesmom]

No doubt that tomorrow morning, the incubator will be full of chicks.

Post pics when you are able. Love seeing lil cuties