Hands on hatching and help

[TurksPoultry]

 Turk! We miss you!

Miss u too! I feel so outa touch, donno nuttin bout what ur up to?! Whatr this season's poultry plans ma'am? How's Mr Godzilla? Pop? Ur in home health care special pup?

 

[WildHens]

Oh my GOSH!  Watch that carefully!  I had two small lipomas removed from the top of my hand. Got the stitches out and it looked great. One teeny little spot was still a bit open, but the doctor put Steri-strips on it and said when they fall off, they fall off....just leave them off.  A week later and all was well, strips had fallen off, and little open spot looked healed.  Our compost was delivered so I put on vinyl gloves and then then work gloves over them and helped Ken in the garden.

May 30th I was fine.  May 31st I was in the emergency room at St. Vincent's Hospital signing permission for amputation.  I had gas gangrene.  It came on fast, and it was ugly. If you touched the top of my hand it sounded like walking on Rice Krispies.  I was up there for 10 full days, had 3 operations on it, debridment in a whirlpool every day, and 3 different IV antibiotics going in 24/7 - they alternated. As soon as a bag of one type was empty a bag of the next kind went in. I was NPO every single night because until the surgeon came in for rounds in the morning and checked it, we didn't know if I'd have a trip to the OR. (I hung him in effigy from my hospital room door to get through to him that waiting from 6 PM until whenever he decided to wander in wasn't acceptable - he got the message)  Amputation was always on the table.  All this was the last of May.  I got my bandages off the end of October. The cultures showed both E.Coli and Clostridium Perfringens, plus a couple of other pathogens....so I had anaerobic and aerobic thingies living in there.

Folks tease me sometimes about being such a germaphobe.  I learned first hand the power of those microscopic little boogers, and nothing scares me more than contact with compost, poop, garden dirt.......gives me the heebies!  I don't tell you this to scare you - well, yes, maybe I do a little.  I don't ever want to see anyone go through that nightmare!!!  So watch it carefully!!  

Yeah our doctors around here aren't the brightest.. their suggestion at first was to just let it be, and soak it..
I insisted the culture the infection so at least we knew which bacteria we were dealing with... results still aren't back from that so we're still treating with Keflex and Bactrim..
Usually he avoids the compost pile and just goes for the dirt..but his dad was out with him and well..we all know guys aren't the best judge of..well anything..
I have no doubt that he will lose the nail.. there's too much damage already not to. But even at 6, he's been super about keeping up with it..set an alarm on his tablet and everything to remind him when it was time for a soak or meds. We have been doing an alternating schedule..we soak in straight hot tap water with Epsom salt, that's every 3 hours..then in between soaks it packed with neosporin and wrapped. ..
I don't think he'll go near the compost pile again.. as for keeping him out of the dirt..yeah, that probably won't ever happen
ETA.. I'm holding your hand on the germaphobe part. .. my mom works at a hospital and all the horror stories of staph and MRSA.. I can't even walk in a public bathroom without wanting to hose off with Chlorox..he did wash his hands when they were done finding worms, but apparent was already too late.. we're still not sure if the entry point was a hang nail or a splinter. At first I thought it was from an infected splinter.. only after I checked it over really good and didn't see a splinter, did his dad admit to the compost pile adventure the night before..but it is our best guess that it was the cause..
I was bit by a dog a few years ago, on the palm of my hand..I was training horses at the time and it was cold out, so I was wearing gloves. .about 3 days after the bite, I couldn't close my hand but ignored it and kept working..well one night I was working, my hand got hot and I heard a sound I could never describe..my hand had split. . I went straight to the ER, was there 48 hours with IV antibiotics. .it was awful

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Miss u too! I feel so outa touch, donno nuttin bout what ur up to?! Whatr this season's poultry plans ma'am? How's Mr Godzilla? Pop? Ur in home health care special pup?

Hatched out 12of Ruby's silkies eggs a week and a half ago along with 7 of my own spitz- trying to get a couple more girls, and 3 green eggs. I've got 13 green eggs in there that hit a week yesterday that I am hatching for my sister. After my weekend away toward the end of this month I am hopefully gonna be able to collect some more of my spitz eggs (she's broody at the moment) to do a small hatch as my sister would like some of them too. I might squeeze one more small one in with my greens and see if I can get more green layers. Godzilla is good, almost finished with 2nd grade and growing like a weed. Dad's not so good, but still fightig. The dog has come a long way. Still having issues with pottying outside, but it has improved so we'll keep working. He still wants nothing to do with my son, the whole reason for getting another dog, so I give up.

How's everything going with you?

 

[arr36]

I figured out why my hatch was so late and disappointing - my fancy new incubator (brinsea octagon 20) turns out to have been over a degree Celsius too cold from the factory settings. I just reset and it's jumped to where it should be. What a waste of a hatch. How can it be ok to send out such an expensive product "ready to use" when the temps are so off? I'm really annoyed!

 

[tracyjg]

24 eggs and we know lost 4 bad yolk not developed at all. For the one nesting area I just put in on the bottom of dog house a splinter from an old cage. And cardboard on top of that. On the other one I added more cardboard on top. I don't know how to fix the ducks. I don't know how to fix the coop so they develop correctly.

 

[tracyjg]

All incubators or off from factory settings.

 

[arr36]

I didn't know that.

But hopefully sorted now. The 2 chicks that did hatch super late seem ok but are they likely to be deformed somehow?

All incubators or off from factory settings.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I didn't know that.

But hopefully sorted now. The 2 chicks that did hatch super late seem ok but are they likely to be deformed somehow?

I think some of it, with the better brands that are usually more accurate have to do with the jostling of shipment too. They could be dead on at the factory and by the time it gets to you be jarred out of perfection. At least that's my theory. Little Giants though are just unexcuseable with their differences and accuracy.

 

[TurksPoultry]

Hatched out 12of Ruby's silkies eggs a week and a half ago along with 7 of my own spitz- trying to get a couple more girls, and 3 green eggs. I've got 13 green eggs in there that hit a week yesterday that I am hatching for my sister. After my weekend away toward the end of this month I am hopefully gonna be able to collect some more of my spitz eggs (she's broody at the moment) to do a small hatch as my sister would like some of them too. I might squeeze one more small one in with my greens and see if I can get more green layers.

Godzilla is good, almost finished with 2nd grade and growing like a weed.

Dad's not so good, but still fightig.

The dog has come a long way. Still having issues with pottying outside, but it has improved so we'll keep working. He still wants nothing to do with my son, the whole reason for getting another dog, so I give up.

How's everything going with you? 

Oh how I hate how short your season is! Texas is beckoning you... Seems that the spitz are becoming more popular, I've heard several people say they want them. Very glad you got Rubys good silkies to work with! I hatch the mess outa my one EEs eggs too there are currently like 14 in there, 2 have hatched, 8 more are collected to be set 4 are under my broody, again...

I'm glad Godzillas doing we'll! Sorry about Pop did u know we lost my grandpa who was currently married to my grandma that I had cared for? Not even a month ago. We had a rocky relationship but there was a parental type of lifelong, unconditional love there, and it was very sad even at 94. I'm sorry (Buster? I forget Everything but I think I mailed this one!) is stalled. Maybe if u change the schedule he's out himself on, tie him outside in the AM, bring him in at night, to help u furthure work with him? Maybe give Godzilla a new job to walk him on leash (with lots I treats) around the yard each day, so they have time to bond? I'm no whisperer these r just some things I would try.

I've been staying busy, enjoying the warmth and hatching the mess outa some eggs. Most of my hatchers are sold, but I picked up all this CX. Hated them at first, but now theyre in a large area vs where I got em from, and low n behold they're acting a bit like chickens.

I think my first real project has really been rooted now. I have three hens remaining from my first hatch of Bresse, they're laying (20 wks they started!) I bought one of their fathers to properly line breed them, and 18 more eggs to bump my hen count, today's their due date.

Got abuncha free bunny cages thru a friend, 10 holes in total, to use for raising quail. I have 20 coturnix quailings currently, restarting, last line was total garbage, they were sickly from hatch, hatched from thin shells, half cracked, it was a mess.

I got my own copy of the SOP! And the second bator, a 20 eco in add to the 40 adv I've had 6 months now. I got six Svart Hona chicks 8 wks ago! And a couple extras who r likely mix bred. They're all really neat

I figured out why my hatch was so late and disappointing - my fancy new incubator (brinsea octagon 20) turns out to have been over a degree Celsius too cold from the factory settings. I just reset and it's jumped to where it should be. What a waste of a hatch. How can it be ok to send out such an expensive product "ready to use" when the temps are so off? I'm really annoyed!

I have two of those, 20 eco and 40 adv, and I've found it doesn't matter how expensive they are, u Cannot trust the humidity or temp gauge alone, u really Have to have a second thermometer at the Very least n there. That being said, I mine they hold steady as a rock, day and night, it's up to us to make sure they're holding at the right temp I had a hard time with that during the winter, had to adjust for the cold, who knew?

 

[Blooie]

Funny how things just seem to work themselves out sometimes, isn't it? Ken got a call today and his meeting has been set back to later in the day tomorrow. That means we don't have to leave tonight, we can leave early tomorrow morning, get there in plenty of time for the meeting, and get back here tomorrow night. It's only a 4 hour drive down there and then 4 hours back, so no point in spending the night! I can turn the eggs just before we leave, then when we get back.

So in the meantime, Katie stopped over after school (she just lives across the street) and said, "Gramma, they are the eggs you got for me, so I need to learn to do this." Okay, let's go back where the incubator is and try again. I told her if she got too worried she could just stop, and it was okay.

We stood there in front of the incubator and she just looked at me, like, "Well?" So I told her to take the lid off the incubator and set it to the back. She did that. (**Remind me to add something at the end here). Then I showed her the clear marks on the eggs again, just like yesterday. Her little hands trembled, but she reached in and picked up an egg, but didn't lift it up very far. "I can't do it, Gramma. I'm gonna drop it." And she set it back down. But she turned it to the "O" side before she set it down. "Hey, Gramma, I don't have to pick it way up, just a little tiny bit!!" Yep, that's right, Katie. I could see her visibly relax. She turned every egg in the first two rows, grinning a little bigger as she went along. Came to the last row, and I said, "Let's try something Katie." I rearranged the eggs a little and that left an almost equal gap in each row. "Now, one of my BYC friends said instead of picking them up you could just roll them over. Do that on this row and see how it works for you." She did that, beamed up at me and said, "I like rolling better than picking up. I got this, Gramma! You ROCK!" She was almost disappointed when I told her that it wasn't as critical to me as it had been the day before when we first talked about it, but she set a time in her head. When her little internal alarm goes off, she'll be here to turn the eggs. And if Katie says she's going to do something, she does it.

**Now about the reminder. The stupid lid on the Brinsea Oct 20 is slippery, anyone else notice that? You have to use 2 hands, grip tightly, and pray it doesn't slip down onto the eggs. So I got out my trusty glue gun and glued a little strip of rubberized shelf liner to each side of the place on the top where you pick it up off the base. They are just thin strips, but they do help me grip. Dunno if it will help Katie much, but by golly it makes it much more secure in my clutzy hands!! And maybe that will help someone else, too.