Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[CelticOaksFarm]

Quote: sure it is (incubator)

 

[madamwlf]

sure it is (incubator)

. It is.

 

[cluckitall]

. It is.

Can I borrow it, then? I'm out of room

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Quote: LoL

just loaded eggs in the dickey today, I have 2 rows in one tray in the back of one rack open

feeling like I am slacking so will set all the eggs from tonight and tomorrow morning lol. Everything else is full or over full.

I am not addicted to hatching, I am not addicted to hatching

 

[NotAFarm]

 

[crfarm]

Quote: Quote: BM6 "What are you referring to?"

Meaning you were really nice to offer sonew to change breeds. she was asking if I wanted to take her olandsk dwarf claim in exchange for something else of mine she has coming in spring. while I don't mind and willing to help out, but it would have to be approved by cpl. You made a better suggestion.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Likie

 

[wife2abirdman]

Sorry to bug everybody with what is probably some silly questions I need this rule elaborated on

In order to offer Spring swaps you must:
1.Have 10 swaps of current eggs cleared

Does this mean any 10 swaps or 10 EGG swaps? So when I do start swapping my eggs, do I have to be cleared one at a time again before swapping? Also when would I be allowed to swap my own eggs?

I understand the other rules but this one seemed fuzzy to me.

 

[Herducks]

it is 10 egg swaps

 

[sonew123]

It seems I'm not having a good hatch rate this time. Of 11 Buttercups, 8 made it to lockdown and I had 5 that pipped, zipped and said "hello" to us within an hour starting Thursday evening. But everything else in that incubator is in slow mode. I have 2 Arkansas Blues, 2/4 Salmon Faverolles, and 1/5 olive eggers. Not a one of the Marans from AyeUp have pipped, either. It seems the larger the egg, the slower they are coming out this time. So that means of the total 38 eggs I set, only 23 made it to lockdown and at day 22 only 10 of those have hatched. Hope the rest make an entrance today.

My second incubator went into lockdown yesterday--those all look good. Lots of silkie/showgirls, silver penciled rocks, bbs marans, and wheatens in there. I also had serious chicken drama when I got home from work yesterday. We saw blood all over the back neck of one of our light brahma girls. My first suspicion was the 5 month gigantic sized wyandotte. They are all in a grow out run together until I'm sure they are doing their jobs well and can separate by breed. So she is apparently his favorite lately. His hormones kicked in about two weeks ago. He's been chasing her for days. I pick her up--and I haven't posted pics because it was REALLY nasty-- but the back of her neck is laid open from just behind her left ear to about a quarter inch behind her right ear. All the way across. When I grabbed the feathers to lift so I could see how bad it was, ALL of that skin is cut open. You could just peel the skin and take her whole face right off.

I've never seen a cut on a chicken like this. We washed it good with filtered water and put antibiotic cream on it. She is now in one of the transport cages in DH's shop until she heals. Should I do anything else to it? Anything better I should buy and put on it? Give her oral antibiotics just in case? POOR thing! She's so sweet...dumb as a stick, but a sweet girl.

I went all through that run and the coop and there is nowhere she could have gotten her head caught--so the question is still did the big cockerel really do this to her? At 5 months, he is 7 pounds. He is larger than every bird I have that is in the year old range. I have seen him chase the girls, grab them, and jump them , but I've not seen him be aggressive towards them when he does.

Im guaranteeing it was him grabbing her too hard and drawing blood...the other chickens saw blood and dove into her!! They are carnivores!!! Meat eaters too...Im serious...keep her completely away from them until totally,healed and hopefully they will forget she had a bloody spot...alos use blue kote...stuff is awesome for healing and hiding bloody wounds!!! Sorry for your girl being hurt