Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

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Overoberyl said:
Well, your business is of course your business, you are an adult, your decisions, and the consequences for them are yours. I have never been the most tactful of individuals and I do try but it doesn't come naturally to me. My intent was only to impart the seriousness of what you could be walking into, and yes, only with good intentions at heart.

I am pretty passionate about this particular issue, I am going through something really unfortunate myself, I just bought a whole flock of adult birds, yes, spent a lot of money to purchase and have nine birds shipped to me from out of state. Luckily I knew enough to quarantine, because right out of the box there was eye swelling, and I'm waiting on the culture to confirm but the vet said it looks like mycoplasma. Thank goodness I quarantined and have been practicing biosecurity because otherwise my whole flock could have been exposed and I could be looking at having to euthanize every single bird I own rather than just the nine. Even though I have only owned them for a short time it is still a devastating thing to go through and I am heartbroken, disappointed, frustrated, angry, etc etc, all of the above. So I apologize, I meant every word I said but my emotion coming through wasn't meant to hurt you.
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Oh, that's awful!!!! Heartbreaking!!!

Biosecurity is an unfortunate but necessary thing.

speaking of which...since you guys do alot of hatching, how many of you have experience vaccinating for Mareks? is it as complicated as it sounds? evidently Barnevelders are rather susceptable to Mareks and I want to hatch some out and it seems like it would be prudent to vaccinate the chicks, but evidently the vaccine is only good for 2 1/2 hours after you mix it up, and only that long if you keep in on ice...and you only have 1 hour after chicks hatch to vaccinate?

I'd like to know why only an hour...is that one hour after you open the incubator from lockdown, or an hour after they actually hatch? and are any immunities handed down from the mother to the chick if the mother was vaccinated? all the chicks don't hatch all at once, so I was worried how that would work.
 
madamwlf said:
I find it hard candling CCL eggs too. Not sure if their shells are thicker or what it is. And I have a pretty bright flashlight.
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I think it's the color, honestly. The basque eggs are both darker and clearly thicker-shelled, and I can make out veins in them. The blue just seems to wash detail out, for some reason.

I've got one of those little 9-led flashlights, about three inches long, from Tractor Supply. It doesn't give me a really good look, just enough to confirm if there's development or not. At least usually -- and one lesson I did learn the hard way was "When in doubt, DON'T throw it out!"
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well it jumped just not as high as I would've thought!

Also on another note~ How does everyone package their eggs? I received some that I purchased for a rather decent sum of money and they were really poorly packaged IMO. Three have large obvious cracks. I haven't candled yet so I don't know what the air cells or if any others have cracks. Really unimpressed seeing as I paid over $100 plus shipping.
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