Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[debs_flock]

Quote: I LOVE the bird in your avatar........................you could send some of those lavendar eggs to me.............

 

[crazypetlady]

I never wet it down, within a few days it starts to break down and fluff on its own with activity on it. It will get plenty deep quickly.

At 1st I kept thinking it was supposed to keep looking like pellets since I started using it on day old chicks, it did stay looking like pellets for a long long time as they were Serama chicks to boot.

So I kept changing it as soon as it started puffing up, I was thinking how could they use this for horses, it would be too expensive to keep changing.

I only started using it after a tragic brooder/chick fire. We were in a hurry moving the brooder from the mud room when we were told it's a violation to have chickens/chicks in the house thanks to our neighbors. Anyway I was in a hurry and didn't attach the light right and it fell in the brooder and caught the chicks/shavings on fire in less than 60 seconds, i had forgotten something and went back outside. Luckily it was some mixed barnyard chicks I hatched for my friend. The Tolbunts and legbars were chicks at the time too I'm glad it wasn't their brooder.

 

[kraftyladies]

I LOVE the bird in your avatar........................you could send some of those lavendar eggs to me.............

I do believe I can!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

yeah no, we change the brooder house stalls very rarely, rake to dry, scoop the biggest messes, add new as needed. It lasts for ever. In horse stalls you are suppose to wet lightly and rake it out before putting the horse on it.

 

[kraftyladies]

ok so you guys are talking about equine pellets, the bedding stuff you get from tractor supply? I need to get some to try in my brooder that I am keeping inside.

 

[SewChaos]

yeah no, we change the brooder house stalls very rarely, rake to dry, scoop the biggest messes, add new as needed. It lasts for ever. In horse stalls you are suppose to wet lightly and rake it out before putting the horse on it.

Could I put it on top of the savings already in the coop, or do I need to clean the whole thing out first?

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Krafty yes thats the stuff...........AMAZING here in FL with our humidity I tell you

Sew....... yes you can put it on top of the flakes. I would scoop the dirties out first.

 

[puglady]

Foley pullet


Foley Roo
Foley/Sterling 1
Foley/Sterling 2

They're laying now and I should be able to swap eggs in about a month as I'm just separating them out. He'll be happy to have his own girls as he's # 2 roo right now.

 

[AyeUpChuck]

Morning y'all. Going to check on the bresse now. Was up and down all night so DH let me sleep in this morning and made breakfast. I'm trying to keep my chin up. I guess I just try to prepare myself for the worst? I just pray that its nothing big.

I do know that stress does really being out nasty things in birds especially. Honesty GFF had them packed well. It's just a really long journey from Florida to Oregon which is why I drove like a crazy person into Portland to get them. I'm just praying that they pull through and that nothing contagious shows up.

I'm going to email Jenny today to let her know that I'm going to call an avian vet to have some testing done. I'm not sure what they can do but they should know. We had a swap in the fall here where some stressed out birds wound up getting some other birds sick with ILT. There were about 30 birds in various flocks lost. Thankfully none of mine but it illustrated just how easily adult birds can present illness under stress. It's also why I refuse to bring adult birds to those events.

Anyway. I hope y'all are all having a fantastic morning! Much love from Oregon!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Morning y'all. Going to check on the bresse now. Was up and down all night so DH let me sleep in this morning and made breakfast. I'm trying to keep my chin up. I guess I just try to prepare myself for the worst? I just pray that its nothing big.

I do know that stress does really being out nasty things in birds especially. Honesty GFF had them packed well. It's just a really long journey from Florida to Oregon which is why I drove like a crazy person into Portland to get them. I'm just praying that they pull through and that nothing contagious shows up.

I'm going to email Jenny today to let her know that I'm going to call an avian vet to have some testing done. I'm not sure what they can do but they should know. We had a swap in the fall here where some stressed out birds wound up getting some other birds sick with ILT. There were about 30 birds in various flocks lost. Thankfully none of mine but it illustrated just how easily adult birds can present illness under stress. It's also why I refuse to bring adult birds to those events.

Anyway. I hope y'all are all having a fantastic morning! Much love from Oregon!

I have shipped FL to the west coast and NEVER had birds do what you are dealing with. You just dont ship compromised birds so you arent battling an uphill climb. I hope they bounce back quickly, and you dont have to do major intervention medically.