Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[Sahwithchicks]

LOL!
"Hatching earlier and earlier each year, usually alone, and trying to hide the evidence."  True.  Sadly, so true.

Hahaha I know! I read it, and was like "oh MAN! Is this lady HIDING out at my house or something?! BUSTED!"

 

[mzstre]

The woman I take my birds to for processing puts them in the cones and cuts off their heads. They bleed out and die quick all at once. I can't imagine slitting their throats and leaving them to die like that. Drowning/suffocation, burning and bleeding to death like that are ways I would not want to die and I wouldn't want my animal/s to go out that way either.

The thought of death by fire terrifies me.

Having been resuscitated from drowning when I was young, I can tell you that there are a couple of brief moments of fear but then a very peaceful tranquility. Not so bad.

As crazy as it sounds (yep - 2 near deaths), I also almost died from blood loss a few years ago. That is a very surreal way to go...the blood loss eliminates the fear response I guess. It creates a very calm and detached state of mind. Knowing this from firsthand experience, I really have no qualms about bleeding a bird for processing.

 

[madamwlf]

Does someone have RoyalT's address??? She hasn't filled the form out and I can't find it.

 

[draye]

Okay.. Exitement here!
Shipped eggs are starting to hatch a day early. All those eggs that I had come in by the 4th of this month. So far there are 14 that hatched. Black Ameruacana, 2 or 3 SBELS. 3or 4 mixed. 2 White Ameraucana.

So excited.

 

[mzstre]

candled and pitched a bunch of shipped eggs yesterday. Hate having eggs with no growth at all, I can accept bloodrings, but nothing? Thats a real downer

The PO can be brutal. I have received eggs from folks that I KNOW have fertile eggs and have less than 20% even start to develop.

 

[tdhenson86]

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Oh my goodness! That is TERRIBLE and good at the same time!!! Terrible that they had to cull an entire flock, but good that they are finally listening to customers!

 

[krazykat0373]

ok, I was finally having a good hatch with marans, except the last three to hatch today, 2 with crossbeaks and one that had its abdomen grown around its leg...actually looked like it was handcuffed to itself...never saw anything like that before... this sucks, I now have three chicks to cull

 

[madamwlf]

ok, I was finally having a good hatch with marans, except the last three to hatch today, 2 with crossbeaks and one that had its abdomen grown around its leg...actually looked like it was handcuffed to itself...never saw anything like that before... this sucks, I now have three chicks to cull

Never easy to do.

 

[madamwlf]

Oh my goodness! That is TERRIBLE and good at the same time!!! Terrible that they had to cull an entire flock, but good that they are finally listening to customers!

Yes, terrible indeed but seriously needed. If you are going to have high priced birds, you need to make sure you are breeding the best genes.

 

[mzstre]

Okay.. Exitement here! Shipped eggs are starting to hatch a day early. All those eggs that I had come in by the 4th of this month. So far there are 14 that hatched. Black Ameruacana, 2 or 3 SBELS. 3or 4 mixed. 2 White Ameraucana. So excited.

Congrats on the chickies!

ok, I was finally having a good hatch with marans, except the last three to hatch today, 2 with crossbeaks and one that had its abdomen grown around its leg...actually looked like it was handcuffed to itself...never saw anything like that before... this sucks, I now have three chicks to cull

So sorry