INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[hippiestink]

Well it's official: Daisy the Sex Link is blind in one eye. Nothing really we can do in order to fix it, it doesn't seem to really effect her other than her favoring the good eye and getting startled every so often when someone passes her blind spot and touches her.

 

[kwhites634]

The sad part is it's not the open edge in the coop they're roosting on, it's the divider separating the two nesting boxes. Whoever designed the prefab had a screw loose if they thought that a piece of 2x4 was a good idea for a box divider. All four squish themselves onto the tiny divider. Dumb birds indeed!

I tried the 2x4 route, too. Finally cut a piece of plywood to fit the box front to back, bottom to top.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My elevation is 4,357 ft. I'll take advise about high elevation too.

Hatching Eggs 101 - BackYard Chickens Community

see other post that link is bad

 

[sonshine15]

Hi LG. I tried the tape and will try it again. Long time no see. I got too busy to keep up with BYC and moderating a few rooms on another site (not about chickens)
It's broken at the shoulder and is also broken on the last joint, hangs down and the others were pulling on it. How on earth it got broken is another story. A lost one. I did put the crazy 8 with coband last night and isolated her with one that's not real perky.

Good to see you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@lazyacre


The influence of high altitude on the hatching of chicken eggs.
The main problems facing chicken embryos when incubated at high altitudes are a reduced oxygen supply and dehydration. The first priority when incubating eggs at high altitudes is to ensure that egg weight losses are correct (see Hatchery How To No.1 for recommendations on optimum egg weight loss). Based on the fact that water diffuses through the pores in the eggshell faster at altitude this would mean running a higher incubator humidity set-point. READ MORE :http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/2908/incubating-eggs-at-high-altitudes/
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[perchie.girl]

Quote:
lower your nest boxes below the lowest roost by four to five inches.... or raise you lower roost up.

 

[sonshine15]

Hatching Eggs 101 - BackYard Chickens Community

The influence of high altitude on the hatching of chicken eggs.

Because of increased egg shell conductance at high altitude, eggs that were layed at sea level but incubated at 3100m will loose more water than eggs layed & incubated at sea level. Also, eggs laid at 3800m have lower amounts of albumen, less water than eggs at sea level and both egg composition and weights vary as consequence of changes in elevation, eggs produced at sea level are consistently and significantly larger than eggs laid at 3810 m. The mass of the yolk decreases and the albumen increases as sea level compared to 3810. Data suggest increase in mass of eggs at sea level compared to 3810 m is due primarily to water.​

Good to know!! We are 6100 here.

 

[hippiestink]

lower your nest boxes below the lowest roost by four to five inches.... or raise you lower roost up.

We're building a new coop so I'm mostly just gathering ideas on how to improve and what can be done to prevent current behavior. Unfortunately the coop I have now is a POS.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@Mims I ran into the Quail incubating info I wanted for you!!!! see this thread!!! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/732651/first-time-incubating

 

[perchie.girl]

When clipping a geunies wings,do u clip one or both

I would clip one if you clip both they can still fly and fly very well. Though I wouldnt keep them clipped. Its great while educating them to a new location... But they depend on being able to fly to get away from predators if your free ranging.

My last flock that free ranged would come from the rocks fly over the house to land in the poultry yard when I hollered CHICK CHICK CHICK.... my feed call. Got all the birds a runnin or flying for dinner.

deb