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

[BullChick]

Well I gotta get stuff done I'll see everyone later

Byyyyyyyye!

I gotta get moving to, birds and horses to feed, grass to mow

Have fun!

HRIR hatched 5 babies but someone killed one, so only 4 left.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well that was a interesting and informative read back from the past 2 days.

First thank you to all that have attempted to help the new people that have joined recently. There is a wealth of knowledge here and I'm grateful that yall are so generous in sharing.

Happy Father's day to all those that it applies. And thank you to all the women who put up with us father's.

I made it to Texas after some airport confusion and will be here for the next 2 weeks or so. Call me crazy but I decided to spend the last 30 minutes or so before I left this morning with the week old chicks. Rest of the family was sleeping and I wanted to make sure all was good before I turned them over to the wife and kids.

I have some concerns and would like some input. Pictures are below. One of the giant cochin chicks seems to have overly large wings. They are more feathered out than the rest and seem bigger at the same time. It was actually one of the smaller chicks that hatched but has seemed fine until now. I might just be freaking out for no reason but decided it was worth asking. It appears as though in the picture they are cold bUT they just huddled up trying to hide from me.

Food is Purina flock raiser non medicated (what's the advantages of medicated) I swapped over to the flock raiser back a few months ago due to being able to feed it to all ages but stuck with non medicated.

Umm let's see I think that should sum it up. Please ask any questions and I will attempt to answer them. Bear in mind I'm in TX and they are in NC so more pictures will take time but not impossible. The one I'm worried about is the black body wit white face.

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Hippiestink has one like that too, and Sally does on occasion. Not the coffee, but animated.
Is it just because it is coffee that everyone is so distracted?

lol

Hope y'all are all doing well? Lots of pain for me but I'll get over it. Did I miss much?

oh No Billy!!!! please feel better!

Morning Sally.

They were all first time mommas. The splash cochin hatched two and killed them both, so I gave her the boot. The BCM had hatched three and had an egg left last night. She and the HRIR are good fierce mommas. The BCM is in a broody suite and HRIR just on the floor in the corner of the coop, so literally any other flock member could've walked by and killed that baby. It's so hot they aren't staying under mama.
oh noooo yer scaring me!!! I just gave all the incubator brahma eggs to the brahma hen!!! ughhhh she had pushed half out from her but I put them back lol not sure they will make it, and I think they will kill chicks too! just cause my gutt says so

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hope y'all are all doing well? Lots of pain for me but I'll get over it. Did I miss much?

I dont know what you missed because I did too

 

[campingshaws]

First time broodies freak out. I had one that was a bad mama her first time, but a good mama her second time. Good luck.

 

[SilverHair]

question for you all, checked the temps 1st thing this morning found the cord unplugged temp down to 83, plugged back in temp on 3 of the themo's read 110 about 15 to 20 mins later but coming down, do I wait and see or scrap and start over?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Thanks for that. It looked like a roundworm and I know that Wazine treats them but as I've said before - I don't worm. That's why I suggesting asking you.

But I thinkthe worm was on corn, not necessarily from chicken feces.

I know.

Could it be a corn worm?

They make coffee machines like that but they're pricey.

Go for it!
Tell us about it when you get back.


I'm in awe. You must be psychic. How in the world would you know there was development inside a wild duck egg under a broody hen?

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Spit it out!

Shipping on Friday before a holiday wasn't wise. Other than that, 5 day old eggs isn't bad for shipped eggs - they could all be that fresh depending on how many hens he has.
I mark all eggs with the lay date so people know how old they are and I try to ship Mon-Wed.
It doesn't hurt to ask but I've never heard of someone replacing eggs - at least without the buyer paying for shipping.

I don't mean to offend you so please don't take this the wrong way because it is only intended to be instructive, but -


DUDE!!! Please, please, please, please, please, please, tell me you didn't dig up turtle eggs just to candle them.

There's only 2 reasons on Gods green earth to dig up turtle eggs. One is to eat them. The other is to relocate them to keep poachers from eating them. Which is it?

Are you a herpetologist? No, I didn't think so.
Are you a female turtle? No, I didn't think so.
Then you likely don't know how turtle eggs need to be buried.
I guess you're trying to kill them too.
How do you know they're dead? Are they white eggs?
How has your turning gone?

I can't tell a lot by the pictures but your description doesn't seem like there is anything to be concerned about. Birds feather out at different rates.

X2 to all of that.
Along with the healthy stock is breeder nutrition.

Looks like you had a great day.

You can postpone lockdown but you still need to significantly increase humidity.

One can only hope.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
I agree it medicated won't hurt chicks. I just don't use it.
Keeping bedding bone dry and feeders full, I've only had a coccidiosis issue once.

Then how do you know what is going on inside.

Oh I hope and pray.



That would be a tough candling.

He doesn't care.

Then why are you handling them?

all I did was remove the top layer of soil without messing up the two eggs.there not in the wild there in a outdoor pen from my two box turtles.and the wood duck eggs is the only one.it's not under a hen it's in my room on a heating pad.something had gotten in my wood duck box and are all except one and I think the hen too

 

[BullChick]

question for you all, checked the temps 1st thing this morning found the cord unplugged temp down to 83, plugged back in temp on 3 of the themo's read 110 about 15 to 20 mins later but coming down, do I wait and see or scrap and start over?

It is fine. The incubator was just coming to temp. The eggs never got that hot.

 

[BullChick]

Water doesn't boil as soon as you turn on the burner.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@granny hatchet
this is the pup you wanted all grown up now!! oh @twisted-acres-farm

 

[BullChick]

And how the heck have I still not said?! The black chick is not mine. It is a pullet (looks like it to me) so ... Ugh! I can't keep it. I have too many pullets as it is!