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[lindalouly]

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Job

 

[lindalouly]

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Benny!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Standing on its own power is a good sign.

That and a leg hook.

So true.

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Plus probiotics to take up space in the digestive tract with good stuff.

I currently have one chick that just isn't growing like her siblings. I'm considering putting her with the smaller chicks that hatched in the last week so she'll get some more protein. I need to add some probiotics to her water.
It is a shame because there are 9 chicks in that batch and only 3 pullets and she's one of the pullets.

I raised a batch of Freedom Rangers and one cockerel was a runt. Healthy and active but just half the size of his brothers at butcher age.

You can leave them but they'd be better coming out immediately after hatch. The sooner chicks get food and water, the more vigorous they will be.

If they're chicken eggs, 25 days is misinformation. Don't count on that. If they hatch today, that would be 4 days without food or water, unless you can do something about that, it is too long.

That sounds good.
For meat sauce, my wife used to use ground pork and ground beef mixed half and half. Now she uses turkey and beef mixed. The beef/pork sure was yummy. Then after the sauce was added to the pasta, pour on the cheese and bake the whole thing in the oven.

You are. Is there a physical prize?

When you stop turning. The reason is the possibility of early pipping/hatching.



Everything likes the taste of turtle eggs.

Don't be so down on yourself.

If the eggs are properly buried, as they should be and remain till hatch, there's no way for you to know there is movement.

Any idea why she died?

Box turtle populations continue to decline.

     "Causes of decline are ... a mixture of habitat destruction, pollution and pesticide effects, direct mortality from vehicle strikes, decreased recruitment through
     increased predation (particularly of eggs and juveniles) by subsidized predators (raccoons, foxes, possums, crows), intentional removal of animals for commercial pet     
     trade (ceased), as personal pets or for 'turtle racing' (ongoing), and possibly disease and vegetational / forest succession trends in much of the eastern United States."
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/21641/0

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=17+1797&aid=943

No way to tell till they start hatching.

Not necessarily. Given that the roosters have been sufficiently photostimulated early in the year, the first eggs after recovering from molt and winter break normally produce the most vigorous chicks. The reason of that is first eggs will have much higher nutrient levels than eggs laid later in the season.

My mother in law gave me an antique galvanized base that fits a pint jar. I wonder if it is the same size as the one you found.

I have a bigger problem with the feeders that screw onto a quart jar. The base takes half of the food in the jar when you turn it over. I still use both but I try to transition to adult feeders and water founts as soon as possible.

How about using a sawzall with a 9" blade.

That's the beauty of deck blocks.

Taken from clean water, they're one of the best tasting freshwater fish.

I check periodically to see if any are poking out and I continue to remove eggs till none are showing.

Good plan.

I'm sure they are the wild type with thorns, right?

no,I don't all I know is she stopped eating she had worms in her pee,and foaming from the mouth

 

[Akrnaf2]

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Bella

 

[Chaos18]

I've got a dozen eggs in the incubator and all seem to be developing properly. As this is my first hatch, I'm surprised. Or maybe just ignorant. Hahaha...

Anyway, I'm using an LG still-air incubator with an electric egg turner.

My questions: 1) Day 19 starts Wednesday, and I'm confused. I know to lay the eggs on the bottom of the incubator. But do the chicks' feet go through the little metal mesh stuff on the floor? If so, do I need to put something over it? I've seen people put that stuff on the floor that people use in silverware drawers. Or they put little paper towels shaped into something of a bowl to keep the incubator clean. Anyway, I don't want them getting injured feet if I can help them avoid it.

2) Also, should I keep the thermometers as they are so I can tell what the temp is at the top and middle of the eggs and adjust the temp to keep it at the same it's been the rest of the time? I know to get the humidity up to 65% or so...correct?

Thanks...

I use the shelf liner to keep it cleaner and also to prevent them from sticking a foot through a hole that might be to big. Leave the thermometers in and raise humidity to 65-70% or so.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Linda!

 

[runt325]

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