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

[kwhites634]

Quote: No problem; life gets in the way sometimes. I hit the sheets about 10:30 anyway; soon as Toronto put Baltimore out of its misery, AGAIN

 

[kwhites634]

Morning everybody

 

[Chaos18]

How goes things?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Our new batch of chickens got here today, and we already lost one.... Cackle hathery sent me a ton of EE chicks. Not a single one died, plus, they sent a spare. mypetchicken sent NO spares, and one already died, and a bunch of them were lethargic when they got here... can't figure out what the difference was.

congratulations on the new babies!! sorry about the lost one Shipping routes make a big difference, you may want to contact them they may have a 24hr guarantee I know some of the other hatcheries do

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they are slightly spoiled.

so cute!

~sigh~ crazy night here Got home from work, checked on my broody and chicks first thing. They were all safe and sound, no more escapees. Yay. However, came inside and started dinner prep when I realized one of my cats wasn't in his usual spot. My daughter and I started looking for him and finally found him curled up hiding in a corner. Called my vet - she met us at the clinic and had to do emergency surgery to keep his bladder from rupturing. Ugh. His 3rd surgery this summer. He's out of surgery now but will stay in ICU a couple days. Came back home, could not get chickens to come out of trees and off top of coop so they are just out for the night.

sorry about your kitty, I hope the chickens fair well

GRAPHIC PHOTOS BELOW (sorry, I couldn't figure out the spoiler alert thing) Disaster struck today. Two of my welbar pullets managed to get into the turkey pen. I found the gap under the fence and fixed it. Both girls are ok at the moment. They must've been running from the turkeys and got themselves wedged between a tree and the chicken wire. The turkeys couldn't get them there but they were pinned and the rest of the chicken flock must've started picking at them. The one was lucky and only has the tip of her one wing chewed up. Not too bad either. THIS one though, I thought she was dead when I found her. She must've wiggled her head through the chicken wire, trying to get out, which made it a target. She was dripping blood all down her face when I found her and was limp, like she'd given up completely. I even saw her get pecked and she didn't even move. I didn't get a picture of her before I treated her but it was horrific. Her skin is completely ripped from the top of her head, the whole way down the back of her neck and the muscle was even missing a couple chunks. She was picked completely bald and the skin on the right side of her head was pulled forward towards her face, exposing her ear and part of her eye. I cleaned her up the best I could and made some makeshift stitches with a needle and heavy thread. It took 6 of them to pull the skin together down the back of her neck. Her left eye is still good and she'll open it and look around but she's sleeping a lot and not moving much. I know she can though because I took her outside to bluekote her head and an escaped turkey came over to see what was up. She went into a panic trying to escape. Her right eye concerns me. Though it doesn't look like there's any damage to the eye itself, The muscles to open and close her eyelid are most likely torn and ruined. Right now, her eyelid on that side looks stretched back a little since I had to pull her skin back some to connect it with the stitches. I'm using an eyedropper to slowly give her vitamin water. Everyone, please wish me luck with her recovery. She's going to need it. The first 5 pictures were right after I cleaned her up and stitched her together. The last couple were a couple hours later, after some bluekote and rest. ]

So sorry, I've had this happen before and

I have 2 cemani chicks out at day 20. The rest are driving me crazy. I can't see any pips, but I don't want to open the incubator and mess up the humidity. Hatching is fun, but stressful!

good luck!! Chicks can stay in for a couple days, leave them they'll encourage the others

Sorry yall for being off for so long but anyway my chickens are doing good and one is going to start laying soon

That's great! How old are they now?

Hello I have Muscovy eggs in the incubator they are at the beginning of day 31and have started to wiggle the temp is 37.5 and the humidity is 60% do need to stop turning them or do I turn them for one more day I can't find much for hatching muscovys ?

No idea but good luck!!!

Ok, happy news and sad news... out of The 2 eggs that were hatching, 1 made it (although it did pop out with Some of the yolk still unabsorbed but it's absorbed now) the other one that didn't make it was turned wrong in the shell and we didn't know it. But not all is lost, since the baby was fully developed, and healthy other than the angle we decided to instead of just throwing it out, to feed it to our snake. The circle of life continues and all the creatures live in harmony.

lol your snake is very lucky, sorry about the lost one congrats on the others

 

[SilverHair]

morning

 

[Chaos18]

morning

Morning

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Going to try to rig a tarp if I can find one that doesn't leak; might get something accomplished in spite of the rain.

 

[Chaos18]

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That's great! Have waters receded? How's your dads ankle?
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You're asking the wrong kid.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Good morning everyone!!!

 

[Chaos18]

Going to try to rig a tarp if I can find one that doesn't leak; might get something accomplished in spite of the rain.

Hopefully you're able to get some work done.