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

[Sally Sunshine]

Update of Thelma and Louise

cute love the color!

I lost my little buff roo last night.looks like he slipped off the ramp and got stuck

OH NO!!!!!!

Eggs went on lockdown!

good luck sweets!!!!

 

[kwhites634]

OK caught up. @Sally Sunshine . Brace for at least another week, but much better no more crutch or cane. Glad at least a few Sermas made it and you are feeling better.
@gotro17

great first hatch and you listened for success.
@tao chick they get over mycoplasma on the surface, but remain carriers and it can come out in times of stress.
@kwhites634 link to gravity feeder?
@rossfam06 I grew up there two, but would not say I missed February in AK
@casportpony have you ever used permethrin?

I found it on the "Show Me Your Feeders" thread. I may still have a pic of mine; not sure...might can post it if you can't find it.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Shalom to you all! Always 10,000,000 posts to CU ! This thread is incredible!!
(SHALOM Sally! )

 

[BullChick]

WARNING: Never mix chlorine bleach and ammonia. Toxic fumes can be produced.








Dollar Store easy liner or cheese cloth to cover metal grates, prevent chick issues and for easy clean up.

But I like the fumes!!

In all seriousness, I don't want others having the problem I did. I was told that my Wally World didn't sell cheesecloth. Turns out it can be found in the craft department and automotive. I was expecting to find it with canning or on a strip in the baking department.

 

[daxigait]

I have decided to try to sell off my outside birds to backyard people and try again. If I get it again then even with the best biosecurity I can reasonably do I will live with it.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

200+ posts behind, but wanted to update and ask about my air cells (and hopefully get some reassurance - it's my first hatch!!!!)

The Cream Legbar eggs are on day 18. I only candled long enough to mark air cells, then got them back in to the incubator (lined with paper towels, and baskets separating eggs from different mothers).




Here are the air cells. (A representative selection)


I was alarmed at first with how little change I saw in some from day 14. But there are others that look good, and I re-read the day 18 info a couple times. Does this mean I just have some that have begun to draw down, and some that have not yet? Or am I going to end up with sticky chicks for some eggs (I am re-reading that section as well). For what it's worth, several of the eggs have been obviously rocking since yesterday when I cluck at them, and those have the more drawn down ones. The photo is representative of some of the differences in the air cells (there is only a 14 day and 18 day mark, no 7 day mark). Humidity was 40% days 0-7, and 35% from day 7 to 18 (settings - but readings mostly matched that, occasionally a point or two above temporarily). By weight they were fairly on track for 11% weight loss by average of all eggs, but looking individually, some lost more than they should, some less. (What might make eggs of similar size vary so much in weight loss? Alternative explanation I suspect is that the scale for the first readings was off). I did not weigh them day 18 because I didn't trust the numbers at 14 days - and I wasn't really sure what I would do differently anyway.

Regardless, they are now locked down at 98.5F and 65% Humidity. Will drop temp again on day 21 per Hatching 101 guidance.

Any suggestions on anything I should do differently at this point, or am I good to go/wait at this point?

Heading out to finish that coop, but will check back in regularly. Thanks!!!
@Sally Sunshine

- Ant Farm

 

[daxigait]

Good luck!!! I am in the middle of my first hatch. Based on the overwhelmingly positive reviews here, I went with the hovabator too. I had mostly shipped eggs, from two different sources...one (Papa's Poultry @Papa Brooder was incredible, the other- coming all the way from CT, a total disaster (and extremely expensive!))... If they weren't broken, all eggs had detached air cells and some extremely saddled... Then, I got super lucky and discovered@Jessimom lives 2 miles from me! She generously gave me 6 silkie eggs (5 to lockdown- 3 have already hatched!). In total, 28 went to lockdown. It is just now Day 20.5 and 10 are hatched, 5 more pipped and one zipping. The one shown here, zipping, is a Bielefelder whose shell I cracked (and repaired with candle wax) 2 weeks ago!!! We are very pleased with this bator and even more grateful for all the advice here!!! Thank you! @Jessimom @Sally Sunshine

Do we have a Mycoplasma article started? I skipped some sections but know that several people have talked about it. I suspected it in my flock at one point but they all got better as quickly as they got sick and after I cleaned the coop so I thought about possible environmental irritants too. I don't even think there's a chicken doctor within an hour of me.

Oh Good God! I'll take my hawk problem any day!!! Yikes!

UPDATE- lost the lavender Orpington egg (the worst of the worst air cell, @Sally Sunshine.... I'm so mad- she was alive last night. Anyway- I floated the other 4, after candling seemed to yield nada. All 4 are goners

HOWEVER- while I was moving the remaining hatched chicks from yesterday, I did notice the last BCM was pipping! We have one last silkie still waiting to pip, and this Marans. If these two make it, the final tally will be a respectable 21/28 (after lockdown). 21/40 total shipped eggs, with 5 from my awesome BYC friend, and neighbor, @Jessimom

I found it on the "Show Me Your Feeders" thread.  I may still have a pic of mine; not sure...might can post it if you can't find it.

I was just curious which one. I made a bucket one with the street elbows that I just need to Caulk since my holes turned out a bit big so they move a bit.

 

[daxigait]

@country lovin so sorry

 

[daxigait]

Hi CC this is what I try to do here as well. Most have been at the deck or the general area the kids play in. Rest of area is theirs. More and more building here and that always pushes them around. Have to be real careful when new places go in. Another neighbor coming in behind me so this summer I will need to be more watchful.

where are you in MO?

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony
  thoughts on step 4 on

  http://www.timandsusiehenhouse.com/page22

A friend of mine uses Tektrol on his peafowl eggs and i think it's worth looking into. But peroxide? I wouldn't bother with it, because from what I've read about it, it's not an effective antibacterial. What does Oz use?

-Kathy