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

[casportpony]

A Chinese lady prefers the hens.

-Kathy

I sold old hens live to one customer she had her sister over for dinner. She asked her sister where she got these awesome chickens and could she get more.

Got love word of mouth advertising! Same thing happens here.

-Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@ChickenCanoe

in answer to your earlier post, I am roughly 700 miles north east of Calgary.
Calgary is not threatened by any fire situation at the moment, but given how dry that whole area is, it could change in a blink of an eye.
They are expecting some rain showers today and tomorrow.
Fort MacMurray is about eight hours due north of Calgary, they got some rain showers last night, but nothing close to anything that will slow down that monster fire they are dealing with.
Lots of information on the net about the fires, just type in 'Fort Mac'.
I pray for that whole community, because the area I live in is similar forest, and it can be gone in a flash.

Praying for rain.

I saw on the news just a bit ago about the rain that came but the need for some good downpours that the forecast doesn't call for.

 

[attimus]

Save you money and get Corid instead. It's labeled for cattle, but can and is used for poultry. The Cocci Rid is only 2.5%, so you'll have to use way too much if you want it to work.

Treatment dose for chickens ~908 mg per gallon. 2.5% means that one gram has 25 mg, and one teaspoon of powder probably weighs about 3 grams. Corid powder is 20% (200 mg per gram) and one teaspoon weighs ~3 grams

908 mg Corid dose - 1.5 teaspoons per gallon

-Kathy

That amount is not enought to treat they types of coccidia that chickens get. Return it and get Corid, AmproMed, or Amprol instead.

-Kathy

thanks so much. I knew I should have asked you before I bought it. Returning it now. I wasnt sure about the corid as it was for large livestock.

 

[casportpony]

@attimus and everyone else, the FDA recommends that severe outbreaks of coccidiosis be treated with water medicated at 908 mg, so to that means one would have to use about 12 teaspoons of Cocci Rid to get 908 mg.

As usual, please check my my math!

-Kathy

 

[attimus]

@attimus and everyone else, the FDA recommends that severe outbreaks of coccidiosis be treated with water medicated at 908 mg, so to that means one would have to use about 12 teaspoons of Cocci Rid to get 908 mg.

As usual, please check my my math!

-Kathy

it occurred to me mid discussion that cocci rid labled for pet and exotic as well pigeon meant small caged birds. Not poultry. Should have thought about it for a minute before I just jumped the gun.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Is sass bad?!

I love your sass

Oh no. Any reason you think that? I hope it isn't so.

I am not good at incubating and have decided not to kill any more eggs. I am giving the incubator back to its rightful owner

Sorry

I know how you feel I lost the 5 turkey eggs I had due last week... :*(

just stinks because it was the nicest, most friendly polish hen, and she only survived at my house a week before my chickens ran her off

I've only done freedom rangers, Cornish X and heritage breeds, including egg varieties like leghorns.

I do Cornish X at 3 weeks for Cornish Game Hens. 6-7 weeks for broilers.
Freedom Rangers are only about 2 weeks longer. 3.5-4 weeks for game hens. 7-9 weeks for broilers. By 9 weeks, half of the cockerels are too big to fit into a large vacuum seal bag.

That is so true. A fan helps a lot with high to low thermal stratification in a single level table top incubator. There will still be dead spaces if it is square.
In a tall cabinet, unless it's very well designed, will still have high to low thermal stratification. However, that will be from shelf to shelf rather than from top to bottom of each egg.

My personal opinion - don't try to go back through the whole thread. You'll quickly find that there can be 20 or 30 pages in a row with nothing about incubation or poultry.
Chatty people here.
Well under 10% of threads are about incubation and that valuable/useful information is mostly in links on the first page.

You don't do chatty?? LOL

Gotta have something for the kids to hold onto when they go for a ride.
I have a mower to cut the grassy stuff. I want goats for everything else......mostly poison ivy because I'm apparently really allergic to it.

chlorine

I've had a... Day. So many things going through my mind!
Having to lift heavy structures by myself makes me emotional because I don't have anyone to help. It makes me mad, but that does me no good. So, I bend with my knees and lift. Then I tear up and berate myself for crying.

When an hour of charging the screwdriver only got part of the third wall on, I used it to finish screwing in all of the screws on all three walls. Realizing I had to get more done outside, I pulled up the tarp I had in the garden. I honestly don't know how the grass managed to get that long underneath a tarp.
Once again, I got ticked off. Two rototillers and I can't use either one. Being mad and being upset was not doing me any good, so I grabbed a shovel and got to work. I had forgotten how rocky my yard is. I am surprised that there were still so many large rocks in a garden I've had for several years. I may not have gotten very far, but at least I got a good amount done.
The nice part was getting to be naked in the house! LOL!
I was just contemplating a shower when I got a call from my in-laws. Duckling was coming back early.
I knew that they had not given her nap, so we headed upstairs at 6:30. She cried the entire time I was trying to get her changed for bed. I kept trying to comfort her, but she just wanted to go to bed. She did not even want any stories. It amazes me that everyone else is still giving her bottles with rice cereal in them, and rocking her. It still takes them two or three hours to get her to sleep.
So you see, it is been a very… Interesting day. That, and I just can't seem to say anything the way I mean it.

Here is Lilly.@LittleLakePhil

She looks delicious!!

Maybe
MCC was accepted into Culinary Arts school. She also took a lot of international cooking and culinary classes in school. She may be a loser now, but she used to be something.

See I knew i wanted you for your cooking

WELCOME to the THREAD Bunny Foo-Foo, Marco, Polo and whoever else joined us!


Hello all

Hi Sally!! @Sally Sunshine some people (MC) say i quote like you...

Since I have offended the last person in the world that I would want to, I will try to not talk too much today. I can't stand the idea of having another day of not saying what I mean.
So, I will share some photos and be quiet.

chicken in the rafters

You and duckling are always so happy together!!

'tenshun ladeez and gennlmen!

WooHoooo!!

Thank you all for your support and your help. Keep it coming! I have no idea where to find the information I need about eye shine and what predators are even around me. Anyone think the DNR would be any help? Normally I prefer to leave nature alone but if this animal ran off with our largest bird it could easily take any of our other birds.

i read this and thought what is a dnr going to do for a chicken

 

[BantyChooks]

Liz, what brand of bator??? Any idea what is happening? You aren't leaving, right??

 

[Chaos18]

I read your first quote all wrong.

I can't just run around my property pouring chlorine on everything that's poison ivy. My kids and chickens run around the same property........as does a dog that doesn't listen.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Liz, what brand of bator??? Any idea what is happening? You aren't leaving, right??

no i'm staying. I still have birds, well kind of. Its a farm innovators 4200 with turner and fan

it looks like there has been no change in air cells for the last 7 days, and when i last 'candled' (i don't take them out of the turner, just put the flashlight to them- thought maybe last time i was too rough) 4 had movement, today i recandled and they look exactly the same as before but no movement.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I read your first quote all wrong.

I can't just run around my property pouring chlorine on everything that's poison ivy. My kids and chickens run around the same property........as does a dog that doesn't listen.

what my sass? LOL!!
swim in a chlorine pool/hot tub to get rid of it on you. Dilute bleach and apply, it will burn for a bit but its the only thing i can use to get rid of it