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

[Sally Sunshine]

Good to know!! We are 6100 here.

see the other post that link is bad

 

[Peep-Chicken]

IMO, that answer depends on air cell size.  If this is your first hatch, and you feel that the air cells are the right size, you can lay them down.  If you feel that they maybe should be bigger, you can hatch in a carton with eggs standing up if the bator is sized appropriately for that, and if placing them in that position won't put them too close to your heat source.  Or if you're an experimenter, you could do half and half, and see what works best for you.  This summer, one of my hatches wasn't so good.  (19/25 that went to lock down if I remember correctly)  They had been laid flat for hatch and there were quite a few DIS, malpositioned, wet.  It may have been b/c they got too big due to my nutrition experiment.  Next hatch, I put them upright in cartons at day 14, continued tilting till day 18, and got 22/?24 with far less intervention required.  

Attracted to bright shiny objects.  It's normal, even though it looks brutal.  Toss some marbles in there!

Building an incubator is a fun project in and of it'self.  But, does not compare to hatching!  Great sense of accomplishment to take a pile of miscellaneous junk and turn it into a box that will cook an egg to perfection, resulting in perfectly done chicks!

I'd get a roll of thin vet tape, (it will stick to it'self but not to the chick's down) and do a light figure 8 around the chick's thorax, catching the wing in it on the second wrap around.  Be sure you don't impede the chick's crop! You'll have to be careful it's not too tight, and take it off every couple of days for growth, and to be sure the circulation is ok.  Any bones sticking out?  Any blood?  Any idea how it happened?  (you don't want any others to get injured)  You can work with it, or put the chick down.  Your call.  Are you sure it's not just a droopy wing?  

Thanks!

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Welcome, new people!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Welcome, new people!

how are babies?? I gotta run for now, hold down the fort everyone chat with ya all later on!

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Well it's official: Daisy the Sex Link is blind in one eye. Nothing really we can do in order to fix it, it doesn't seem to really effect her other than her favoring the good eye and getting startled every so often when someone passes her blind spot and touches her. 

One of my older hens blew a pupil a few months ago. She now has no depth perception and can't eat or drink on her own.
:/ Hope Daisy will be okay. What eye is it?

 

[hippiestink]

One of my older hens blew a pupil a few months ago. She now has no depth perception and can't eat or drink on her own.

Hope Daisy will be okay. What eye is it?

Her right eye if I remember correctly. Looks to me like it might be a blown pupil, the pupil is a tiny pinprick and doesn't dilate at all.

She eats and drinks fine, just favors one eye.

 

[perchie.girl]

@hippiestink

If at all possible when building your new coop make it so you can walk in side or at least work on it form a standing position. YOur back will thank you.

I like your herbs idea. I use to have a Rosemary bush in the back yard and under it was their favorite dust hole. I walked past it for several weeks till I heard a Chikony gRowel come from from it. I froze. I couldnt see her but I looked down and waited for movement. There was a beedy eye glairing at me from the hole. Banty hen all flattened out over that hole... About a week later she presented with TWENTY little fuzz butts.

Just on dirt.

that was my most successful flock.

deb

 

[hippiestink]

@hippiestink

If at all possible when building your new coop make it so you can walk in side or at least work on it form a standing position. YOur back will thank you.

I like your herbs idea. I use to have a Rosemary bush in the back yard and under it was their favorite dust hole. I walked past it for several weeks till I heard a Chikony gRowel come from from it. I froze. I couldnt see her but I looked down and waited for movement. There was a beedy eye glairing at me from the hole. Banty hen all flattened out over that hole... About a week later she presented with TWENTY little fuzz butts.

Just on dirt.

that was my most successful flock.

deb

I planned on having it raised on blocks so I could stand up outside. The plan itself is one meter by two meters, so it won't be very deep.

 

[mymilliefleur]

Her right eye if I remember correctly. Looks to me like it might be a blown pupil, the pupil is a tiny pinprick and doesn't dilate at all.

She eats and drinks fine, just favors one eye.

I had a Speckled Sussux that was like that. Other than being blind in one eye, she was perfectly normal.

 

[hippiestink]

I had a Speckled Sussux that was like that. Other than being blind in one eye, she was perfectly normal.

She's officially my wierdo bird. i love her to death though.