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

[tao chick]

sigh
My auto turner on the MacGyverbator broke. The tab broke on the part that hooks to the motor shaft. No eggs were harmed. I turned them three times today and I'm trying to figure out how to fix the turner in a 15 minute window so the eggs don't get cold. The motor and timer work, but can't hook to the nest of eggs. I will have to fabricate something or deal with hand turning the whole incubation period. I am only on Day 5.

sigh

I haven't read the last 30 pages or so. I hope everyone is well.
Good night.

 

[BantyChooks]

Eeeeppers that lil guy is adorable? Whatchu gonna name him? Or is he still "thing 1"?

sigh
My auto turner on the MacGyverbator broke. The tab broke on the part that hooks to the motor shaft. No eggs were harmed. I turned them three times today and I'm trying to figure out how to fix the turner in a 15 minute window so the eggs don't get cold. The motor and timer work, but can't hook to the nest of eggs. I will have to fabricate something or deal with hand turning the whole incubation period. I am only on Day 5.

sigh

I haven't read the last 30 pages or so. I hope everyone is well.
Good night.

Oh no!!!!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Turned the brooder on its side, no more scary lady looming from above.

Yeah, if I can get the timing right, I'm building a brooder that I'm putting up on a table for the Easter chicks. Better for my back, and less scary looming...

Migraine today (it was actually starting last night, which I didn't realize until after the fact). Fortunately, not much pain, but dizziness, hard to read or look at a screen for long, and very tired. So I stayed home - better by about 4:30pm, so started in on the tractor build (chickens wait for no woman, and all that).

It's deja vu all over again!



I don't know how long I'll last tonight... But at least I'm all caught up here!

- Ant Farm

 

[Saris]

@casportpony

I'll be bringing him inside in a little while to give him a better once over, I'm going to try to weigh him and his girl. He downed a bowl of yougurt so he does have an appetite still. I may get a better shot of some poo once he's inside.

 

[flocktastic]

h

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WANT THAT POLISH!!!!

I was SO hoping we'd end up with a polish!!! I love him/her...either way it's name will stay Q-TIP because that's the first thing I thought of when that little head popped up lol!

Any guesses as to what kind of polish??

 

[flocktastic]

Yeah, if I can get the timing right, I'm building a brooder that I'm putting up on a table for the Easter chicks. Better for my back, and less scary looming... Migraine today (it was actually starting last night, which I didn't realize until after the fact). Fortunately, not much pain, but dizziness, hard to read or look at a screen for long, and very tired. So I stayed home - better by about 4:30pm, so started in on the tractor build (chickens wait for no woman, and all that). It's deja vu all over again! I don't know how long I'll last tonight... But at least I'm all caught up here! - Ant Farm

LOVE THAT! ((Coming to live at your house!)) Lol speaking of, my husband actually called me on his lunch today and he asked about us going to SANthos summer with my folks and all the kids so I'll finally get to see SA...go to the Alamo...visit Fredericksburg on the way...can't wait!! Sorry...off topic!!

 

[BantyChooks]

Yeah, if I can get the timing right, I'm building a brooder that I'm putting up on a table for the Easter chicks. Better for my back, and less scary looming... Migraine today (it was actually starting last night, which I didn't realize until after the fact). Fortunately, not much pain, but dizziness, hard to read or look at a screen for long, and very tired. So I stayed home - better by about 4:30pm, so started in on the tractor build (chickens wait for no woman, and all that). It's deja vu all over again! I don't know how long I'll last tonight... But at least I'm all caught up here! - Ant Farm

Yeeesss... I do... 11 viable eggs.. I was expecting a higher mortality rate than 1/12 by day 10! And I was only gonna get 4 but the minimum was 6.... Ah, who am I kidding... Yes, I am addicted!!

 

[h2oratt]

Here are my two polish I got last year from mcmurrays. The white one is a little dingy but she can't see a darn thing. Mcmurrays has good video of the chicks to id the little buggers. They lay well but small eggs.

 

[BantyChooks]

Here are my two polish I got last year from mcmurrays. The white one is a little dingy but she can't see a darn thing. Mcmurrays has good video of the chicks to id the little buggers. They lay well but small eggs.

Eeeeee I LOVE polish!! Yours are adorable!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: INDIAN PAINTBRUSHESSSSSSS that is a type of Salvia isnt it!!! so pretttttttyyyyyyy and found in the most beautfiul places in our woods!!!

Quote: dawwwwwwww

My first super giant egg...hoping it's a double yolker!!!

OUCH

@Sally Sunshine can sour crop mimic worms?

My Ameruacana roo is seriously underweight and I'm pretty sure he has sour crop, I noticed his poo has been really runny and soft with small bits of red in it, where as his hen has normal poo.

I was going to worm him, but when I went to snuggle him is when I felt his crop is squishy and he was under weight, the hen is normal seeming weight, maybe a little light but her crop feels fine.

Should I still worm them and treat him for sour crop at the same time?


These birds are gonna kill me, my hubby says I have 2 weeks to get them better or he's gonna cull them....

@casportpony this is more her area I never treated it to be honest. never had it. I think because we dont free range anything I dont run into some of this stuff?????