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

[chicken hawk 33]

You alread have one....

I,know I do.I want another one.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I love the blue one the best, but they are all nice looking eggs!

THANK,u we have been getting between ten and 14 eggs a day

 

[Phage]

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I got the crazy bator syndrome too

DH is out of town for a month so the one bator has become 5 ....... And in 3 weeks it will be one again.

#Secret lives.....

 

[mlm Mike]

Day 6 @mlm Mike

Sally, you mean the first (and last) eggs I shipped, not only survived shipping but are growing?!!!

 

[kwhites634]

Poopy butts in my flock have been due to so many things, cancers, worms, repro issues, infections, or a combo, so it's impossible to guess without more info. Your hen sleeps in her bedding, so maybe she sat in a pile of poop? That would be they best case scenario. What concerns me is that you commented the her feathers looked off. Since most of us aren't going to take our birds to a vet, we have to learn how to be our own vets, so think about how a vet might go about treating a chicken. Pretty sure most would start by just watching it, then they would weigh the bird and do an exam. That exam would include checking mouth, eyes, ears, vent, palpating belly, etc. Poop... All bird vets will want to check the poop. Since most of us don't have what's need to check it microscopically, we have to find similar looking pictures online and guess.

There is a method to my madness, so I say place your wife's food scale on the bathroom counter, catch the hen, turn off bathroom lights and place bird on scale. Once weighed, do a thorough exam and make note of how fat or thin she feels. If possible, place in a crate on towel of newspaper for poop sample.

-Kathy

Feathers looked perfectly normal this morning. She's crated now; waiting for her to poop. Never thought of a paper towel, though...another good idea. Since reading the post Sally suggested, I gather that only chicks are subject to Pasty Butt, so I'm betting worms...we'll find out tomorrow.

 

[hippiestink]

DH is out of town for a month so the one bator has become 5 ....... And in 3 weeks it will be one again.

#Secret lives.....

I hear that. In-laws go out of town? We take their three dogs to join our two dogs at our place. Also chicken math if last time was any indication.

 

[Farmer Viola]

Hi Everyone!!! Can I jump in here and hatch a long with you?

I have been on hatching hiatus for a long time because I had a baby! Well he's almost 1yr old now and I caught the hatching bug again. I finally have some time to think about incubating and raising baby chicks!

I got a GQF Sportsman 1502 (thanks husband!!!) cabinet incubator and I have 3 sets of eggs in it right now. This is my first time hatching in it, so success rate remains to be seen!

Previously I used a styrofoam bator and hatcher. I am planning to use my styrofoam forced air incubator as a hatcher so my cabinet incubator stays nice and clean.

My chicken eggs are due to hatch on the next 3 Sundays (and beyond): 3/27, 4/3, and 4/10! Anyone else hatching on these days?

I am also incubating turkey eggs! My first set of 4 turkey eggs were clear on day 14 so they were removed, I am hoping it was a fluke and not that my tom is infertile. I know the jennys are being mated..

My turkey eggs are due to hatch on Sundays too, 4/10 and 4/17!

I have 3 turkey jennys, and one is BROODY right now! I have her on some fake eggs and I plan to switch in some chicks or poults for her when they hatch. I am worried about infertility of the turkey eggs, I wanted her to raise poults but if no poults hatch then I will just give her some chicks I guess...



pics!!

GQF:
row 1: day 16 [29 eggs]
row 2: day 9 [18 eggs]
row 3: day 2 [20 eggs]
turkey eggs are in the far back, there's 15 total [day 9 & 2]


my hatch sheet!

 

[kwhites634]

I,want a incubator.

Me, too...want to give me one?

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Here you go Banti!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Me, too...want to give me one?

u want to give me one we can give each other one.Lol