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

[BullChick]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!!!!!


Beer can MotorcycleChickNaJoBeLe Sally Sunshine SilverHairdaxigait

Greetings

@MotorcycleChick

 

[DwayneNLiz]

That is my point, silly.
You are better than me.
I have lots of pictures.

I say a lot wrong. I have proof! Heck, I am afraid to speak most of the time anymore!

no i'm not
lol, yes i know
lol, we all say a lot wrong

 

[BullChick]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!!!!!


Beer can MotorcycleChickNaJoBeLe Sally Sunshine SilverHairdaxigait

Greetings

@MotorcycleChick

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Greetings

what?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

 

[runt325]

Good morning everybody

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

Where is everyone???

Am I the last man left standing?

You are the modern Gen. Caster at the little big horn battle!

Custer was an arrogant glory hound who got exactly what he deserved!

And was the blame of his soldiers?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@mississippifarmboy the husband of @EmtheFishLady



suffered a stroke yesterday. They need some help so pass the word!

https://www.gofundme.com/2aj5phjg

Thanks for letting us know

Sick bird is still coughing but the humidifier is helping. She doesn't rattle anymore, just coughs. Eating a little and drinking some. Hopefully this blows over in a week or two.

your others are ok? how are you going to keep them from getting it too?

I have 12 chicks 7 days old when do i take them off chick booster and feed them grower ?

I dont use grower I use chick starter until they lay

Good morning everyone!

Good morning Sally!

Morning Mike!

Help we are supposed to have some severe weather hit later tonight and there is a pretty big risk of electric loss. The big issue is I set eggs yesterday and the consist of 5 chicken eggs, and 1 call duck egg. What am I to do if something happens? Thanks for any help ahead of time.

P.s just got on this thread in the first time in a month because you guys talk so fast I can't keep up, but its nice to have question to ask.

Glad your thinking ahead a bit at least! Welcome back!! Did you loose it at all?

Quote: I pray it gets back to normal sometime, goodness woman this is taking forever!! Are you sure you didnt screw up more than what they say?

tried to candle last night, lights out in the room and dark, i'll be looking for a brighter light to go thru the dark eggs,

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[BullChick]

what?

Luv, it hurts too much. I can't do the whole coffee cup thing yet.

 

[Akrnaf2]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,lay some grading over the nest so predators don't dig them up and eat them

Predators better not dig up my taters! I figured you were going to tell me how to incubate them Lol! :-D

I've lost internet twice so far, due to t-storms in the area, so if I disappear mid-post, that's why.

I feel your pain

Is it dark where y'all live

not right now, how about you?

Sorry for the late reply but 3 of my graduate student came to me and gave me some presents of Acknowledgements from all of my class, for the 2 years they study with me. It is very emotional for me. So I can say that it was a good day. The vaction is till the 1 0f September.

Awesome!! That has got to feel good.

Yes it is, I got in my long career a lot of Acknowledgments from principals and school inspectors abaout the good job and all the blabla bla, it is never Never interested me or moved me, but when I got it from my Graduate student, that basically don't owe me nothing it is always emotional because I know that it is a TRUE appreciation!

[COLOR=FF0000]Congratulations! I feel the same way - I've gotten various teaching awards and such, but one of my favorites was when, at the end of the gastrointestinal module, the students presented me with a homemade scarf that one of them had made from felt to resemble the human GI tract. Best part is the little gallbladder hanging off in the middle... [/COLOR] [COLOR=FF0000] [/COLOR] HAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAaa do you still have it? pics?

just read a bit on that, so they can get from a roo that has it, and the roo can get from hens, so ditch the roo for sure? and pull out any sick, make sure there are no internals or externals around them. sounds like mosquitoes can spread and other biting insects

I asked him some questions on email (including what to do re: the NNs in there with the CLs who started living with them at 4 weeks), and he emailed me back and confirmed my impression (so helpful!). It's common to be exposed in most flocks (folks just don't know it), and incidence of clinical disease is very low. I could have an ALV-free flock if I destroyed EVERYTHING and started over with CERTIFIED ALV free eggs. But it seems that it's hard to find certified free sources, and most folks don't do that, and the REAL key is to prevent exposure to infection really early in life, during incubation or from a hatch mate (so, not hatch from affected birds with tumors and lots of virus - and not let those babies be with other babies if you do), because they end up tolerant, don't develop antibodies, and are likely to get tumors - in other words, babies from Paula and their hatch mates are all very high risk to not only get tumors but to be viremic for the rest of their lives if they don't. (So, important for those who hatch - this would be an advantage to hatching and brooding separately if you thought some eggs might be affected), So - probably culling the CL pullets in that group (once I work up to it). On the other hand, birds exposed after about age 12 weeks are likely to just develop antibody, clear the virus, and not pass it to eggs per Merck Manual. (Same for older males mating and getting exposed). So, I am fortunate that I have kept groups separate as they have grown. The question is the two Naked Necks that have lived with the affected CLs since age 4 weeks. The way he put it, hopefully they were old enough to have developed an immune response, depending on their level of genetic resistance, in which case the infection would be shut down and eliminated. There is a risk there, but there is not a high risk of them infecting Tank in a way that would lead to him being ill, since he's so much older. He also said that eventually, even if I did NOTHING, the disease would be reduced to a small percentage that would be an annoyance, nothing more. I still have rearranged plans to figure out, but LOVE the Poultry Diagnostic Lab!!!!

hmmmm I see why your brain is on OT....

OK, this is a test to see if I can post a spoiler photo. I'll post something funny (in case it doesn't hide):

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

- Ant Farm

LOL

It worked! Thanks so much for the tips, y'all! OK, here are the necropsy photos. BTW, I paraphrased the vet pathologists comments because I didn't want to post exactly what he said without his permission. So any mistakes I may have made in the process of paraphrasing are mine... - Ant Farm

thumbs up, very interesting

Life seems to keep on going, how bout you? Your pain pass?

Nah. She's still laying beside me and the kids just won't leave no matter how many times I lock em out.

oh Billy!

330 bales off the field and 175 stacked now the boys want to light some fireworks....later if I can keep my eyes open after the pyrotechnics display.

work work work! glad its stacked! how was the fireworks?

I am so confusedededed, reading back through last night, is it ok if I just skip to the goodmornings of a new day? I think I missed the party again or something.

Party? I was in bed by 11:00 !

You could have a bed party. ........

x2

Sorry for the late reply but 3 of my graduate student came to me and gave me some presents of Acknowledgements from all of my class, for the 2 years they study with me. It is very emotional for me. So I can say that it was a good day. The vaction is till the 1 0f September.

Congratulations, based on the knowledge that you share here I am sure it is well deserved.

Thank you very much!

Benny!!!! you told me you never got a gift from a student!!! hmmmm maybe we were talking about two different gifts lol

I don't think any birds incubate at 102. http://modernfarmer.com/2015/04/how-to-incubate-chicken-eggs/ The last question I can't answer but you could be right. That's a lot of work. Now just be ready to put out any fires.

No worries it was really dry and we salted it.

salted? what do you mean salted? sorry no farmer here

what is tators.I mean the turtle eggs

They go with the carrots and onions in the pan below the chicken with a beer can in it's butt, on the grill. The turtle eggs, dang, I thought I had problems with vegan predators, now your saying meat predators are going to dig up my garden right next to my chickens!

I didn't say anything about your floors, although I do like them. People pay good money to own floors that look like that, and you already have them

X2, I thought the multi-colors looked pretty cool, bet someone paid big $$ for that floor. Our 100+ yr old house has wood floors, only in two rooms right now, pretty cool, full length boards, don't usually see that, 15' long in both the dining room and living room.

If it stays 2 F off through the range then it should read about 102. Incubation should be 99.5 in a forced air and 100.5 in a still air reading at the top of the eggs. Be careful, I had a mercury thermometer from an incubator company that shall remain unnamed that was accurate at 75 and 2 degrees off at 100.

I always tell people you can not calibrate a thermometer using just the ice water method and expect absolute accuracy at incubation temps. I work at a dairy plant, all calibrations for the HTST's are done with state certified glass mercury thermometers, pasteurization temps are done with a hot water bath for the probes, the cold side is done with ice bath, BOTH with a state certified glass mercury thermometer to boot. Calibrations if possible should be done as close to the temp desired as possible, IMHO of course. Kinda hard to do at incu temp though.

GOOD Post ABOVE!!!

I never NEVER take any gifts offered me in the middle of the schooling period. But AFTER the matriculation exams if the want to give me a token to remind them It is an honor for me. That what I got from them on the right it is the all classes gifit. It is a glass sign with the "10 Benny's principsl" they collected 10 humorous sentence that I have told them in class. And in the left it is a personal gift from 3 of them that wanted to be more personal.