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[BullChick]

I ordered hatching eggs, brown Leghorn and I think I was sent pullet eggs. I have read not to hatch pullet eggs because the chickens and eggs are always on the small size. Is this true n

They may be born small, but they will grow to normal size.
Pullet eggs just might not have enough room for the chick to grow, and may not have a yolk. No yolk just means it's born hungry.

 

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[kwhites634]

Quote: Y'all still gettin' hammered down there?

 

[kwhites634]

Another thunder boomer going on here. We need a good rain; been 24 hours since we've had any.

 

[campingshaws]

 

where campin go?    family needs me

I'm here! Was reading about my state.

Y'all still gettin' hammered down there?

Not hammered, but it's still raining places. I found a neat video... I'll see if I can link it.

Y'all heard or read anything about the Cajun navy? Hunters and fishermen from all over put boats in the water to rescue folks.

 

[campingshaws]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155075032169057

Maybe that's will work, at least for folks with Facebook.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Y'all still gettin' hammered down there?

Not hammered, but it's still raining places. I found a neat video... I'll see if I can link it.

Y'all heard or read anything about the Cajun navy? Hunters and fishermen from all over put boats in the water to rescue folks.
We've had that happen a few times around here. Seems like there's always someone needing rescued from the Potomac. It can rain for a solid week, rivers & streams way above flood stage, & some fool's gotta put a boat on the water.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Just out of curiosity, I've got 2 eggs I set on the 9th and both are developing just fine but one seems to have a LOT more veins and looks like it's bigger inside than the other. As if it had been put in days before the other. The air cell is where it needs to be on day 9 but why would one seem to be developing faster than the other?

No way to tell why unless you open all the eggs and chemically analyze them and even then it may still be a mystery.

that's good to know. My Little Leo was like the faster developed egg and he's doing just fine. He pipped on day 19 and hatched on day 20, so maybe it will be an early hatched as well. And when I turn them I make sure they aren't in the same location in the incubator as well, still in the center but rotated around in the clutch every day.

Small eggs tend to hatch early but consistently early usually means your temp is too high.

Does anyone else get homicidal about "about.com"? I type something in, it brings me there. I click on a result, it brings me to more results. I click. More results. More results ...

It never gives me an answer! Just more results.

And the answers are usually wrong.

And y'all can keep quoting poe I love it

One of the first books I read as a kid after my mom taught me to read was the Works of Edgar Allen Poe. This was before I started school. Weird kid I was.

I loved the creepy stuff. Tell Tale Heart, Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher. I had a harder time getting through the more mundane stuff.

no,not yet we had to shoot one it was like three feet from my momma Muscovy and her baby's but there is more that keep coming at night

Sounds like life on the bayou. Similar to jogging in the mountains of California and getting attacked by a mountain lion or living in the suburbs of St. Louis and not expecting chickens to be attacked by coyotes, raccoons, mink, etc..

it lasted longer, was not as bad as a bit south from here, major lighting and wind

your very welcome Carol glad she made it

see comments below as well @sseabass

Carol, for future reference, when you see the membrane this red and functioning yet, please wait a tad longer to assist. Its hard judgement but you can learn in time. This is what a membrane will look like, the veins and membrane will get very thin

As far as the yolk bubble, that is from assisting too soon, but she should be ok.... see this link NAVELS She HATCHED! But what's with her butt? post #25012

JUST BREAK THEM OUT< ALL OF THEM CRACK THEM OPEN HATCH THEM muwahhahhahhaaaa

they should be cooked by now no?

Or keep one's hands off and let them hatch on their own.

I'm feeling like we've had a tough year birds wise, but my husband assures me that we really haven't. We've lost 4 adult hens that were some favorites in there, one fell from rafters, one fell in the old feeder, and two died I believe due to something they ate or maybe being egg bound but they had no real symptoms and later we found milkweed and tiger Lillie's where they were hanging out so I think that that's why... We lost one of 7 chick we bought, the next morning it was dead and of the 109? chicks we hatched we had three cross beaks that didn't make it ... And anything I didn't assist hatch because it seems they were prone to it and assist hatching seems to be the catalyst... And we lost the one that got scalped... We had one get plucked around the head and had to be separated from his age group, one has sort of a thick leg now from a band issue and one hen had what's it called... That thing with the foot scab you have to treat... Anyway that's been this years sort of

Does that seem excessive as far as catastrophes :-/ we have about 100 birds that are fine but still I feel bad basically anytime an animal isn't well. Also my rooster is molting lol and totally looks rediculious.
Anyway on the up side I hatched a lot of healthy chicks that are growing up well and we've even found homes for some of the cockerels and sold lots of pullets and straight run chicks and everyone seems to be getting along just fine... I am really looking forward to next years mixs with some of these mixes mixed in I think we will get quite the mix. We did manage to hatch a cockerel of a breed we have a lot of pullets of and we can't wait to breed him... Lots of ups and downs... Oh also we are slow on our garden but got some recent rain and it looks like it's starting to produce!

It's always hard to lose birds. 10% is considered normal. Falling from the rafters is confusing me. Perhaps it was ill already. Chickens don't behave like humans and predators don't respect your property.

Which is better to do. Let eggs hatch in incubator and then give the chicks to a broody or give the broody the eggs for lockdown and hatch?

Give the eggs to the broody as soon as possible. Adding chicks can be a gamble.

Interesting link, but what's not mentioned is what "grade" infections it was successful on. Has anyone ever successfully treated a grade 4, 5, 6 or 7 with it?



Source: http://hari.ca/avian-care/health-monitoring/symptoms-treatment-bumblefoot-parrots/

-Kathy

I wouldn't expect it to do anything for grade 6 or 7 and possibly not even 5. But hopefully people would notice their bird had a problem by grade 4.

There was a police officer in Sunnyvale, CA (Sunnyvale Public Safety) that loaded her shotgun with the shells backwards!

-Kathy

Not sure how that is possible.
As @Akrnaf2 says - idiots with guns.
In the video, how is it that no one that was supposed to be teaching, explain how to hold a rifle, shotgun or handgun?

Breakfast is a way to fill the time between supper & lunch; not a career.

Breakfast needs to contain quality protein and be eaten within 20 minutes of awakening.
All the protein in the system from previous night's dinner is used up by then.
Not having protein for breakfast causes fluctuating blood sugar which causes people to seek out sweet things and carbs.

@DwayneNLiz

That coop has something funny going on.in just learned this. This will be the 4th bird to get sick. 3 others have died. I am stumped as what is going on with them.

No poo, either. Only 1 coop affected.

With that track record, you have to get lab work to determine the problem. Otherwise, you'll likely continue to lose birds.
What state are you in? A necropsy is in order.

Everyone i step away you guys get 100's of post ahead.
Anyways hope everyone's day is good....I'm kinda down as i spent most of yesterday running around.
Drs visit was a bust....i feel lazy today.
In supposed to go out fishing Kings in Fairport later today....i guess they are getting some over 30 lbs...if it happens I'll get pics.

Don't feel like the lone ranger. I find something to comment on and before I can get back I'm another 20 pages behind.

It's actually pretty tasty

I liked it too.

That sort of leg problem could be Marek's, but it's not common to have so many drop dead from Marek's so close together. Still possible, just not that common. Other diseases and/or vitamin deficiencies could also cause it.

-Kathy

I don't know. Mortality can be up to 100% and increasing gradually for several weeks.

One of my sister's early boyfriends was sitting on the ground, resting against a tree, shotgun in his lap, squirrel hunting when he shot himself in the foot! A couple of fries short of a Happy Meal, that one.

Make's one wonder about their sister's choices. My oldest sister made 2 bad choices. She's still with the second one.