June Hatch-A-Long

[Cturber]

Day 19 under broody. Looks like we might be hatching a bit early. Closing mom in with her food, water, and babies. I am reminding myself that I will have self control and leave them alone.

 

[Hucklekree]

The Meyer saga continues. Two of the surviving ducklings have what looks like a prolapsed vent. Can I fix that? I remember prolapses with sheep and cows but that is an entirely different class of animals. For now antibiotics and supervising them is what I am capable off. Anyone have some advice?

 

[kelseyk]

Came home from helping my FIL work on the pheasant run to find 2 more LOs had hatched and 1 still pipped.....until I pulled the last 2 eggs out and noticed that one of them had pipped on the back side (the side touching the floor of the incubator). Rolled that egg over so the pip was up. Only one left is the one that I thought was a really late quitter.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

That does seem a bit long, though with Meyer being in OH it means a rather long trip too. Was there a delay along the way?

I believe, because of the pandemic, unless you ship express, everything is delayed by at least a day. That's what I have been told by the post office when waiting for eggs anyway. Express is the only one that should still be on time. (probably no guarantee about that either...)

 

[Willow2253]

Pulled one quitter, which leaves me with 16. One looked a little questionable but I left it just in case. A lot of the others were kicking pretty strong.

 

[PenguPen]

Going for my second try at hatching... started out this run with a dozen mixed breed chicken eggs given to my by a friend. Started at 3pm on June 4th... after candleing looks like I have 5or 6 that are viable.... I’m hoping for the best...

 

[FortCluck]

Anyone else here cull the chicks that aren’t up to par? Say a defect of some sort... I don’t like selling defect chicks to customers and I don’t like them in my flock because I don’t want to breed in defects

 

[FortCluck]

I believe, because of the pandemic, unless you ship express, everything is delayed by at least a day. That's what I have been told by the post office when waiting for eggs anyway. Express is the only one that should still be on time. (probably no guarantee about that either...)

I believe it depends on the company and their location. Some PO are just slow to begin with. I’m getting my myshire eggs in two days with priority.

 

[Vantic]

Anyone else here cull the chicks that aren’t up to par? Say a defect of some sort... I don’t like selling defect chicks to customers and I don’t like them in my flock because I don’t want to breed in defects

That is what I do, the customer needs a good experience. I've never heard someone say, can I have your problem chicks.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

The Meyer saga continues. Two of the surviving ducklings have what looks like a prolapsed vent. Can I fix that? I remember prolapses with sheep and cows but that is an entirely different class of animals. For now antibiotics and supervising them is what I am capable off. Anyone have some advice?

I hope Meyer will make this right for you. With the losses and problems I'd say you need a whole new shipment of ducklings. Back when I used to order from them because I lived so close they had excellent customer service and a few times we even picked the chicks up. Now though, I'm beginning to wonder about them...
I saw where the ducks are shipped from somewhere else, but still, their name is on them.