"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[luvmychicken]

Wow. Sorry y'all had so much rain. Hope everything turns out ok. On a brighter note. For every 1 inch of rain is equal to 12 inches of snow. Then you still end up with flooding when it melts. I live in Louisiana now but grew up in Illinois. I will take the rain any day.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Good morning everyone? Everyone ok?


Here is a pic of what some of my chicken yard looks like. I wish I could pour sand over all of my chicken yard. :/

 

[La Mike]

Yep all mine are a sloppy mess to Julie

Hope everyones doing good and properly installed floaties on all your chickens

 

[catdaddyfro]

I unloaded a truck load of sawdust in all my slop-holes yesterday and going to get me another to have on hand for oh about Mon. or Tue. after the next go around of rain storms. I sure wish someone would hold some of this rain back till about July or Aug when we really need it most HUH?

With all this wetness and coolness ya'll be diligent in your observations of your birds, as these conditions are the most favorable for viruses and crud to thrive in.


Jeff

 

[kuntrygirl]

Yep all mine are a sloppy mess to Julie

Hope everyones doing good and properly installed floaties on all your chickens 

It's depressing. :/

 

[kuntrygirl]

I unloaded a truck load of sawdust in all my slop-holes yesterday and going to get me another to have on hand for oh about Mon. or Tue. after the next go around of rain storms. I sure wish someone would hold some of this rain back till about July or Aug when we really need it most HUH?

With all this wetness and coolness ya'll be diligent in your observations of your birds, as these conditions are the most favorable for viruses and crud to thrive in.


Jeff

You are right about observing our birds. I'm most concerned about the turkeys. I will be keeping a close eye on them. They slept on top of the chicken coops the night it rained so much. Last night I did notice that they realized that sleeping in the rain was not a good idea because the majority of them went in the coops and chicken stalls. I was surprised to see so many turkeys that opted OUT of sleeping in the hard rain. I guess turkeys are not as dumb as people say.

 

[mzstre]

Good morning! I am SO happy to look out the window and see NO rain!!! I've been catching up on posts, and it looks like everyone is dealing with the wet nastiness. Sawyer, I am sorry to hear about your coop. I hope you can get it repaired without too much trouble. I sure am glad your chicks are ok.

I need some info about putting sand in my runs please! Julie - did you dig out some of the dirt before putting in sand or did you just put it on top of the soil that was there? How deep did you put it? I desperately need help. My poor birds are in some nasty muck right now and it doesn't look like we're gonna have many dry days in the next week or so.

Tee - congrats on the pullet egg!

I hope everybody is drying out a bit today!

 

[mzstre]

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Originally Posted by kuntrygirl

Update on the turkey eggs in the incubator................

For those who are new to the thread or who may have forgotten about my little experiment, I have 10 turkey eggs in the incubator. 6 of those 10 were eggs that had been in my refrigerator for about 2 weeks. I decided to take them out of the refrigerator and place them in the incubator along with 4 other fresh turkeys eggs that were picked one day. Yesterday was the scheduled hatch day but the eggs started rocking, pipping, zipping and hatching on Monday (1 day early). The first eggs to hatch were the fresh eggs that were NOT in the refrigerator. However the refrigerated eggs were rocking and zipping. Tuesday morning, 1 more poult (fresh egg batch) had hatched. Tuesday evening, (7PM) the other 2 (fresh eggs - NOT the refrigerated eggs) all hatched. Around 8:00PM the first refrigerated egg was zipping open. I could see the poult's beak and he was trying to break out. At 10:00 PM the refrigerated egg/poult had hatched all the way and was 100% fine. Perfect hatch from the 1st refrigerated egg. So that made a total of 5 eggs that had hatched at that time. I couldn't see every refrigerated egg because the babies were all over the place. But the remaining refrigerated eggs that I could see appeared to be zipping still. I could see their beaks trying to break out.

When I left out for work this morning, there were still only 5 poults that had hatched. So, I still have 5 remaining refrigerated eggs in the incubator. When I get home and if the zipped eggs/poults have not hatched, I will help them out of their eggs. I have to take the hatched poults out and transfer them to their brooder. So either way, something has to be done about the zipped eggs.

So that is the update that I have so far on my experiment with hatching turkey eggs that had sat in my refrigerator for 2 weeks. Refrigerated turkey eggs DOhatch!

I love your turkey experiment! I may have to try to hatch some refrigerated eggs myself. What was the final outcome? Did the rest of the fridge eggs hatch?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Good morning!  I am SO happy to look out the window and see NO rain!!!  I've been catching up on posts, and it looks like everyone is dealing with the wet nastiness.  Sawyer, I am sorry to hear about your coop.  I hope you can get it repaired without too much trouble. I sure am glad your chicks are ok.

I need some info about putting sand in my runs please!  Julie - did you dig out some of the dirt before putting in sand or did you just put it on top of the soil that was there?  How deep did you put it?  I desperately need help.  My poor birds are in some nasty muck right now and it doesn't look like we're gonna have many dry days in the next week or so.  

Tee - congrats on the pullet egg!  

I hope everybody is drying out a bit today!

No, we didn't dig out anything. After it was built, we went to pick up the sand it we just hauled it in (in wheel barrows) and dumped it on top of the dirt ground. Just make sure you have those boards on the side and around your run to keep the sand in and from running out. I think we put in 4 inches. Some people will say 6 inches but we only put in 4. However, in the next few weeks, we will be adding more. After 2 years, I know that some sand has been washed or kicked out, so it's time to add more.

Forgot to tell everyone that cost of the sand. I only spent $20.00 on the sand. We went to pick it up in a flat bed trailer. That is a great $20.00 investment. I forgot how many "yards" of sand it was. I will have to go back and check .

 

[kuntrygirl]

Ok, here is the update on the refrigerated eggs.

ALL OF THEM HATCHED !!!!!!!!! When I got home, the one that was trying to get out was not out, so I helped him out and put him back in the incubator to dry off. I was getting nervous and decided to gently open the other eggs. Because the eggs were refrigerated, I was thinking that maybe they were too weak to break out and they were dieing in the eggs, so this is why I helped them out. WRONG DECISION!!!! I cracked them open and they were still moving around but I could tell that they needed another day or two before they were ready. I will usually leave eggs in even if they are late hatching (just in case) but I didn't do it this time and I should have. It was a mess. Some of the eggs were bleeding a bit and I just knew that I had killed them. So, in an fast attempt to save them, I cut out a few pieces of a towel and wet it with warm water and wrapped the piece of towel around them and placed them back in the incubator. I added more water in the trays to bump up the humidity. I took out the new baby and put him with the others and let him dry in the brooder. I was constantly checking the eggs with no signs of anything. I accepted the fact that I messed up and they died. I cried and layed the guilt trip on myself for being STUPID and jumping the gun.

Well, lo and behold, I woke up the next morning and 1 of them had hatched. e Throughout the day the rest of them hatched. So, I had a perfect hatch of 10 poults. The 6 refrigerated turkey eggs all hatched perfect with no problems. There are no beak issues, no leg issues, no toe issues as of now.

Here is a pic of 6 of them. 4 from the freshly picked turkey egg group and 2 from the refrigerated egg group of 6.