Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[seabreeze]

Pink Chick, I looked at it too and watched the meteorologist on local news last night and they talked about it weakening quite a bit before it hit landfall but it will hit very hard in western WA, is that where you are at? Right now its cloudy and sunny here, supposed to be nice and in the 60s for Friday and Saturday but who knows? Oregon weather changes in a matter of minutes as I am sure WA weather does as well.

I am soooooo ready for spring to catch up to the solstice!!

 

[pinkchick]

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Yep I'm in western WA and it has rained all morning here at my house but when I go down into town or hit the I-5 toward Portland where I have to work today I bet it is nicer than it is up here. I live in the foothills of Mt. St. Helen's and the weather at my house changes and sometimes worse than 20 miles to town or we have sunshine and town doesn't.

 

[Keara]

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Do you candle? I had a hard time with my eggs so far; too dark to see with the light I have. I found that the only way to judge development was to look at the aircell. No aircell = no development. I wait til day 10 to look for the aircell. Keep me updated!

Keara, sometimes no air cell can happen with too much humidity. Don

So I was wondering about this, too much humidity thing. Would all the eggs show no aircell if the humidity was too high, or maybe some eggs are just more porus and prone to drowning?

 

[snowbird]

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Keara, sometimes no air cell can happen with too much humidity. Don

So I was wondering about this, too much humidity thing. Would all the eggs show no aircell if the humidity was too high, or maybe some eggs are just more porus and prone to drowning?

I think you are right as the more porus will let more water in. I only candle before they go in the incubator to look for cracks. Don

 

[HenThymes]

Hi everyone, me again with the jacked up cuckoo hatch from last Novembr.

Wanted to share a picture of the brown chick that hatched. I have no idea what color he would be considered (he is a nice red/brown) but I really like him allot. I think he is going to very attractive when he is finished.

They are 4-1/2 months old now.

 

[Keara]

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My limited experiance so far, has been that if I see no aircell at day 10, there is no development. I've cracked the no aircell eggs open, at day 10, and indeed nothing had developed. Would they have developed an aircell eventually, maybe? I did not leave them in to find out.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I have always assumed.... That the aircell in a developing egg is mostly the egg white being used up as the chick develops.

-Keara

 

[Keara]

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So I was wondering about this, too much humidity thing. Would all the eggs show no aircell if the humidity was too high, or maybe some eggs are just more porus and prone to drowning?

I think you are right as the more porus will let more water in. I only candle before they go in the incubator to look for cracks. Don

That sounds like good idea. I admit I do not have much experiance, and tend to spend too much time fussing over the eggs. I think it is very easy to do too much, and make this whole process overly complicated.

 

[flgardengirl]

Its been raining here too the last couple days. I've really gotta do something about drainage in some of my runs..Ugggg.

Lisa, I made a brooder something like yours. It is working out really well for the older babies. I had to put some plastic over the top to keep the rain out because I haven't got roofing on it yet. I have a couple other brooder that sit directly on the ground that I can move around but I liked the idea of using that moveable run and a brooder on legs for shade.

 

[seabreeze]

Pink, I have a pretty good idea where you are located, I attend a dog show in Mt. St. Helens every year and its sooooo beautiful up there!!

 

[math ace]

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his is from (World Organization for Animal Health- the world's leading authority on animal disease control etc.)website click on the link about THE USE OF VACCINATION AS AN OPTION FOR THE CONTROL OF AVIAN INFLUENZA It is a PDF file

http://www.oie.int/en/for-the-media...n-animal-species-by-vaccination-if-necessary/

DID I READ THE LINK CORRECTLY? IS IT their policy that BYC community needs to kill their chickens UNLESS it is possible to contaminate the industrial chicken industry ? ? ? The BYC community can be vaccinated, IF AND ONLY IF the industrial chicken community is at risk AND HIGHLY at risk? ? ?

I didn't understand what this section was saying . . .

Several recombinant fowlpox viruses expressing the H5 antigen have been developed (1, 2, 20, 21, 24) and one has been licensed and is being used currently in Mexico (22). Experimental data have also been obtained for fowlpox virus recombinants expressing the H7 antigen (3). Other vectors have been used to successfully deliver the H5 or H7 antigens, such as constructs using infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) (16).

Can some one interpret that for me ? ?