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[TJ's Na-Na]

Monty - I didn't know you could do anything else but have
several different batches of eggs in there at a time.....LOL
We keep a calendar laying on the top and write "hatch dates"
on the eggs and keep each batch fairly gathered together.
Of course, what we're hatching are different enough, we know
what they are as soon as they hit the tray. So all we keep
track of is the due dates.

TJ and Pa-Pa have kept two GQFs smokin' all spring. Thankfully,
they consolidated and unplugged one of them last weekend.
Seems the season for laying-type chicks is about over, so
we're not going to hatch any more of those. Am trying to
talk him into getting rid of half of the laying birds, too.....
just keep enough to supply family and neighbors.

Gees, is raining here, too....(AGAIN).........................
Am so thankful that the birds are in the visqueen covered
greenhouses, but you still gotta "get there from here"...SQUISH...

Have a good one !

 

[HennyPennies2007]

Beth
If she is really serious...I would put some production red eggs under her.... Need to keep egg laying up....They are not selling well here now, so I can pick the ones I really want and grind up the rest for hens I guess. I am excited to get the bator going...but I love hens...hens is best!

 

[ke_ben]

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Yes, you have to date them, #2 pencil only. I figured Teach would have given that disclaimer. I also mark 'what' they are and from whom because I'm hatching everything under the sun. I'm buying some numbered legbands so that I can keep all my stinking barred birds straight too. (barrred rocks, cuckoo maran, olive eggers, penedensenca X's, and some unknown feather-footed critters!

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I tried to convince them that they really needed a guide and they wouldn't buy it.
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Grace-I agree but I haven't notice any circulation problems in this new 1502 digital, and that is using the paper mache trays (it may be just a desert thing though). I don't have the luxury of 2 'bators to work it right but I get 100% on my own (well wife's) bird eggs just by bumping up the humidity on hatch day a couple of notches. By dividing the hatching tray, I can have multiple hatch date setting at once. I had 45 hatching one day one end, and 36 set for 2 days later and double stacked in a short section of the other end.

I wouldn't recommend that though, stagger if you can by about 5 or 6 days, or even better a week if you are doing that quantity in a single hatch. I did hatch out 44 and 30 respectively, the second round had some shipped eggs. The biggest problem I have is the 2 girls at my house (wife and daughter-18), opening up the stupid thing during hatch time

even though I keep telling them that is not good.

I had 10 buff orp duck eggs in and only 7 hatched. I did an 'eggtopsy' after and the other 3 were fully developed, but the eggs may have been older and a problem too. The duck lady had just left them out with the ducks for a long time.

Now I'm addicted and everybody is giving me stuff to hatch.

 

[ke_ben]

I can tell that it takes me too long to post on this thread because by the time I read, type, my ADOS kicks in (Attention Deficit oooh a shiny thing), and post; you guys are already 30 post and 10 subjects ahead of me!

 

[quenston]

Hey everyone I hope that everyone is having a great day! I have a problem that I hope that someone here can help me with!I have a couple of my older chickens that are sick and not real sure what is wrong with them. There symptoms are wheezy breathing, sneezing and general inactivity, one of them arent eating at all and the other is eating but not near as much as it usually does! There is no discharge from there mouth or nostrils, temp seems to be fine. Could this be a respritory infection? Impacted/soured crop? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[CityClucks]

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I am looking forward to the day one of mine goes broody and I can find some Speckled Sussex eggs to put under her. Ha - but my pullets aren't even old enough to lay yet - so talk about counting chickens before they hatch! (Oh well, it's good to have a plan.)

 

[Teach97]

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Had a similiar situation...pumped with penicillan....worked for a but...got worse again...treated with something else...worked for awhile...then the bird died. Sorry...that is what happened to me. Stupid birds!


Sky is falling? "member that song about isn't cloudy all day...LIARS!!!

 

[Krysstyllanthrox]

There is no way on this soggy earth I'm going to ever get caught up on this thread... I've been away from the board for a few days. Shhh...don't tell my boss but I mostly check the board from work in the afternoon. Helps me get through the dolldrums a little bit.

 

[quenston]

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Had a similiar situation...pumped with penicillan....worked for a but...got worse again...treated with something else...worked for awhile...then the bird died. Sorry...that is what happened to me. Stupid birds!


Sky is falling? "member that song about isn't cloudy all day...LIARS!!!

Well I went and checked on them after posting this and found the hen laying on floor alive but she was suffering so I decided that the best thing to do was to end her suffering she couldnt even get up! The bird that is remaining is up and moving but seems to be getting worse, I hate to get rid of them they are not layers but I have had these birds for 6 years!!! and they have become a part of the family!!! But at the same point I dont want them to suffer anymore!!!!

 

[HennyPennies2007]

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Rain, and lots of it. A storm just rolled through.