Onion and Incubation...I know sounds weird

[ChickensAreSweet]

It all sounds interesting but I'd not want the poor baby chick to have to breathe in the onion fumes. It makes my eyes water...what might it do to the baby?

I would think it might cause irritation.

 

[demerson]

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[KrisH]

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[stormylady]

The Medicinel (sp) properties of the onion are all probably true. But I'm not sticking it in the Bator! Don't get me wrong I love onions, baked, fried, sauted but I just don't think I would like the smell of it slow cooking in 100% temp for a week. Just not happening ! LOL

Now after the chicks are hatched and they're in the brooder I might be persuaded to cut one in half put it in a butter bowl to use that way it might be ok.

 

[billiejo21]

Just because something is not mainstream, or not done by most people, doesn't mean it's not effective. I believe in alternative medicine practices and have used them effectively most of my life...so just because not everyone is sleeping with an onion next to their bed, doesn't mean it doesn't have benefits!

However, cutting one and putting it in your bator...I have no clue! I imagine it probably wouldn't hurt anything...might be smelly.....

 

[rarely bored]

I'm all for natural remedies but in a clean, well kept incubator there is no need for a remedy. Might be an interesting experiment on slow cooking an onion though.

 

[RareBreedFancier]

I don't think the baby chicks would like it much, they'd be marinading in onion smell for 3 weeks.

In the brooder maybe, it has air flow and they can get away from it if they don't like it (stinging eyes anyone?) but I wouldn't put it in my 'bator.

I know my hens don't like onion and will ignore it if I put it in their pen with the veggie peelings and they won't scratch it up or eat the tops when it's growing in my veggie garden. Since they avoid it I wouldn't force baby chicks to be in close contact with it.

 

[stormylady]

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My thoughts exactly.
Except maybe the part about my hen don't like onions. LOL I've never even tried to give my raw onions, but they don't have a bit of problems scarffing down all the leftovers that have onion in them cooked.

The brooder is a different story though, if it kills virus's and what have you it probably wouldn't be a bad idea, God knows it gets dirty and Dusty in there in a quick hurry. But it would seem that I have a bigger problem with that then the chicks, maybe I should try putting a cut onion on my night stand , I might help!

 

[Ariel301]

I believe in and practice a good deal of "alternative" medicine, but the "onion sucks diseases out of the air" theory is a myth left over from the Middle Ages when people didn't understand disease and though that many illnesses were caused by poisonous vapors. They would see that a cut onion sitting on a table would turn colors, and somehow began associating that with it sucking up sicknesses. It doesn't. Studies have been done on it. However, onion and its relatives have many medicinal benefits if taken internally.

An onion left in a warm, humid incubator for 3 weeks...sounds like a good way to grow mold and other nasties.

 

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