It's not an expense, it's an "investment"Only if you're paying!
Thanks, I agree, for now they are fine. But for the future, I might need some new lines. For my incubator eggs, (Midget White and chicken eggs, all were
set to hatch approximately the same couple days), when do I turn off the turner? Day 25?
Lockdown is usually done 3 days prior to the scheduled hatch date. There is considerable flexibility with this, they don't really need turning the last 1/3 of the time (so, you could stop turning them a whole week early). I often wait until 2 days before hatch to move them to the hatchers, it's just hard to get everything ready on time. I have had chicks hatch on the turners, even in the cabinet incubators where they tumble over a foot down to the bottom, and they are still fine. I got the last of the eggs moved late last night. I do the Welbars last because they are always late hatching. Guess what hatched first this week? A single Welbar was out this morning, less than 12 hours after I took it off the turner and put it in the hatcher. I'm tempted to mark this chick and see if I can breed for early hatching, but I think it's more likely this egg was laid late Thursday and sat all night and the next day under hens and started to develop before I took it and put it in the incubator.
This week has the first fertile peafowl eggs (2) of the season on lockdown. Hoping for some peachicks
There was some puss-like discharge on it when I went down to feed dropper feed him some more egg yolk. What can I do for that? I typically spray blu-kote on any injury, but it specifically says to keep away from eyes and so I didn't put anything on it. I was afraid I'd hurt him more if I messed with it so I was just watching and hoping it would heal okay without intervention, but now I think it's infected. He still seems in good spirits, still not eating or drinking independently, but up and alert and not acting sickly/in pain.
