setting eggs in january....

[johnskoi]

thank you

 

[Yoda]

John which dog did you lose? I am so sorry for your loss

 

[DylansMom]

major screw up on my part ... i had the broody silkie hens ...had silkie hens with chicks ... combined them and then set the pea eggs under them ...a little grabass ensued, but things seemed okay ... one of my dogs had sudden gran mal seizures and the birds were not a primary point of concern at that point ... the er vet's thought they could save her .. ended up just prolonging the suffering ... preliminary necropsy shows a massive brain tumor .. waiting for the final report....

back to the pea eggs... they all crapped out ... still have the eggs --i'll probably open them up today ... have more growing in the bators... not sure how i'll handle the final week at this point .. may give the silkies another shot, but do it right his time if i do it...

So sorry for your loss!

 

[johnskoi]

thank you both .... yoda -- it was Nayteh -- the one i call Bean --- she was the one who was stand offish ( i always said she was never quite right from day 1 (meant in a funny, but loving way)) ... that being said, all 3 of my dogs liked Yoda (suprisingly, even Bean who liked almost no one) ... the other two had Yoda trained in minutes with regards to the cookie jar....lol

yoda, how are your eggs doing?

 

[frenchblackcopper]

johnskoi, as fellow dog lovers here I can relate to your loss. Very sorry for you. But about your peafowl eggs. Can you tell me what diet or analysis of the feed they are on, or was on before these eggs was laid? I experienced the same difficulties with "quitters" this last season with the exception of two breeding pens that were fed a different diet and the results of their hatchrates was huge in comparison.

 

[johnskoi]

johnskoi, as fellow dog lovers here I can relate to your loss. Very sorry for you. But about your peafowl eggs. Can you tell me what diet or analysis of the feed they are on, or was on before these eggs was laid? I experienced the same difficulties with "quitters" this last season with the exception of two breeding pens that were fed a different diet and the results of their hatchrates was huge in comparison.

thank you fbc,

it wasn't so much the eggs that were quitters as it was the hens who were/weren't sitting on them lol .... with silkies, they have have a tendency to sit on the first eggs they see when they come back to the nest and pull in anything they can around them, once they're comfortable -- if they're comfortable, they don't go searching for the 'harder to reach eggs' which i think is what happened... i had silkie eggs under them as well --- next time, it'll be ONLY pea eggs ....nothing's changed with their feed .... it's always been and will most likely continue to be free access to both purina's game bird starter and gb maintenance ... they also get plenty of bread and VERY frequent table scraps ....

 

[Yoda]

thank you both .... yoda -- it was Nayteh -- the one i call Bean --- she was the one who was stand offish ( i always said she was never quite right from day 1 (meant in a funny, but loving way)) ... that being said, all 3 of my dogs liked Yoda (suprisingly, even Bean who liked almost no one) ... the other two had Yoda trained in minutes with regards to the cookie jar....lol

yoda, how are your eggs doing?

Awe poor little beansie

Yes they had me at hello LOL I have 13 due to hatch on Saturday. I will post here as to what hatches out.

 

[johnskoi]

fbc --- i should have added that they also get a lot veggies that are in season ... in addition to what i may grow here (mostly tomatoes and pumpkins), i'm in a fairly rural section of long island that has a lot of farming and farmstands that i'll pick up random treats -- corn by the sack being one of their favorites ... they also get black oil sunflower seeds about twice a week and get dry cat food daily...

yoda -- they're your babies, why not start a new thread and we'll let this one fade out?