Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[ManueB]

So this baby appears to have the same egg yolk sac infection as the 2 Skeksis babies from last hatch. I thoroughly cleaned the incubator. Of course, maybe the bacteria was already on the eggs. But then again, none of the bantam eggs were affected. They all lay in the same spot. I just want some fully healthy Skeksis babies.

Was that lot of eggs also in contact with an egg that was broken ?

All the information I could find on omphalitis seem to exclude genetic causes. Are there any other possible explanations why the skeksis eggs would have been exposed to bacteria and not the bantam's ?

 

[no fly zone]

Was that lot of eggs also in contact with an egg that was broken ?

All the information I could find on omphalitis seem to exclude genetic causes. Are there any other possible explanations why the skeksis eggs would have been exposed to bacteria and not the bantam's ?

Not that I can think of.

Maybe I should just wait a week or so then start collecting eggs again? Although I doubt my wife would allow me to try a third time.

 

[Shadrach]

What about the allotment Fox?

There is that risk. I've only seen it a couple of times and it's very wary. The allotments, even with the low people count is still too busy for afox in daylight hours.
If she dies when she's out of the run it will be sad but there isn't much one can do. I came to terms with predation a long time ago. I do what I can to minimise the risk but you can't prevent a determined predator in most circumstances.

 

[Shadrach]

Is this really true @Shadrach ? You couldn’t get a permit to stay?
Is brexit the one and only reason you left Catalonia? How nasty.

It's a bit more complicated but basically if it hadn't been for Brexit things would have been a lot easier.

 

[Shadrach]

Not that I can think of.

Maybe I should just wait a week or so then start collecting eggs again? Although I doubt my wife would allow me to try a third time.

Do you think it's possible that you handling the eggs is the cause?

 

[Shadrach]

The new fence I was on about earlier.

Everybody was hungry.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Nice fence from what I can see there Shadrach.

 

[Shadrach]

Nice fence from what I can see there Shadrach.

It's supposed to be a type of fence we call "closeboard" here in the UK. There are supposed to be a fixed number of boards per metre of fence. She was robbed. I went and counted.
Plus, they cut the bottom of the posts so they didn't have to dig so far. A decent wind and that will be gone.

 

[no fly zone]

Do you think it's possible that you handling the eggs is the cause?

It's always possible, but I wash my hands quite a lot.

One of these babies will definitely have to be culled. The other one I think is 50/50.

 

[no fly zone]

Do they hatch early without having completeley absorbed the yolksac first? Or is it definitely an infection?

It is omphalitis.