Simulated Natural Nest Incubation~Experiment #1 So it begins....

[spaceylocust]

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[Cowpoke]

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[Cowpoke]

Hi Lisa,

Looks like just us Texas folks are online now. Did I miss Bee's summary?

 

[aussie pete]

still waiting for summary,as well ,think bee has been busy tweaking her coop

 

[RoseMarie1]

still waiting for summary,as well ,think bee has been busy tweaking her coop

Well I sure hope and pray that's it and nothing is wrong. I remember her saying something about her back sure hope she's not down!

 

[TexasLisa]

Hi Lisa,

Looks like just us Texas folks are online now. Did I miss Bee's summary?

No, I don't think Bee has made her summary just yet. She talked about getting some stuff done around the house. It is that time of year when everything needs to get done right away. I guess we just need to be patience.

Ya'll have a nice day and hope the tornadoes didn't hit in your area.

Lisa

 

[Cowpoke]

No, I don't think Bee has made her summary just yet. She talked about getting some stuff done around the house. It is that time of year when everything needs to get done right away. I guess we just need to be patience.

Ya'll have a nice day and hope the tornadoes didn't hit in your area.

Lisa

No Lisa, we just have to worry about hurricanes. I'm in the Freeport area, on the coast. How about y'all? I saw where Giddings got a hail storm. They had a chicken swap there in Giddings Saturday and I sure wanted to go, but had to work instead.

Ya'll Have A Great Day!

 

[TexasLisa]

No Lisa, we just have to worry about hurricanes. I'm in the Freeport area, on the coast. How about y'all? I saw where Giddings got a hail storm. They had a chicken swap there in Giddings Saturday and I sure wanted to go, but had to work instead.

Ya'll Have A Great Day!

I live SW of Houston in Rosenberg. I hear about tornadoes in this area, but our main concern would be hurricanes! I've been to Freeport. We took the kids down there a couple years ago on Thanksgiving. Pretty little place!

Going to get some mowing done. I love to mow but I hate to do it right now. Our front yard is full of pink, yellow, and dark purple flowers. I have let it go now for two weeks--getting kind of scraggily looking.

Have a great day!

Lisa

 

[Beekissed]

Her level was 10 when she was sent home, the pediatrician thought the level was at peak and it would be coming down from there. It would have, had she been receiving enough fluids.. that wasn't the case though. The next day she was getting yellow and sluggish, dry mouth and very few wet diapers and she just wanted to sleep.. we had a Dr apt the next morning anyway, and I knew what we were looking at, so I urged my husband to feed her as much formula as she would take, every 3 hours. So really, by the time we had that appointment, her levels probably already came down some.

She's not breastfeeding at all anymore (way to go lactation lady! Should've just let me do my thing

). Lucky for her, her momma doesn't give up easily and I'm pumping what I can. My milk came in big time, I actually pumped 4oz in one sitting this morning.. that's two feedings worth

Hoping WIC will let me get a double pump, this little manual thing is going to kill me.

In chicken hatching related stuff, I found this cool video and thought of you, Bee.

http://www.poultryhub.org/embryo

Excellent vid!! I'll be using that one in the future! Thank you, T.

 

[Zombified]

Welp. Looks like I get to start this project way earlier than I thought I would... or even wanted to.

One broody on a nest. Gold phase WH duck quit, and one of my silvers just disappeared. Her eggs are cold (nest empty for almost two days, so I don't think the eggs are even alive) and there is no sign of her anywhere. ): This is so disappointing, because Thoth was one of the favorites. I mean, because she wasn't really up to standard, I probably would have sold her or my family would have eaten her either way, but she had such a personality. She wasn't flighty like my other two WH ducks, and she had spunk. She was definitely the oddball of the group.

Anyways, Bee, I have a styrofoam box, filled with dirt, and leaves and feathers on top. My Mallard(the only broody one) was kind enough to lend me a few of her eggs and some of the softer feathers from her nest. I have a heating pad over the eggs, but there are two sun-warmed bricks on either side holding the heating pad so that it isn't laying on the eggs. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I remember you mentioning that you had better success when the heating pad wasn't actually touching the eggs.

I don't have an available thermometer, so I'm using my hand. No spray bottle (what the heck kind of home doesn't have a spray bottle?! My home) but I did take a slightly wet washcloth and kind of wrang it out over the eggs. They didn't get soaked, but each egg had a few good-sized drops on it. The heating pad I have does turn off automatically (ugh) but when I get the money, I'll buy a better one. This is going to have to do for now. It doesn't shut off every two hours or anything, just if it gets "too hot." I don't know what temperature that is. But I go to sleep pretty late and wake up pretty earlier anyways, so if it does turn off at night, it's unlikely the eggs will get more than a couple of hours of colder temperatures.

Any other advice you have?