The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[rebeccac]

TY...exiting!!!!I think I am notified by e mail. Cant wait!!

For the hatch a long I will do a good variety.... I have too many breeds to list but a few that may be of intrest are bcm, giant blue cochins and and blue isbar.....this all depends on who is laying!! I also have Sebbies, pomeranians and muscovies, blue sweeds and a few others.....

 

[ozexpat]

What should I set? I'm wanting white crested black polish.. Haha! Nobody seems to have them

http://www.odysseyranch.com/Poultry.html

these guys have them

 

[mstricer]

Mstricer, I keep a bag of Corrid powder handy to dose everyone when I suspect an outbreak. Before i did this, I lost ten, 10week old chicks in two days and an adult hen within four days of a particularly nasty outbreak. I was focussed on trying to save the rest of the chicks and didn't even notice the hen was sick until too late.

I had given the chicks medicated feed as I always do, but "forgot" they need it once they hit the ground. I'd kept them on it for eight weeks, usually by then the chicks are on the ground (out of the brooder) for two weeks or so. That batch didn't have a grow out coop ready for them until ten weeks and by then they didn't have medicated feed to help build their immunity. Really stupid on my part.

Now I also put soil and grass into their brooder (in addition to giving them medicated feed) and continue to feed them medicated feed during their segregation/integration period in their grow out coop. Plus keep Corrid on hand, just in case. I buy it at the feed store.

Does anyone know how to use this for poultry?

 

[ImpulsiveFarmer]

QUICK! I need plans for an easy to assemble bator! My husband brought home eggs (without talking to me first)

which have filled up my one and only bator! I need either a second bator or I'm going to have to set my eggs with the ones I set today. Or is it possible to hatch out two batches of eggs in one bator?

 

[RedIII]

They were both dead when I got home.

Can I get the corid from TSC? I don't need anyone else dead. I usually don't medicate, I am making batch of FF tonight. I really don't know what else What is weird is they were both in different pens, the mistake I made was to move the Araucana in with the CCL, thinking it was being bullied by the other chicks and not eating enough, that is when the CCL got sick, she only showed signs for 1 day, and was still eating early evening yesterday by night fall she looked bad and that is when I moved her. Are they too young for rooster booster?

Awww I'm so sorry

That is a horrible thing to have to find. Hope the Corid helps keep the others safe.

If I have to name a animal I slaughter I call them something that always reminds me of their destination. Our new born male goat is Stewie. Rosters get names like satay, curry, adobo. I re-use the names so not to memorialize them. the names are just to identify them as in "Is adobo ready to put in the freezer or does he need 2 weeks?" Interestingly, I dont name hens.

I had three cockerels last year I named Thighs, Drumstick, and Side of potatoes. Didn't get to taste a one of 'em. Dang predators

I with you here..I have no idea what in the world I am doing wrong with the biscuit thing! I can make bread, so many easy recipes that actually are just wonderful tasting! My biscuits..turn out too hard most times!

Cynthia, we need to do a bake trade. I can do biscuits just fine, but somehow I always end up doubling the time needed to make bread

 

[RedIII]

Look in your coops where they are..if you smell something off and not normal you need to corid the rest.

Interesting, this made me wonder something. Who else here can smell sickness? I have smelled a "sickness" smell a number of times on animals, mostly at the vet when people are in the waiting room. I have noticed that I can also smell sick on people, sometimes before they even start to come down with obvious symptoms.

 

[CayuseRanch]

QUICK! I need plans for an easy to assemble bator! My husband brought home eggs (without talking to me first)

which have filled up my one and only bator! I need either a second bator or I'm going to have to set my eggs with the ones I set today. Or is it possible to hatch out two batches of eggs in one bator?

I think it was on this thread but not sure, someone did a staggered hatch in the same bator somewhere.

 

[mstricer]

Quote: Thank you everyone, I can't believe this is happening, Ive never used medicated feed. I did find the dosage. So Cocci can kill in two days?

 

[RedIII]

Thank you everyone, I can't believe this is happening, Ive never used medicated feed. I did find the dosage. So Cocci can kill in two days?

I don't know much about how long they can survive with the Cocci going untreated, but when I found that one of my chicks had it (there was blood in her poo) I started giving them all doses of yogurt that they could eat whenever they wanted. It really helped, and so did the medicated chick crumbles I gave them. You could always give your chicks some plain yogurt to help their system. If nothing else, it's at least a good treat.

 

[DURR]

QUESTION!!! - I have tWo thermometers in my bator the glass probe that came with the bator and a new digital thermometer that I bought from walmart.

The glass therm is reading 102 while my digi is reading a staedy 99 both high and low on this therm say 99 so its steady. Should I trust my digi or the glass? ( The glass therm has already been calibrated )