The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[NikkiCole5]

I just use bleach water.

I use warm water and disinfectant

 

[chicken pickin]

What do you all use to clean your incubators? I have eggs due to arrive Wednesday!!!

I use soap and hot water after every use. I also use Clorox wipes or Lysol wipes to wipe down every couple of uses.

 

[NikkiCole5]

I have a question I put my ducks outside because the temperature was 70 to 85 the past several weeks, they are just under 2 months old, all they have for shelter right now is a dog kennel, it has started to rain today and was wondering if they need to be brought inside until the rain stops? Thank you!

The temperature is 50 f, I forgot to mention that.

I just went outside to check on them and I found a bloody chicken, more problems, ugh. She was bleeding from her vent, her egg is covered in blood as well, she is the lowest on the pecking order and they always pick on her, we don't have a chicken vet and I've tried the wound medicine on her, nothing helped, it has happened before. I actually did not believe she would survive this long, but she has, she just gets picked on and lays bloody eggs sometimes

 

[capper2013]

I have no idea where one should be posting this, so admin, feel free to move it as you see fit.

I have noticed that chickens don't seem to like having their backs stroked. having worked a hen farm for many years I found this at quite an early age. they seem to run away all chirpy, as if to say "clear off" (the polite version).
anyhoo, my new baby chick "bully" appears to be exactly the same, touch it's back and it runs like an Olympic sprinter, however give it a chest massage and it goes all quiet and floppy followed by a period of narcolepsy.
is there any reason that anyone knows of as to why chickens hate being stroked on their back?

 

[Ravynscroft]

I have no idea where one should be posting this, so admin, feel free to  move it as you see fit.

I have noticed that chickens don't seem to like having their backs stroked. having worked a hen farm for many years I found this at quite an early age. they seem to run away all chirpy, as if to say "clear off" (the polite version).
anyhoo, my new baby chick "bully" appears to be exactly the same, touch it's back and it runs like an Olympic sprinter, however give it a chest massage and it goes all quiet and floppy followed by a period of narcolepsy.
is there any reason that anyone knows of as to why chickens hate being stroked on their back?

Survival instincts... chickens biggest/worst predator comes down from above (hawks/eagles, etc), so their first instinct is to run from anything coming down or touching their backs... reaching to pet/scratch them from the front and going up lets them see it is not a threat/predator...

Not all chickens react this way, but many do...

 

[MonTXChickens]

8 for 8 hatched. The last one took too long getting out and glued in but I helped it out. It may not make it still but the membrane was obviously drying out. Weird because the incubator didn't get opened but the others hatched about 12 hours before I helped this one out. I couldn't be more excited and now I know my incubator is not the problem. I think I'm hooked!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

8 for 8 hatched. The last one took too long getting out and glued in but I helped it out. It may not make it still but the membrane was obviously drying out. Weird because the incubator didn't get opened but the others hatched about 12 hours before I helped this one out. I couldn't be more excited and now I know my incubator is not the problem. I think I'm hooked!

Congrats!!

 

[capper2013]

Survival instincts... chickens biggest/worst predator comes down from above (hawks/eagles, etc), so their first instinct is to run from anything coming down or touching their backs... reaching to pet/scratch them from the front and going up lets them see it is not a threat/predator...

Not all chickens react this way, but many do...

hmmm, thanks for that. it makes a lot of sense. it must be hard wired in their genetics then as this is a test tube baby (machine incubated, does not have any other chickens to teach it).
I have never found one that does like it, although I have not met all chickens I guess =8-O

 

[Happy Chooks]

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[Mama Bay]

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Thanks all!!!