The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

[Cynthia12]

Ok, I wondered what these would turn out to be like. My Bubba.. a RIR rooster, and my white silkie make cute babies..so far, red. This one has some grey in it, down the back of it's neck..hmm? The feet are soooo feathered! And it has that cute silkie tail bump..cute. Got mostly dads coloring though.
I have one in there that is pipped..bet it's red too.
Bubba is gone, but I have several of his eggs in from a pure RIR hen, those will be fun. I won't be buying RIR hatching eggs this yr. or buying one from the feed store. Love having the RIR in they yard.

 

[chickendreams24]

I think it was Moderator Wynette that posted about impacted crops being a digestion issue and often it is from worms. If they had mites, they likely had worms too.

Worm the entire flock. Wasine and then valbazen or valbazen both times.

Okay hey everyone here's another update on Jasmine she is still in her doctor crate without food, she has had water and been offered a bit of grit, since we haven't seen her eat what was offered. We have been going back and forth between impacted and doughy crop. Tomorrow we will be getting the missing ingredients we need to make the doughy crop remedy. Today in case it would help we gave her 2 stool softener gels(the meds inside) with 1 cc of baby carrots. She took it with little fight and has been receiving several crop massages a day. Tomorrow we are planning on doing the first wave of mite attacking and I'm hoping it all goes well.

In the mean time Jasmine's crop is smaller than it was(used to be about the size of a small-medium peach and is now down to a ping pong ball or so) It also feels as though it is much less doughy. There has still not been a smell coming from Jasmine's beak. I'm hopeful but still worried.

We have been thinking about it and would like to worm the flock but want to be sure that it is something that is fda approved. How long are the withdrawal periods for the wormers you mentioned?
How long after the dusting should we wait to work them?
Will we still be able to collect and hatch egg for the hatch-a-long if we worm them this week?
I'm also guessing we have to wait until Jasmine's crop is empty ideally?

CONGRATS what kind????? 

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@jaide
I have the forced air digital one from farm and fleet and I love my bator. That's so sweet of your DH to get you that. I cant say about the still air as i dont have one of those. Keep an eye out though BC last year we got the digital forced air one with a turner for 79 I think it was. Lol I'm seriously thinking of asking my DH2B to get me another this year. lol

 

[nate1the1great1]

Oh boy, I can't wait to see your babies.  I love NN's and SG's..with bow ties. 

I can't wait either...

 

[butterfliesdoku]

I love it's little feathered foot! Soooo cute!

 

[NaJoBeLe]

How did you add the fan.
I would dry hatch and move on 18 days to the LG for hatching.

It was a kit from I think incubator warehouse. It appears to be pretty much the same one as comes on the LG9300. came with the fan, screws to attach it, random assortment of washers and spacers, and the electrical plug. pretty easy install.

 

[nate1the1great1]

I AM READY!!!! Lol here is what I have( left to right).. Digital still air incubator, Circulated incubator, Cage cups for show, leg bands for my show birds, Amprol 128 coccidiosis antibioctic, my inciminating pipettes fro the show birds for breeding, Tek troll concentrate so I can mix with water to spray the incubators or anything ( it's a disynfectant) Tek tell aerosol can, so I can spray eggs, Q tips, flock fuel, and catalogs,books, and other booklets... I have more in my cabinets, but that's just medicine like vetrx, tetracycline, chick probiotics, and Vaseline. I think I am going a little overboard... Nope, no such thing as overboard ?

 

[TJordan]

I AM READY!!!! Lol here is what I have( left to right).. Digital still air incubator, Circulated incubator, Cage cups for show, leg bands for my show birds, Amprol 128 coccidiosis antibioctic, my inciminating pipettes fro the show birds for breeding, Tek troll concentrate so I can mix with water to spray the incubators or anything ( it's a disynfectant) Tek tell aerosol can, so I can spray eggs, Q tips, flock fuel, and catalogs,books, and other booklets... I have more in my cabinets, but that's just medicine like vetrx, tetracycline, chick probiotics, and Vaseline. I think I am going a little overboard... Nope, no such thing as overboard ?

Wow! That's more than I had to start.

 

[nate1the1great1]

Wow! That's more than I had to start.

Lol I spent a lot of money, so it better improve everything...

 

[nanasacres]

Speaking of which, I should update on the 5 egg hatch I just did...
Out of the five eggs to hatch from last weekend; two hatched (they are my avatar pic), one chick had internally pipped then died and two had died prior to hatching day because they were wet and didn't appear ready at all.

One of the eggs that didn't make it WAS one of the eggs with a rolling air cell that ended turned into a saddle air cell. But I should have marked everything on the eggs as I was candling at the time so I knew them apart. I've decided to make a list of different things I want to note on the eggs instead of the X on the egg so I can keep track.


Here's the two chicks from last weekend with 2 - 3 week old OEGBs chicks that I put in with them.
(The OEGBs are SO tiny and SO cute...lol)



It was mentioned earlier about thermometer? I'm loving the glass tube floating thermometers for aquariums. I just bought a third one. They're a bit harder to read, but they're small enough to put just about anywhere and they won't hurt a chick if the chick gets on it or if the thermometer falls on them, it handles the environment beautifully AND they're super cheap. The two previous ones are accurate with the outdoor thermometers I calibrated. The ones I bought also have a suction cup so I've got one mounted on the underside of the glass window of my incubator lid. They've helped me to determine that there are no hot or cold spots in the incubator. I'm considering dropping one into a pudding cup of water to give an idea of the internal egg temperature.

Great Nate has another great idea!

Thanks and congrats with the hatching.

 

[Penny Hen]

WONDERFUL NEWS

Even better when I went to let out the chickens from the coop I had an egg! The first in weeks!