The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

[Razadia]

 

You too?  I just went out and bought bleach myself because apparently, I was out as well.


Virkon is a disinfectant, virucide, fungicide and a cleaner. I have it in a 50g packet of loose powder and a bottle of 50 effervescent tablets


50g packet - $5.75ish  - 10 grams makes 1 liter of 1% solution (kills Newcastle Virus, Avian Influenza Virus)

50 pill bottle - $30   1 tablet makes 500 ml of 1% solution.

In Canada at one of our feed stores just to give you an idea so you don't waste your time if it's not something you want.


Just so you know, once mixed the Virkon solution is only stable for 7 days at room temperature. It can also burn the skin if it's in a concentrated state. One of my co-workers sat on a pail of it at work and it burned the skin on her legs. You just have to be careful. I'm quite fond of the tablets but I just about had a heart attack when I saw it in the feed store the other day. And I got my stuff from the vet. Yikes!  I've moved to this because I use my HIbitane for procedures involving wounds and for birthings in our livestock because it's non irritating to tissue. I also have new Hibitane cream for wounds...it's the bomb. But $30 a tube I think.

Yep. I don't use it as much as I used to, so I guess I just didn't notice when I ran out. I mist the insides of the tops of my styrobators with it, but I haven't hatched since last year's hal. I looked and virkon is about $22 on Amazon for 50 tablets and that's the smallest amount they sell. So not too bad. I may have to get it before the set date for a second cleaning if it's that good of a disinfectant.

That's a pretty good price!  I'll have to look into that.

The vet suggested Virkon for my brooder.  When the hog barn I worked at, started in '95, Virkon was one of the disinfectants used...and it's still on the market. The rooms were disinfected with Virkon and when dry...they were bleached.

I've only been using it since September...but so far I really like it. It'll be a staple in my supplies.

Honestly, I like the price on it better than some of the other stuff use to disinfect their incubators with. Thank you for telling me about it!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

If you get it...I'd love to hear how you like it! Good OR bad.

 

[CricketFarm]

Cricket Farm is in! We will try for coturnix and chicken eggs

 

[chickendreams24]

Oh golly, I suppose I will probably be in on this one too.... hmm, maybe it's time to give my daughter's perpetual request a try. Silkies. Hmm. The jury is still out.

Idk what your flock consists of but we have silkies with our large fowl flock also OEGB and a golden laced sebright hen. Granted most if them were raised with silkies but usually I think flocks can adjust well to silkies.

If you do decide to give them a go they're great birds especially if handled a lot as chicks. I would consider keeping two or three together especially for introducing them to the flock as they are different and could be picked on keep and eye out for that but silkies are great and some strains of them are pretty good layers. We had one silkie that we lost to a predator last year that except for being broody once that spring had layed us an egg a day all through the winter but maybe for a week or two. She was an amazing layer if course the eggs were smaller than the large fowl but they're not terribly little once they get going.

Our silkies also do well in the heat and cold despite most people saying they're delicate. They are also our only birds that winter 2015(-40* in southern Wisconsin) didn't get frost bite. Even our rose combed breeds like our SLW roo got a little frost bite that winter.

Hope this helps.

Cricket Farm is in! We will try for coturnix and chicken eggs

Wonderful another person who plans to do coturnix! What varieties/colors do you plan to do?

We are in the middle of our first ever quail hatch after we were given chicks in December from a BYC friend. I did lots of research before hand but am always liking to double check all my info.

Any helpful pointers on raising or hatching coturnix?

 

[CricketFarm]

"Wonderful mother person who plans to do coturnix! What varieties/colors do you plan to do?"
I have a silver wild one and two brown wild ones, we have only done them last year and lost most of the flock to quails disease i believe except three males so I will be incubating eggs from the farm down the road to get some ladies for them!

"We are in the middle of our first ever quail hatch after we were given chicks in December from a BYC friend. I did lots of research before hand but am always liking to double check all my info.

Any helpful pointers on raising or hatching coturnix?[/quote]"
We were so lucky in having a bantam hen go broody right as i got the eggs, so we put them under her. We were told she would kill them when they hatched and to remove her but she took are of them until they were 8 weeks old and ignoring her! All 12 hatched but we lost 4 the first night, they're incredibly daft and had stranded themselves behind the nest box and died of cold they are so so so much tinier than we expected so make sure there isnt any places they can get stuck! Theyre like the size of bumblebees when they are born. Waterer had to be super shallow, we ended up using a rabbit waterer to keep them dry. I also highly highly recommend giving each male his own space and girls, they will fight to the bloody death over women. I was surprised how vicious and rapey they were to be honest they make the sweetest sound though <3 good luck!

 

[Cynthia12]

Okay, I'm in. Who can resist baby chicks on Easter?

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh I wish I knew what kind of chick this is!

It looks like a bantam of some breed doesn't it? Cute.

 

[Cynthia12]

These are from my last hatch; hopefully more of my Silkies will be laying in time for the Easter hatch!

I love them too..I have many, similar pictures like this. Little cuties.

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh golly, I suppose I will probably be in on this one too.... hmm, maybe it's time to give my daughter's perpetual request a try. Silkies. Hmm. The jury is still out.

 

[Cynthia12]

Cricket Farm is in! We will try for coturnix and chicken eggs