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[Alaskan]

We're headed down south this morning, going to go pick up an old treadle sewing machine.

3 buckeyes just went into the Styrobator hatcher. They should hatch Tuesday. BF isn't pleased. I forgot I'm traveling for work Tuesday and Wednesday.
4 turkeys left with another week to go, and 2 duck eggs also in the Brinsea with 3 weeks left to go.

I ended up buying the treadle machine. It was made in March 1905 and needs a bit of cleaning up but everything moves freely.

I love old stuff like that... and they are so well built that they can almost sew through iron! (well, OK, that is a bit of an exaggeration... but they can go through layers of denim much more easily than modern machines)

 

[Alaskan]

I will NOT use antibiotics or whatever....

but one of my shipped eggs... hatched out a chick with a bent over neck.

From my research, I am thinking that maybe a vitamin dosage for a week might work well???

However, there is argument about maybe Poly-Vi-Sol has the wrong dosages... and isn't as good as other stuff...


is there a consensus as to what I should use? Or what is most efficacious? Or, should I just give it up and cull???

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yeah. First buckeye chickens...Next thing you know women will try to be president. I can totally understand your bf's frustration.

Well, Bama, it doesn't help that I'm kinda his boss. At work, kinda, too, although he reports to my boss, but I assign him work.

I will NOT use antibiotics or whatever....

but one of my shipped eggs... hatched out a chick with a bent over neck.

From my research, I am thinking that maybe a vitamin dosage for a week might work well???

However, there is argument about maybe Poly-Vi-Sol has the wrong dosages... and isn't as good as other stuff...


is there a consensus as to what I should use? Or what is most efficacious? Or, should I just give it up and cull???

I use the powder stuff in water, but I had to cull mine. If I had to do it all over again, I'd cull now versus trying to fix it.

 

[Alaskan]

oh

I gotta say.... these Leghorn eggs are disappointing

 

[bamadude]

Scg: your HR department has failed you.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Scg: your HR department has failed you.

It's a really long story.

 

[ronott1]

I will NOT use antibiotics or whatever....

but one of my shipped eggs... hatched out a chick with a bent over neck.

From my research, I am thinking that maybe a vitamin dosage for a week might work well???

However, there is argument about maybe Poly-Vi-Sol has the wrong dosages... and isn't as good as other stuff...


is there a consensus as to what I should use? Or what is most efficacious? Or, should I just give it up and cull???

I can't find it now but there was a post about wry neck--it's causes and etc. One conclusion was that poly vi sol without iron is the best thing to try. Give the chick a drop on the beak three times a day for the first couple of days and then twice a day until the symptoms are gone.

Of course you could just cull now--I would not wait more then several days for it to get better.

 

[Alaskan]

yeah... I can't decide, since I wanted these to be BREEDER birds....

from what I was able to google, it is either a vitamin thing or a genetic thing..... so, I dunno

This hatch is SUPER disappointing so far.... but there are still a bunch of eggs in there... so I should still keep getting chicks today, and maybe even a few tomorrow....

 

[ronott1]

yeah... I can't decide, since I wanted these to be BREEDER birds....

from what I was able to google, it is either a vitamin thing or a genetic thing..... so, I dunno

This hatch is SUPER disappointing so far.... but there are still a bunch of eggs in there... so I should still keep getting chicks today, and maybe even a few tomorrow....

It can also be a brain injury--not as likely for leghorns though.

 

[Alaskan]

nah... and the chick just hatched... sometime last night or this morning... they are all still in the incubator...

And it is a styrobator.. no risk of falling etc.