~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[foxvalleyfarm]

Definitely not a silkie cross. Legs are orange. They would be black if it was mixed with silkie. If it's a frizzle the feather tips will soon start to flip outward. You will be able to tell within about a week when wing feathers start to cpme in well.

So what's up with the feathers looking so stringy. The other her age has normal looking feathers.

 

[chicken pickin]

If the rooster was the Silkie and he mated with a any breed hen that is white skinned/yellow legged then the offspring is a sexlink. Males being white skinned and yellow legged and females being black skinned/black legged. Also I believe both parents would also need to be carrying the silkied gene for the chick to get 2 copies and be silkied. But don't hold me to this Im not too good with genetics but I am trying to learn.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

If the rooster was the Silkie and he mated with a any breed hen that is white skinned/yellow legged then the offspring is a sexlink. Males being white skinned and yellow legged and females being black skinned/black legged. Also I believe both parents would also need to be carrying the silkied gene for the chick to get 2 copies and be silkied. But don't hold me to this Im not too good with genetics but I am trying to learn.

Interesting. Well I have no idea on the parents so everything is just a guess. But that would be am interesting thing to try.

 

[SilkieSensation]

If the rooster was the Silkie and he mated with a any breed hen that is white skinned/yellow legged then the offspring is a sexlink. Males being white skinned and yellow legged and females being black skinned/black legged. Also I believe both parents would also need to be carrying the silkied gene for the chick to get 2 copies and be silkied. But don't hold me to this Im not too good with genetics but I am trying to learn.

No clue on the sex-linked skin color but silkie feathers are recessive & require both parents to be carrying the silkie gene even if they are not showing it. So, you can get silkied chicks from smooth parents but only if they both carry a silkie gene & both pass it to the baby.

 

[Math]

I mist the walls with water. And I have two sponges in containers with water.

good idea i have a air pump hooked up to a air stone in my water container now that keeping the humidity around 43%-57% right now so getting the humidity to 75%-80% shouldn't be an issue with your system combined with mine  

Yeah. I believe it will work. Have you got about a week until lockdown?

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

You are probably right about it not fully mattering if the eggs are upright or on their sides. I have received them both ways also but never documented if one way seemed to do better then the other. I do feel like upright would keep the aircell positioned where it is supposed to be though.

I realize it's a very small 'n', and I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I did document which eggs were positioned how with both shipments - as I unpacked them, I placed each in a clean plastic carton (unused), sitting open on a tray, in the position they came from the box. Sidewise positioned eggs were placed in the lid on their sides. Then I took the tray to the downstairs bathroom (no windows) and candled them, traced the air cells and noted within the air cell area which were mobile. The only rolling air cells I found were in upside-down eggs, but NOT ALL upside down eggs had rolling air cells - two I could not ascertain an air cell at all. The ones on their sides tended to have 'saddle shaped' air cells - but again, not all - some were normal. I blotted off the eggs that were soiled by the albumen from the crushed egg and set them anyway; I've had hens hatch eggs they've soiled with a broken one, so I'll keep my fingers crossed!

I have a pretty good idea about postal handling; both how it's supposed to happen and how it does - I was a clerk/carrier for several years long ago. (I'm MUCH better now!). This is why I take all parcels to the PO instead of calling for pick-up, and request 'call for pick-up' on fragile items; delivery carriers are the most likely to sling it around. A Priority carton with the label on top will be moved about on a roller conveyor, and loaded onto an APC (the metal wheelie cages) from that conveyor. That APC is only unloaded at sort facilities and at the destination PO, where for *their* efficiency, it is handled with the label up, minimizing the chances for it to be handled in awkward positions - not that it isn't done anyway when some employee just *has* to fit one more box in the APC. The APC is the shipping container that also goes on the airplane and into the semi trailer.
Not to be confused with parcel post, where the conveyors are motorized and the boxes fall off the end several (up to 12 last I knew) feet into canvas wheelie bins...

My observation would be that the shredded paper provides a much more secure packaging system for the (small bubble wrapped) eggs than lots of large bubble wrap - it would appear that trying to 'overstuff' the carton contributed to breakage (interior carton was not/could not be fully closed), so it's shock absorbing value would be somewhat lessened. Just my thoughts.

 

[Arielle]

My post master talks about the use of the mixmaster at the big sort facilites-- apparently no way around that here. Boxes dumped into a turning mass of boxes that are then one by one pulled out to dfferent sort lines. ( THis is how I remember him expaoining it-- might be off a bit, but still not a pretty picture.)

How are "non-machineable' or " do not xray " are handled??

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

My post master talks about the use of the mixmaster at the big sort facilites-- apparently no way around that here. Boxes dumped into a turning mass of boxes that are then one by one pulled out to dfferent sort lines. ( THis is how I remember him expaoining it-- might be off a bit, but still not a pretty picture.)

How are "non-machineable' or " do not xray " are handled??

*IF* done according to 'the book', they're NSM = non-standard mail - they would go into either a labeled sack or directly onto an APC (determined by size) at the receiving office. As an example; my dry-ice packed meat shipments go onto an APC - usually all by their lonesome - which is pushed back by the receiving doors so those poor employees aren't suffocated (by 5# of CO2 per box in a 1k sq ft building... ) If any other 'hazardous' materials come in that day, it shares the APC; if not, my boxes get their own carriage. Kinda a waste of space, but those are the rules Non-machinable (large or not rectangular) would just be the first thing on an APC; then anything they could fit would be packed around it.
Most employees I knew would try to 'specialize' and label an APC with non-machinable if there was enough going out to do so, or at least one half. (they have a center shelf that can be raised and locked into place) with stuff such as bags of 'do not Xray', registered bags, express mail, etc. - if not, it gets filled with anything else (machinable or not) that fits and it's up to the sort facility to figure out if it's machinable from the bag tags or box labels and divert it to the correct sort

Small items go in a sack, but that sack is quite liable to be tossed around, and whether sack or unwieldy object, it's still going to be put on the APC in any way it will fit - it's just that the label diverts it to hand-sort at the sorting facility. At hand sorting, the bag is dumped onto a conveyor again. "This End Up" is really a useless notation if the box can be held in one hand. Really, the only thing that gets anything like white glove handling is live animals (preferably cute ones that make noise) and things that require a DOT HazMat label.

Your postmaster's description sounds like parcel post sorting - I think there's a few videos of sort facilities in operation on YouTube - it's really rather frightening! Parcel post for small items at the receiving office is no more comforting; they arrive in a canvas wheelie bin & are sorted into smaller ones for each route - but there's a reason the sorting task was referred to as 'throwing parcels'... (in fairness, sorting letters is also referred to as 'throwing mail') Priority mail boxes were designed to best fit the equipment; they actually get better handling than most containers because a specific number will fit in a specific way in an APC. Most 'live chick' boxes were also designed to fit that equipment.

 

[Math]

My 5 duck eggs all hatched. One hatched on its own and I assisted the others.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: It is rather amazing that eggs make it to destination not smashed or at least cracked.

I used to work in distribution for a catalong company. I did the sorting of flat pkgs into the mail sacks. A-Z, ( couple letters missing) or sometimes I was able to load a truck with boxes. Fast, fast fast is the requirement. THough when a box came thru as fragile, we did handle it carefully.

What do you think of how egg would fair if sent as "non-machinable"?? Would that be a better ride?