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[Ogress]

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I'm so sorry! I think I would go ahead and drive to Spokane and get there at least an hour or two early and then make a fuss and start crying, tell them about how worried you are, what a horrible thing it is to have a pregnant person drive so far only to trun them away when the get there, etc... I bet they will be able to squeeze you in with a perinatlolgist on a good ultrasound machine before the regular work schedeule. I spent 3 months at Evergreen Hospital whan I was pregnant with DD. Every odd run of contractions, drop of blood, too much movement, not enough, etc and they would have me in that ultrasound room with a perinatologist between 5 and 8 am, never with an appointment. The Dr's get there early. They make their rounds in the morning and check on all their patients, read contraction monitors, notes from the night nurse, etc, and then they take anyone with anything unusual down for ultrasounds. I had ultrasounds scheduled for every Wednesday during regular hours, but the 3 months I was there I had nearly 30 ultrasounds, most of them early morning and unscheduled. And Olivia would not be here today if I had not lied to get that first high-res ultrasound. That appointment was with a geneticist and a sonographer, but as I felt there would be, three were major issues so a perinatologist was called in while I was still getting the ultrasound. If they let you in for an ultrasound and not the amnio, and the spots show up, start crying and stay until they agree to do amnio. It takes only a few minutes and they can fit you in.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Just let your incubator equalize itself.. it will

Hygrometers you can get either at Walmart, or I got mine at Petsmart/co in the reptile area. Mine came as a double pack with a thermometer and the hygrometer.
I candle at day 8 and at lockdown--and even then I just am checking for a full egg and taking out the obviousquitters and 'blanks'.. those eggs'll fool ya sometimes. You might think you have a dud, and lo--on day 21-ish you have a chick.

also--did you let your shipped eggs 'rest' for 24 hours? that was a lesson I learned the hard way

Thanks guys! I haven't gotten the eggs yet. So they have to rest for 24 hours? And lock down starts when? After candeling? I didn't know you could get a hygometer at walmart? In the instruction book it talks about charting the egg weight, that's why I asked? Do the eggs lay down in the Octo 20? Or stand on end? I read the directions they didn't seem clear, sorry I'm asking so many questions, they have probably been answered before!

This may answer some of your questions. And I went onto Youtube and had quite a few of my questions answered here. I agree, I had to read over the instructions many times and then ask on here for more answers.
Lockdown: 18 days
I did not weigh eggs, just candeled on day 7 and day 14
At lockdown you take the seperation bars out - but I wonder if I could get more in if I did not use them for during incubation.

Try Youtube. Go to the sight above, she has quite a few helpful ones and I have searched under Brinsea incubator, and lockdown. There is a lot of good information out there.

 

[Chickielady]

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YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pettec63]

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Thanks guys! I haven't gotten the eggs yet. So they have to rest for 24 hours? And lock down starts when? After candeling? I didn't know you could get a hygometer at walmart? In the instruction book it talks about charting the egg weight, that's why I asked? Do the eggs lay down in the Octo 20? Or stand on end? I read the directions they didn't seem clear, sorry I'm asking so many questions, they have probably been answered before!

This may answer some of your questions. And I went onto Youtube and had quite a few of my questions answered here. I agree, I had to read over the instructions many times and then ask on here for more answers.
Lockdown: 18 days
I did not weigh eggs, just candeled on day 7 and day 14
At lockdown you take the seperation bars out - but I wonder if I could get more in if I did not use them for during incubation.

Try Youtube. Go to the sight above, she has quite a few helpful ones and I have searched under Brinsea incubator, and lockdown. There is a lot of good information out there.

Thanks T! I'll do that! YOU GUYS ROCK!

 

[Chickielady]

http://www.westvet.com/collibacilliosis.htm

This is also a great way to spray disenfect, waterers, feeders, coop walls, etc, but never dunk any animal or yourself in straight bleach.
You can use this recipe of dilution for hoof rot, rain scald (in a spray bottle, just spritz) or disenfect bottles & feeders, but straight bleach...NO.

All my birds are on the recipe above, at 1 T per gallon, well.

Chlorine is a gas, by nature, and evaporates out of the water in their feeders, and then they kick poop in,(which has e.coli & other nasties in it) and soon, you may get snotty noses, flem, swollen faces & eyes, and Chronic respiratory disease.
Antibiotics DO NOT KILL E>COLI, or commonly known as collibaciliosis, but adding a little bleach SOLUTION does kill it.

 

[T Hi]

Pip, Pip, Pip

Zip, Zip, Zip

Hatch, Hatch, Hatch

I want, I want, I want
Ducklings NOW, Ducklings NOW, Ducklings NOW!!!!!!

Thank goodness I gots da smart daughters! Cuz Mama can't rhyme!

I ain't no poet,
And I know it!!!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I am so sorry. Wish you could just go to someone else since they have screwd all this up. My personal opinion (and that is all it is) .... we are small town and they got ya' by the ....well you know the phrase....and they (the clinic) knows that most people will not or cannot go elsewhere so people put up with their poor quality care and lack of bedside manner. You should be relaxing, being doted on, and enjoying this wonderful time. I am just so sorry that this doctor and clinic are ruining it for you.

 

[Ogress]

Can't complain about our applesauce weather - take a look at what is goin on all across the Midwest and South right now .... worried about my friends in Ringold. A H.S. friend of mine was at the St. Louis airport last week when it was struck. She put some amazing photos of the damage up on her FB page. It was amazing there were no serious injuries for that one. Unfortunately, that is not the case now. My heart goes out to all those people who are being impacted right now.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Oh Heather, that just stinks!!!! I think I would be looking for a new doctor. I know you probably don't have as many options where you are, but it sounds a bit clueless to me. I hope your appt goes well and that your ultrasound goes great!

For Her to get a quality doctor, she would have to go out of town...probably to Wenatchee (maybe Chelan). Wenatchee is 2 hours away. I agree, I wish she could go elsewhere so she could enjoy her pregnancy, get taken care of like she should be, and have the reassurance that she needs. We are stuck here. Poor quality health care. I have my own horror stories.

 

[Chickielady]

I am so freaking worried about my friend in Kansas.........but so far he say , it has been rather pleasant there, hardly anything to worry about.
All the nastiness is in OK, ARK & east.