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[Chicken Rustler]

Good Morning Folks,
Today is hatch day. I am wondering how long you let your incubator run before you decide that an egg is not going to hatch? I thought I'd ask you folks, before I go sorting through threads.

OK First off let me be clear I have only hatched 3x and know just enough to make me DANGEROUS ! However since I don't see any other replies I will try to help ya.

Did you candle and did this egg look good when you candled ?

If it looked good on candling I would wait until all other eggs have hatched then give it about a day probably no more. See the sounds of other chicks may encourage it. If after most of a day I had not seen or heard any signs I would carefully candle and make a final decision.

Keep in mind I am not one of the "PRO's" (and I don't mean that disrespectfully). I just get a lot of info from those who REALLY know! I may be all wrong and they will probably correct me which is good.
Good luck.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Hard Night last night, I will try to ck in but dont think I can so if you have my number call me.
Im on a 24 hour watch of my son right now, until I can find him a hospital bed.

I have yer # Do ya text? Anything we can do to help?

 

[pips&peeps]

Good Morning Folks,
Today is hatch day. I am wondering how long you let your incubator run before you decide that an egg is not going to hatch? I thought I'd ask you folks, before I go sorting through threads.

I let my hatches take two days from the time the first chick hatches. Generally this is enough time. If you do not have a candler, pick up the egg and tap it to see if you get a response. Most times if the embryo is alive, it will peep. If no peeping and everyone else is out, it means the egg is not viable.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Good morning Ladies!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Thanks for the info and help.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Wow am I really that terrible? Seems like lately every time I try to be nice and say HI or welcome folks they run off. Guess maybe I just need to SMYU !

 

[pips&peeps]

I ran off to get out of my jammies.....

Now, I'm off to go get rid of some old hens and get the rest of the flock their update on the ILT vaccine. My husband has to fix one of the lights in the building, the fixture died on one of those $50.00 units.

And, got to feed the sebbies. I already have two trios seperated. I have a colored gander coming in Tuesday for my "business partner". She is going to breed saddlebacks and I obtained a goose last month that I will let her use this season. She was supposed to be a gander, but alas she is all female.

Also have to pick out birds for the Monroe show.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

did you use ivermectin? Ivermectin overdose causes sudden blindness, I have had two it happened to at the same time. have photo's and video. if your dog ate the horse poop or chewed or licked the syringes its very likely its an ivermectin od. ivermectin is safe in most breeds of dogs but in a very low dose, paste wormer or whats been passed with the manure is to much for a dog. it can be fatal but odds are its not. my dogs recovered in a few days, but that was after I spent thousands at the doggy eye doc and the specialist in Lynnwood. if you went to the eye vet in redmond, they have my dogs file there. you can pm me and I will give you the info for them to look up, they ran all sorts of tests but could not help her. the specialist were stumped too, I found the ivermec they got in to 3 days into the ordeal.

You nailed it!

Simon loves to share the horse grain, and our filly spit out the Ivermectin onto her food. Simon must have gotten enough to affect his vision. The timing certainly matched. We went to Northwest eye specialist yesterday at least armed with a possible explanation and she agreed. He was already getting some of his vision back in his left eye while we were there and she expects him to fully recover over the next few day.

Today he is seeing well enough to get around the house and go with me up to the barn to help feed.


Thank you for the heads up. We are all doing so much better.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Cute! Please don't let my daughter see this.

Okay, poor Bumble. This is Alisha's "invention". She made a "chicken bag". Poor bumble is getting carried around all over the house in it. Surprisingly, Bumble does not seem to mind. Oh, and excuse my messy kitchen.

 

[renart]

You nailed it!

Simon loves to share the horse grain, and our filly spit out the Ivermectin onto her food. Simon must have gotten enough to affect his vision. The timing certainly matched. We went to Northwest eye specialist yesterday at least armed with a possible explanation and she agreed. He was already getting some of his vision back in his left eye while we were there and she expects him to fully recover over the next few day.

Today he is seeing well enough to get around the house and go with me up to the barn to help feed.


Thank you for the heads up. We are all doing so much better.

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