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speckledhen said:
Shoes, maybe, but it's of limited use. Ammonia won't kill almost every virus, bacteria and fungus, plus you have the heavy fumes. It will, however, kill the oocysts that cause cocci while bleach will not. Commercial chicken houses use Virkon-S to disinfect and you can add Oxine to drinking water as well as mist a solution of it in a cool mist vaporizer for your birds to breath in to kill off the nasties in their nasal passages and lungs. So, ammonia has limited usage. ...
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Thank you, Miss Cynthia! I just looked up Oxine and started reading an article about it. It sounds miraculous. I had no idea how limited ammonia and bleach could be when fighting nasties.
 
eclecktic1 said:
Thank you, Miss Cynthia! I just looked up Oxine and started reading an article about it. It sounds miraculous. I had no idea how limited ammonia and bleach could be when fighting nasties.
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You're welcome. I just got a new gallon of Oxine. It goes a long way. Plus, I keep a spray bottle of Virkon-S solution around as well.
 
Lookin4GoodLife said:
I was just joshin ya. :)
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I know you were. I joshed right back!
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Some things I do feel very strongly about, though, 'tis true.


Nice talking to you fine folks. I think I'll go watch some mindless TV with my hubby. TTYL (if you let me back in, LOL)
 
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Flowerbh said:
I confess! I am a hatchalolic! I love love love hatching chicks! I am also one of those ones who stays up all night to note each chicks hatching. I number my eggs and in my notebook, write down whose egg it was (Yes, I know almost all my hens eggs!) As each chick hatches, I find some identifying marks that lets me identify them later. Such as, big yellow area under neck, feathered legs, no feathered legs, black blotch on feather, etc. Since I have a Brahma and a legbar rooster, I know that all the chicks hatched with feathered legs are the Brahmas, those without are my Legbars. That way, I can make a good predict of the egg colors that any hens may lay. I sell chicks, so that also helps me sell what the buyer wants.....blue egg layer, green, or brown. Of course, it's not going to be 100%, but I tell people that and say, they 'should' lay a certain color egg, etc.

So, all you who have your incubators going.......YAY!!!! Don't worry too much about little temporary temperature fluctuations, just keep it steady as close to 99.5 as you can ( fan assist incubators) and the humidity about 30-40 percent for the 1st 18 days. Take the red plugs out of the incubator and let the oxygen in. And, after lockdown, don't open the incubator until after hatch is over. And, in the end.....you will have this!!! Good luck!!!
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And I thought I was anal when it came to keeping close records on my hatches. You and katsdar both have me beat because I don't sing to my hatching eggs either!
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I've never set a huge clutch to hatch before (34 I think was my largest), so few enough eggs hatch that I get to know the chicks. I try to train each chick on how to be held, and I talk gently to them. My wife and son get a kick out of that because that's the only time I ever use that voice. I'm not always successful, but I try to connect with my birds. Of course, there always seems to be some special ones that stand out. For me, that part of what makes hatching eggs fun.

OTOH, my wife claims that she has a "grab-bag" mentality, so she's always anxious to find out what hatches and what the hatchlings look like. She leaves the record keeping to me.
 
GAMarans said:
Worried that we haven't heard from katsdar.
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didn't she say a few pages back they she hired a lawyer and they got the court thing put off? I had a private message from her yesterday morning about the 'chicken to missy delivery boy' thing. That was before 10 yesterday though.......
 

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