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Another tip if you find a product on Amazon that you want to buy: Check the company website for the product. Quite often a company will offer the product for even less if you buy direct from that company. For example, a needed an internal 2.5" SSD (solid-state drive) for a laptop, and I found the item I was looking for on Amazon. However, the company that manufactured the item was a small U.S.-based company, so I checked on their website and found that they had the item for about 15% less than Amazon, and it shipped free. This kind of scenario doesn't always hold true, but it's worth checking, especially if you're purchasing a high-dollar item. Now if only that slow boat from China would get here...
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brucifer said:
Another tip if you find a product on Amazon that you want to buy: Check the company website for the product. Quite often a company will offer the product for even less if you buy direct from that company. For example, a needed an internal 2.5" SSD (solid-state drive) for a laptop, and I found the item I was looking for on Amazon. However, the company that manufactured the item was a small U.S.-based company, so I checked on their website and found that they had the item for about 15% less than Amazon, and it shipped free. This kind of scenario doesn't always hold true, but it's worth checking, especially if you're purchasing a high-dollar item. Now if only that slow boat from China would get here... :/
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I do the same I'll check all possibilities out first before I buy I'm a cheapskate lol
 
JoshFig said:
I had a broody hen that hatched eggs last week. She ended up with 1 chick (2 made it but one got pecked by another hen - so down to 1). With only 1 chick - i'd rather not mess with getting chick food to it. They are mixed with the rest of our flock (dozen hens and a roo) - so any chick food that goes out there gets eaten by the big girls.

They free range a good bit (about 2/3rd of the day) - in addition I keep layer pellets in the henhouse which the chick can't reach. I assume the mama will break them up and give them to the chick but not sure on that either.

Any thoughts as to how good a job the mama will do in getting the chick fed?
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Well, considering Katsdar's hen she thought was missing for weeks showed up with a bunch of babies.....the hen raised them and got them fed without any chick food for a while. The only problem with regular big girl food is that it contains calcium. A baby chick and even those thru age 10 weeks shouldn't have lots of calcium. It makes their bones grow too fast and too strong and they may have problems in their juvenile years. Can lead to leg and joint issues. You can read about that on google.
 
livhatcher said:
thank you for taking the time to reply to me! I have been in a real panic since my mom has been egg sitting for me while we went on spring break for the past few days. My other incubator has 7 that I'm questionable on out of 21 originally set. I guess I shouldn't be too upset since I did get 6 extras that I didn't count on, but it's still early enough in the game for me to be a little bummed. I also have 3 air cells that are that saddle shape. I had them on their side in the Brinsea but read that healing was possible if put blunt end up....have you heard this?
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I have a few shipped duck eggs in my bator now that have detached air sacs and some with saddle sacs. Nothing I can do about it at this point. I will make a note of which eggs are going to be a problem and may have to help those in the end.

I am always sad when I am hatching eggs and my hopes are all up for a bator full of babies only to find out that a lot weren't fertile. The 6 'replacement' eggs I got from a lady because the first ones weren't good, well only one was good! Bummer, and I paid shipping again on those! I won't get them from her again!! But, when you go to an overload of eggs in the bator and you only end up with something like 30, well, that's sad. But, usually it is on shipped eggs. I have a friend who works at the post office and he said he has seen other workers deliberately shake the packages if they think they are shipped eggs! Hard to believe they still have jobs there! Some people are just bad.
 
Just a note for the incubating crowd. Some eggs can be fertilized yet never begin development, especially with shipped eggs. My Lt. Brahma hen and my Blue Orp rooster had incompatible chemistry for some reason. Every egg was fertilized but refused to develop. I would get blocks of her eggs, 5 at a time, incubate them myself after several others couldn't get Miranda's eggs to hatch. Not one ever developed but all showed the bullseye. Her Buff "sister" always had chicks with him, though.
 
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