Good Morning! in 2018

[Happy]

I'm starting to feel very left out lol. I live about 100 kms from where I was born. How boring!

[WLLady]

Dont worry happy i live 56 km from where i was born....

[JimW]

Well good evening, or if I type slowly it will be after midnight, so good early morning. Did a quick 5 hour round trip Poultry Trip after work today to pick up some hatching eggs, I sold some surplus birds on the weekend so need some new birds to fill their space in the future... new blood BC marans, Cream Legbar, Araucana and Olive eggers, in the incubator tomorrow.

Tomorrow night picking up some BC marans and Cuckoo Malines chicks a friend hatched for me to add more new blood for next year and Wednesday getting a few BC marans chicks from eggs from BC.

Sunday is my next big road trip back to Orangeville to pick up a new breeding group of Crested Cream Legbars which carry the gene for white legbars, plus 2 young pairs of white legbars!!!!

JimW

[baronrenfrew]

? white legbar? thats nothing but a white leghorn that lays blue eggs! isn't the whole point of a legbar is the sex identification at 1 day old?
That's like dealcoholised beer, or decaf coffee...I mean...what's the point?

[thejonesboy]

@poultry_admin
2018 immigrant Picnik

[hayladee]

i actually drove home in white out conditions yesterday. that was crazy! and there were some branches down and stuff....but amazingly (given that the incubator and heat plates are on) we didn't lose power.....so glad the wind is down today.
busy weekend coming up. tonight i pick up a new barred rock boy! yay! then quarantine starts.....and then chicks (getting big!) to new homes on saturday, and then my nieces are in a skating thing this weekend too....and pens need cleaning and i need to do a mite treatment.
lost a girl yesterday, she'd been egg bound twice over the winter, and this time didn't recover, so did the right thing last night. sucks.....but she had to be 10 pounds and not a bit of muscle left on her, all ascites (fluid in her abdomen). sigh. hate to lose them, but was the right thing.

never heard of "egg bound" would you mind explaining?

[hayladee]

Afternoon here in cloudy Pa, snow again last night....sheesh, enough already. At least it didn't stick around this time. The fluffys are not very fluffy anymore and are looking so funny with their spikey pin feathers and the spiderwebs in the basement are covered in dust, ugh, but another batch on the way...locked them down this morning and took some much appreciated advice this time and removed the turner and replaced with egg cartons for hatch...do HATE cleaning the turner full of stuck on shells and goop. Think I'm gonna hide it from the grands this time if I get a decent hatch. My daughter told me her daughter volunteered to take home the incubation project chicks from her class in school....I laughed till she said my dear granddaughter volunteered ME to take them if mom wouldn't let her keep them! Hope they hatch about the same time mine do to get the chick dust over with in one more round! lol!
We had the first embryo transfer calf born yesterday...a pretty red/black "shorthorn plus" heifer with a nice thick top and a big stoudt hip...granddaughters are already fighting over her....2 more ET calves due and in a couple weeks 2 natural calves for the grands...excited kiddoes to say the least

[Killerbunny]

Congrats on all. Fluffy pics are always welcome!

[WLLady]

Egg binding is when an egg gets stuck moving from the oviduct into the cloaca before being laid. It can happen for several reasons-narrow cloacal opening, rough egg shells, inconsistent calcium depositing in the shell, abnormal pelvis bones...all kinds of reasons. Usually if a hen is egg bound she will stand very straight-like a penguin with her butt close to the ground....trying to stretch herself enough to help the egg drop into the cloaca. Sometimes soaking the hen in warm water will relax the muscles inside enough to allpw the egg to drop. Sometimes the eggs piling up behind it will push the egg down. But if the egg doesnt finally drop the other eggs back up behind it and end up going out the top of the oviduct - called laying intraperitoneally- and this means the hen will die eventually as the eggs spoil inside and jam up the space around her organs.
Once a hen is egg bound once it is more likely to occur again...

[poultry_admin]

Just a quick reminder ... we are collecting pictures for the picture of the month contest until Sunday evening.
Make sure you submit your entry here:
viewforum.php?f=94

So where are those spring pictures?