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Sorry for the late reply. Pretty hectic around here during hatching season. I put him in the building they spent the winter in so he'd be calm in there. We used the Bacitracin ointment. I had to hold him against my chest while my partner did the dirty work. She said it was definitely swollen...

By antibiotic ointment, I'm assuming you don't mean the red kote stuff? Pretty sure that says external use only. We have various ointments here but I'm not sure what would be safe for him. Rummaging through the med cupboard and I found Mupirocin topical antibiotic, Fucidin topical antibiotic...

Hello again. Our gander is nearly 2 years old and has 2 almost 1 year old geese for girlfriends. One is smaller and he must favor her because she is missing a lot of feathers on her head. The other is a bit larger and he seems to have trouble finishing the deed with her just because of the size...

We candled and then opened the air sacs on both eggs and both had passed. The one that pipped internally looked okay. I'd like to think that we could have saved it had we intervened earlier but it was internally pipped on day 26 before I put them in the hatcher. This means it had pipped...

I couldn't do it with a screw either and had the same idea. Just happened to have my drill bag nearby so took one of the bits out and used it scratch the egg for a bit until a very small hole appeared. Then I used the screw. It's bright here but I tried candling them. I can't see as well with...

I never thought of using a screw....that's a good idea. I think I'll add a safety hole at lunch if it's not too late.

Hello again! So today I am looking for advice on how to proceed with 2 Embden goose eggs that are still in lockdown in our hatcher (old small incubator). There were 3 eggs that made it to lockdown. Day 26: Candled all three eggs and seen movement in all of them. Egg #2 was internally pipped...

We're in Canada. I've never heard of anybody ordering feed like that here. I think this bag of Turkey starter will do us this year. The turkeys will be sent to a family member once they are old enough. We have the joy of hatching them. We watched a bunch of videos and fashioned a splint and a...

I think you're right about the slipped tendon. I examined him again today and I think I feel the tendon pop into and out of place. It feels like the tendon can slip to the inside of the leg. When I extend his leg backwards and put my thumb on the tendon/back of the hock and gently push/twist the...

It's a batch of 4 turkey poults that are 6 days old. They hatched with some other chicks. They all seemed to be doing fine, everyone looked okay although I haven't closely examined all of them yet. Today my father notices one of the turkey poults seemed to have his leg stretched out behind him...

It's been very busy here. It's that time of year to move the outside flock away from fertilizing the garden and into the grass fields. The temperatures are warm enough to start on our spring tasks. So the egg turners are definitely still working. The 6 Maran and 6 Ameraucana eggs in the little...

Yes the egg turners are plugged in and are working the last time I checked. I'll check again in the morning though. I'm usually constantly checking them but have been busy the last few days. Tonight we candled 12 chicken eggs that we have in our smallest incubator that hatch on May 5th. Out of...

We just opened the top of the egg to see if the poult was developed or not and pretty well every failed egg looked very far along. We didn't do many of the ducks because the couple we opened had a bad smell. The yolk on that one was busted and it was covered in yolk but I didn't notice the...

I bought a bunch of thermometers and hygrometers and threw away those cheap Amazon ones. They were useful the first season i bought them but were wildly inaccurate afterwards. According to the new ones, my temperatures are normal on the second row and slightly lower on the top row. My humidity...

Hey everyone, We were on the lookout for a cabinet incubator this year (because you can't have enough incubators!) and couldn't find a professional one for a reasonable price so we decided to make one. Got the wine cooler second hand for cheap, most other parts came from Amazon. -Danby...

We are in the midst of a long thunderstorm that woke us up. My partner went to check on the gosling and it had passed. Looks like it had vomited a few times. I have a feeling it was some kind of infection because of the nasally sound it made sometimes when breathing. We'll have to bury it...

We had multiple appointments today because I didn't check the calendar so it was a busy day. We dropped the gosling off at 10 and she said it was dehydrated and malnourished. That's understandable considering it hasn't really eaten anything since Sunday I believe. She put in an IV and gave it...

Welp! I think my partner is getting attached to it. She was up through the night giving it a warm bath, drying it off, and cuddling it to keep it warm. She said it's getting weaker and that it still sounds like it has a respiratory issue. It seemed stronger yesterday after the...

Long story short, we had ordered 21 ducklings and 3 Emdben goslings from out West. One of the goslings was only half the size of the other two. We ended up losing six of the smallest ducklings so we feared for this small gosling. While it wasn't a leader of the flock like the other two, it did...

You were right, it was the yolk sac. Looked at that other post and then took him out to exam him. Because his tummy didn't look formed properly and he was barely alive, we decided to cull him. Terrible. On a positive note, the other 12 look good. The first 4 we took out yesterday are nice and...