Silky hatch-along and OdoBan on eggs experiment

[LTAY1946]

After the fall I just took in chicken mud that was two inches deep I need to be dipped for about 5 minutes in Odoban. No harm done other than give already broken ribs more reason to complain tonight. Mean while 5 gorgeous new silkies are stealing my heart.

 

[janiedoe]

 

[Debbie292d]

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Yes ma'am! I'm almost positive. I was going crazy between two incubators and have no idea how @2ndTink is going to manage 90 of these hatching!

 

[LTAY1946]

I have 3 41 egg Hovabators that I can set eggs in a week apart and a 4th to use for hatching. That's not the problem. The problem is having either sales for them at a week of age or enough brooder and grow pen space to grow them to 14-15 weeks so a customer sees what they are really going to get. I think my focus will be mostly hatching eggs along with the chicks from incubating a sample from every weeks gather eggs as a check for real fertility.

 

[TwoCrows]

The three Odoban chicks. Proving, an egg soaked 60 seconds in Odoban solution doesn't die, nor lose it's bloom.

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The six who were together in that incubator; three dipped in Odoban and the three that weren't. View attachment 3735225

Cuteness overload! ❤

 

[2ndTink]

Yes ma'am! I'm almost positive. I was going crazy between two incubators and have no idea how @2ndTink is going to manage 90 of these hatching!

I have no clue yet some can be grouped together as they should be easy to tell apart, others I'm going to have to band them as I take them out of the hatching baskets. There are a few the local breeder would like tagged so she can see what's hatching and see how they develop. I'm sure I'll make some mistakes, and learn a lot, so it's all good I can always hatch more! Lol!

 

[Shannon2023]

Any showgirls?? Pictures.

 

[LTAY1946]

I have my 5 silkies eating and drinking in an incubator being used as a first step brooder. Tomorrow they go to the big house. I built a 4' x 8' x 12" high box with feed and water hanging down the middle the long way. To halt the adventurous ones testing of their wings I put a tent top on it out of a fish netting material. It worked quite well for the last brood. I put this up on top of a banquet table that puts them closer to eye level with us.

 

[LTAY1946]

I think I have another silkie that has pipped. I'll stay up with it as long as I can.

 

[Debbie292d]

Any showgirls?? Pictures.

One. I am waiting for the last four to dry off. We have 3 buffs, 1 paint, and 4 cuckoos I haven't shot a picture of yet.