I thought my words were SO important, everyone needed to read them, repeatedly!
The difference between breakfast and chicks, is the temperature you use to "cook" the eggs!
What breeds do I have? More than any sane person would own.
The difference between breakfast and chicks, is the temperature you use to "cook" the eggs!
What breeds do I have? More than any sane person would own.
Sorry about Black Betty, SCG. 
I just lost my post - again. Grr. Anyway...
On the diabetes conversation, remember that nuts are a great source of good fats and oils, and they can certainly help with weight gain. Also diet-related, for everyone with allergies out there, dairy thickens mucouses so it is terrible for people with bad seasonal allergies - especially folks whose allergies result in sinus infections and such. If you are suffering from allergies right now, lay off the dairy for a few weeks at least. It will help with cramping as well... I've been off diary for two years now, and while I used to have the worst allergies of anyone I'd ever met, we have high-pollen alerts every day now and I am fine.
Let's see. Today is Day 12... it's getting pretty dark in there! 
My blog Scratch Cradle !Euskal Oiloa - Basque Hens!
My blog Scratch Cradle !Euskal Oiloa - Basque Hens!
Sorry about Black Betty, SCG.
I just lost my post - again. Grr. Anyway...
On the diabetes conversation, remember that nuts are a great source of good fats and oils, and they can certainly help with weight gain. Also diet-related, for everyone with allergies out there, dairy thickens mucouses so it is terrible for people with bad seasonal allergies - especially folks whose allergies result in sinus infections and such. If you are suffering from allergies right now, lay off the dairy for a few weeks at least. It will help with cramping as well... I've been off diary for two years now, and while I used to have the worst allergies of anyone I'd ever met, we have high-pollen alerts every day now and I am fine.
Let's see. Today is Day 12... it's getting pretty dark in there!
Thats an EXCELLENT picture!!
Come join us for Mahonri's 3rd Annual Easter Hatch-a-Long!!
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/625456/mahonris-3rd-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long
A wise man once told me that duct tape can be used to fix anything. Well, it doesn't work on mufflers.
Come join us for Mahonri's 3rd Annual Easter Hatch-a-Long!!
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/625456/mahonris-3rd-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long
A wise man once told me that duct tape can be used to fix anything. Well, it doesn't work on mufflers.
So at 430 I kicked broody Black Betty off her nest. She seemed fine. She ate and laid down in the shavings for a bit. Had a colossal broody poo. She's been broody less than a week. And she's a great broody.
At 645 I went out to put the chickens to bed. I'm missing a chicken. Black Betty isn't in her nest.
I find her under the coop, she looks like shes laying on dirt thinking it's her eggs. So I pick up a 2x4 to push her with it and try to convince her to go back to bed. She acts really weird and stiff and pretty much rolls in a 180. I am able to run around the coop and pick her up. She's stiff and weak, can't stand, can't keep her head up.
She's dying. I know it.
She's on my lap right now, I brought her into the house where it's warm (cause she was cold) so she can die somewhat comfortably.
What could have possibly happened in the slightly more than 2 hours since I threw her off the nest?
I had one--a hatchery Black Australorp--that was fine in the morning and dead when I came home. She was 9 months old and laying an egg a day. I took her in for a free Necropsy(free to back yard flock owners in CA) and she died of a liver rupture. Death with this is fast and the comb lost color too. They bleed to death from the rupture.
The report said unknown etiology but common in certain breeds. Do they have free Necropsy's in MA?
Sorry for the sick chicken
Ron
Is this a Hobby or a way of Life? Chickens: Australorp, Barred & Partridge Rock, Hatchery & Heritage RIR, Golden Comet, Marans, Easter Egger, Silver Gray Dorking, Basque Hen, Partridge Penedesenca, Olive Egger and UofA Blues
Ron
Is this a Hobby or a way of Life? Chickens: Australorp, Barred & Partridge Rock, Hatchery & Heritage RIR, Golden Comet, Marans, Easter Egger, Silver Gray Dorking, Basque Hen, Partridge Penedesenca, Olive Egger and UofA Blues
I have a question about giving some eggs to a broody. I have a Salmon Favorelle that has gone broody. I am thinking about giving her some eggs out of the incubator on Monday. This will be the first time for "One eyed Jackie". Am I better off giving her a couple eggs on Monday or just putting chicks under her after they hatch?
How long has she been broody? When are the eggs due to hatch? It's a hormone thing, they have to be on the nest long enough before they will take care of the chicks. It doesn't have to be the full 21 days, but it has to be more than a few days.
She has been broody for a couple of days. The eggs or chicks in question are the eggs I have set for the Easter hatch. I was thinking I could put eggs under her on Monday that would hatch on Friday or Saturday, or just give her a couple chicks after they hatch. If that is not enough time, I may just give her a couple fresh eggs.
Deb, was your submit button stuck or is my computer being wonky?
What an evening...I wanted to submit what I had left in the incubator and lo and behold but my Chickens rule the roost book is MIA! Thats where I wrote what I put into the bator. It is also where I wrote the post number that I put on here! GAHHH Try sorting thru 8000 posts to find one on rural internet. Finally found out though that you can pull up all of your posts under your user page! That only took about 15 minutes. Too bad I spent about 2 hours before that flipping back pages. Sooooo Here goes..........
***Note I do have 4 or 5 that are questionable, either too dark or may be quitters. If it didn't have an obvious blood ring or obviously clear it stayed
Poco Pollo
Barnvelder Put in 8, Have 8 left (Yay Poco but there are several I can't see in)
Wolftracks
2 Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks put in - 0 Left (they were clears Bummer)
2 Silver Phoenix put in 1 left (Very early quitter)
2 Purple Egg Project 2 left (too dark to see a thing, but I do think I saw a little bit of vein near the air sac on one. I am a little worried the shells will be too thick for them to hatch but we will see what happens there)
4 EE Project Put in 2 left (clears)
3 FBCM put in 3 left (And I was able to see veins in them)
Shipped Icelandics
10 put in 9 left (!!!!!)
My eggs
4 Cuckoo marans 3 left
6 Barnyard Surprise 6 left
Totals...........41 put in 34 left.
Very excited so far! With my HORRIBLE last two hatches and in experience, I am so excited to see so much development and movement in the eggs. I definately have several of you to thank for that! I am feeling pretty confident that we are going to have some hatches come end of next week! I just can't contain myself! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
And just when I think I have finally talked myself out of emus, I find this!!!
Anybody have these or are they a mutation that doesn't breed true? 
I want one of these! How beautifull!!!
Ya know, I am having a very difficult time with this. 
I want to nominate ALL of you for Spirit and Friend! You are all just GREAT! 
I just love this thread, and always look forward to reading it each day.
I agree 100%! There are so many of you wonderful people, kind souls, quick to help, compassionate, empathetic, and quick to make people smile. I would give you all badges if it were up to me....Hey, how about a Mahonri Mega Hatch-a-long Badge? Rob?
What, exactly, is the procedure for getting rid of a skunk that has been caught in a trap? Oh, wait, are you using a live trap or something more permanant?
I "gown up" and even tuck my socks into my pants, and put a hoodie on, so only my face is exposed. Two pairs of rubber gloves. Shoot the thing with a .22 still in the cage. Hopefully it doesn't spray (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't but it ALWAYS stinks no matter what).
Move it to a trash bag, tie it with a wire tie so I can get it super tight and then do the same thing again twice so it's triple bagged. After the second bag I put my outside pair of rubber gloves in the bag, then third bag it. Bag stays outside until we can get it to the dump. Cage stays outside until boyfriend pressure washes it. I immediately strip clothes, they go into washer. I go into teh shower. Clothes and body get washed at least twice with Fels-Naptha soap (good for removing poison ivy oil AND skunk odor). Skunk goes to the dump (I always feel bad when they have the compactor open and not the open top). Drop skunk and flee scene. Don't return to dump for 2 weeks.
SCG! You're making a LGD look better and better! Seriously, thanks for the step by step, we've often wondered, 'what if we end up with a skunk in the trap?" Good to know.
Wisher1000: The feed store, down the way from me, live traps them. When I asked, "wha???" they told: drop a sheet over the trap, the trick is, DO NOT drop the trap.
Mahonri, you can get the police scanner channels on an ap for Android or iphone, and often also on the web in streaming. I have it on my phone for weird stuff, too. I am toooo curious!
Cops HATE that app! It has made it very easy for burglars to know when they need to leave a house they are in so as not to get caught. No problem with "Law Abiding" citizens, but EVERYBODY has access to it.
Hubby used all the coffee beans yesterday and didn't tell me we were out.
This is exactly why there is a ziplock bag of coffee in a bowl on the top shelf of a little-used cabinet (which gets replaced every time I open a new bag of coffee.)
Sit down everyone.
In my almost 54 years on the planet I have never sipped, nor tasted, nor drank even a drop of coffee.
Believe it or not.
My dad made my mom a cup of coffee every morning for 62 years. It was just the way she liked it, Coffee Mate and milk, tablespoon of sugar. He started bringing me a cup when I was the only one of us four still at home. I was eight. I have been a coffee drinker for 42 years and I can drink it any way, any strength, and even warmed over from the day before!
So at 430 I kicked broody Black Betty off her nest. She seemed fine. She ate and laid down in the shavings for a bit. Had a colossal broody poo. She's been broody less than a week. And she's a great broody.
At 645 I went out to put the chickens to bed. I'm missing a chicken. Black Betty isn't in her nest.
I find her under the coop, she looks like shes laying on dirt thinking it's her eggs. So I pick up a 2x4 to push her with it and try to convince her to go back to bed. She acts really weird and stiff and pretty much rolls in a 180. I am able to run around the coop and pick her up. She's stiff and weak, can't stand, can't keep her head up.
She's dying. I know it.
She's on my lap right now, I brought her into the house where it's warm (cause she was cold) so she can die somewhat comfortably.
What could have possibly happened in the slightly more than 2 hours since I threw her off the nest?
I am so sorry, it makes me so sad when this happens. Just keep her as comfortable as possible and remember that she had a very happy life with you. You did right by her.
Also some of you may have noticed Laree's been MIA. She's been up to super secret important work lately and was unable to run her Liar, Liar Pants on Fire Contest.
However, she still had a prize to give away.
She used a random number generator to choose a random post number, and will give the prize away to the poster of the random number chosen.
The winner is... Cynthia12 on Post # 6635
Congratulations, Cynthia! You posted and won! Please PM LareePQG your mailing address.
Congratulations! You lucky ducky, you!
Me too, I've talked to the deputies at work many times. Their absolute least favorite call to take is a "welfare check" They say when you find a body in the summer time after a few days.......................(skip down if you disturb easily).....................................it's kind of like an overripe plum.
She's dying. I know it.
She's on my lap right now, I brought her into the house where it's warm (cause she was cold) so she can die somewhat comfortably.
Sorry about your hen. When we have something dying (generally a lamb), if it's cold outside I'll always wrap it in a towel, bring it in the house and let it pass warm and comfortable. It just seems to be the right thing to do.
Did you know they can spray like 20 feet?! Finally, eyes watering and the stench just kickin my butt I took steady aim and he gave one last spray! My wife was not happy that week!
One of the ladies at work surprised a skunk on her backporch one night. She was wearing a robe and it sprayed her full on her bare leg. She said the spray was thick, sticky and green. She immediately ran into her backyard, stripped naked and hosed off, then moved to her shower to scrub.
She stunk at work for nearly two weeks. It's a very small, closed in office.
Deb
I'm sorry, Deb, I didn't quite catch what you posted, can you repeat it? 
Just kidding you, girl, seriously, how DID that happen?
"If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”
― Mae West
I didn't know Mae knew about chicken math! 
I have a question about giving some eggs to a broody. I have a Salmon Favorelle that has gone broody. I am thinking about giving her some eggs out of the incubator on Monday. This will be the first time for "One eyed Jackie". Am I better off giving her a couple eggs on Monday or just putting chicks under her after they hatch?
Put the eggs under her. It gives her a chance to make the transition to Mommy from Broody. Sometimes they don't transition well and kill the weird interlopers that appear under them, trying to get their eggs! They just don't get it, always. If you allow them to hatch underneath, it allows them to talk to the chicks, and vice versa.
Me too, I've talked to the deputies at work many times. Their absolute least favorite call to take is a "welfare check" They say when you find a body in the summer time after a few days.......................(skip down if you disturb easily).....................................it's kind of like an overripe plum.
Sorry about your hen. When we have something dying (generally a lamb), if it's cold outside I'll always wrap it in a towel, bring it in the house and let it pass warm and comfortable. It just seems to be the right thing to do.
One of the ladies at work surprised a skunk on her backporch one night. She was wearing a robe and it sprayed her full on her bare leg. She said the spray was thick, sticky and green. She immediately ran into her backyard, stripped naked and hosed off, then moved to her shower to scrub.
She stunk at work for nearly two weeks. It's a very small, closed in office.
Deb
OK! Ok! We got it, already!! LOL!! 
My eggs went into lock down today 
. (I set early) I am SO nervous and second guessing everything. I just hope something hatches .
I candled them before I put them in and marked them as to whether I thought they were alive etc. I guess we will see how well I candle lol. Ugh just makes me sick to my stomache thinking about all the "what ifs", and if I messed something up.... or if I should trust my thermometer or hygrometer. I've checked them both... whose to say I did that right 
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I am a Bantam addict!
Proud mama to 1 Son, 2 Horses, 2 Dogs, 2 Cats, 6 Seramas, 6 Bantam Cochins/Cochin Mixes, 4 Cayugas... and counting.
Looking for Silkies, preferably grown, pretty close to my area, pet quality is fine. Want them for broodies and eggs.
I am a Bantam addict!
Proud mama to 1 Son, 2 Horses, 2 Dogs, 2 Cats, 6 Seramas, 6 Bantam Cochins/Cochin Mixes, 4 Cayugas... and counting.
Looking for Silkies, preferably grown, pretty close to my area, pet quality is fine. Want them for broodies and eggs.
