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Kinda looks like they’re doing the splits

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Quote: I know it's miserable. Jim has it too. He finally went to the urgent care walk-in on sunday. I used to think I was immune to it..ha. My mother once got really sick from burning it. Are you doing anything for it?

It's so nice to be home. triplets are hard to take care of when you're an old girl. I guesss for a young girl too. Here I sit reading about everyone's chickens and gardens instead of working. Sam, I've never seen a robin make a nest on the ground either. I guess those birds can't read. Those...

Quote: It's kind of difficult to tell from the pictures but it looks like 4 pullets yup ,that what I was thinking..4 girls and 2 boys. I would have loved to trade a boy for a boy except we got ours from the same chickenman.

Quote: lindah, I will try not to be jealous that you are there Have fun. I will be heading to South Carolina in July Well Hilbillyhen, you are really gonna be jealous to hear that I am down here taking care of baby triplets and a 2yr old..the human kind...all boys. My son met his wife...

In down North Carolina but just wanted to stop in to see what was going on up in Mich. sounds like lots of rain. I had started watering my plants with the hose so I am glad for the rain. I just talked to DH and he was saying chicken s#it on my tractor blah blah chicken s#it blahblah. I was...

isn't that the best sound when chirps are coming from the incubator Quote:

i'm really hoping it's a duck so it will be precocial.

maybe it's a Little Green Heron egg. I'm thinking Great Blue Heron would have a bigger egg.

Quote: What a beautiful broody cage.

I forgot to say the egg she hatched is from the Plum Market.

A wonderful thing happened this morning. My little broody hen had been setting on her real and glass eggs. I heard peeping. She hatched one little black chick. and still has one good egg in there so I will see what happens. She's small so I only put 8 eggs under her. Some went bad so I did...

seems like you aren't suppose to put turkeys and chickens together because of black?foot? head? disease. Some kind of disease turkeys get from chickens. maybe it's just something DH told me so I wouldn't get turkeys.

thanks for answering so quickly. . I will leave her inside the coop in a dog crate with food etc. She is already so ostracized I don't want it harder for her. This way she will still be hopefully part of the flock. Thanks Opa. I will candle the eggs today. They are so dark and thick shelled...