➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[jwyles]

Wow that was a lot of pages to catch up on, lol. Pics of Bravo, Echo, and Foxtrot. Per my notes, all three hatched about 2 months ago.
Bravo, pretty sure he is half speckled sussex. Starting to get green in the tailfeathers and he made a few squeaky crows about a week ago, so I'm sure he is a boy.
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Echo, very friendly and relaxed.
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Foxtrot, not really friendly but not super freaked out. Doesn't like to be touched but will tolerate it.
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I vote girls on the two brahmas. The dark brahmas are my faves btw. So pretty.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Nice web site, good job.

That's only Banty to you, thanks muchly.

Good morning! I'm up early anyway.


Petticoats are for daytime, nutjob.

Great job so far!


Apple pie too?
Join me. I have pictures of an even cuter Golden. His name is Danny and he likes eating tissues.
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Should have shared it with me.


At last, you admit it.


Try anyway. I am a fantastic role model.


That's prairiehearts with the rage issue. I'm the one that's terrified and rocking back and forth in the corner most of the time. Lol.

I agree, its an excellent page!

I love the website! Your chickens are beautiful.

I'm so far behind on this thread.

Thank you everyone!

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

I vote girls on the two brahmas. The dark brahmas are my faves btw. So pretty.

x2! The silver pencilling means girls.

 

[Kiki]

Tes, do you mind if I ask what you have? It's ok if you don't want to share it with me even if, everyone else knows.

She has 8 cockerels.

 

[Kiki]

I was 400+ behind. I'm catching up. Only 299 more to go.

 

[RUNuts]

Hey, my hat's already the size of Niagara Falls, a few more compliments won't hurt.

Certainly won't help either, but hey! We are here for you!

Busted. So I guess you've figured out that the bridge thing was from experience, huh? Don't try it. Replacement eyes are a bear to find.

Naw, I've got a freezer full. Most of them are from pugs... Find them rolling around the dog parks. They make great ice cubes. Here's looking at you, kid!

I'm very cute.

Absolutely precious in your Niagara Falls hat. You are still all wet. Even if it is frozen.

You're nuts. Trees are turning colours here. Winter is coming!

Send me a picture! Quick before the white stuff pollutes everything. (you spelled color wrong. Must be the British in you.)
I've still got 5 months before I break out the winter wind breaker.

In my experience it's more likely to be late, but I also hatch under bantams in winter, so...

I've got an 18 month old leghorn that just stands in the nest box. Pale comb. Not acting right. Walking slow. Nothing hard in the abdomen that I can feel and her keel is more pronounced than it should be. She is eating, obviously not enough. No mites. Any ideas? Haven't wormed them. I'll see if she will eat some crushed red pepper. The other 5 acting normal. Broody is fluffed as normal.

 

[jwyles]

Hmm. Maybe we should talk... Study more. You can win!


Tea tree oil nightly before bed. 3 pairs of boots and alternate while the others dry. I find the tea tree oil works better than the other antifungals. Even with the stink to high heaven.


ewww. That's an oxymoron.


NO! You can't admit that to Batty. It just builds her up and inflates her already overinflated ego. <she did get a few good ones in!! Just a few, though.>


She didn't??


Yes, the undead don't sleep.


Too cute. Way too cute.

Been thinking about you Batty! It's dipping down to the low 80's. Downright cool.

Good morning all. What a whole lotta goat poop to catch up. I can't believe anyone didn't offer Blue Bell on top of the pie. I mean, a crispy peach cobbler steaming from the oven covered with melting Blue Bell that trickles into the tiniest recesses of the cobbler crunchies. Topped with a generous splash of cinnamon and sugar. Followed by a nice hammock to lounge around on.

When a broody is hatching eggs and you count from the day after you place them under her, is it a fixed 21 days? Or can it be early? From the conversations I've been reading, the answers are it can be anytime around the 21st day for the first external pip. Therefore, a potential pip could happen anytime between now and never?

I've only hatched under a broody twice. The first time under my bantam during chilly fall weather the chicks were a few days early like maybe day 18 or 19 ish. The last time under my ameracauna the chick pipped on day 20 but didn't complete hatching until sometime in the night after I'd gone to bed so it could've technically been day 21.

 

[Kiki]

Hey it froze for like two days here last year thank you very much!

ETA: it was really more like a week! Just saying!

We had one day of a snow storm...it actually stuck to the ground! And a few days of an ice storm. It was horrible, everything shut down.

 

[Kiki]

Certainly won't help either, but hey! We are here for you!


Naw, I've got a freezer full. Most of them are from pugs... Find them rolling around the dog parks. They make great ice cubes. Here's looking at you, kid!


Absolutely precious in your Niagara Falls hat. You are still all wet. Even if it is frozen.


Send me a picture! Quick before the white stuff pollutes everything. (you spelled color wrong. Must be the British in you.)
I've still got 5 months before I break out the winter wind breaker.



I've got an 18 month old leghorn that just stands in the nest box. Pale comb. Not acting right. Walking slow. Nothing hard in the abdomen that I can feel and her keel is more pronounced than it should be. She is eating, obviously not enough. No mites. Any ideas? Haven't wormed them. I'll see if she will eat some crushed red pepper. The other 5 acting normal. Broody is fluffed as normal.

Red pepper won't rid worms you nut. Get some

Safe-guard Horses

• Kiki
• Apr 16, 2018

Safe-guard Goats

• Kiki
• Apr 16, 2018

 

[jwyles]

We had one day of a snow storm...it actually stuck to the ground! And a few days of an ice storm. It was horrible, everything shut down.

Kiki!!! She's alive!!!! Feeling better?