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

[NanaKat]

Hi all, sorryfor the very cryptic picture lol.
I had 3 seizures Friday night and 5 seizures saturnight night/morning (one in the car and one in hospital)
I’m tired as hell and I just want a shower to get this gel crap out my hair from the EEG
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Prayers for quick resolution and some good rest and speedy release from hospital.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Did I miss the cream legbar pics?

The bottom two are our new Legbar pullets. They’re so small compared to the others lol.

 

[007Sean]

The bottom two are our new Legbar pullets. They’re so small compared to the others lol.
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Cute chicks!

 

[Sara L]

Button update: final count is 6 button quail hatched, 2 which required help. The one with the neck issue seems to have straightened out now, but one leg is sticking out the wrong direction. Added hobbles but Pretzel kicked off the first set, so who knows if they will stay on overnight.

The 3 coturnix quail eggs hatched, it's crazy to see the size difference between the coturnix and the buttons.

 

[Pugsabi]

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Coop progress

Congratulations!!!

 

[Pugsabi]

Button update: final count is 6 button quail hatched, 2 which required help. The one with the neck issue seems to have straightened out now, but one leg is sticking out the wrong direction. Added hobbles but Pretzel kicked off the first set, so who knows if they will stay on overnight.
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The 3 coturnix quail eggs hatched, it's crazy to see the size difference between the coturnix and the buttons.
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Yay! Babies

 

[Pugsabi]

The bottom two are our new Legbar pullets. They’re so small compared to the others lol.
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So cute! I'm not allowing myself to even drive by tractor supply Co until I know for sure chick days are over. I don't trust myself at all.

 

[adrikeen]

So cute! I'm not allowing myself to even drive by tractor supply Co until I know for sure chick days are over. I don't trust myself at all.

Hubby and I were grocery shopping and we pass a TSC. I saw the sign out "Chicks are here!". I said "look, they have chicks!" Hubby replied "NO!!!!!" and continued to drive on. It was rather amusing.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Cute chicks!

Thank you!

So cute! I'm not allowing myself to even drive by tractor supply Co until I know for sure chick days are over. I don't trust myself at all.

Hubby and I were grocery shopping and we pass a TSC. I saw the sign out "Chicks are here!". I said "look, they have chicks!" Hubby replied "NO!!!!!" and continued to drive on. It was rather amusing.

We have to go there for horse grain, and chicken feed so when we stopped in and saw that they had those we just couldn’t help ourselves.

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

When I went to let the girls out this morning I found this on the floor of the coop.

All of the girls were still on the roosts when I opened the door. I am going to assume it was the same pullet that laid the other one that I only found the yoke remnants of. It was super thin. Like I was scared to even try to pick it up and you can see where it was already torn, just didn't ooze out yet (or get eaten). I guess we will see what happens over the next few days. Hopefully the shells will improve. If they don't, what can I do other than oyster shell? I don't even know which one it is.

*side note totally unrelated*
Yesterday we caught a couple of minnows from our creek. Tried to give them to the ducks. They didn't want anything to do with them. So we gave them to the chickens. Well, 2 chickens because they were piggies and didn't share. Hubby was freaked out because he watched Lucy gobble the minnow down, whole. He's like, "whoa! you can't eat that thing whole like that, you're gonna choke!" Turns to me and says, "omgosh! she just ate that thing whole. just gobbled it down. " Then told me to watch her just in case she had any problems. I said to him, if they can eat frogs (which they've already caught a few) I think they'll be able to gulp down a minnow. One was a good size tho. The other was tiny. I think we're going to try to catch more over night on the weekend and make sure all of the girls get one as a treat. Maybe try and entice the ducks again.