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

Yeah.....all caught up, so glad qualies are outside, will make dinner time easier in my opinion. They are pretty cute....on strict orders from husband no hatching here this year but have oddles of eggs and bator packed up to bring to co worker tomorrow so I will get to see some of my girls offspring happen :)
 
Sorry Tes. :hugs I'll see you and raise you.

Bought daughter 4 new tires for her car after she had nail in her tire. OK, it's time.
Battery died in my car on Friday. Found the truck had a flat tire on Friday. Bought new battery after auto store CONFIRMS bad battery. 6 years old, OK.
Saturday Daughter gets internship offer! Yeah!
in Minnesota. That's like Canada, eh? Aww.
It's only for 6 weeks and would look GREAT on resume. Yeah!

Sunday we hide. Read the great Batty vs. Conan debate and contribute to round #2. Batty is great! What wit! What style!
Conan is on point! What piercing thrusts!
What evil lurks in the heart of men?
Find out only half know Cthulhu. I mean, REALLY!?! This is why you need a .45. Save your last bullet...

Monday AM
One of the 4 out of original 8 starting eggs pip. Yeah! Go to work anyway. Aww.
Fix flat. Get NEW tire. Old one is less than 1000 miles. Under warranty. Meh.
Put battery in car & discover car won't start. That means the starter is bad and battery was good. Crap.
Get home and check chicks.
#1 killed by mother? First time mother. Pecked to death.
#2 fluffy little chicky.
#3 shrink wrapped in crushed shell.
#4 pipped.

Bring #3 in. Guessing mother crushed shell after it pipped??? 60% of shell gone. Use oil to loosen dried membrane. Mal positioned with head in wrong end between legs. OK. Help the little one. Get membrane off and doesn't look like finished forming. Crap. Not seeing yolk, but belly ain't right. Return to mother to finish. Hope that one makes it. :fl:fl:fl

Daughter gets official job/internship offer. Start next week. "Are you in Texas right now?!?" So planning what she needs for 6 weeks.
#1 A .45. etc.

What a roller coaster!

Straight chicken talk.

I DON'T WANT TO LOSE ANOTHER CHICK!!!

Options:
#1 Pull all 3. Put in brooder with heating pad. Raise with 1.5 week old meat chicks. Swear off broodys. Especially Leghorn broodies.

#2 Leave with Leghorn. Still in coop with flock. Can move all to tractor for 2 weeks until meaties out grow other tractor.

@Ursuline Chick, @KikisGirls @Cyprus Anyone want to posit a position?

Expect to lose #3. Just a feeling. didn't look good. Not really moving. Unsure how long the shrink wrap was. :barnie
I would stick with the broody but monitor her as much as possible.
 
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I picked a bad week to stop drinking.

2 lively chicks. Put food and water in the nest box. Dipped beaks. All seems fine. If this is my biggest challenge today, I've been blessed.
 
Sorry Tes. :hugs I'll see you and raise you.

Bought daughter 4 new tires for her car after she had nail in her tire. OK, it's time.
Battery died in my car on Friday. Found the truck had a flat tire on Friday. Bought new battery after auto store CONFIRMS bad battery. 6 years old, OK.
Saturday Daughter gets internship offer! Yeah!
in Minnesota. That's like Canada, eh? Aww.
It's only for 6 weeks and would look GREAT on resume. Yeah!

Sunday we hide. Read the great Batty vs. Conan debate and contribute to round #2. Batty is great! What wit! What style!
Conan is on point! What piercing thrusts!
What evil lurks in the heart of men?
Find out only half know Cthulhu. I mean, REALLY!?! This is why you need a .45. Save your last bullet...

Monday AM
One of the 4 out of original 8 starting eggs pip. Yeah! Go to work anyway. Aww.
Fix flat. Get NEW tire. Old one is less than 1000 miles. Under warranty. Meh.
Put battery in car & discover car won't start. That means the starter is bad and battery was good. Crap.
Get home and check chicks.
#1 killed by mother? First time mother. Pecked to death.
#2 fluffy little chicky.
#3 shrink wrapped in crushed shell.
#4 pipped.

Bring #3 in. Guessing mother crushed shell after it pipped??? 60% of shell gone. Use oil to loosen dried membrane. Mal positioned with head in wrong end between legs. OK. Help the little one. Get membrane off and doesn't look like finished forming. Crap. Not seeing yolk, but belly ain't right. Return to mother to finish. Hope that one makes it. :fl:fl:fl

Daughter gets official job/internship offer. Start next week. "Are you in Texas right now?!?" So planning what she needs for 6 weeks.
#1 A .45. etc.

What a roller coaster!

Straight chicken talk.

I DON'T WANT TO LOSE ANOTHER CHICK!!!

Options:
#1 Pull all 3. Put in brooder with heating pad. Raise with 1.5 week old meat chicks. Swear off broodys. Especially Leghorn broodies.

#2 Leave with Leghorn. Still in coop with flock. Can move all to tractor for 2 weeks until meaties out grow other tractor.

@Ursuline Chick, @KikisGirls @Cyprus Anyone want to posit a position?

Expect to lose #3. Just a feeling. didn't look good. Not really moving. Unsure how long the shrink wrap was. :barnie
Pull all three...put on heating pad.
 
Yeah.....all caught up, so glad qualies are outside, will make dinner time easier in my opinion. They are pretty cute....on strict orders from husband no hatching here this year but have oddles of eggs and bator packed up to bring to co worker tomorrow so I will get to see some of my girls offspring happen :)
:woot Has friend ever hatched before?
Tel her to make a thread here so we can all follow along too!
:celebrate
 

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