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

[Kiki]

I don't have any.
Is vaseline okay?

Yes but coconut oil is better.

 

[Cyprus]

Yes but coconut oil is better.

Hmm. We may have some. I'll look.

 

[Morrigan]

Hello chicken people.

A couple of days away and I am seriously behind. Before I catch up, I wanted to update on the huddle box, particularly after touting its virtues.

First night the huddle box worked great. Second night not so much. They were slow to go in and I had to herd stragglers in. In the morning, I found one just outside the huddle box dead and a second inside, cold and almost dead (it died later that day despite my best efforts). When I hooked up the heat lamp and they ran and huddled under it. I felt terrible.

Turns out that 63 degrees, even with a somewhat heated huddle box, may not be enough for chicks stressed by 3 days of shipping. I think the concept is still good, but I need more of a heating element and also think that in cases were the shipping goes long (3 days), I will put a heat lamp on for the first couple of nights just to ensure everyone stays warm and they had a better chance to re-fuel 24/7 for the first couple of days.

It's possible they would have died no matter what, but I think I asked too much of the little guys straight off a tough, long postal shipping.

 

[NanaKat]

My daughter ended up getting that. Caught it early but the rest of us, hubby, son and myself, all got put on tamiflu which was outrageously expensive at the time. Was not a fun ordeal.

Hubby is allergic to something in Tamiflu so can't take it. Get the flu shot!

Oh no.
Let is pass tonight!
Puking is the worst thing ever.

Especially when it is the hubby! Men make the worst sick people.

I collect the cardboard flat things from the grocery store that hold stuff.
Lke these:
View attachment 1529964 I picked up a few almost every day because I use them in my coop on my poop tray too and it is so easy to just remove one and put another. Takes all of one minute.

I was using them for the dirt trays in the quail cage but I decided to go all out and spend two whole dollars on some pan things from the dollar store today.
I am thinking I will now dump my new pans into a bucket and refill with fresh dirt.

And compost the poopy dirt for the garden.


Got just a few apples today...had to harvest the apples because we found raccoon prints around the barn which is right across the drive from the garden. The coons stripped our pear trees two years ago overnight! So we pulled the apples.
The buckets are just under a 5 gallon bucket.

cleaned out nest boxes and reset with new hay. Candled all the eggs in the hen house because I hadn't been collecting the eggs....too many in molt...not laying...and five rainy muddy days.
Grouped eggs by embryo development and dated and marked the eggs. Gave them back to the broody hens. Moved one broody into a cage with her clutch to hatch later this week. Actually have 50 plus eggs under 7 broody hens!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Fall/hoodie and flannel pajama weather, yay. Freezing and winter? No. Although snow is very pretty.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I'm so immature sometimes

 

[ShrekDawg]

Although truth be told I think he did it on purpose lol

 

[sdm111]

 

[adrikeen]

Catching up....

Weather forecast for Wednesday...
5-10cm of snow

Good God! Then again, I'd take snow over this hurricane coming.

Thank you!!!

that would be 2-4 inches.. houston would be paralyzed, but I think people up north can handle it

We act paralyzed........but we get through it.

 

[adrikeen]

Skunk in my run again last night.

Good God. Blah!!!

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That actually made me tear up. Thank you! That event still cuts deep around here.