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

[adrikeen]

Okay so perhaps the numerous enterococcus is concerning.

In humans you usually see enteroccus in the bowel and will also show in urine
Klebsiella will show in respiratory and urine.

 

[adrikeen]

Porcelain or Mille Fleur?
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Cy - I'm going to go with MF. It's probably going to be "dilute". I have one like that - very pale but a MF. The chick looked very similar to yours. All Porcelains seem to have that dip dye look.

Time to refresh the mre's
I know what's for dinner for the foreseeable future lol. Prepper no, prepared yes when you live here

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We did that....just Indian.

 

[Cyprus]

Cy - I'm going to go with MF. It's probably going to be "dilute". I have one like that - very pale but a MF. The chick looked very similar to yours. All Porcelains seem to have that dip dye look.




We did that....just Indian.

Thanks!
Everyone hatched and the D'Uccles all look MF.

 

[adrikeen]

Luv me some D'uccles! Send 'em my way if you don't want them all.

 

[adrikeen]

Ok...drum roll everyone....all of you are now include in my 1000TH post! Woo Hoo!!!
Don't you all feel special?
Of course that only took me 8 years to do (I lurked for 2 before joining).

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

Ok...drum roll everyone....all of you are now include in my 1000TH post! Woo Hoo!!!
Don't you all feel special?
Of course that only took me 8 years to do (I lurked for 2 before joining).

Wtg!

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

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.

So sry for your losses

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Ok...drum roll everyone....all of you are now include in my 1000TH post! Woo Hoo!!!
Don't you all feel special?
Of course that only took me 8 years to do (I lurked for 2 before joining).

 

[Kiki]

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


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


And compost the poopy dirt for the garden.

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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!!!

50!
What you you to do with all those babies?

 

[Kiki]

Ok...drum roll everyone....all of you are now include in my 1000TH post! Woo Hoo!!!
Don't you all feel special?
Of course that only took me 8 years to do (I lurked for 2 before joining).

I am getting worried for you.