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

[Kiki]

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The Mini dressed nice for school today...they are doing something school district wide to honor this.

 

[Kiki]

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.

I am so sorry.

 

[adrikeen]

The Mini dressed nice for school today...they are doing something school district wide to honor this.

I just teared up again. Tell Mini/Mini's school thank you!

 

[Kiki]

I just teared up again. Tell Mini/Mini's school thank you!

I'm not sure exactly what they are doing today but I will find out this afternoon.
Also...he had his very first student council meeting this morning.
We just found out yesterday that he was nominated.
I have no clue what elementary student council does but I am excited to make posters for when it comes time to vote.

 

[Kiki]

He can run for President, VP, Secretary or Treasurer.

 

[Morrigan]

No more losses yesterday or tonight. Holding steady at 23 meaties. I still hate heat lamps, but the chicks are doing better with it. Hoping to wean them off over the next few days.

Over the past two days we picked, crushed and de-stemmed our syrah grapes. Got 3 plastic tubs fermenting in our basement. It was a ton work, but next years wine supply has been started!

 

[Kiki]

No more losses yesterday or tonight. Holding steady at 23 meaties. I still hate heat lamps, but the chicks are doing better with it. Hoping to wean them off over the next few days.

Over the past two days we picked, crushed and de-stemmed our syrah grapes. Got 3 plastic tubs fermenting in our basement. It was a ton work, but next years wine supply has been started!

Are you going to make your own wine labels this time?

 

[Morrigan]

Are you going to make your own wine labels this time?

It's going to be the same label as 2017, just with the year changed. Bottling still a ways off. After they ferment for two weeks, we press out the skins and put the grape juice in big "carboys" with oak pieces and they age for several months. It's quite a process.

 

[adrikeen]

I'm intrigued! Wine and chicks/chickens....my two favorite things!

I think, somewhere, there is an old childhood photo of me stomping grapes in full traditional Italian dress (shhh....tell no one! )

 

[Kiki]

I'm intrigued! Wine and chicks/chickens....my two favorite things!

I think, somewhere, there is an old childhood photo of me stomping grapes in full traditional Italian dress (shhh....tell no one! )

Find it!