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

[ShrekDawg]

Yep, a lot of double yolk layers will have weird eggs and will stop laying sooner than normal layers. They have multiple defects with their reproductive systems, most of the time it leads to internal layers or they have EDS and peritonitis.

That’s sad! hope she doesn’t get those issues! She seems fine and I actually didn’t really phrase that right, she started laying again maybe 2 1/2 weeks ago after like at least 7 months, possibly longer, the 7 months is just when she started molting (August), so she didn’t really stop laying altogether, I guess I meant stopped laying for a while after the weird eggs, and that should also read frequently takes 6+ months breaks, apparently missed a word lol she has taken a long break I think at least once before. I actually was starting to think she might never lay again this time lol they just turned 3 in October so she’s 3 1/2 and now that she’s started again is pretty regular so far. Decent sized eggs but no double yolkers so far.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Good morning everyone.

 

[Kiki]

Good morning everyone.

Did you pull an all nighter?

 

[NanaKat]

Um...my grandpa used to call these something very different.

So did my grandpa!
Love them better raw. As a child a bag of Brazil nuts was always in my Christmas stocking. Mama would hide them in the freezer and soon discovered that to freeze them made the shell crack off easily.

Candled two trays last evening...we have 32 ducklings developing and 62 chicks. These are for the Easter Hatch a long although the ducklings won't actually hatch until
April 25.
Then I set another tray containing 22 Columbian Wyandottes from Idaho breeder Rob Newburn, 12 Delaware Bantams from Don Gibson in Oklahoma and 32 of my own eggs. Rob is sending me a second batch too.

Should have the tops on my pens finished today and breeder trios and quads in pens....if the weather cooperates!

Yesterday I planted more cabbage, onions and lettuce and a Shiro plum tree in the garden finishing just before a nice shower hit.
Seedlings are sprouting in the seed pots!
And we have 4 days of low 30s nights coming this
week

 

[itspebbl]

Good morning everyone.

Good morning!!

 

[debid]

So did my grandpa!
Love them better raw. As a child a bag of Brazil nuts was always in my Christmas stocking. Mama would hide them in the freezer and soon discovered that to freeze them made the shell crack off easily.

Candled two trays last evening...we have 32 ducklings developing and 62 chicks. These are for the Easter Hatch a long although the ducklings won't actually hatch until
April 25.
Then I set another tray containing 22 Columbian Wyandottes from Idaho breeder Rob Newburn, 12 Delaware Bantams from Don Gibson in Oklahoma and 32 of my own eggs. Rob is sending me a second batch too.

Should have the tops on my pens finished today and breeder trios and quads in pens....if the weather cooperates!

Yesterday I planted more cabbage, onions and lettuce and a Shiro plum tree in the garden finishing just before a nice shower hit.
Seedlings are sprouting in the seed pots!
And we have 4 days of low 30s nights coming this
week

Ugh, I hate late freezes! I haven't seen anything below 40 in the extended forecast yet but I have my bucket collection ready if the tomatoes are threatened. I just can't stand waiting anymore once we hit the upper 70s.

 

[NanaKat]

Ugh, I hate late freezes! I haven't seen anything below 40 in the extended forecast yet but I have my bucket collection ready if the tomatoes are threatened. I just can't stand waiting anymore once we hit the upper 70s.

I have lost plants over the years to freezes so I'm waiting....have 58 tomato plants already up to 12 inches high in their pots ready to go out but I'm holding them...don't have enough buckets.
I pinched back the pepper plants to help hold them.
Only cold hardy plants are in the garden for now.

 

[Kiki]

So did my grandpa!
Love them better raw. As a child a bag of Brazil nuts was always in my Christmas stocking. Mama would hide them in the freezer and soon discovered that to freeze them made the shell crack off easily.

Candled two trays last evening...we have 32 ducklings developing and 62 chicks. These are for the Easter Hatch a long although the ducklings won't actually hatch until
April 25.
Then I set another tray containing 22 Columbian Wyandottes from Idaho breeder Rob Newburn, 12 Delaware Bantams from Don Gibson in Oklahoma and 32 of my own eggs. Rob is sending me a second batch too.

Should have the tops on my pens finished today and breeder trios and quads in pens....if the weather cooperates!

Yesterday I planted more cabbage, onions and lettuce and a Shiro plum tree in the garden finishing just before a nice shower hit.
Seedlings are sprouting in the seed pots!
And we have 4 days of low 30s nights coming this
week

You better get busy before this stormy weather decides to head your way.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Did you pull an all nighter?

Nope! Woke up at 5 due to pain from the Wendy’s, tried laying back down and also going a few times but couldn’t do either cause every time I laid down it came back, then finally took prune juice then had to wait for it to kick in, laid down while waiting, then finally went... a lot. But not before it made the pain worse, causing more gas (I think the original problem was gas pain). Then did get on my phone a tad and probably stayed up a half hour or hour later than I needed to then finally went back to sleep at like 7:30. But now I remembered why I never eat fast food anymore, besides trying to eat healthier.... tears up my stomach. Lesson learned lol and I just now woke up like 10, 20 minutes ago. 11:30 or 11:40 or something like that, it’s 12:05 now. Oddly I don’t feel tired yet I am. And my stomach is still grumbling/unstable cause I accidentally had TOO much juice but oh well. At least it’s not pain lol

Good morning!!

How are you?

 

[ShrekDawg]

So I guess in a way I kind of did pull an all nighter considering I didn’t go to sleep until like 1 or 2, woke up at 5, stayed up till 7:30, slept till 11:30, so not that much sleep or at least, very broken up.

Also, sorry for the way tmi hah