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

Oops. Sorry Deep Ending.

Cute carnival pics Prairie! I, for one, would love to be flooded with more. If you want, you can create a spoiler tag and upload all your pics into it so it doesn’t automatically flood the page.
Any plans for the goldfish? I’ve always wanted to try keeping some in a horse trough lol.
The ammonia buildup isn’t worth keeping them in the horse trough, but we’ll grow them up and add them to our already large goldfish/koi hybrid group assuming they live long enough. :oops: We’re going to get them a little tank tomorrow since we don’t have one on hand. They’re living in a water pitcher for now.
 
I think we’re all aware of and embrace your verbal diarrhea at this point, K. :gigLike Urs said, this should be a safe place for us loony chicken folk to rant.

As for being vague, I think more people know what you mean than you give us credit for haha. Regardless, 5 years is a long time for any sort of personal goal and you should be insanely proud of yourself. I know I am. :hugs

Couldn't agree more.

Thank you both. :hugs I appreciate that. :hugs

I’m glad everyone embraces it. :lau and you guys are right and I think it is safe and actually I think I feel most comfortable or safe or whatever with you guys here than with anyone or anywhere else on the site except my one other best friend on here. So I know you all are really great. I was just being really hard on myself yesterday. Idk why. But it hasn’t really been the best few days anyway and I haven’t really been sleeping so I think that’s why. Sorry for being such a negative nilly yesterday. :oops:

And yeah, I’m sure I’ve probably mentioned it here before and even if not, you guys are all really smart, so I’m sure someone knows haha but anyway, thank you very much!! It means a lot. I suppose it is a long time, isn’t it? I’m definitely proud of myself too but idk, for some reason lately, the past couple days and especially yesterday, I’ve been really struggling with it. Yesterday I almost broke twice in one day and kept finding stuff to do it with :( But I ended up throwing everything away. Both times. :D but I mean I’ve had the thoughts pass through occasionally or even sometimes kind of a lot over the years but normally I never actually want to and definitely never try to. :( idk what’s gotten into me lately. But I seriously almost ruined 5 years. I was very close. But I resisted some very strong urges twice in one day and now today I feel much better and very glad I did. :D

Especially cause it’s not technically 5 years until August so I want to make it till then. I want to at least get to 5 years and not ruin it before I even hit it. Though of course hopefully I go way longer than that. The wedding is also in September so I don’t want to spiral before then ha

So I guess I’m proud of myself on two fronts. Proud that I’m so close to 5 years and proud that I resisted it so much. I very very easily could have because I was very close to it and actually wanted to yesterday. :(
 
Happy Memorial Day!

Haven’t been around much lately.
Friday was my brother’s last day of school so I took him to a trampoline park and we had fun. Then tonight the family all went to the carnival and where I got to re-live the small town feel of a fair, and we won two goldfish. :yesss:

We were supposed to spend this weekend with family from Kansas and East Texas but the all of our Kansas family got flooded, and so we called it off.

Still had a great weekend though! :clap

Carnival pictures! I took more but don’t want to flood the page.

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Love these pics!! And I agree with Tes... post more! :D
 
The ammonia buildup isn’t worth keeping them in the horse trough, but we’ll grow them up and add them to our already large goldfish/koi hybrid group assuming they live long enough. :oops: We’re going to get them a little tank tomorrow since we don’t have one on hand. They’re living in a water pitcher for now.
Be careful with fair goldfish, make sure they are quarantined for a while before you introduce them to your fish. I lost my goldfish that was over 2 years old because the fair fish I added to the tank had something. Then I lost the fair fish a few days later.
 
Be careful with fair goldfish, make sure they are quarantined for a while before you introduce them to your fish. I lost my goldfish that was over 2 years old because the fair fish I added to the tank had something. Then I lost the fair fish a few days later.
They won’t be added to our group for a long time. Our big group fish are over 15” in length, these little guys are maybe 3”.
 
So.. I have been banned from hatching more birds until I winnow down the birds I have now. Yesterday I noticed Blue has staying in the nestbox for quite a while. I checked again last night and noticed she only had 2 eggs plus the fake egg to sit on, so I gave her 4 more eggs and marked all 6; I didn't want her to sit lopsided you see. I moved the fake egg to the other box.

This doesn't count as incubating more since I'm not using an incubator, right?
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So.. I have been banned from hatching more birds until I winnow down the birds I have now. Yesterday I noticed Blue has staying in the nestbox for quite a while. I checked again last night and noticed she only had 2 eggs plus the fake egg to sit on, so I gave her 4 more eggs and marked all 6; I didn't want her to sit lopsided you see. I moved the fake egg to the other box.

This doesn't count as incubating more since I'm not using an incubator, right?
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:lau I like the way you think!!
 
So.. I have been banned from hatching more birds until I winnow down the birds I have now. Yesterday I noticed Blue has staying in the nestbox for quite a while. I checked again last night and noticed she only had 2 eggs plus the fake egg to sit on, so I gave her 4 more eggs and marked all 6; I didn't want her to sit lopsided you see. I moved the fake egg to the other box.

This doesn't count as incubating more since I'm not using an incubator, right?
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Since the hen decided to sit on eggs, you can't be held responsible for that!!!! It's the hen's fault. :highfive: :jumpy:jumpy:jumpy
 
Aww, so glad for the happy outcome. Think mama will take to her or that you've got a bottle baby on your hands?
Yes. But we have another cow with a calf born with a crooked leg..wobbly knee. Had to bring them up and splint the calf's leg. She is a mature cow with a huge milk bag. We are letting Itsy Bitsy suckle this cow in the morning as well as her mother and at 1pm. Then she gets her mother and a bottle at night. We put both moms in the squeeze chute with a bucket of feed. Little momma is making more milk, but still kicks off her baby for now...it is a learning curve.

Thank you! I appreciate this. :hugs

I don’t think you’re wrong. :hugs

I’ve just been extra hard on myself lately and also have been having some issues the last few days so I think I’m just not in the best state mentally and a little more anxious and/or paranoid than usual. :oops: :confused:
Less sleep than normal always make me off my game.

@NanaKat! I was thinking of ya'll this morning. I saw that OK got blasted with some more tornadoes. That a hotel got leveled (their word, not mine) and that there are fatalities this time around. I hope ya'll are ok! :hugs
Thank you...we are fine. The storm that hit El Reno tracked thru OKC and over our property in Prague... knocked down few huge trees.
Tornadoes that kill are heartbreaking. I feel for the families.
We have received 13.5 inches of rain this month with more coming tonight. Never have we gotten this much rain in one month.

So.. I have been banned from hatching more birds until I winnow down the birds I have now. Yesterday I noticed Blue has staying in the nestbox for quite a while. I checked again last night and noticed she only had 2 eggs plus the fake egg to sit on, so I gave her 4 more eggs and marked all 6; I didn't want her to sit lopsided you see. I moved the fake egg to the other box.

This doesn't count as incubating more since I'm not using an incubator, right?
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No...not your fault. You are not doing the incubating.
 
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