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

[Kiki]

Do you know what goes good with Coronavirus?

Lyme Disease

Are you home?

 

[CindyinSD]

I kissed a chick the other day... On Wednesday then Thursday this all happened my friend cussed me out big time. It made me laugh. Imagine if I had something I caught from my chickens

A friend of mine warned me not to get chicks near my face. Said her two young grandchildren nearly died from something the doctors decided must have been transmitted by the chicks. It’s more dangerous of course, for the very young and old, and for anyone already sick or immunosuppressed. DH’s transplant doctor didn’t want him in the chicken yard or chicks in the house while he was immunosuppressed. Tempting as it is to cuddle them, I do respect these warnings.

 

[CindyinSD]

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I HATE pseudomonas! The smell! You could tell walking by the room, even before cultures were done. And suctioning the gunk? I’m really glad I’m not a nurse any more.

 

[Sara L]

My bunny with a missing ear! View attachment 2017306View attachment 2017307

Since I'm not an expert, can't tell you for sure why the ear is missing, but I would bet the mom was a little too quick with cleaning after giving birth. It's supposed to be more common with new moms or nervous moms. If it keeps happening on future litters and affects the quality of life for the kits, might want to consider a different doe. If it doesn't happen again, then it was just a fluke one off. Cute bun!

 

[BantyChooks]

They put me through the cat scan with that silver contrast the burns through your body and they found it! The x-rays and everything else were coming out negative! I honestly was giving up hope. Nothing was pointing to anything all night.

You know how ridiculous I looked sweating in the trauma room when it's freezing the nurses were all in long sleeves and I was ripping layers of clothing off.

I hate contrast with all my heart and soul. Get well soon.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Saw this on the TV last night and I love it.

 

[muddy75]

Since I'm not an expert, can't tell you for sure why the ear is missing, but I would bet the mom was a little too quick with cleaning after giving birth. It's supposed to be more common with new moms or nervous moms. If it keeps happening on future litters and affects the quality of life for the kits, might want to consider a different doe. If it doesn't happen again, then it was just a fluke one off. Cute bun!

thanks......we didn’t see any evidence of mom having done it, but was definitely on list of reasons for occurrence since this was first litter. does not seem to have affected quality of life in any way. As these are meat rabbits, this defect will not change the end result (can’t eat the ears anyway, right?)

 

[Sara L]

thanks......we didn’t see any evidence of mom having done it, but was definitely on list of reasons for occurrence since this was first litter. does not seem to have affected quality of life in any way. As these are meat rabbits, this defect will not change the end result (can’t eat the ears anyway, right?)

If it was a birth defect, it came out that way. If it was due to the mom, it would have happened as she was cleaning right after giving birth, which you probably wouldn't have seen. I still haven't seen any of mine give birth. The mom will eat the afterbirth, any stillborn kits, and clean up any other mess from the birth, all to hide the kits from any predators.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Let the chicks mingle with the big girls some today... some of the boys tried to pick fights with my top hen and got absolutely schooled by her they’re used to being able to boss their fellow flock mates around... maybe this will teach them some manners no one got hurt, btw, just some harsh lessons in how NOT to act around the top hen

Meanwhile my pushover just let one of the boys chase her away from the scratch.

I have faith the others will keep them in line though lol

Going to be allowing a lot more mingling too.

 

[sdm111]

I dont want to deal with getting new tires so I'll just get a new car
That's the life there.
You also gotta get the oil changed that should be good for a new one every few months