BYC Café

[DobieLover]

Do you strain out the garlic?

What does this do for them?

The ingredients have immune boosting and antibacterial properties.
I crushed the garlic so it eventually sunk to the bottom.

I guess I'm still on pins and needles with the Fab 4 (dubbed so for obvious reasons). I rush out to the coop as soon as I get home to check on them and change their water. Still looking good and very active as they should be.

They all hate me now from cleaning pasty butt from them. They are clean today so no handling required. Go ahead and hate me. Just thrive and grow to adulthood without any more complications.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I found almost no peep food left darn it so in the morning feed store.
I am feeding 8 of the little monsters.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafè. Coffee is ready.

 

[Sally PB]

Went out to dinner with one of hubby's former bosses. The food was good, the conversation was interesting.

The restaurant is VERY popular; we had a 35 minute wait to be seated, even on a Wednesday. Maybe the Wednesday margarita specials have something to with that?

The restaurant has a clever marketing idea. It's a Mexican restaurant, so guess what the special is on Tuesday? Nope, not tacos like every other Mexican restaurant around here. That's on Thursday. Tuesday's special is fish.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Thanks for the hot coffee.
40's and rain here.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Cafe wet here this morning.
Up way too early at 6:30.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafè. Coffee is ready.

Two days ago at lock up, I found one of the 4 survivors laying on her side, cold and barely moving, away from the brooder plate. I scooped her up, cupped her in my hands and started breathing hot breathe into my hands to warm her. She immediately started chirping. I brought her in to warm her on the heating pad and give her some miracle water with poultry cell, regardless that it didn't save any of the 9 that I tried that with. I can't seem to help myself.

Once I got about 10 drops in her, I set her into the little brooder in the mudroom so she could die in a warm quiet place.

When C got home about an hour later I told him I was losing another one. I went into the mudroom and lifted the towel cave up to show him and the damn thing stood up, eyes wide open and started chirping and fluttering around. She was so active I decided to go ahead and stick her back out with her hatch mates as I thought she was strong enough to not get squashed by them.

She is still alive and behaving normally this morning. She had a bulging crop at lights out last night, just like the other 3. I just don't get it.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee. Your chicks proving once again that 'momma' hatched and raised is the way to go. Good luck.

 

[DobieLover]

Your chicks proving once again that 'momma' hatched and raised is the way to go.

As I already wrote, I'll NEVER do this again. It's one of the reasons I'll never own an incubator. The woman in NJ that I've talked to is willing to hold eggs for me to pick up when Astrid goes broody when the weather heats up.
She just submitted genetic samples for testing on her breeding flock because she found out some of her dominant white birds have a recessive gene. She will remove them from the breeding flock when she finds out which ones they are and won't sell hatching eggs until those genes are out of the hens. That should be mid-July.