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[WendyJeepchick]

They're hatching!!! Day 26!!!!

Yay! Yay! Yay!

I'm so happy for you. I'm at my daughters' Poultry meeting right now and am supposed to be paying attention. But I just had ti say

CONGRATS!

 

[chickee]

yeah. I am no expert lol

Just what I thought, not that I am right

 

[Audio51]

Just ordered my Octagon 20 Advance///Can;t wait for it to get here.

Also..I have a second hen that has gone broody...my little black Cochin mix banty. The broody coop has 2 nest boxes in it. Do any of you let broodies share a coop? It's not a huge coop...the one from Costco. It is 78.11" x 32.87" x 47.91". This is the link for it:

http://www.costco.com/Garden-Top-Chicken-or-Rabbit-House-by-Precision-Pet.product.100072766.html

Interestingly, it is almost $200 cheaper to buy it in the store. I think things might be a little close once the chicks hatch. I have let one hen hatch/brood chicks in this coop alone and they did very well. My avatar is the hen with the chicks, but I'm not sure how 2 would do. Would they be likely to share responsibility or try to hurt each others chicks?

 

[ronott1]

Just ordered my Octagon 20 Advance///Can;t wait for it to get here.

Also..I have a second hen that has gone broody...my little black Cochin mix banty. The broody coop has 2 nest boxes in it. Do any of you let broodies share a coop? It's not a huge coop...the one from Costco. It is 78.11" x 32.87" x 47.91". This is the link for it:

http://www.costco.com/Garden-Top-Chicken-or-Rabbit-House-by-Precision-Pet.product.100072766.html

Interestingly, it is almost $200 cheaper to buy it in the store. I think things might be a little close once the chicks hatch. I have let one hen hatch/brood chicks in this coop alone and they did very well. My avatar is the hen with the chicks, but I'm not sure how 2 would do. Would they be likely to share responsibility or try to hurt each others chicks?

It sounds like you have the hatching bug! Quick call a Doctor!

Congratulations on the new encubator!

 

[Audio51]

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Too late! I think it's terminal........

 

[Hangtown Farms]

It sounds like you have the hatching bug! Quick call a Doctor!

Congratulations on the new encubator!

x2 now you need eggs

 

[alibra]

The chick isn't drinking but I gave it sugar water. I think it's just tuckered out.

 

[tommysgirl]

HUZZAH! I have never had chicks last that long, gg waiting!

OK, I'm going to get philosophical here. feel free to pass over it.

I'm going to respectfully disagree with the statement animals don't fear death. I think they do. They have a sense something is coming and do get scared by things they sense as dangerous and will go a LONG ways to get out of situations that they think could cause death.

I think we agree but you said it better. I was incomplete in my explanation: I believe that animals and humans don't share the same concept of death so that is what I meant by they don't fear it. Simply that they don't have the concept that we do so. Death as we tend to think of it is a western human construct. Anyway I agree that animal instinct aimed at survival is finely honed and things that threaten that are what they fear as well as feeling badly and being in pain. But they don't have the same existential crises humans often do regarding what comes after etc. That is what I meant by they don't "fear it"

you can help then live they are glad to do so. Because of that thought, I do sometimes do more then others would in these situatins. Look at how far I went with purples ( and I now thing she might have been brain damaged, so I was wrong there!)

I don't know your story about the purples but If I had a buck for every time that someone told me I should have ended our crippled cockerel, Curley's, life in the first days I could place a GFF order. I agree that while there is quality of life there is reason for hope and therefore support to keep life going to the degree you can. So I nursed him Tom built a pen for him and we gave him watermelon treats until he died...on his own. I am not sorry I did that. He had a quality life up till the last night

I think animals tell us when they are ready to go if we are listening and that when we see the signs we shouldn't feel badly about helping them avoid pain and the suffering that comes with disease or injury

Anyway. I just wanted to clarify

It's the teacher in me I want to make sure I conveyed what I hoped to.

 

[Audio51]

The chick isn't drinking but I gave it sugar water. I think it's just tuckered out.

Can you tell if looks like there is still unabsorbed yolk on the belly?

 

[alibra]

Just a little yellow yolky