California - Northern

[Happy Chooks]

Hey guys! I'm back! The Easter hatch is just about finished. It will be nice to be able to visit again!

 

[ronott1]

Hey guys! I'm back! The Easter hatch is just about finished. It will be nice to be able to visit again!

Welcome Back!

Good job on the Easter Hatch!

 

[Audio51]

Quote: Well...it sounds like she would be a good person for them. Since there is no extra cost or work involved that sounds like a good compromise.

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Hope he makes it......

Everyone cross your fingers, I'm out to check the rat traps I set last night. The other night a roof rat and I scared each other. I'm bigger but it may still outsmart me a few times. I'm more persistent!

Fingers crossed!!!

speaking of rats: just chiming in here to report that moving my group of 3-month-olds with the missing toes to a different pen (one where they cannot roost on the hardware cloth wire) seems to have worked, their toes seem to be healing and nothing more is being chewed on -- and the older pair (who roost on their perch & wouldn't fit in the small space above the hardware cloth where the youngsters had been perching) are also fine -- so i'm concluding that no rats or other rodents are getting IN to the pens, but that they chewed on toes through the wire from the outside.

one of the five that's been affected is always going to have a bad limp, as her middle and outer toes on her right foot are completely gone -- the cockerel is only missing most of his middle toe, and a marans pullet is missing both her back toes. i wish there was something more i could do for them -- or wish they were like starfish & could grow new toes! but at least the mystery has been solved, and I know to make sure none of the pens have roost-able sections of wire...

I'm so glad they are improving and no new missing digits.

Hey guys! I'm back! The Easter hatch is just about finished. It will be nice to be able to visit again!

Welcome back!

 

[EZFarms]

Okay im a bit confused. one of my phpenix x polish eggs looks weird. the yolk "grew/ but it looks like if u were to shake it and scramble the yolk, is thay ppssible? Ill try and get a pic later. there is no veining either

 

[Flowers of Abba]

my poor sick very light boy. I gave him frontline a few days ago and today safeguard . He was looking like he was dieting so I put him in the pen with my fruit trees. no stock and semi open gates. I put him out there with a cat carrier food and water. He is eating and drinking like crazy and loving the grass. Hoping he pulls through

Hope he heals ! Any bird would be in heaven there though. Beautiful property

 

[OR4-hmom]

Okay im a bit confused. one of my phpenix x polish eggs looks weird. the yolk "grew/ but it looks like if u were to shake it and scramble the yolk, is thay ppssible? Ill try and get a pic later. there is no veining either

How long has it been since you set it?

 

[chiqita]

Hey guys! I'm back! The Easter hatch is just about finished. It will be nice to be able to visit again!

I could not keep up! People seemed very happy however.

 

[EZFarms]

I set it 4/29

 

[EZFarms]

The rest of my 4/29 ones have veins and everything though

 

[ronott1]

The rest of my 4/29 ones have veins and everything though

I have seen the yolk looking scrambled on day 10 when I pull them as clears sometimes. Wait until day 10 and if it looks the same, crack it open. The embryo should look quite a bit bigger than a just fertilized egg. If so, it likely quit on day 3.