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[ronott1]

Cool! Is he what they call a snow leopard? I want to see a picture! Who did you get yours from? I got my female (pet quality) from a breeder in Penn Valley and my male is (show quality) from a breeder in Lincoln, Jungle Katz Cattery.

Here is my boy, Leo (5 years old) and my female, Sashi is going on 8 and still looks and acts like a kitten! My two are only 2 generations removed from the wild Asian leopard cat breeding, so they are very active. My female loves to be put in a fabric, kitty crackle bag and swung around in circles! She is crazy cute and fun!

I hope mine are as long lived as your boy! I am going to be heartbroken when I loose mine

Leonardo



Sashi

That is a great looking Kitty!

 

[lizanne]

Aargh....another hatching question...maybe I should go over to the hatching thread so I have new blood listening to my questions....so the hatching is going pretty well, long but OK. I have an EE hatching that is pipping down at an angle and there's blood. It's zipping slowly, when there's a small amount of blood it rests but I can see that it's breathing is more and more labored. The poor thing is really working but must be malpotitioned. I have a Marans in there that hatched before this one started zipping and he's begging to come out but I don't want to open the incubator with this poor guy half way through it's wayward zip.

I'm thinking I should pull the Marans out and help the wayward zipper at the other end of the zip which is in the correct way. I have two other pipped but I'm OK with opening the incubator with the pips but normally don't open it with one half way.....but I'm wondering if I should intervene before the other two start zipping.

OK, edited to say, I pulled the Marans. It was right at the edge...so help the wayward zipper now or wait. One of the two Marans that are pipped is starting to zip.

I would probably help, I have a hard time just watching when one of them is having a hard time though. I had one in my last hatch that pipped a vein, I could see blood on it's beak and in the egg. When it finally came out of the egg it had a bunch of blood on it - I think it was from when it originally pipped. It did fine after that though. I gave it some poly-solv and you can't even tell anything was wrong now. I hope your little one does ok.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Cool! Is he what they call a snow leopard? I want to see a picture! Who did you get yours from? I got my female (pet quality) from a breeder in Penn Valley and my male is (show quality) from a breeder in Lincoln, Jungle Katz Cattery.

Here is my boy, Leo (5 years old) and my female, Sashi is going on 8 and still looks and acts like a kitten! My two are only 2 generations removed from the wild Asian leopard cat breeding, so they are very active. My female loves to be put in a fabric, kitty crackle bag and swung around in circles! She is crazy cute and fun!

I hope mine are as long lived as your boy! I am going to be heartbroken when I loose mine

Leonardo



Sashi

awsome. very pretty.
Mine is not show quality I got him from a breeder in Elverta that had a heart condition that was selling everything she had.
he is a snow. it is neat he started white with a brown nose. got spots then they faded and then came back

 

[ronott1]

Originally Posted by HighNDryFarm

Aargh....another hatching question...maybe I should go over to the hatching thread so I have new blood listening to my questions....so the hatching is going pretty well, long but OK. I have an EE hatching that is pipping down at an angle and there's blood. It's zipping slowly, when there's a small amount of blood it rests but I can see that it's breathing is more and more labored. The poor thing is really working but must be malpotitioned. I have a Marans in there that hatched before this one started zipping and he's begging to come out but I don't want to open the incubator with this poor guy half way through it's wayward zip.

I'm thinking I should pull the Marans out and help the wayward zipper at the other end of the zip which is in the correct way. I have two other pipped but I'm OK with opening the incubator with the pips but normally don't open it with one half way.....but I'm wondering if I should intervene before the other two start zipping.

OK, edited to say, I pulled the Marans. It was right at the edge...so help the wayward zipper now or wait. One of the two Marans that are pipped is starting to zip.


I would probably help, I have a hard time just watching when one of them is having a hard time though. I had one in my last hatch that pipped a vein, I could see blood on it's beak and in the egg. When it finally came out of the egg it had a bunch of blood on it - I think it was from when it originally pipped. It did fine after that though. I gave it some poly-solv and you can't even tell anything was wrong now. I hope your little one does ok.

X2! Carefully....

 

[OR4-hmom]

Updated picks of the bantams , 3 weeks old on Sat.

 

[OR4-hmom]

A couple of my partridge rocks caught broody fever also. The banty has 1 of her own eggs under her. The lf is sitting on nothing.

 

[lawatt]

such lovely pictures -- cats and chicks and broodies!

i have a cute story to share: put all the chicklets away into their coop just now, and as the fog is rolling in again & it's chilly, the mamas and their chicks all went up the ramp pretty early -- i watched them all in, as the youngest marans chicks have been having trouble jumping up into the nesting box their mom settles in, so wanted to be on hand to help (one did it on its own, one needed assistance) -- but black australorp Daisy, whose chicks are 3 weeks old, apparently decided to show them all how to roost -- first she perched on one of the lower branches, & they all (five!) followed suit, arranged in various spots on the perches. then Daisy moved over to the PRIME roosting spot, on the highest branch (where Max usually roosts) -- and all five chicks followed, with three snuggled underneath her on the branch and *two* perched on her back.

crazily adorable!!!

did i have a camera with me? of course not!!

you'll just have to use your imagination -- i just loved how proud those two babies on her back looked, being up so high! (i'm sure they'll all get dislocated back to a nesting box, once Max & the other girls decide to go to bed.)

 

[Happy Chooks]

I have a Marans girl wanting to sit on some eggs. This is the second time she's tried to go broody. Well I think I'll give her some to hatch

she's in the coop in one of the nesting boxes. The other hens and roo can get to her so should I seclude her now or once the chiks hatch?

I have lost babies to first time mom's that failed to protect the chicks. The last was a few weeks ago, my Orp didn't protect her chick and it was killed by the flock. I usually move broodies AFTER they hatch, but it happened faster than I could get to segregating her.

I have had hens totally freak out when I try to move them, so I let them brood where ever they choose. Then once the first few chicks hatch, I move the hen and the chicks and the rest of the eggs at night and they do really well. They coo to the chicks and hatch the remaining eggs. Then, once they have about a week or two to bond, I open up the broody area and let them mingle with the flock. The babies know to listen to momma hen at that point.

I have 4 broodies right now. I love them one at a time, but not all at once.

 

[debs_flock]

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I took five roos a few weeks ago, they all sold for $12-12.50. After the fees I ended up with $40 & change. It did bother me when they came out and yanked a couple of them in a rooster bouquet

I don't treat my birds like that, even if they are going to freezer camp. DH and I picked up the last couple and said we'd take them to the cage. We carried them properly on our arm. There were no cars in line when we got there and a long line of them when we left. I have no idea how many chickens were actually there for the auction. When I left there were mostly Muscovy ducks, some chickens, some pigeons and a few rabbits. I'm sure the prices aren't always that good, it was more than I expected. When my DS was raising poultry in 4H, we took some birds to the auction and I watched some of the action. There was a bantam rooster there with most of it's feathers missing and one eye dangling on it's cheek by the eye stem..................it sold for 25 cents.

But a decent sized roo could go for $10+ in those days.

It totally depends on who's there. We mostly wanted to see how it works now (that was 20 years ago with my DS) and we were going out to breakfast afterwards. I figured after commission, if I cleared $7 per bird, I was ahead because I just didn't have time to process them myself and that was 5 less crowers around here.

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All three beautiful cats, I love bengals.

 

[daesee]

Well it has been a day!  I took kitty in where I thought see came from, the volunteers got one look and opened the gate for me and we rushed her in for treatment.  She got karo and perked up a little.  I thought she was maybe 6 weeks because she was so tiny, turns out she is 8 weeks and weights 14.2 ozs., too small for worming or earmite treatment.  They think she may have cocci.  Every bit of fluids we got in to the kitten came right back out except the sub-q fluids.

Turns out the kittens littermate died last week, the person fostering the kitten figured since when she gave the kitten a bath she got bitten, she was well enough to go to a new home.  The kitten was still nursing but showing an interest in dry food, hadn't really eaten any yet.

The lady fostering her didn't like my choice of vets and came and got the kitten. Their vet was sending someone out to collect specimens before taking the kitten into the office.  They are checking for cocci or leukemia.  I couldn't have gotten her in before 10:00 tomorrow without it being an Emergency call fee.

Sure hoping the tiny little thing pulls through!

I'm still working on disinfecting DD room.