My daughter and son have another thanksgiving dinner at the respective other parent's house that evening, so i'm not going to make pumpkin pie. DH doesn't like it and I'm sure the others will have it at the other dinners, so i wanted something different for dessert.
Reminds me of "Sam I am", I will not eat it on a train, I will not eat it on a plane! hehehe Welcome to the thread!! You must have jumped on about the time I was getting ready and gone for our poultry show!
So funny you just picked him up. We used to do that as kids-- go run down possum and pick them up by their tails and try to get them to hiss. We never hurt them, we'd just carry them back home and listen to my mom FREAK out. LOL!! But I would too... now that I'm not a kid and don't want possums running around eating/killing chickens. I'm so glad you are feeling better! YAY! Good luck with the silkie eggs. As far as some genes being recessive, that doesn't mean that you will get blues or black, BTW. That just means that Buff (recessive) has "holes" and will allow any and all background colors that might be in his history to pop through. You could very well wind up with some interesting colors that are not technically any color at all (as far as standard goes). But they'd still be cute! And because this is a mixed mating--- if you did wind up with a solid "known" color, the interesting thing is that even if you did breed that bird to a correct mating -- say Blue X blue, you might get a percentage in the offspring that would still pop up with some unusual colors because of the unclean background. But eventually, if you kept breeding true, it would come out, but might take a few generations to do so. Genetics are tricky, and not too clean cut. But this is how they do it to get type into a color they want, but is lacking type or has faults. So it can be done, just takes a while to get back to a color that will then breed true.Good News!! We caught the possum! I walked into the coop tonight to lock them up and there was the possum at the feeder eating the chicken feed. It froze and I froze. I screamed at hubby and he grabbed the cat carrier. I picked it up by the tail as it "played possum" and just dumped it in the carrier. We took it out to the lake and let it go in the woods, about 10 miles from the house. I don't have the heart to kill it, but didn't want it near my birds. I'm so happy we finally got it!
And in other good news, the botox injection is still working! I've not felt this good in months.
I've got my mamma silkie sitting on 4 eggs, so I'm just counting down the days till they hatch! I'll be sure to take pics. She said that the father is a buff rooster, but the mommas are all blues and blacks. I'm pretty sure the buff is a recessive gene, so i'll most likely get blues or black. That's okay. I'm just happy to have mamma get to raise her own. We created a door and have her locked in the duckhouse now because the other birds kept going in there and laying eggs for her to also sit on. LOL.. either that or she was stealing their eggs. LOL
Hope this finds everyone well!
I hatch at 70-75%. The more wet their inner membrane, the easier it is for them to "slip" out and not get stuck. I've had my own problems with sticky chicks that results in my humidity being in the 60's. It was awful and I'll never, ever do that again. I wonder if you had temp flux with your eggs-- that might explain why some of the inners were clean. Too high of a temp can speed them up a bit and give you troubles (same with too slow/low). It's a balancing act for sure. I've had some that zip and then die. It's nothing to do with humidity usually-- it's just a defect within the chick. Silkies get that a lot-- they will make it to pip and die, or they will actually start to zip and then die!! They are just tough! The higher the humidity, the better the chances of them getting out. But you will still have your "defects" depending on what kind of chicks you are hatching.
Okay-- this is hysterical!!!!! I laughed out loud!! OMG, I would have DIED if that had happened... then again, I'm also thinking how to replicate that, because that would be absolutely hilarious to do on purpose, too. (I'm a little sick like that)Oh, my Danz, that reminded me one time Ivy's DH told her to put 2 pats of butter under the skin on top of the breast meat, said would keep the breast meat moist. Poor Ivy, when she pulled the tin foil off the bird, where the pats of butter had been, under the breast skin, but on top of the meat where these 2 square area's of white skin. Where the butter had been the skin did not brown!!!Ivy just about dropped the turkey!!
Could not figure out what happened, and then it dawned on her! It was so funny, we all had a good laugh, but that turkey looked like it had a bra on, and Boobies! I will have her send me apicture she took. Was a great dinner anyway, lots of laughter and good times with family!!!
