Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Silkie owner]

My 96 year old great grandma caught it but she survived and she’s living a great life!

 

[MROO]

So far, so good today. I guess this is going to be a long, slow wait. But Dean is still not on a respirator, so we'll count that as a serious plus and try to get back to the day-to-day stuff while pacing.
So - the crushed egg didn't make it. There was no movement for two days, so I just opened it up. There was a LOT of blood and a dead chick that was much too young to have survived outside the shell, yet. Based on the lives inside, there was just way too much damage to a very dirty egg. Which begs the question, if a broody gets poo all over an egg, is there a way to clean it off without rubbing the mess into the shell's pores, or is it better just to leave it?
On a more positive note, the dented egg looks like it's still alive and the late addition is still veined, although there's a line that's beginning to look suspiciously circular.
On a MUCH more positive note, We have a BABEE! There is one very noisy little Nankin still fluffing up in the 'bator. I'm debating on whether or not to put it out with GemZilla and her four-day old. I have a feeling she'll take it, but she's so aggressive that I'm a little afraid to try. I don't know if I could get it out in time, if she decides "Nope!" Thoughts?

On a side note, @FortCluck, I am envious of your mega-hatches. At the moment, I only have two adult Nanny hens - and one is in Henopause and is enjoying her retirement. That said, and with fingers crossed, the five in my grow-out box look promising. Aside from a boy/girl pair of accidental crosses (Nankin rooster, New Hampshire Red hen,) It looks like I've finally got my flock replenishment. Fingers crossed, I think we've got one cockerel and FOUR pullets. And they're all really small, which is what I've been trying to breed. My BIS rooster is gorgeous, but a tad big for my liking - smack dab on the upper end of the recommended weight. This bunch looks really little - especially the cockerel and one of the pullets. She's Zelda - 'cause she had a perfect black Z on top of her head at hatch. In honor of the Covid heroes manning the honest-to-goodness M*A*S*H unit at our hospital, the rest are named:
Hot Lips, Kelly, and Able (after the nurses) and Radar ... 'cause he's a really little guy!

 

[FortCluck]

So far, so good today. I guess this is going to be a long, slow wait. But Dean is still not on a respirator, so we'll count that as a serious plus and try to get back to the day-to-day stuff while pacing.
So - the crushed egg didn't make it. There was no movement for two days, so I just opened it up. There was a LOT of blood and a dead chick that was much too young to have survived outside the shell, yet. Based on the lives inside, there was just way too much damage to a very dirty egg. Which begs the question, if a broody gets poo all over an egg, is there a way to clean it off without rubbing the mess into the shell's pores, or is it better just to leave it?
On a more positive note, the dented egg looks like it's still alive and the late addition is still veined, although there's a line that's beginning to look suspiciously circular.
On a MUCH more positive note, We have a BABEE! There is one very noisy little Nankin still fluffing up in the 'bator. I'm debating on whether or not to put it out with GemZilla and her four-day old. I have a feeling she'll take it, but she's so aggressive that I'm a little afraid to try. I don't know if I could get it out in time, if she decides "Nope!" Thoughts?

On a side note, @FortCluck, I am envious of your mega-hatches. At the moment, I only have two adult Nanny hens - and one is in Henopause and is enjoying her retirement. That said, and with fingers crossed, the five in my grow-out box look promising. Aside from a boy/girl pair of accidental crosses (Nankin rooster, New Hampshire Red hen,) It looks like I've finally got my flock replenishment. Fingers crossed, I think we've got one cockerel and FOUR pullets. And they're all really small, which is what I've been trying to breed. My BIS rooster is gorgeous, but a tad big for my liking - smack dab on the upper end of the recommended weight. This bunch looks really little - especially the cockerel and one of the pullets. She's Zelda - 'cause she had a perfect black Z on top of her head at hatch. In honor of the Covid heroes manning the honest-to-goodness M*A*S*H unit at our hospital, the rest are named:
Hot Lips, Kelly, and Able (after the nurses) and Radar ... 'cause he's a really little guy!

I’ve been hatching every month since October lol

 

[SnapdragonQ]

So far, so good today. I guess this is going to be a long, slow wait. But Dean is still not on a respirator, so we'll count that as a serious plus and try to get back to the day-to-day stuff while pacing.
So - the crushed egg didn't make it. There was no movement for two days, so I just opened it up. There was a LOT of blood and a dead chick that was much too young to have survived outside the shell, yet. Based on the lives inside, there was just way too much damage to a very dirty egg. Which begs the question, if a broody gets poo all over an egg, is there a way to clean it off without rubbing the mess into the shell's pores, or is it better just to leave it?
On a more positive note, the dented egg looks like it's still alive and the late addition is still veined, although there's a line that's beginning to look suspiciously circular.
On a MUCH more positive note, We have a BABEE! There is one very noisy little Nankin still fluffing up in the 'bator. I'm debating on whether or not to put it out with GemZilla and her four-day old. I have a feeling she'll take it, but she's so aggressive that I'm a little afraid to try. I don't know if I could get it out in time, if she decides "Nope!" Thoughts?

On a side note, @FortCluck, I am envious of your mega-hatches. At the moment, I only have two adult Nanny hens - and one is in Henopause and is enjoying her retirement. That said, and with fingers crossed, the five in my grow-out box look promising. Aside from a boy/girl pair of accidental crosses (Nankin rooster, New Hampshire Red hen,) It looks like I've finally got my flock replenishment. Fingers crossed, I think we've got one cockerel and FOUR pullets. And they're all really small, which is what I've been trying to breed. My BIS rooster is gorgeous, but a tad big for my liking - smack dab on the upper end of the recommended weight. This bunch looks really little - especially the cockerel and one of the pullets. She's Zelda - 'cause she had a perfect black Z on top of her head at hatch. In honor of the Covid heroes manning the honest-to-goodness M*A*S*H unit at our hospital, the rest are named:
Hot Lips, Kelly, and Able (after the nurses) and Radar ... 'cause he's a really little guy!

Sorry about the crushed egg not making it and Yay on the no respirator news! No new news is good news, right?

Poopy eggs...my only Ameraucana almost always poops on her eggs. Just the way it is.

Here's what I did- I gently picked off any dried globs with a paper towel or my finger nail. If there was still too much to my liking I would hold the egg under a warm (warmer than the egg, but not hot per se) trickle of water to soften the poo then rinse most of it away. I think I rubbed a few, but the water did the trick on most of her eggs and some muddy brown eggs too. I gently put them on a pape towel to dry, marked them, then treated them like the clean eggs.

Of the 5 eggs I washed poo or mud off of with water, 4 hatched and one quit early. The quitter was a brown egg that was muddy, not the Ameraucana.

 

[ShrekDawg]

WHO THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA!?!?!

 

[Folly's place]

More plastic! More waste! WOW!
Mary

 

[ShrekDawg]

More plastic! More waste! WOW!
Mary

Yes that too!!! Although those single serve/keurig type things are already very popular lately anyway.

It’s definitely a huge waste!!

But also just disgusting too!

 

[FortCluck]

Yes that too!!! Although those single serve/keurig type things are already very popular lately anyway.

It’s definitely a huge waste!!

But also just disgusting too!

Coffee drips are the best. All you use is a filter, ground coffee, and Boiling water. Then throw the coffee grinds and filter into your compost pile.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Well people are being jerks over mask required to my grocery folks... and they are panic buying again... sigh

 

[ShrekDawg]

Coffee drips are the best. All you use is a filter, ground coffee, and Boiling water. Then throw the coffee grinds and filter into your compost pile.

That sounds amazing!!! I don’t drink coffee though haha