Highs and lows
This world of playing creator has great joys and sadness.
Our coturnix were doing fine. To make them do even better, I told Bernie to boil up a culled clear egg each day and feed it to them.
He did as instructed. The coturnix were wolfing down the egg so Bernie turned his attention to the hatcher to send an update. In the five or ten minutes he took to count a few extra chicks and zips, the fire ants came for the egg and attacked the chicks. They were decimated. Only four were still breathing. When these ants bite me I itch for hours and sometimes days. Mosquitos don’t bother me at all. The toxicity of the ants is astonishing.
My fault. I failed to ask Bernie to put the quail’s cage on stilts in water buckets.
We live. We learn. We keep trying.
On a good note, the chickens are still hatching at a steady rate. 60 would be awesome.
This world of playing creator has great joys and sadness.
Our coturnix were doing fine. To make them do even better, I told Bernie to boil up a culled clear egg each day and feed it to them.
He did as instructed. The coturnix were wolfing down the egg so Bernie turned his attention to the hatcher to send an update. In the five or ten minutes he took to count a few extra chicks and zips, the fire ants came for the egg and attacked the chicks. They were decimated. Only four were still breathing. When these ants bite me I itch for hours and sometimes days. Mosquitos don’t bother me at all. The toxicity of the ants is astonishing.
My fault. I failed to ask Bernie to put the quail’s cage on stilts in water buckets.
We live. We learn. We keep trying.
On a good note, the chickens are still hatching at a steady rate. 60 would be awesome.
