Dixie Chicks

[minihorse927]

  I was reading and cataloging the stuff you could cook for your doggies in a pinch....  Whew. 

My aunt Helen used to make all her dog food.  I Swear to Gawd she had a witches cauldron sitting out in her back yard complete with criss crossed wood for the fire and boulders surrounding it.  Oh and there was the chain contraption that kept id suspended over the fire... and the hUGE stir stick...  Shed get scraps from the butcher.  and Cook the heck out of it with rice and carrots and some other stuff.  and put it up in jars on the back porch...

deb

I was out there looking at roosters we're sending to the freezer, going OK, he's a little old to eat. If I have to I'll butcher him and cook him with rice and carrots and they can have chicken dinner!

 

[perchie.girl]

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I think she only has room for five or six eggs in her little incubator.

I may be wrong.

deb

 

[minihorse927]

Oh. My leg horns are hatching! 1 died after lock down but everyone else is out or pipped. 4 brown splits out with 1 more pipped and then the 2 Isabel are pipped. One pipped at the small end. Verified it had plenty of area to breathe and left it alone. The other, which had the air cell down the side of the egg managed to pip in the big end of the egg. Cleared some membrane away so it could breathe and left it alone. Hopefully I'll have 7 of 8 eggs hatched.

 

[minihorse927]

Just checked one last time before bed
The last brown is out and the Isabel are making bigger pips!

@BriardChickens, your first duckling looks like a tri color.

 

[BriardChickens]

Not sure this applies , but in my incubator I try to keep one row of egg holders open on the turner  once the hatching started I'd remove the one tray thus giving ample room for the chicks to dry off and not disturb the remaining eggs ..........but if you are turning manually then ?  just my two cents worth .

This hatch is in my brinsea 7. considering the 7 of the eggs I shouldn't be surprised by the little amount of space. First time incubating anything. Lots of learning left to do.

So, I'm losing it. I was 99% positive I bought dog food Sunday. Went out to get it out of the envoy, no dog food. Everything else we bought is there but that. Ok, maybe Josh brought it inside. Looked for an HOUR, no luck. Called my mom as they were down, maybe she seen what happened to it. Nope.

Finally I found it. Hidden by Josh.

I'm going nuts.

Hidden and put awqu are 2 different words in a mans vocabulary. :-D glad you found the food!

  I was reading and cataloging the stuff you could cook for your doggies in a pinch....  Whew. 

My aunt Helen used to make all her dog food.  I Swear to Gawd she had a witches cauldron sitting out in her back yard complete with criss crossed wood for the fire and boulders surrounding it.  Oh and there was the chain contraption that kept id suspended over the fire... and the hUGE stir stick...  Shed get scraps from the butcher.  and Cook the heck out of it with rice and carrots and some other stuff.  and put it up in jars on the back porch...

deb

I make my own dog food with a bought premix, from the only pet food company I trust. One batch of food last my boy 3.5 days and only takes ~25 minutes including 18 minutes bake time.

 

[BriardChickens]

Just checked one last time before bed
The last brown is out and the Isabel are making bigger pips!

@BriardChickens, your first duckling looks like a tri color.

Yay! How many did you have incubated?

Try color is acceptable and how do you tell?

The hatched duckling is currently assisting 2 more with their hatch. It keeps nippling on the membrane pieces and wet down that sticks out between the breaking shell.

 

[vehve]

Yay for all the hatchlings!

Yeah, we've had good broody hatches, one in mid winter, and one in early spring. Both times the first sitter has induced broodiness in a friend too, so we've had tag team mommies raising chicks on both occasions. Now it seems Wilma is done with these chicks at 7 weeks, as she returned to the productive workforce yesterday.

On dogfood, we only feed kibble to the dachshund, she get's Virbac Dermal, due to her being chronically ill. On that food the dog does amazingly well. When she was one year old she started getting horrible allergic symptoms, she was itchy, she had horrid indigestion and a chronic infection in her stomach, basically some form of IBD or IBS. She used to pee and poop inside, she threw up quite often, and when it got really bad she stopped eating, this from a dog who can vacuum her entire serving in 3.5 seconds. Then we had to force feed her a bit until she got enough food in her so that she would start eating again, and antacids were a huge part of her medication. We were ready to put her down at 2 years of age. Nowadays she's on the Virbac food, and gets 1mg of Prednizone daily, and you wouldn't believe it's the same dog. She'll be 10 next fall.

The black ones are on a BARF diet, although we're a bit lazy so we just buy it in pre-packed 500g packages, the girls share one twice a day. Making the food ourselves could possibly be a bit cheaper, but it was way too labor intensive and complicated when we did that. Plus it's easier to alternate different meats with the store bought stuff. We would need twice the freezer space to get the same kind of variety for them with homemade food, as you need to buy bulk to get a decent price on the meat.

 

[minihorse927]

@BriardChickenstrip color tend to be brownish in color and have lots of colored patches on the body. Means they're lacking the extended black gene. I can go more in depth later.

I had 8 eggs shipped. 6 brown, 2 Isabel. 1 brown died at lock down but the others are out and fluffy. 1 Isabel is out but not doing well. The other is working on it.

I have a lot moreto say but I'll be back.

 

[minihorse927]

Oh, trying something different with the call ducks. I'm assisting hatch a lot sooner. After being internally pipped overnight, I popped the top of the shell and pulled their heads out of the pip hole very carefully. So I didn't break any veins. Got their neck straight and cleaned the excessive fluid away from their heads. These seem much stronger than when I'd wait til the veins were almost dried up.

 

[BriardChickens]

Well I woke up an hour earlier then planned (I am on days off dang it so could have slept in). Anyway: 3 ducks out in total and is it ever cramped in that incubator.
One of the new ones is all yellow, no other colors as far as I can tell. The 3rd has speckles even all over its head :-D