EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

More like a U-Haul! Unreal!!!

Just don't go fishing, canoeing, or do any other boggy environment activities during the time of year they're alive and you're okay, mostly. I mean, you still get swarmed, but not like in that pic.

And you have that other fly? Yea lots of Muscovy for you. There's a parasitic wasp that lays eggs on flies or their larval stage, here that kills them as a host. I wonder if something like that would work or if they are species specific. I've never bought them at the feed store if I remember right the way you introduce them the chickens would find and eat them. Instead I keep many reusable fly traps going in the summer.

Name a bitey bug, we have it....

Saw those; looked way too spendy for moi.

 

[Pensmaster]

Just don't go fishing, canoeing, or do any other boggy environment activities during the time of year they're alive and you're okay, mostly. I mean, you still get swarmed, but not like in that pic.

Name a bitey bug, we have it....

Saw those; looked way too spendy for moi.

With that kind of population of flies you could be selling the wasp for a profit after they got started.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Also - Dumb question, but my cat, who's always been notoriously chunky, has lost a ton of weight in the last 3 months. He seems okay, but should I take him in and get some blood work done, to make sure he's okay?

He's double digits this year, so I know he's getting up there in age. 

It could be some kidney problems.

 

[kajira]

I would. That could be kidneys, diabetes, early cancer, etc etc
I hope it is something minor.

Cancer was my first thought. That's exactly how our horse just died. Went from a healthy weight at christmas, to skin and bones in 4-5 weeks, then diagnosed with stomach cancer, and dead 2-3 weeks later, with end of life care and pain meds

Animals never tell you they are sick until it's too late. My animals are also all getting old. Doh.

 

[BantyChooks]

With that kind of population of flies you could be selling the wasp for a profit after they got started.

Peeps here aren't inclined to buy expensive fly control... They put on bug nets and keep going.

Otherwise, yeah; I could just quit my day job and sell flies.

 

[Pensmaster]

Peeps here aren't inclined to buy expensive fly control... They put on bug nets and keep going.

Otherwise, yeah; I could just quit my day job and sell flies.

Sell them to us Californians I'm sure there's lots of folks here that buy them.

Problem as I remember the wasp larva is put in the ground to hatch and there's not a bug in the ground that's going to survive my troops.

I'll keep helping my bats as much as possible and fly traps.

 

[runt325]

Hi yall

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Cancer was my first thought. That's exactly how our horse just died. Went from a healthy weight at christmas, to skin and bones in 4-5 weeks, then diagnosed with stomach cancer, and dead 2-3 weeks later, with end of life care and pain meds

Animals never tell you they are sick until it's too late. My animals are also all getting old. Doh.

My oldest cat (she just turned 17) started losing weight very fast, turned out that her teeth were in terrible condition and it hurt for her to eat. She is still skin and bones, at her age, but, I was happy to learn that the problem was her teeth and not cancer.

 

[daxigait]

Cancer was my first thought. That's exactly how our horse just died. Went from a healthy weight at christmas, to skin and bones in 4-5 weeks, then diagnosed with stomach cancer, and dead 2-3 weeks later, with end of life care and pain meds

Animals never tell you they are sick until it's too late.  My animals are also all getting old. Doh.

Hang in there, sometimes it can be something they can treat easily too. I have seen both.

 

[kwhites634]

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