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

[BantyChooks]

Sally said to tell everyone hi

Got any idea when she'll be back?

 

[BantyChooks]

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Ain't they the cutest?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

24 hours until we fly out stateside. Frantically getting things finished up and organized. Luckily farm stuff can be handled pretty late in the day, because Summer means sunsets at 10-11 pm! Flock got an ivermectin dose and we cleaned and sprayed the coop. I've made peace with the fact it's futile to get rid of the mites completely since it's summer, so it's mostly trying to keep the numbers low until the cold kills them off in Fall.

Today at 5pm we have an anatomy scan on Honeybee. He's 19 weeks and doing pretty good, actively kicking and moving. He's big enough now that you can feel him from the outside too. At this point, due to NIPT results, it's just to confirm all the bits are in place and get lots of pictures for US family!

Gotta clean the house before I go help Husband at work. I'll pop in from time to time.

Good luck, and safe travels!!!!

This is a fisher attack on my Cousin's chickens. She walked to the coop as she took this, you can see it did not stop the attack. I was going to post just the link to the Mn thread, but decided to repost this several times as I think it shows how determined fur bearing critters are to get our birds.

Yikes. Yeah, being the paranoid type, I sorta build my coops with the assumption that determined critters like that are trying to find a way in. I'm sure nothing is perfect, but I'm hopeful that I've blocked the worst. Large predators can't get into the yard, it's the climbing or small predators that can get over or through eh fence - one of the things I am trying to do is put additional fencing (smaller gaps) on the inside of my property fence to help keep out the foxes that pass through. It's a big job, but I'll get it done bit by bit. Not sure there's any way to keep raccoons, little $%^#&...

@Fire Ant Farm Got pics today.... Hailey (SA) says hi.
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Sally said to tell everyone hi

Thanks - tell her we say hi back and miss her!!!

OK, I'm back from the interview I had to do this AM, now I truly am on "vacation" (meaning it's time to start working in the yard). Chickens just started kicking up a fuss, I'm going to head out and see what's up. (Usually they overreact to someone's egg song - they have to be alert to hawks all day, so sometimes they do the false alarm thing - or it could be real, I suppose...)

 

[dan26552]

Got any idea when she'll be back?

She didn't say but she sounds really busy

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Hey guys. Question. My daddy drake duck yes, his name is duck lol has been molting and he seems really miserable. Not like he is sick just unhappy. Would electrolyte water help perk him up?

 

[duluthralphie]

A very tight rubber band placed lower than his ears and higher than his crop, would end his misery.....

 

[BantyChooks]

Hey guys. Question. My daddy drake duck yes, his name is duck lol has been molting and he seems really miserable. Not like he is sick just unhappy. Would electrolyte water help perk him up?

Dunno... Worth a shot. Is he just irritable from pin feathers? Chrissy never wanted to be handled much whenever she went thru a molt.

 

[BantyChooks]

A very tight rubber band placed lower than his ears and higher than his crop, would end his misery.....

May we practise this wonderful suggestion on you before we do it on the dux?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Dunno... Worth a shot. Is he just irritable from pin feathers? Chrissy never wanted to be handled much whenever she went thru a molt.

Oh he doesn't ever really wanna be handled anyway. Just noticing a change in his demeanor sluggish and sitting in one spot for a long time. Not getting excited about his daily salads I make for him like he used to. Still jumps right in the water when I refill it though.

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh he doesn't ever really wanna be handled anyway. Just noticing a change in his demeanor sluggish and sitting in one spot for a long time. Not getting excited about his daily salads I make for him like he used to. Still jumps right in the water when I refill it though.

Aww, poor thing.