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

[duluthralphie]

Yes the Cornish X I'm not sure they are modified just very well cross bred.
I've my eye on some on eBay that are not crossed so they say.

Might I remind you of toads,,,,,,the sustainable meat bird of the future..I hope!

 

[Pensmaster]

Shalom to all
To survive they need to have symbiotic microbes that helps them to digest the plant matirials they eat and to eliminate establishment of patogenic bacteria and the only way they get it is to eat........their mother poop.
Read this
http://www.rabbit.org/care/babies.html

Hey Benny way off the beaten path of rabbits, what do you make of this bug. I'm thinking Antlion adult

 

[Pensmaster]

Might I remind you of toads,,,,,,the sustainable meat bird of the future..I hope!

I'm seriously considering them. Worried a bit on heat. But I think I can over come that for them.

 

[duluthralphie]

I'm back and I have some bad news. This morning I had to bury Henrietta. It looks like a raccoon drug her off the nest last night after making a meal out of her spine and the leg it was dragging her out by. It managed to push the gate forward just enough squeeze through, but it couldn't actually pull her fat butt out through the gap. It destroyed her eggs in the process. I'd had her for 4 years and she was the last of the dog attack survivors I had kept.

sorry for the loss... I lost a ton of birds this week, I recovered 17 bodies. I know there were more I saw ravens fly off with some....

I think my attack was a fisher or coon. They just ate one and killed for fun... I wish I could develop a virus to destroy them.....( I know that is evil, but )......


I wish the Anti-fur wearing people could see what unchecked fur bearers do to our birds.

sorry again for your loss.

 

[duluthralphie]

Hey Benny way off the beaten path of rabbits, what do you make of this bug. I'm thinking Antlion adult
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I am thinking it should be flatter and have a little juice running out of its body cavity...

 

[Pensmaster]

I wish I could get traps big enough to catch it. The ones I have are only big enough for squirrels. I'm fixing the gap problem today as soon as I figure out what it's going to take to get it fixed.
Thanks Kaj.

Hav a hart has them for larger animals our Lowes sells them I think they were $60

 

[duluthralphie]

I'm seriously considering them. Worried a bit on heat. But I think I can over come that for them.

Heat is a problem I lost one in the last 90+ stretch we had. It was my black toad, the only one I ever had. I wonder if painting it white or clipping feathers would have helped.. Heat is their biggest downfall that I can see.

 

[Pensmaster]

sorry for the loss... I lost a ton of birds this week, I recovered 17 bodies. I know there were more I saw ravens fly off with some....

I think my attack was a fisher or coon. They just ate one and killed for fun... I wish I could develop a virus to destroy them.....( I know that is evil, but View attachment 1054218 )......


I wish the Anti-fur wearing people could see what unchecked fur bearers do to our birds.

sorry again for your loss.

Completely sickening to come into your coop and find 12 birds with their heads eaten and one or two with their breast chewed on. As I've said the trap is always set here. Thankfully I don't have all the vermin you have but the ones I do are bad enough.

 

[duluthralphie]

Completely sickening to come into your coop and find 12 birds with their heads eaten and one or two with their breast chewed on. As I've said the trap is always set here. Thankfully I don't have all the vermin you have but the ones I do are bad enough.

Did you see the effort the fisher goes to to get into my cousins kids coop?

disgusting creatures...

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Shalom to all
To survive they need to have symbiotic microbes that helps them to digest the plant matirials they eat and to eliminate establishment of patogenic bacteria and the only way they get it is to eat........their mother poop.
Read this
http://www.rabbit.org/care/babies.html

Hum. Well that makes a lot of sense. Something we can't quite replicate.