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

[BantyChooks]

Good morning all. I haven't screamed and jumped off a cliff to get away from the SOP's errors yet.

 

[mlm Mike]

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.

I'm so sorry.

 

[mlm Mike]

Good morning all. I haven't screamed and jumped off a cliff to get away from the SOP's errors yet.

Morning Banti! SOP errors?

 

[BantyChooks]

Morning Banti! SOP errors?

It has more than a few grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. Honestly, it doesn't even look like they hired an editor.

 

[BantyChooks]

Right there on the cover, printed in gold lettering....

There's more than I can count in the book, but they all pale when compared to this.

 

[duluthralphie]

We are so much cooler on line ! Lol lol ok now I'm really going to bed

 

[duluthralphie]

Right there on the cover, printed in gold lettering....
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There's more than I can count in the book, but they all pale when compared to this.

Maybe they decided to take a little poetic license with the


hyphen to make the book more
interesting to read..........Some of us do that once in a while.........with punctuation ...... really...

 

[BantyChooks]

Maybe they decided to take a little poetic license with the


hyphen to make the book more
interesting to read..........Some of us do that once in a while.........with punctuation ...... really...

You do it just to torment me. That's forgivable. Leaving a hyphen out on the FRONT COVER is not.

 

[kajira]

@Fire Ant Farm
I've for the most part, have had a bunch of my roosters live peacefully together. 2 in my silky pen share 4-5 girls with out missing any feathers on any of the birds.
In Biter's pen, he lives with 2 more silkie roosters, because I love ging and bubbles and couldn't part with them, just because they were roosters and they are sweethearts... Biter allowed thing #2 to live with him, too, until we culled him for going after the kids. Thing #2 never fit in with anyone really, and wasn't even nice to humans. He got the boot.

The two big cochin roosters gotten eaten, because they were fine with people but trying to mate with our ducks, boys, girls, it didn't matter.

I have a couple of extra roosters flying around here, that I don't know 100% what they plan on doing, but as long as they don't attack people, i let my roosters be... but if they are assholes, we cull them, and most of the time we don't even eat them after we cull them because hubby doesn't feel they are worth the meat.

 

[mlm Mike]

Awe that is sad. Darn skunks and raccoons. Skunk trapped this morning here. Knew he was around by the signs he left just couldn't get him to take bait till last night. After going through a skunk attack years ago I've been very pro active in setting traps. Also in double checking cages but there's only so much you can do there.

How does one approach a skunk that has been trapped?

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

Shalom Benny!

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.

I'm sorry to hear this, I hope you can get the &$*(@

Eventful morning.

I guess I had pushed myself harder than I realized, because I was EXHAUSTED last night and slept like a rock. My bedroom is in a corner of the house farthest back with windows on both walls facing the chickens (so I can hear and see stuff). Bay window is behind the head of my bed.

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This morning at about 6:30 I heard a ruckus, but was so tired, I figured it was a little chicken argument and rolled over. At 6:45, bigger ruckus, - I was really groggy, but managed to figure out that it wasn't just a squabble, and when I looked out the window, in the WAY back, behind the S&G girls' pen and Botany Bay pen, I saw a small grey blur near the ground at the fence line. I leapt out of bed, managed to pull some clothes on and ran out there, and sure enough, there was small grey fox trying to figure out how to get in their paddock (at the corner where the second photo is). Fortunately, he couldn't, and I turned the corner to look, he looked up and then loped off. No, I was not awake/alert enough to take the pellet gun with me, though I suspect I wouldn't have gotten a shot.

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Here is the cursed brush pile that still needs to be cleared. Not sure the photo gets across how big it is, but you can see a tree lying on it for scale.

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That being said, the foxes run through between our yards, and what I need to do is "re-fence" the inside of my 8 foot fence with welded wire to close the gaps they come through. I've gotten some of it done here (see photo below), but have a good bit more to do (as well and do something to prevent digging).
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The S&Gs don't have a cockerel/cock bird with them - I noted that the fox avoided Khan's paddock (he was in protection mode). Hoping to put a boy with those girls soon once they mature. The Aloha coop is actually back there as well, but they don't have a paddock yet - which may seem horrible, but it's for this exact reason. I think I'm going to move the Aloha girls to a different coop closer to Tank's coops and the GNH bachelor coop on the other other side of the yard, and get a boy with them as soon as I can. The Aloha boys I can leave back there.

So much to do, so much to do!

So after all that, I fell back asleep (waking up with every chicken noise, mind you). Now I need to go do chores. At least it's relatively cool today (90 - though wicked humid).

I hope the fox moves on and leaves your flocks alone.

We're doing great. Just trying to stay cool.

Good to hear!

Wonder why I'm not being notified when someone post on this thread?

Once in a great while I might receive an email, but other than that the alerts when I am actually online seem to work.

That's German, and we don't speak it here.

It has more than a few grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. Honestly, it doesn't even look like they hired an editor.

That stinks, you'd think something called "The Standard of Perfection" might be more careful.