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

[daxigait]

The grizzlies will apriciat it!

No, the bear bell is for them

 

[BullChick]

No advice on my chicken dilemma?

I forget the question. Brb

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I hope your head feels better soon. I have a camera I bought for the trip with two SD cards, and four batteries, a cheap version of a go pro, and my phone which will be for emergency and once a day use on the pack part of the trip because of how quickly it chews up battery.
I am excited, but so busy with work and preparations that I am a bit stressed.
My issue with the shoulder is limited. I can do most movements, I just can't put my arm down by my side and raise it up out there. It starts hurting about forty five degrees, and I don't push further. I can go around and come down out to the side just not up. I am betting on a muscle or ligament tear. So aside from hooking a bra I just have to not use that movement on that side, and try not to hurt it removing the pack.

Thank You. I'm thinking it'll be gone on a couple more days. I just have to keep flooding myself with vitamin C and water lol.
If you get some good pictures, maybe you could share a few when you get back I understand all the stress but it'll be so nice when you get out there. I hope your shoulder doesn't bother you too much. My husband and dad have shoulder problems too so I know what you mean :/ My dad actualy just had surgery for his in November. It does sound like a ligament tear but I'm no Dr lol.

 

[dan26552]

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I forget the question. Brb

 

[daxigait]

How are you?

I am well, and so is my sick goat. Your goats and rabbit photos looked good.

 

[BullChick]

Have you guys ever had trouble getting two groups to integrate? I built two coops that are against each other with a combination run that you can either have it as one big poop and run or you can divide it in half. I shut the one half off and took the chicks out when they were old enough to leave the brooder and put them in the second half of the coop in May. Name the first Saturday in July when I took the cockerels to the poultry swap I opened up the division between the two sides of the coop so the six pullets could integrate. They have not become one group when I open the coop up they go out separately to free range, the rooster pays them very little attention, and they still Roost on their own side of the coop. Now that I am forcing them all to use one door the dominant hen won't let them in at night. These are Heritage Rhode Island reds too. In fact, they are their offspring they just went through the incubator.
@ChickenCanoe

I did have flocks that didn't mingle as one for several months. I never had an issue with a member acting unfriendly though. I think you have enough time to put her in solitary confinement. She should be able to return right before you leave. She will then be forced to be at the bottom of the order. Of course it's only fair to let her have one other girl with her.

 

[BullChick]

I'm not totally ignorant of what you're going through; the first two fingers on my right hand, the one most effected by shingles, lock up all the time. I frequently have to pick up a glass with both hands.

So far, I have dealt with the pain with Duckling. Only once or twice have I had to stop playing rough.

 

[daxigait]

I did have flocks that didn't mingle as one for several months. I never had an issue with a member acting unfriendly though. I think you have enough time to put her in solitary confinement. She should be able to return right before you leave. She will then be forced to be at the bottom of the order. Of course it's only fair to let her have one other girl with her.

I can try that if I can figure out which of two reds it is. I can't see her band when she is in that coop, just her mean beak coming out after the younger hens.

 

[kwhites634]

So far, I have dealt with the pain with Duckling. Only once or twice have I had to stop playing rough.

It probably helps that you're not particularly focused on it when you're roughhousing with her, too. Can you take anything to ease the pain?

 

[BullChick]

It probably helps that you're not particularly focused on it when you're roughhousing with her, too. Can you take anything to ease the pain?

I keep forgetting that's an option. I was raised to tough it out.