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

[daxigait]

Yeah I’ll be out there here after lunch. Still have to do all the afternoon feeding.

I wish I had put out more this morning the weather changed and we ended up with rain that they weren't calling for so my ladies are going to be hungrier than I like I put out a good round bale yesterday but they won't go out when it gets wet. I was going to let them finish off what is in the interior feeders and then really packed them for the next couple of days cuz it's going to get cold and let them work on the round Bill, unfortunately the slight chance of rain became reality very early tod and they hate wet.

 

[daxigait]

I’m alive (I think). The eight remaining chicks are very active, and seem like they will be okay.
It’s cold enough today that I am not getting into too much outside. I had to chop some ice from the coop. It froze open yesterday. I wasn’t expecting four -ish inches of snow! I’ll be working on it more soon. I then have to be sure of a coop re-build.
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It needs a roof, and a back. Not a big deal, but I might try something else. It will be in the forties (and raining) for two days next week. I hope to do it then.

I will hope for a couple of days in the forties on a weekend or you get yours next week maybe we can get our projects done.

 

[daxigait]

Heyyy... Long time no see.

I think it's been about a year since I lasted posted and I wanted to update y'all on some stuff. First of all, still no chickens. I put that plan on hold for several reasons and I'm incredibly glad that I did. Cuz let me tell ya, things have not been easy. I already made the incredibly stupid choice to get rabbits and pigs while I was still working, along with a ton of fish. I still have the pigs for now (butchering them in the next few months) and all 3 of my rabbits. Through one problem or another, I lost all of my fish, so no tanks set up.

I quit PetSmart 4 months in. I regret it deeply sometimes, but it was for the best. I wasn't exactly stable. I haven't been for a very long time and my coworkers were so toxic it made things a lot worse. In July I got help. It scared the crap out of me. I've been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety and I was dangerously close to making a very permanent decision that there was no coming back from. I'm in a much, much better place and I'll likely be on meds for the rest of my life. I can deal with that, though. I really enjoy feeling like a person and actually having the will and energy to do the things I love and need to. I'd even go as far as to say I'm doing great and much better than I ever have.

Junebug started school last year. He's stayed on the A/B Honor Roll this whole time. He was diagnosed with a very rare deformity recently called a coloboma. It's the same deformity that causes cat eye and it's basically like a cleft lip, but his is in a non-vital area at the back of his eye. He'll start wearing glasses as soon as we get the call to pick them up. Otherwise, I'm super proud of him.

I'll be starting a new job soon and I'm pretty excited to get back to work. The pay is much better and I already know a lot of the people that work there since it's the same Publix my mom works at.

I plan to start posting again. I miss y'all and y'all have never steered me wrong.

I am glad to hear from you. I am also glad you didn't make a bad permanent decision. Good luck at your new job

 

[daxigait]

Back in for a break. Morning didn’t go quite as planned but there’s still the afternoon. Neighbor is making dump run so in the process of getting junk to his trailer I moved the makings for the door to the coop and broke the chickens water line. That’s fixed, bark is spread, and trailer is loaded. Now if all goes well wire to the coop is next.

Hey Mike delivery guy is here can you hear the dogs.

Hope it goes well. While you're making a door for that he want to make one for my new goat room

 

[Razadia]

I am glad to hear from you. I am also glad you didn't make a bad permanent decision. Good luck at your new job

Me too. It was rough going for months, but things are a lot better. I'm glad to be back.

 

[Pensmaster]

Hope it goes well. While you're making a door for that he want to make one for my new goat room

Heck yeah. If I were near you and you had goats that could eat brush I’d trade labor in a heartbeat. I think it’s $500 an acre to have goats clean up brush here and that might be on the low side.

 

[kwhites634]

Heck yeah. If I were near you and you had goats that could eat brush I’d trade labor in a heartbeat. I think it’s $500 an acre to have goats clean up brush here and that might be on the low side.

Your goats on your land?

 

[daxigait]

Heck yeah. If I were near you and you had goats that could eat brush I’d trade labor in a heartbeat. I think it’s $500 an acre to have goats clean up brush here and that might be on the low side.

is that a government Chargers that would people charges cuz for I can send you a couple.
I'll tell you though they definitely cleaned up my property I don't have to brush hog anymore it's great.
Though they do make it hard to grow young trees.

 

[Pensmaster]

Your goats on your land?

Their goats your land. They come in with about 50 goats or sheep put up electric fencing and let them loose. Shepard and dog as well.

 

[Pensmaster]

is that a government Chargers that would people charges cuz for I can send you a couple.
I'll tell you though they definitely cleaned up my property I don't have to brush hog anymore it's great.
Though they do make it hard to grow young trees.

That’s what companies charge here for goat fire protection.