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

[OneMountainAcres]

Congratulations! I will be drawing coyotes tonight as I could not dig a hole for poor Eclypse. I wish I knew someone who would take the meat. I can't process my pet. I even tried finding someone on Craigslist that feeds raw meat. No luck.

If you were closer, we would take the meat since our dog has to eat raw. There is a group on Facebook (if you're on there) called raw feeding friends. Maybe there's someone near you on there that could use it. Again, I'm so sorry you lost her

 

[daxigait]

If you were closer, we would take the meat since our dog has to eat raw. There is a group on Facebook (if you're on there) called raw feeding friends. Maybe there's someone near you on there that could use it. Again, I'm so sorry you lost her

I am not on Facebook. Could you check for any near Joplin (SW Missouri)?

 

[fire370]

boys or girls?

2 bucklings and a doeling

Congratulations! I will be drawing coyotes tonight as I could not dig a hole for poor Eclypse. I wish I knew someone who would take the meat. I can't process my pet. I even tried finding someone on Craigslist that feeds raw meat. No luck.

Sorry about that whole situation Dax. Those freak accidents are some times unavoidable.

 

[fire370]

I want them there goats

There are only 2 animals on this place I wouldn't part with and that's my Jack Russell, Gator and my lab, Zoey. Everything else has a price tag. All the GSD's could be for sale. And livestock, well that's a living.

The wife on the other hand, I'm quite sure would argue. That's why she has a 450# barrow that she wouldn't let me trailer for slaughter 3 years ago. His name is "Pancakes" and follows her everywhere, even rolls over for belly scratches. I tried to load him on a trailer load 3 weeks ago for sausage and she told me she would divorce me. We still got that **** pig.

 

[jwlpoultry]

I want them there goats

There are only 2 animals on this place I wouldn't part with and that's my Jack Russell, Gator and my lab, Zoey. Everything else has a price tag. All the GSD's could be for sale. And livestock, well that's a living.

The wife on the other hand, I'm quite sure would argue. That's why she has a 450# barrow that she wouldn't let me trailer for slaughter 3 years ago. His name is "Pancakes" and follows her everywhere, even rolls over for belly scratches. I tried to load him on a trailer load 3 weeks ago for sausage and she told me she would divorce me. We still got that **** pig.

Kansas is too far for me to travel but I do love seeing the pictures maybe I will find some local soon.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I need some advice, folks. Monkey has a bit of a limp today. He is such a sweet good tempered boy, and while he didn't jump into my arms, it wasn't that much of a fight to get hold of him, and he was calm in my arms and let me mess around looking at his feet. First, I think he might maybe have beginning bumble foot - this is a first for me. Here's a photo - sorry, ti was close and I had a hard time focusing. But that patch isn't poop, it's sort of a smooth patch/scab. There is no "stuff underneath - I think this is very early. Can anyone remind me of the non surgical approaches? (I think someone posted that here - I'm going to try to look, but it's hard to find stuff sometimes on here.) But, while examining his feet, I was sort of taken aback by the way the spots where his feathers come out looked. I'm new to birds with feathered feet - is this normal? (He has muddy poopy feet in this photo, sorry - that's not blood.) For what it's worth, the limp seems to support the "beginning bumble foot" side being the problem, not the "crazy gross looking" feather foot side... - Ant Farm

That is a havy infection of scaley mite! It could be the reason! Ivermectin is an option AND soak its legs in oil and put a nice coat of vaselin on them. Do it every 3 days for 4 times

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Thanks! I got that diagnosis on another thread earlier tonight - I had no idea, felt very dumb and very guilty for missing it, and being lax for checking my birds (who I need to start doing more careful health checks on). I read a LOT of different cures/advice, etc., and have been discussing with Beekissed on the Breeding for Production thread tonight. I pulled him off the roost tonight for the first foot soak (he was sweet), and coated legs with castor oil (following Beekissed's recommendation from her experience). I'm going to also check and treat everyone else while I'm at it, starting with the four other birds with feathered legs... I'm going to do it every night for about a week and see how it's going - I didn't have things set up well tonight (I'm doing this alone) so the oil application wasn't as thorough as it should have/could have been. I'll be better prepared tomorrow.

- Ant Farm

 

[Phage]

My husband's gone for 2 days, and my oldest is being a pill. He threw himself on the ground when I asked him to help me with the water buckets.

Kid cannot come inside for dinner, until everything is filled to the top ^.^

I was going to make him pizza too..... sucks to be him, guess he'll brother will get to eat it!

 

[dan26552]

Bonus 1: Another coyote down. Caught him running the fence to the Nigerian pregger pen.

Which led me to Bonus 2: I saw set of triplets being born through the thermal and hence the reason he was running the fence.

Good job!

And that's awesome!

 

[BullChick]

Haha x2!

Oh, good! We can not run together!