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

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Goat shed has been coming right along. Need to get shingles and doors on and then I can move the flock over & tear down the old coop. :ya

Can't wait to get my birdies into safe housing. I'm currently sleeping with my windows open so I can hear any struggles in the night... It's saved them a few times before... Yeah, that's how awful my coop is.
It'll be nice to sleep with confidence that no stray mink are gonna wreak havoc on them birds.
 
Can we not argue about the video please? Just a request. :oops:

What a day - nothing specifically remarkable, just very very full day at work, then very very full with chores when I got home. Was horrified to discover that the S&G pullets went through three gallons of water in 24 hours (they might have spilled some, though), and were almost dry this evening - scary around here in summer. Really gotta get that auto watering thing worked out ASAP. Their coop will be first.

Only had enough energy to put together a caprese salad (and that was mostly because I had a huge tomato that was super ripe and going to start going bad soon). But tomorrow I get to have Red Lobster clam chowder with kajira!!!! :celebrate:drool

Looks like the water dunking for broody Trinity worked - she's off the nest now. I dunked Switch this evening to see if I can get her off as well. But meanwhile, I now have a NEW broody - Lissa (Cream Legbar). She did this last year as well. The Three Witches are her daughters (incubator/brooder raised), but no way am I letter her sit on and hatch eggs in her coop with another hen with ocular Mareks present, and I don't want any more CLs anyway. I can't grab her as easily in that coop, so no water dunk tonight, but I'll see if I can get her tomorrow (without Dumbledore trying to kill me). Last year she was SUPER tough to break - I had her sitting tight on frozen water bottles. :he

And I have a splinter in my left thumb that I can't get out that hurts. There. I think I've done my part to keep the conversation going on the thread. :lau

- Ant Farm
 
BantyChooks said:
Goat shed has been coming right along. Need to get shingles and doors on and then I can move the flock over & tear down the old coop. :ya

Can't wait to get my birdies into safe housing. I'm currently sleeping with my windows open so I can hear any struggles in the night... It's saved them a few times before... Yeah, that's how awful my coop is.
It'll be nice to sleep with confidence that no stray mink are gonna wreak havoc on them birds.
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Was horrified to discover that the S&G pullets went through three gallons of water in 24 hours (they might have spilled some, though), and were almost dry this evening - scary around here in summer.
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That's crazy. I've been meaning to ask you, to what extent is panting normal in birds? My birds are having some trouble... It's been getting into the 80s and they're panting like a golden retriever on steroids. They have shade and cold water available, but I'm worried about them... Especially the older gals. Seems like they're about ready to keel over from heat stroke.
 
BantyChooks said:
That's crazy. I've been meaning to ask you, to what extent is panting normal in birds? My birds are having some trouble... It's been getting into the 80s and they're panting like a golden retriever on steroids. They have shade and cold water available, but I'm worried about them... Especially the older gals. Seems like they're about ready to keel over from heat stroke.
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Your chickens must be weaklings it has been in the 100s here and I've yet to see one pant. :confused:
 
BantyChooks said:
Bunnies are soft. :love


Huh? How'm I supposed to know? He's a chicken. I don't know how they think.

This has entirely no relation to my first post on the matter, which was more pointing to the fact that no matter what way you paint it, he was causing entirely unnecessary pain. You seemed to be trying to say that it wasn't different from anyone else hunting or killing an animal for food. I responded with an opinion to the contrary. And yes, cruelty does have a fixed definition... "Callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain or suffering." I'd say dislocating/breaking a chicken's legs to advertise a product that is 99.9% likely a quack falls under that umbrella of callous indifference.


Discussion over... I see no profit from this.
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I think that you can't accept different view from your own
And you justify your action by telling yourself that they are right just because they suit with your definition of morality, or cruelty.
I just wanted to make you rethink and see that we all, ME, you and everyone else, are making cruel things, according to DIFFERENT definitions of it.( Ask some Buddhist munk)
And rethinking about things is a HUGE benefit!
And now The discussion is over.
 
Fire Ant Farm said:
Can we not argue about the video please? Just a request. :oops:

What a day - nothing specifically remarkable, just very very full day at work, then very very full with chores when I got home. Was horrified to discover that the S&G pullets went through three gallons of water in 24 hours (they might have spilled some, though), and were almost dry this evening - scary around here in summer. Really gotta get that auto watering thing worked out ASAP. Their coop will be first.

Only had enough energy to put together a caprese salad (and that was mostly because I had a huge tomato that was super ripe and going to start going bad soon). But tomorrow I get to have Red Lobster clam chowder with kajira!!!! :celebrate:drool

Looks like the water dunking for broody Trinity worked - she's off the nest now. I dunked Switch this evening to see if I can get her off as well. But meanwhile, I now have a NEW broody - Lissa (Cream Legbar). She did this last year as well. The Three Witches are her daughters (incubator/brooder raised), but no way am I letter her sit on and hatch eggs in her coop with another hen with ocular Mareks present, and I don't want any more CLs anyway. I can't grab her as easily in that coop, so no water dunk tonight, but I'll see if I can get her tomorrow (without Dumbledore trying to kill me). Last year she was SUPER tough to break - I had her sitting tight on frozen water bottles. :he

And I have a splinter in my left thumb that I can't get out that hurts. There. I think I've done my part to keep the conversation going on the thread. :lau

- Ant Farm
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I accept, even that it is against my entire culture! :lol:
 

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