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

[Wickedchicken6]

2 goats pick and choose the good stuff.. 20 goats are greedy pigs and devour everything because they compete for whatever the other one is eating,

I must be a goat!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Not that serious a problem up here. I have a double needle for cows, should work on the goats if the Alka Seltzer fails.

Ouch. Once had a lamb, very first year, bloat on grass. Just grass! We were working behind the house, it was beside the house. We didn't check on them for about 1/2 hour. Silly thing. It was a male...survival of the fittest I guess.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

BOBS MOUTH

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I HAVE HEARD THAT SOMEWHERE

Are you referring to something I've said?
Or do you like it too??
Ohhhhh...you're birds!!! I'd already forgotten.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

was at 30.. now 14... comfortable now

14 sounds nice!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

A pair... if I do it. I got scared out of it last year when the "you need 4,986 things in your medicine cabinet just for them" list was posted. But I do have room now. And I need milk. And something to do...

But that's only IF something goes wrong. But a pair sounds nice.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

SALLY!!!!

....

 

[Wickedchicken6]

My roosters are 10 minutes early tonight. How do they know? That's what I want to know. They don't have a clock and I haven't made any noise so it's not me.
How can they know to crow at the same time every night??? Amazing!

 

[BullChick]

But that's only IF something goes wrong. But a pair sounds nice.

My b-i-l had goats (and a llama, pigs...). He gave them feed, hay and some cracked corn. The list has me afraid that one pygmy needs $300/month to care for.

 

[BantyChooks]

My b-i-l had goats (and a llama, pigs...). He gave them feed, hay and some cracked corn. The list has me afraid that one pygmy needs $300/month to care for monthly.

What I'm doing is entirely ignoring what anything on the internet says and going with what a goat-experienced friend tells me to do. That way it's a plan that both suits my location and cuts out some more 'extra' bits.

It's the exact same thing with any animal, honestly. If one looks up the care of rabbits, for instance, your eyes will shortly glaze over with diseases you need to have meds on hand for or supplements they'll absolutely need or they'll die. Guess what? They don't need that.

Some folks even make chickens out to be hard. That's why the internet is a better thing to do secondary research on.