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

[BantyChooks]

By the way, the Halloween HAL is starting up again really soon. If any of you would like to donate a prize for the contests, shoot Sally/Mike/me a PM. Everything is appreciated!

 

[daxigait]

I don't need that much milk. I'm not outgoing enough to offer it to others. It will be brave of me to offer kids for sale when the time comes.

I would suggest that you try milk from several breeds of goats before you settle on one. The taste, quantity, and butterfat can very widely.

 

[daxigait]

NOT ALL GOAT MILK TASTES THE SAME!!!! FAIR WARNING!!! You want milk for drinking.... get nigerian dwarfs trust me, I gagged on the local goat farms milk till I tried ND milk!

I like Nubian too.

 

[daxigait]

@meltel I have not heard, any progress on the new treatment?
and prayers

 

[daxigait]

I give about 1 cc daily of the B-complex, I am giving 2cc orally of the b12. I read Selenium might help but I do not have any of that. I figure the over dosage will pass through. She is looking better, but I read it could take 8 weeks for her to turn around completely.

I read tetracycline will kill the bacteria but I am not having much luck on that either. I am giving a piece of Calf Bolus about so big " fingers held so far apart" Once a day. I am guessing about 1/5th of a calf bolus.

Also she gets physical therapy now, as she fights me on all these things so we both get a work out...She cheated yesterday though and bit me. I think I have chicken rabies now....

Thanks again for the information and the laugh.

 

[daxigait]

One question
Why all this pepole don't just fill containers from their tap water?

I am not sure maybe it's the convenience that some people like the individual bottles, but many of these people don't have any backup food supplies either which confuses me. Personally I suggested people need to invest in a small water filter like the Sawyer mini which is 20 bucks or the katadyn befree which is forty. They fold down to almost nothing, are easy to store in your bug-out bag, and they're not expensive. Then you always can drink the water wherever you're at plus these each have little bags that go with them.
Of course a lot of tap water is nasty. I love my well water when you're in tornado season or ice storm weather I always feel big containers for me and the livestock so that I have some go to water. I also put a hand pump on my well last year so I can get water when we loose power especially when everything is frozen. Breaking ice and hauling from the pond with inches of ice on everything stinks besides being dangerous.

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[daxigait]

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Good pictures of pretty ducks. What breed is the lighter one in the second photo?

 

[BantyChooks]

Good pictures in pretty ducks. What breed is the lighter one in the second photo?

Silver Appleyard.

 

[daxigait]

My chicken picture of the day.