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

[BullChick]

You only froze mine once, despite your best attempts

You weren't reading my thread when it happened there, were you?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

If we stay on top of it, there is little to trim. Once it starts to curl.. it sometimes takes intervals to correct. Foot rot is DANGEROUS.. They ain't curling on my watch. Not mama's babies.

I ain't touchin mine at all. I've never had foot rot (the sheep for all who'll tease me. I KNOW you will.) even in the wet years. No explanation. We shipped cows prone to foot rot and haven't seen it for a long time. We've got it in our pastures, used to have lots of cases of it. Also another reason our employer was always getting in cattle to treat/trim.
Dangerous with cattle. Easier to avoid it all. I'm getting too old for that.

 

[BantyChooks]

You weren't reading my thread when it happened there, were you?

I was. One of the ones there was the one that finally froze it.

 

[BantyChooks]

I ain't touchin mine at all. I've never had foot rot (the sheep for all who'll tease me. I KNOW you will.)

Awww

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Just unusual to skip a routine. Got to fill the blank some how. The blank today was we removed 30' of fencing/barb wire-hot wire to make way for the last Irma damaged tree to fall. It is super windy today. The crack is opening and closing. Today might be the day it falls.
DH and his faithful super cool assistant. Removed the Property line boarder fencing and posts to save the material. Any second that baby is coming down.
These pics are from yesterday. The crack is so much bigger today.
TIMBER!
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Say NO to crack!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Don't. Rebel and go back to IE.
(Just don't complain when it crashes)

Oh no. I like to have google with me when I go places...it can prompt me, and track me...I give it hugs. Hug the google...

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I kind of miss my old temperamental LG. It was fun to use. I made my current one too well---I just stick them in the autoturner, candle when I wanna, and lockdown in 18 days. It's bad of me but I'm not even checking the thermometers more than maybe once a day once it's stable.

Speaking of incubators, I ought to finish the upgrades for mine.

Your complaining because you're incubator does "too good" of a job??? Did you fall an hit yer head or something???????????????

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Goats are as cheap as dogs. $40 was average around here for a pygmy of either sex.

Ours are pygmy.. our average local price range is 90 to 150 clams. Bucks on the low end. We castrate all baby bucks.

They prefer to sleep elevated.

Mine prefer a fresh dry hay bed to sleep.

Now I'm understanding that they need additives and medicine weekly?

Monitor bowel movements (you want berries, not clumps), weight loss and check for signs of anemia by pulling down their bottom eye lid and checking the color. It should be pink. If white, they have a low red blood cell count and it needs to be address asap.
WET GRASS SEASON is bad news for goats. We dewormed a lot during the summer this past unusually wet year. Annually vax's with us.
We have a mobile vet who taught us a great deal.

I get hoof trimming. Especially here. The buildings are on cement pads, but I'm sure I'd have to trim their feet.

If your concrete is brush swept finished that is super duper. That is very course and will grind the hoofs nice. If it is smooth, the will be like humans walking on ice. My barn is smooth finish concrete, they have a hard time stablizing on it.
Some people dremel hoofs. We we have clipping shears and we file finish with a #2 bastard file.
If you stay on top of it. It takes only a couple minutes a hoof.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

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I'm sorry to hear about the piglet and your roo.

The piglet is par to the course. That's why they have up to 15 because of the fatality rate and risk factor.
The roo was pedigree. that upset me. We profit off that particular breed.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I get totally lost...especially when I get interrupted...lol.

Do you have CRS too?