Gosling with cord attached

[RugenerGooser]

Hey! I just noticed...I'm not "Out of the brooder" anymore. I am now "Chillin' with my Peeps". Right on!

 

[RugenerGooser]

On the incu thing, I started buying the waffled dish rags that you can buy a bunch of for five dollars at the dollar store, wash them so they are soft, and hook up a brooder light, loosely wrap the dish rag over them after I have laid them on it, and they move around in it until they find their comfortable spot and go to sleep. No more bickering. I guess all babies like their woobies(blankies). Funny thing is that they will sit on it after they are walking around and eating and drinking when they go to sleep, and they don't poop on it. That blows my mind!

January

 

[tillyita]

On the incu thing, I started buying the waffled dish rags that you can buy a bunch of for five dollars at the dollar store, wash them so they are soft, and hook up a brooder light, loosely wrap the dish rag over them after I have laid them on it, and they move around in it until they find their comfortable spot and go to sleep. No more bickering. I guess all babies like their woobies(blankies). Funny thing is that they will sit on it after they are walking around and eating and drinking when they go to sleep, and they don't poop on it. That blows my mind!

January

I use a terracotta dish (the sort you use under pot plants) they retain and radiate warmth really well. A small one in the incubator and then a larger one in the brooder - its really cute to see a whole heap of chicks under the heat lamp all trying to squeeze into the dish.

 

[RugenerGooser]

I use a terracotta dish (the sort you use under pot plants) they retain and radiate warmth really well. A small one in the incubator and then a larger one in the brooder - its really cute to see a whole heap of chicks under the heat lamp all trying to squeeze into the dish.

That is also a really good idea. I am never opposed to trying new things. The terra cotta does make a lot of sense. Thanks for that!

January

 

[RugenerGooser]

My RG you have written a book.

I would love to see you working on a tiny new hatchling. you have to have a steady hand for that kind of work. I've never had any hatchlings in a bator, although I had a new hatched Muscovy a couple years ago, my first time ever since I have always relied on Mama duck to take care of everything but she didn't want this duckling so I raised him, Thank Abba as you have stated, [I love that Name by the way] Only thing he had going was she had pecked him in the head a couple of times and he had some minor cuts other wise was a healthy baby. I did watch 2 of out newest ducklings not quite 2 weeks old sparing this afternoon, it was so cute.

Your hand does not necessarily have to be that steady. The forceps are doing most of the work. I talk to the babies constantly while working, so they are relaxed and talking back in their happy language. They get to sleep in a tub next to my bed, so they can be secure. Should I give them a teddy bear too?

I observe my girls do what they do with their kids so I have a better understanding of how to do things as close to the way they would do it as possible. Okay...teddy bears for the Nursery areas.

 

[Miss Lydia]

All the years of growing up with Doctors, nurses, and medics in the family didn't hurt. We are all lovers of medicine. My mother and I are big into medical and veterinary medicine. We love animals and would never dream of charging a penny for what we do. Labor of love. Abba is Hebrew for Father. Since He is our Father, I like the more intimate, childlike usage of Abba or Avi. The Lord's Prayer that Yeshua taught was not new. It is known as the Avinu(Our Father) in Hebrew. It was 102 degrees today. HEEEEEELPPPPP! I'm melting!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very cool stuff there RGthe 2nd.

all except the weather. Heavens to murcatroid [probabl

y spelled wrong]

 

[RugenerGooser]

Very cool stuff there RGthe 2nd.

all except the weather. Heavens to murcatroid [probabl

y spelled wrong]

I'm not sure how you spell it either, but you're right. It's supposed to be 105 degrees tomorrow. I wear long sleeves(natural fibers) and a cowboy hat outside and I don't get hot, but this is insane! I've been going out and giving the birdos showers. They get all silly. It's great fun. And then there's the mud puddles. I must confess, I don't mind getting wet, either.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'm not sure how you spell it either, but you're right. It's supposed to be 105 degrees tomorrow. I wear long sleeves(natural fibers) and a cowboy hat outside and I don't get hot, but this is insane! I've been going out and giving the birdos showers. They get all silly. It's great fun. And then there's the mud puddles. I must confess, I don't mind getting wet, either.

I bet you don't mind. almost makes you want to climb in one of those kiddy pools the flock uses . Almost.haha

 

[RugenerGooser]

I bet you don't mind. almost makes you want to climb in one of those kiddy pools the flock uses . Almost.haha

How did you know?

 

[RURU]

The cords are easy to tie. I use to for 38 years I raised show cats and I helped the kittens be born and I tied the cords off with alcohol thread. When one got stuck in the birth canal I word work it out until mom could pass it. I did apeasotmity sp? where she could not pass the kitten so I cut her so she could pass the kitten and after I did that all the kittens came very well. As RG says it is just as easy to do once you have learned how... Took the cat to the vets the next day to have her put stiches in and she said I did a good job! So you just have to do it that is all. I did a lot of things I thought I could not do just by trying to. Giving shots are easy also. I did that too for 38 years.
Then when I had surgeries where I had to have heprin I had to give myself shots for 10 days after I came home in my stomach.