Halloween/Thanksgiving Hatch-a-Long 2019

[FortCluck]

Something ive read on the site glad to pass it along! I think i remember it is when their circulatory system, heart and brain and forming?

You might also appreciate the information that turning is most important day 4-14. As well as helping the circulatory system grow evenly it helps make the chick exercise. Weak chicks are one outcome of an unturned or under turned egg.

Oh wow! Thanks for that information. Glad I bought my egg turner now that I read this because I know I'd forget to turn them if I did it myself.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Oh wow! Thanks for that information. Glad I bought my egg turner now that I read this because I know I'd forget to turn them if I did it myself.

Very welcome! I have three alarms for on my phone for turning eggs otherwise yea i would forget

 

[ShrekDawg]

The only "stupid question" is the one you are too embarrassed to ask, and it costs you something it shouldn't have ... like a safe hatch!

X2!!

I asked an embarrassing question, got further embarrassed, but no answer. I learned my lesson. Never ask if a pig can fly in the quail threads.

I don't even eat meat! I'm just raising it and processing it for my family. I may have a piece of chicken every 6 months, I don't even do dairy. It's definitely fun collecting eggs and caring for the chickens, it's so calming.

Oh wow that’s awesome!! I know some people won’t even prepare meat at all even for others so that’s great you do! I’m want to eat less meat but idk if I ever could. maybe one day though! I do try to limit dairy though, really don’t it at all anymore, except for maybe some butter sometimes. I’m bad. I didn’t really cut it out intentionally though. I just kinda developed an issue with it and can’t really eat it anymore. I wouldn’t say I’m necessarily lactose intolerant but it stuffs up my sinuses and/or gives me a headache! So I avoid it now. And sometimes I am intolerant it sucks cause I LOVE ice cream! thankfully though ice cream is usually pretty safe for me. It still messes up my sinuses but I won’t get sick unless I eat tons of it. So I sometimes have a little but I haven’t had any in a while. I keep trying to cut dairy out completely but I am awful at it. Hard to give up butter. But I don’t eat cheese or milk or anything anymore really. Cookies and milk was another hard one

But yes! I love taking care of mine and watching them.

I am absolutely floored by what people throw away!

X2!!! Also I know you probably meant animals but our town is full of rich people (but we’re not, obviously ) and we have a dump/transfer station that has a “mall” section as we call it where you can bring and take stuff free! Also a book shed. But anyway, it’s amazing what the rich people get rid of!!! Sometimes brand new stuff or used only a few times, etc. cause they bought something else so to the dump it goes!! It’s crazy. So wasteful. But excellent for the rest of us.

X2

People toss animals like trash. I know some have good reason to rehome animals, but there's people out there who literally drive to the woods and throw their animals out.

I'm a big animal person and I get some things happen in people's lives where they're helpless, but dang drive the animal to my house or a shelter at least so they can be cared for.

I agree!!! I’ve never understood people who just dump them in the middle of the woods or country or some such thing and just expect them to fend for themselves! Or even think they will survive. They’ve been fed from a bowl their whole lives. They won’t.

Also I think a lot of people are under the false assumption that a dog will be taken care of in the “country.” That some nice, kind farmer will take him in and he’ll live out his days happy and carefree running through the countryside. But that’s not the reality. The reality is that farmer may shoot the dog for harassing his livestock. That dog may get into a fight with other stray dogs or coyotes or any other number of threats. Maybe he can’t find food and water and starved to death. Gets hit by a car. Gets worms. Dies some horrible death. I think if people knew the reality of the fate their animals face they would never just dump them in the middle of nowhere. Or maybe they would anyway. Some people just don’t care.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Our latest dog was found wandering the back roads of Georgia, alone and starving, at three months old. Who in the world dumps a defenseless puppy, like that ... and no, she wasn't feral. She was too friendly to be wild-born. She certainly landed in the right place, though. She's one spoiled rotten ditz!

Awww poor thing!! glad she found you though!

I recently heard a story of someone throwing a kitten out a moving car window on the highway! Amazingly I think the kitten survived. Not the first story I’ve heard of people tossing animals out moving car windows. People also burn animals/set them on fire intentionally and/or beat them half to death. People are awful.

Around where I live people ditch roosters in the woods because they don't want people to eat them and no one will take them unless it's for meat... Like ditching them is a better option. They just get eaten by wildlife!

That’s awful but also ridiculous!! They will die a slow, painful, scary death from a predator as opposed to just a quick few seconds humane death! Absurd.

I have had a cat and three ducks left here that I know of.

Thankfully no one dumps animals here but we’re not very rural.

There are stray cats all-around our property. I put food out for them and let them sleep in our shed. They haven't bugged our chickens and kill all the rodents so it's a win win pretty much.

That’s awesome!! I’ve been thinking about getting a barn cat or else a vermin hunting dog lol we have a serious rat and chipmunk problem!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Sorry for getting everyone all depressed and sorry for typing like 50 novels tonight.

 

[BantyChooks]

Around where I live people ditch roosters in the woods because they don't want people to eat them and no one will take them unless it's for meat... Like ditching them is a better option. They just get eaten by wildlife!

Nothing pisses me off more than that. I don't think people should own animals if they can't keep their emotions out of the way.

 

[FortCluck]

I read all the novels and had zero issues with it. I want a barn cat too thats mine not a stray. My cat wouldn't let another cat in the house, but our shed is insulated and everything so it would be perfect.

 

[FortCluck]

Nothing pisses me off more than that. I don't think people should own animals if they can't keep their emotions out of the way.

I just had to euthanize my duckling. I tried every option, but she continued to go downhill. It was a spinal injury that a breeder passed onto us because she couldn't euthanize the duckling herself, $10 was more important! Shockingly my husband was the one who didn't want to do it and I told him there's no way out of it. We did it together and made it through it. Thats when I realized I could do meat chickens... I loved that duckling to pieces

 

[BantyChooks]

I just had to euthanize my duckling. I tried every option, but she continued to go downhill. It was a spinal injury that a breeder passed onto us because she couldn't euthanize the duckling herself, $10 was more important! Shockingly my husband was the one who didn't want to do it and I told him there's no way out of it. We did it together and made it through it. Thats when I realized I could do meat chickens... I loved that duckling to pieces

I had a similar thing a few years ago with a Welsh Harlequin that I nursed through a mink attack in which she lost a foot. She broke her leg badly in an accident the next spring and I couldn't set it, so she was put down. Ducks are way too easy to get extremely attached to. Kudos for giving her a chance without leaving her to die alone at the end.

 

[FortCluck]

I had a similar thing a few years ago with a Welsh Harlequin that I nursed through a mink attack in which she lost a foot. She broke her leg badly in an accident the next spring and I couldn't set it, so she was put down. Ducks are way too easy to get extremely attached to. Kudos for giving her a chance without leaving her to die alone at the end.

We buried her and we said a little eulogy for her. I don't want to say deaths on the farm get easier, but I seem to handle them a lot better now than I did before.

I do know with hatching sometimes you have to dispatch a chick, I bet that's even harder to do.