Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[KYTinpusher]

Hi, everyone! I just skipped 17 pages of chat. We have had a busy day. The Mayo clinic has extended our stay until Monday! OUCH! DH is going to have to do a one way car rental back to Arkansas, and I will have to drive home after we get out of our last tests and doctor consult on Monday. It is about a 12 hour drive. I then have to be at work at about 6:00 AM on Tuesday to try to get caught up with my cost estimate that has to be finished by Tuesday morning.

I'm not sure what to do sitting in a hotel room for most of the weekend in Rochester,MN. DS has to do multiple blood and urine tests.

We are looking at multiple trips up here. Finances are going to be strained to the max. Goodbye any vacation time for DH and me this year. We will have to alternate making the trips up.

Crystal

Check out Angel Flights, maybe they can help with the transportation. I know Mayo is a common destination for them. http://www.angelflight.com/

 

[alisar]

Are biddies like.....bitties? Like little?

How much for that sign?

lol...someone posted this on my wall from pinterest
http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com/originals/cb/86/7a/cb867ab0e4b15f60be29c8d209c270d9.jpg

 

[kraftyladies]

And I have a HANDSOME boy for you.

 

[ChickNmamma]

I've been cringing reading all of the PO horror stories. Especially since I had chicks coming from Rachael this week. So I am actually going to share a happy USPS incident:

Rachael shipped the chicks out yesterday and they arrived quickly this afternoon at the big sort center in Fresno (about 30 miles south of us). One of the guys there called me and asked if I'd like to come get them so they didn't have to spend the night at their facility and wait to be driven to Madera tomorrow. When I got there about an hour after the call, the lady let me walk in the back with her to get the box. They had my chicks along with two other boxes in a blocked off, draft-free area with a heat lamp hanging about 2 feet over all of the boxes. I thanked her for taking the extra step to keep those babies warm. She told me that she grew up on a farm so she knew that the little bit of heat could make all of the difference to those chicks, especially if they would have to spend the night in that big building.

So to end my happy story, I have some beautiful little fuzzy faces bouncing around the brooder tonight. Thanks crazy lady

I hope the rest of you waiting on your birds will have the same good results soon!

Thank you for the good USPS story, its so much better when somebody who actually knows about chicks is involved. Mine when I picked them up were sitting on top of another box of loudly peeping and unhappy chicks - in the middle of the building where they walked by all the time (drafts indeed). They were a day late and not in good shape. Its so nice to hear of a good story.

lol...someone posted this on my wall from pinterest
http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com/originals/cb/86/7a/cb867ab0e4b15f60be29c8d209c270d9.jpg

Hillarious! However.. I suspect the sign was made for fun - even the back neck boys know its For Sale. Biddies.. hmm.. that could be older hens (we always called them old biddies) or it could be Iddy Biddies.. but I suspect the Growd ones would cover the older birds so that must be for iddy biddies...

Just fun sign, thanks.

 

[kraftyladies]

got a blue slate pipped!!!!

 

[KYTinpusher]

got a blue slate pipped!!!!

 

[krazykat0373]

got a blue slate pipped!!!!

did they all make it to lockdown?

 

[flocksalot]

Check out Angel Flights, maybe they can help with the transportation. I know Mayo is a common destination for them. http://www.angelflight.com/

Good idea!

 

[flocksalot]

Funny story....

On Saturday we had some regulars come out to get eggs and see the horses. They brought their obnoxious know it all relatives along because they are getting chickens. My hubby decided to show them all the chickens that are not in our house. Well the know it all went around naming chicken breeds, but in general getting them wrong according to my son. When they left they took a business card with them.

So today I got a call from the guy. He wanted to know where I got those lilac laced white birds. I was at a loss. I'm going through all our breeds that have white on them in my head and trying to figure out what he's talking about. He starts going on about what a rare breed they are and he has been looking for some just like them. I'm still lost. Then he starts on about how the lilac is so pretty and that most people call silver lilac. I'm thinking this guy is whacked. Anyway if I can remember where I got them from and how much I paid for them he would really appreciate it. Well now I'm curious as to what he's been blabbering on about, so I asked him which house they were near. He's says they were in the metal shed in the brooder. Oh my god I finally figured out what he has been talking about.

When I'm brooding white chicks of any sort I blueKote their pin feathers on their tails to prevent picking. When the feathers grow out they are stained with the purplish stuff. It does look like lacing, but its not permanent. Its gone with the first molt. So those beautiful lilac laced white chicks are just Tetra Tints that got their butts sprayed about a month ago. I'm so tempted to tell him they are the last of their breed. What I did tell him is that it must have been a trick of the lights as there were no white birds in the brooder. I bet he thinks they were all purple now!

 

[GableBabble]

Funny story....

On Saturday we had some regulars come out to get eggs and see the horses. They brought their obnoxious know it all relatives along because they are getting chickens. My hubby decided to show them all the chickens that are not in our house. Well the know it all went around naming chicken breeds, but in general getting them wrong according to my son. When they left they took a business card with them.

So today I got a call from the guy. He wanted to know where I got those lilac laced white birds. I was at a loss. I'm going through all our breeds that have white on them in my head and trying to figure out what he's talking about. He starts going on about what a rare breed they are and he has been looking for some just like them. I'm still lost. Then he starts on about how the lilac is so pretty and that most people call silver lilac. I'm thinking this guy is whacked. Anyway if I can remember where I got them from and how much I paid for them he would really appreciate it. Well now I'm curious as to what he's been blabbering on about, so I asked him which house they were near. He's says they were in the metal shed in the brooder. Oh my god I finally figured out what he has been talking about.

When I'm brooding white chicks of any sort I blueKote their pin feathers on their tails to prevent picking. When the feathers grow out they are stained with the purplish stuff. It does look like lacing, but its not permanent. Its gone with the first molt. So those beautiful lilac laced white chicks are just Tetra Tints that got their butts sprayed about a month ago. I'm so tempted to tell him they are the last of their breed. What I did tell him is that it must have been a trick of the lights as there were no white birds in the brooder. I bet he thinks they were all purple now!