Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[mzstre]

Madam my guess is two.

Today was a peculiar day. First I found blood on one of the new Midget hens. One of the toms claws needs to be trimmed. She was torn open from her wing down to a deeper cut into hey thigh. Sigh. This is why I prefer to free range. They wear their beaks and claws down so I never have to go through the pain of trying to trim them. Well we got the poor girl cleaned and sprayed. I opted to cover her with one of my sons tshirts. After cutting holes for her legs and cutting the back so I could tie it she was put back with her pals. I've seen this with my BBWs in the fall. The boys are just too heavy, but with the Midgets I had never had a problem. These guys are still in the greenhouse, so they won't wear those claws down. I'll need to do some trimming. They have been raised in confinement.

Then this afternoon when we went down to the chickens and found one of our hens in a fight with an opossum. Silver is pretty tore up, but she had a heavy jean dress on and I think it saved her life. She was pretty naked and the roosters were cutting her, so we made her a dress from a leg of one of my sons outgrown jeans. She only has one wing which makes mating difficult. She's not kept for breeding. Anyway now she is missing most of the skin off her neck. The poor girl. I brought her up cleaned her and treated her wounds. Dern possum bite her quite a few times with those alligator teeth. I'm keeping Silver up at the house until her wounds are well on their way to mended. What a weird day it was. I'm sure both girls will do fine. I've seen much worse, but two in one day was exhausting. Guess I don't normally see possums out and about at midday, so weird it is.

Goodness, you were in first response mode today. I hope your girls recover quickly!

 

[ProfTi]

I guess 3, as well.

Brrr....man, it got cold again last night. Luckily was nicer this am, though! Nice enough to knock back most of the snow for the weekend, so we had an Easter egg hunt this morning...ok....we had 8 of them. The boys really, really, really liked finding eggs. They couldn't care less about the Easter baskets. LOL

Whats that stuff on the ground?????

 

[WVstruttin]

most call it snow

 

[Hurley]

That other foreign substance which I haven't seen in a very long time is called "grass". Amazingly enough, sometimes it isn't dead and brown like in the photo and is found in some regions when the great glaciers recede.

 

[DMRippy]

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I don't remember everything for sure on the measurements 3.5 oz of oxine and I think 10 gm of citric acid? There are instruction on Revivals web site. Not sure on the shelf life. If you keep it in a container that light can't get into easy and a lid it lasts a LONG TIME. Hubby thinks indefinitely if you keep it out of the sun and closed. I know it lasts for several months after you mix it. I keep mine in a empty oxine container. They are THICK White gallon jugs so light will not get in easy. I kept one gallon out back at the breeding pens... in the sun and it lost the yellow color and smell so I killed it

I think everyone should activate it AUC.

 

[ProfTi]

most call it snow

Yep! Snow I know....trust me.....still up to my knees. It's that weird brown/yellow stuff that looks like it might turn colors or something???? I have seen nothing but white for months and months and months. And Hurley's not far from me....when will it come to my neighborhood????

 

[flocksalot]

Goodness, you were in first response mode today. I hope your girls recover quickly!

Thanks! Years ago I would have stitched her up, but I find unless we have a lot of flies they heal up better just keeping it clean and using an antibiotic. Plus I can't do the stitches anymore.

Right now Silver is right next to a broody that lost 8 of her nine chicks to a possum last weekend. Third incident in about a month. So silver looks over the top of her cage at CindyLou and her little Who baby (remember these are my sons chickens, so we have lots of weird names) and they both get to growling. Ah, sounds like home! I think I need a separate building just to keep chicks, poults, and injured birds. I'll have to start figuring how to get that done.

Oh my new girls, the Midgets, have started giving me eggs too! I'm almost caught up on orders, so I can start setting large batches and then offering up some for swapping again. Those new girls will have paid for themselves in no time. Now just to get them used to me. My returned old girls have actually begun to warm up to me. They will now take apple chunks from my hands. Yeah! I would never of thought that possible a month ago. They were just too wild when I got them.

 

[ProfTi]

That other foreign substance which I haven't seen in a very long time is called "grass". Amazingly enough, sometimes it isn't dead and brown like in the photo and is found in some regions when the great glaciers recede.

Glaciers receed?

 

[DMRippy]

anyone have a choc wyandotte cockerel they can part with? Out of my horrible hatch of the 28 eggs and 13 hatching... 5 have made it this far and appear to be all pullets. So if anyone has an extra, please PM me.

I am hatching a few chicks now if I get extras they are yours if you want them. I don't know what age you are looking for... they maybe too young for you.

 

[DMRippy]

Sorry