Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[mzstre]

Ok...so I am going to write a book, "adentures in absurdity: how chickens took over my relatively sane suburban life". Here is one story for the book.

A women contacted me who really, really wanted a roo. She lives in wisconsin. Well my work is closer toher than my home, I agreed to meet her before work with s chick. Well, we agreed we would do this today before class. SSomehow the signals got crossed and she did not appear for her chick. Now I have a little chick, no light and I have to go to class. So I try to sneak into the building and ran right into the campus director who promptly said "kristie, are you chirping?" By now I am late, so as I am runnibg I muble something incherent about a mistake before class. So I get class, of course today of all days, accreditors are visiting. I think, ok....I just have to keep a low profile. So here are my students, keeping the chick warm while I am teaching. Because this is my luckiest day ever, my class comes up randomly to be observed by both the accrediting team and the director. God love my students. Now in addition to keeping the chick warm, they are now hiding him under the table teying desperately not to get "caught" with the bird under the table and my campus director gives me a very distinct look that I interpreted with only little humor, "so kristie, whatcha gonna do now"? Though, my students were increfibly good at hiding the little roo and keeping him happy, I also knew the lady I wss giving him to was about to show up in the middle of class so I had to very delicately explain the unusual mess. It is a good thing they had a sense of humor. Not one of my proudest professional moments!

It may have not been humorous while it was happening, but it sure did make me laugh out loud!

 

[allsummedup]

I give up Alaska wins. . . I apparently do not get a summer. It's another blizzard. 4 inches of snow overnight and it's still going strong.
* beats head on wall*

 

[ProfTi]

It may have not been humorous while it was happening, but it sure did make me laugh out loud!

I am thinking its pretty funny now! My students so adorable trying to pasd the chick and hide it so I didnt get in trouble. Mind you, these a grown adults hiding this little chicken under the table and passing it around.

 

[pysankigirl]

Ok...so I am going to write a book, "adentures in absurdity: how chickens took over my relatively sane suburban life". Here is one story for the book.

A women contacted me who really, really wanted a roo. She lives in wisconsin. Well my work is closer toher than my home, I agreed to meet her before work with s chick. Well, we agreed we would do this today before class. SSomehow the signals got crossed and she did not appear for her chick. Now I have a little chick, no light and I have to go to class. So I try to sneak into the building and ran right into the campus director who promptly said "kristie, are you chirping?" By now I am late, so as I am runnibg I muble something incherent about a mistake before class. So I get class, of course today of all days, accreditors are visiting. I think, ok....I just have to keep a low profile. So here are my students, keeping the chick warm while I am teaching. Because this is my luckiest day ever, my class comes up randomly to be observed by both the accrediting team and the director. God love my students. Now in addition to keeping the chick warm, they are now hiding him under the table teying desperately not to get "caught" with the bird under the table and my campus director gives me a very distinct look that I interpreted with only little humor, "so kristie, whatcha gonna do now"? Though, my students were increfibly good at hiding the little roo and keeping him happy, I also knew the lady I wss giving him to was about to show up in the middle of class so I had to very delicately explain the unusual mess. It is a good thing they had a sense of humor. Not one of my proudest professional moments!

Too friggin funny!!!!!! I get such a great mental image on this!!!

 

[pysankigirl]

So update on the MG thing. I am still waiting to get my whole flock blood tested. The lady with the state that I have been talking to is really nice and is trying to look up some more info for me, and has honestly been very reasonable about this. She is not recommending depopulation…just that I consider not letting my birds leave my property. And together we are trying to figure out if there is a way that the offspring of my birds may someday re-enter the gene pool. Evidently there has been success through heat treating the eggs prior to hatching (evidently 12-14 hours at 46.1 degrees C will eliminate the disease in the egg, affecting, but not eliminating, hatchability) and/or dipping the egg in a pressurized antibiotic solution to get the solution to penetrate the egg shell. Honestly it’s probably moot because I don’t think anyone is going to ever want eggs from me if they can get them from someone else. But I thought it was nice of her to be willing to research it.

And unfortunately, there isn’t a way around the wild birds here having it. The horse is out of the barn on that one.

Speaking of which, I found an old article about house finch conjunctivitis (MG) that seemed well researched if anybody wanted to check it out. I was appalled at the range on the map 15 years ago:
http://www.jacook.name/finchmg/IntroBac.htm

I think they guy is a bird watcher, but he “shows his work” (LOL…I am more of a math person than an english person…hmmm….cites his references, Perhaps?) and although some of the links to websites are now broken I think it was well researched at the time it was done. One of the things he makes note of is that house finches are not indigenous to the US and originate from someone letting some escape back in the 1940’s. So they all come from the same tiny gene pool (read: inbred) and therefore may have been weakened by this inbreeding into being susceptible to a disease that used to only affect domestic poultry. And now the disease can go back and forth between poultry and finches, with the house finch originally providing the bridge.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Ok...so I am going to write a book, "adentures in absurdity: how chickens took over my relatively sane suburban life". Here is one story for the book.

A women contacted me who really, really wanted a roo. She lives in wisconsin. Well my work is closer toher than my home, I agreed to meet her before work with s chick. Well, we agreed we would do this today before class. SSomehow the signals got crossed and she did not appear for her chick. Now I have a little chick, no light and I have to go to class. So I try to sneak into the building and ran right into the campus director who promptly said "kristie, are you chirping?" By now I am late, so as I am runnibg I muble something incherent about a mistake before class. So I get class, of course today of all days, accreditors are visiting. I think, ok....I just have to keep a low profile. So here are my students, keeping the chick warm while I am teaching. Because this is my luckiest day ever, my class comes up randomly to be observed by both the accrediting team and the director. God love my students. Now in addition to keeping the chick warm, they are now hiding him under the table teying desperately not to get "caught" with the bird under the table and my campus director gives me a very distinct look that I interpreted with only little humor, "so kristie, whatcha gonna do now"? Though, my students were increfibly good at hiding the little roo and keeping him happy, I also knew the lady I wss giving him to was about to show up in the middle of class so I had to very delicately explain the unusual mess. It is a good thing they had a sense of humor. Not one of my proudest professional moments!

Thank you for the story. I have a good imagination and that is too funny! Great set of students you have there, and I bet that day is something they will remember for a long time!

I think you should buy a lottery ticket. I can't imagine how your class got chosen to be observed on the day you end up with a chick.. all your "bad" luck has been used up - all you have left is good luck!

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

I give up Alaska wins. . . I apparently do not get a summer. It's another blizzard. 4 inches of snow overnight and it's still going strong.
* beats head on wall*

 

[flocksalot]

Oh my aching back! My neighbor mowed his corn and informed me I needed to get it picked ASAP. Crud! Well the first 25 feet or so has been picked over by the chickens real well, so that saved me some, but I still filled a trailer full and I'm not done. I think there is maybe another 150 feet or so to pick, but I'm in too much pain to do it now. Doggone chickens should get up there and get it all picked up themselves.

It is nice of him to give it too us every year though. Free feed is always good.

I got the eggs this morning Brandi. Perfect as always. Thanks!

We also have three mini moose now hatched. Two to go. Then the basque and some of our SFH. Guess I better get going on building. Man I'm a demanding boss.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

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I like your thought on a farm name, but I also feel if you have to explain the name then maybe you need to rethink the name. If you are local market focused then many are likely to "get it" though.

Most dont pronounce our name right its K not C ..........Celtic (like the Celts of old world Ireland and Scotland) not Celtic (like the Boston basketball team) but I just ignore the miss prouncing and keep right on going lol


Oh got word from the stamp company they CAN work with our logo!!! So stamp is ordered

 

[mzstre]

Oh my aching back! My neighbor mowed his corn and informed me I needed to get it picked ASAP. Crud! Well the first 25 feet or so has been picked over by the chickens real well, so that saved me some, but I still filled a trailer full and I'm not done. I think there is maybe another 150 feet or so to pick, but I'm in too much pain to do it now. Doggone chickens should get up there and get it all picked up themselves.

It is nice of him to give it too us every year though. Free feed is always good.

I got the eggs this morning Brandi. Perfect as always. Thanks!

We also have three mini moose now hatched. Two to go. Then the basque and some of our SFH. Guess I better get going on building. Man I'm a demanding boss.

Free is good, but that sounds like lots of work. Did he give you a time limit to have it picked up?

I'm so happy they arrived ok! The USPS took its own sweet time getting them to you. Please let me know if you notice any difference in development or hatching since I lined the box with foil. I've heard it helps to prevent embryo damage from x-rays, so that batch is my experiment. I figured it would be a good comparison since you have some of the same breed from me in the incubator.