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[Sally Sunshine]

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Originally Posted by chicken hawk 33

Hello ALL

HI CH I lost a gooser too she wouldnt drink or eat and she was blueish think her lungs messed up

Did she live?

-Kathy

no and I know I may have been able to save her with tubing, she was dehydrated her legs were sticky and thin as were her foot bads. But she was blue purple from the start, her legs and even part of her bill.
So sorry! Tubing *may have helped a little, but being purple is usually a sign that the end is near. Again, sorry for your loss. Maybe some sort of heat/lung defect?

-Kathy
that would be my guess as well, lungs just didnt do what they needed in full. it was cute though

 

[BantyChooks]

Pretty tough to be a pessimist with people like you around

That's were you're wrong...........and here I thought you were an optimist. You do the same.

Just got a pop-up I can only assume is a PSA posted along a highway somewhere: "Required driver may be missing"

Maybe she's a pessimistic optimist

Ya huh, maybe!

@BantyChooks LOOK!!!!!! CUTEST CHICKS E V A

Well, they sher are cute, but not the cutest....

Hello ALL

Hi CH!

 

[Chaos18]

Ya huh, maybe!
Well, they sher are cute, but not the cutest....

Hi CH!

Or is it an optimistic pessimist?

 

[mlm Mike]

@mlm Mike Our gorgeous Icelandic Chicks!!

Thank you !!!

Awwwwww. So cute!

 

[mlm Mike]

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they are all different colors, and I havent a clue @mlm Mike

We'll find out.

 

[BantyChooks]

Or is it an optimistic pessimist?

Dunno.

Gotta scoot again,

 

[Chaos18]

Dunno.

Gotta scoot again,

Bye again

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Thanks all for the warm birthday wishes.
Pool was fun, I won 2 and lost 1. Our team won 9 to 5. We're in first place now. My wife, son and daughter came to watch. It was a late night. I didn't get up till 7 this morning.

We got a brief intermission today....
So I went fishing
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Good luck on pool league.... Never got into pool.
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That looks messy. We're getting a hard freeze tonight. Likely the last of the season. I'll cover all the veggies that are in and I'll be up from about 4 till 8 in the morning misting the fruit trees.
I never played pool till I went in the army. Took up foosball at the same time and filled a lot of idle hours with both. By the time I got home I was good at both. Continued to play a lot for the next 15+ years but I've played very little in the last 20+. This is the first time I've been on a league and the skill is there but the eyes aren't. It's amazing the shots I miss and on the other hand, the ones I'm able to make.

How old can eggs be before they are too old to put in the incubator?

up to 10 days is pretty reliable. They go down hill quickly after that.
How they're stored makes all the difference. Just kept on the counter, about a week is all you can expect. However if kept cooler, around 60F and turned at least twice a day, then you can go up to 2 weeks. Beyond that, a few hours of pre-storage incubation, kept cooler (40F), encased in nitrogen and stored small end up - you might be able to keep them 3 weeks or longer.
Trouble is, unless you plan on storing them longer, you aren't likely to go to any of those measures.

Hellooooooooo everybody! So, I HAVE AN INCUBATION QUESTION!
Recently I've been hatching out chicks for my pops, however I've been having two problems. 1- I've had three chicks now that have died shortly after hatching/during zipping. One died 3/4 finished with a zip, eggtopsy showed a perfect chick. The second hatched, but was crazy weak from the get go and had a small tummy and died a day later. The third hatched, seemed normal the first few hours then rapidly went down hill and died 24 hours later (he had a poke-out navel, but looked normal otherwise). I've also had three DIS, perfectly formed upon eggtopsy, ready to hatch. This was from a total of 20 viable eggs- 2 different incubators. That's around 1/3 of the eggs, and it's infuriating! What could be causing this?!?

@Sally Sunshine @ronott1 @mlm Mike @RavynFallen @Happy Chooks @casportpony @TJChickens

Things to look at are high hatcher temperature, poor hatcher ventilation, incubator contamination, breeder nutrition and inadequate turning in the first 12 days.

I think there is a.chance. one egg is a twin is there a chance it could survive?

Twins rarely survive and if they do, they usually aren't hardy as chicks.

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We have the summer, very hot! Good for the sea! All the fruit tree are blooming, a lot of avocado, mango,
Pomegranate,lemon, olives,oranges, it seems like a good year!

I have good flowering on the apples, peaches, apricots and pears.

Morning y'all. Been getting 6-8 eggs a day now that winter is over and spring has properly settled in. Been freezing them almost as soon as they come in. What does everyone else do with the eggs they don't plan on setting?

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For a while I was just giving them to whoever wanted them. Then I started baking a lot. Then I remembered i could freeze them. Funny what all you can do with eggs!

I just crack them into muffin pans, then freeze and pop them out into a zipper bag. Save them for when winter hits and you aren't getting eggs anymore.

People report the yolk texture is strange after freezing, but I never noticed that when the eggs would freeze in winter and I would collect them. I just thaw them out and use them like normal eggs. Baking, cooking, breads, pastas, whatever you need eggs for they work. Husband eats them sunny-side-up so I let it thaw in a teacup and just pour it into the pan.

The yolk doesn't run when it's been frozen. It just stays in a yellow ball.
Quiche, fritatas, egg flower soup, deviled eggs, egg salad, tuna salad and potato salad with eggs.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/articles/50-egg-ideas.page-1.html
http://www.incredibleegg.org/recipe/

So the great city of Indianapolis has just given me a very good reason to move to the country. City ordinance took effect on April 1st. Went from chickens not being regulated, to only being able to have 12 adult birds (adults are 8 months of age and older).

I feel your pain. At least you can have 12. That's still enough to breed. What's the word on roosters?
Most cities around here limit to 4 birds. A couple only allow 3. That's not enough to keep one person in eggs, let alone a family.
The city of St. Louis allows 4 without a permit and 10 with a kennel permit.
St. Louis county consists of 92 separate cities, each with their own rules. Unincorporated county has no limit but doesn't allow breeding.
I have a permit for 85 chickens and 5 roosters. One of the only cities I'm aware of that actually wrote allowing roosters into the ordinance.
With so many tiny cities butting up against one another, it's feasible for four neighbors here to have four different sets of rules. One neighbor may be allowed unlimited chickens, another may have 10, the next only 3 and the fourth can have none. That's something I have to address in my chicken class in the morning.

... I don't understand why folks get excited when they are getting a big return. All that means is that Uncle Sam got to play with their money, interest free all year.

X2

Well our zones are called "dwelling". Regardless of zone, the max is 12. No minimum area required and some of the zones have only 5000 square feet of total space per lot. So even though I have 4x the amount of space, I can only have the max of 12. It's pretty upsetting and I'm considering moving. Oh yeah another change was that animals can NOT be slaughtered in the front yard, and coops and pens cannot be in the front yard...

A lot of the cities around here that have written ordinances allowing chickens, place lost size restrictions to the point that perhaps only 5% of the residents can have them.

Okay guys this ain't fair.... I didn't sleep but a few hours last night and I jump back on here... I was 200 post behind...... Morning crew!!!!

I was almost 400 behind.

Just getting ready to reply to these, I'm another 50 behind.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Tuesdays small Hatch Most will go to homes in NJ and MD tomorrow, Icelandics and brahma will stick around

 

[Chaos18]

Tuesdays small Hatch Most will go to homes in NJ and MD tomorrow, Icelandics and brahma will stick around

So cute