INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[lazy gardener]

From first group of eggs, I got 2 chicks, one of which was an assist. I need to give her a bath tonight to clean all of the shellac off her. Her butt is particularly glued up, so she needs a good cleaning. The next group of 12 (also shipped) are pipping, so far about 75% malpositioned. So, if they make it out of the shell, I expect they will be assists. I just opened up membranes on all of their pips. They were upright in cartons for the hatch. I laid them down with pip up after opening membranes. One has died already. The remainder of the eggs that have not yet externally pipped are tapping or cheeping. So, hoping they fare better than the early pips. Gonna be a long night. My own eggs are also in for a difficult hatch. They were due today. One or more have internally pipped. Having a hard time keeping the humidity up in that bator, so expect a lot of difficulty there as well.

 

[wabbit1964]

You found a dead witch in your coop, and it was cold? How did a witch get in there to begin with?

 

[rIrs roost]

Do I keep missing Sally? :|

Probably. I don't hear from her much anymore. She stays so busy.

 

[BullChick]

I am unsettled. Getting home so late in the evening, and so many things to do. No desire to do it. Even getting supper isn't happening.

The birds got to run around for about an hour before it was dark. They had water in the duck's bowl, and there were enough pieces of food left to make me think they were okay. I was gone an extra day. Glad I checked on them tonight. The ducklings will be brought back tomorrow. I hope to be able to get the coop cleaned out first I don't want the ducklings back in the house.

 

[kwhites634]

I am unsettled. Getting home so late in the evening, and so many things to do. No desire to do it. Even getting supper isn't happening.

The birds got to run around for about an hour before it was dark. They had water in the duck's bowl, and there were enough pieces of food left to make me think they were okay. I was gone an extra day. Glad I checked on them tonight. The ducklings will be brought back tomorrow. I hope to be able to get the coop cleaned out first I don't want the ducklings back in the house.

Glad you're back safe & sound

 

[BullChick]

Glad you're back safe & sound

Thank you. I am safe anyway. Saying goodbye to the children did me in. It was when the reality fully hit me. "I am leaving behind Brian!" When I return again, the children will be adjusting to their new routines. Their new lives. I will be ripping off a bandage. Faced again with a house devoid of such a life. A large personality. His presence filled a house, let alone a room.
I cried so much as I hugged them goodbye. I tried not to. Oh, how I tried! But how do you treat it as nothing when a child, still needing a favorite blanket to sleep, loses her daddy? A 13-yr -old yells at his sister, and you are tempted to tell him he is not her father. He is now. No matter how young he is, the reality is that he is the man now.
So I am safe. But I am certainly not sound.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Not sure there's anything I can say except to offer a hug.

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Thank you. I am safe anyway. Saying goodbye to the children did me in. It was when the reality fully hit me. "I am leaving behind Brian!" When I return again, the children will be adjusting to their new routines. Their new lives. I will be ripping off a bandage. Faced again with a house devoid of such a life. A large personality. His presence filled a house, let alone a room.
I cried so much as I hugged them goodbye. I tried not to. Oh, how I tried! But how do you treat it as nothing when a child, still needing a favorite blanket to sleep, loses her daddy? A 13-yr -old yells at his sister, and you are tempted to tell him he is not her father. He is now. No matter how young he is, the reality is that he is the man now.
So I am safe. But I am certainly not sound.

Big hugs....

 

[Pensmaster]

Thank you. I am safe anyway. Saying goodbye to the children did me in. It was when the reality fully hit me. "I am leaving behind Brian!" When I return again, the children will be adjusting to their new routines. Their new lives. I will be ripping off a bandage. Faced again with a house devoid of such a life. A large personality. His presence filled a house, let alone a room.
I cried so much as I hugged them goodbye. I tried not to. Oh, how I tried! But how do you treat it as nothing when a child, still needing a favorite blanket to sleep, loses her daddy? A 13-yr -old yells at his sister, and you are tempted to tell him he is not her father. He is now. No matter how young he is, the reality is that he is the man now.
So I am safe. But I am certainly not sound.

 

[kwhites634]

Thank you. I am safe anyway. Saying goodbye to the children did me in. It was when the reality fully hit me. "I am leaving behind Brian!" When I return again, the children will be adjusting to their new routines. Their new lives. I will be ripping off a bandage. Faced again with a house devoid of such a life. A large personality. His presence filled a house, let alone a room.
I cried so much as I hugged them goodbye. I tried not to. Oh, how I tried! But how do you treat it as nothing when a child, still needing a favorite blanket to sleep, loses her daddy? A 13-yr -old yells at his sister, and you are tempted to tell him he is not her father. He is now. No matter how young he is, the reality is that he is the man now.
So I am safe. But I am certainly not sound.

I won't try to tell you I know how you feel, 'cause I don't; I've never been in that situation. We'll all be thinking about you, though, and wishing you, your sister and her children peace & healing.

I had an uncle who went through the same thing. His wife died of cancer, leaving him to raise four kids ranging from 12 or 13, maybe younger, to about 3, three of them girls. They all came together & did what needed to be done. He had a rough go of it for a while, and made some mistakes, but he remarried, & everything worked out in the end.