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

[attimus]

A little bit of everything, berries and veggies. But I'm trying to make room for a load of soil since even with 50+ chickens, I can't make enough compost.

any restaurant or diner close by? I get a large amount of my compost from my work and another locations spent veggie and coffee scrap.

 

[casportpony]

@Fire Ant Farm and everyone else, BYC has a new member that happens to be a poultry/avian pathologist! I'm very excited to see that they've taken an interest here.

-Kathy

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Hey, any advice on ducklings and geese? Mine develop and die right before hatch. I am getting really disheartened. I can see some trying to pip and they die before cracking the shell.

I have some Australian Spotted eggs and I really want to get this figured out. I hate losing babies this way. It breaks my heart. Plus my Sebastopol eggs are going to waste.

I have hatched three babies and lost about 20. This is not acceptable.

I'm so sorry that you're having so much trouble. Both Sally and CH have recently successfully hatched geese, so maybe they'll pipe up with ideas.

But I have to say - I think you have the best, sweetest avatar that I have ever seen. Makes me smile.

Good Saturday morning to you MC thanks for coffee. I was off reading about nutrition for different aged chickens earlier on the Easter Hal.

Oh, I need to go check that out. I'm always reading about and thinking about nutrition...

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I absolutely positively second this. Best sourse for really good thermometers and hygrometers.

My hubby just got back from the PO with my Cackle chicks! I'm happy to report they are all alive and appear to be in pretty good shape. A couple look like they had a rough trip, but I think they'll be okay. Of course I have some dirty butts to deal with, but that's to be expected. Still not happy with the hatchery's lack of communication, but it is what it is. Here are some pictures I snapped after I got everyone settled in. After they've had some time to recover, I'll go out and start cleaning tushies (oh joy!).




Little nekkid necks, which I think are absolutely adorable and my husband thinks (and I quote) are "yuck".

So glad you got them - that was so worrying to wonder where they were in the USPS system (and they weren't even my chicks!)
You are going to LOVE the Naked Necks. As they grow up, when you handle and cuddle them (I find mine to be very friendly), the bare skin on their necks/chests feels like soft warm baby's skin. Soooo sweet...

Quote: She's an animal training consultant. She's trained lots of birds and mammals from guinea pigs, rabbits, wolves, llamas, alpacas, horses, dogs, cats, a porcupine and a camel.
turkeys, chickens, parrots, raptors
She held a class at the Humane Society for our chicken group on 'Chicken Clicker Training'.
She said, if you want to be a good clicker trainer for dogs, learn to do it with chickens first. They're harder.
She was internationally certified. I don't know if she still is.
She's the one looking for a border collie.
I have a Cream Legbar rooster that I have managed to inadvertently gotten pretty well trained with a squirt water bottle, and the roosters watch closely just like a dog does, so that tracks. Maybe I'll try that...

Good morning all

Good morning!!! What does your day have in store? Are you working today?

Good morning Kathy, I'm out to do some gardening.

Veggie garden?

-Kathy

A little bit of everything, berries and veggies. But I'm trying to make room for a load of soil since even with 50+ chickens, I can't make enough compost.
Yeah, that's what I'm doing with my day as well - I have transplants I need to get in, but I have bed prep to do first. And I have Blackberries to install - but I need to select and clear their new home location first.

Speaking of which, I need to finish my third (fourth?) cup of coffee and get out there and get to work, already!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@Fire Ant Farm and everyone else, BYC has a new member that happens to be a poultry/avian pathologist! I'm very excited to see that they've taken an interest here.

-Kathy

That is super cool!!!! Can you share the user name? I'd like to check out their posts...

- Ant Farm

 

[caeti21]

@Fire Ant Farm and everyone else, BYC has a new member that happens to be a poultry/avian pathologist! I'm very excited to see that they've taken an interest here.

-Kathy

Thats awesome

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Stabbing is certainly over the top and should be punished severely. In the 50's disputes were most often settled by fist fights (usually more like pushing & wrestling matches) after school, although my son was once suspended for defending himself against the school bully in the locker room after gym class. I didn't punish him; I was proud of him for doing what I'd been raised to do and had taught him to do, ie, don't ever start a fight, but don't run away from one, either; clean the guy's clock if you can...if you can't, take your lumps like a man.

Late 60's for me and high school fist fights and girls scratching were the norm. The knives brought a whole new element to the situation.

Which should be done in the home, which should alleviate such behavior as you refer to. and is a whole 'nuther problem, IMO
Beyond that, 

And even murder are different kinds.....the fight that ends on death is different than someone who lets say
Kidnaps a kid and abuses and murders....or that type of criminal minds......that type of human needs to be taken right out of the gene pool

 

[daxigait]

@Auroradream26thet look like nice group of chicks?
@LittleLakePhil Any suggestions for cooking Haddock?

 

[kwhites634]

@kwhites634
this is for a 2007

http://pi54.com/corp/Manuals/Owners/9920787r04.pdf

Unfortunately, the owner's Manual doesn't cover fully raising / removal of the front rack (simply says to raise the rack to access the battery), although it does contain other valuable information. I've bookmarked it, and I thank you.

There's a cable on the underside of the rack long enough to allow for raising the rack much further than I've been able to, so I'm sure it's possible; I just can't figure out how. I even asked the Service Dept. when I was in the dealership yesterday. The Hawkeye model's been discontinued, and they had no answer for me, other than "IDK" Getting more frustrating by the hour.

 

[kwhites634]

i tried the other link it wanted me to pay $25, then i found another and it wanted me to pay $15,

i 'll see if i can search youtube

I was able to search everything on youtube yesterday by searching Polaris Hawkeye. That produced several video's of people riding, but none on rack removal or battery installation

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Unfortunately, the owner's Manual doesn't cover fully raising / removal of the front rack (simply says to raise the rack to access the battery), although it does contain other valuable information. I've bookmarked it, and I thank you.

There's a cable on the underside of the rack long enough to allow for raising the rack much further than I've been able to, so I'm sure it's possible; I just can't figure out how. I even asked the Service Dept. when I was in the dealership yesterday. The Hawkeye model's been discontinued, and they had no answer for me, other than "IDK" Getting more frustrating by the hour.

lol, i know EXACTLY what you mean!! When i go into out local harley dealer and say I'm looking for xyz for a 76 shovel/50 pan they look at me like i have 6 heads!! I have actually had them bring out bins of parts so i could select what i thought would work. I hate dealing with 'dealerships'