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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
You do the same.
