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

[harrellkd]

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Most people leave broody eggs alone, so I'm not sure how many people can tell you what they looked like. I know that I have never even tried to interrupt a broody's natural instinct. To me, it's like telling God He doesn't know what He is doing.

Well now I feel bad.....I had been communicating with the breeder who sold me the hatching eggs I gave to the broody, and she said she always candles hers. She said she had never seen anything like that from a broody and I should put them in the incubator.......so I did. I've never had a broody and the eggs in the incubator will only be my second hatch ever. Oh well.

 

[Penny Hen]

It has been a weekend! Saturday just at sunset a blind turkey staggered into my yard. At first I didn't catch on that it was blind but it kept walking in circles and running into things. So I decided to catch it. One rodeo later including grabbing and only getting a whole tailfull of feathers as he took off and flying blind crashed into a tree and fell 30 feet to the ground. One more grab and I came away with the primary flight feathers. At last I cornered him and got ahold of his neck and a leg. Wow they are strong. Stronger than my geese. So I put him in my dog carrier. This morning I call Walden's Puddle, our local Wildlife Rehab Center.They call back and tell us to bring him up. While I am on the way my husband calls them and leaves a message that one of my sheep have lambed and doesn't want the baby and to get home soon. So come home to deal with that and at last get the ewe trimmed so the baby can find the teats (she is VERY fluffy). Hold her still so the lamb can latch on. Struggle with her because she doesn't want to do this, and at last go get the baby bottle and milk her so I can get some colostrum into the baby. Thank goodness I drink goats milk (lactose intolerant) so I could supplement some of that for the lack of volume from mom. Then I realize I haven't turned my eggs since I got up this morning and run down and turn the eggs in the basement. Whew! I am beat! And I still have to order hay tomorrow.

 

[Chaos18]

Morning to BYC land

 

[BullChick]

No one cares about your "good morning" because it doesn't include coffee.

 

[BullChick]

Otherwise, you are always more important.

 

[Chaos18]

No one cares about your "good morning" because it doesn't include coffee.

I said nothing about a "good" morning

Otherwise, you are always more important.

 

[BullChick]

This goose lives at Red Robin. When I went to say goodbye to it, it was drinking out of an ashtray. Another woman came over, and said it was going to make the bird sick. My thinking was, "Duh!" I told her I was tempted to bring the bird back to my farm. She became irritated when I said I would not actually bring the bird anywhere. Including 20 miles away to the closest pond.

 

[Chaos18]

I'd bring it home and keep it warm in the oven.

 

[kwhites634]

@MotorcycleChick

I have had the opportunity to experience some significant grief in my life, and this is something I learned, and a way I learned to think about it and understand it that helped me a lot.

Grief is like a gravitational body that you are in an elliptical orbit around. At first, you are orbiting it so tightly and quickly that you are close to the pain almost constantly, and it seems that you can't escape. But as time passes, the orbit gets larger like a spiral, little bit by little bit, and the times in between the pain get longer, and longer, and longer. It gets better. But the important thing is that with a significant loss, you are never over it - you are always in an orbit around it, and you just get longer and longer periods between the times that you are "close" to it. And with experience over time, you are able to approach these times of "closeness" with a certain degree of reflection, and potentially further personal growth.

I still am surprised at times, almost stunned, at how painful it can be to recall my own personal loss, and it was over 20 years ago. But the point, and the reason I'm saying all this, is that one is never "over it", and even if one is advised to "move on", it will always be with you, and will "move on" with you. The important thing to realize is that that isn't some sort of personal failure not to have "gotten over" something that was tragic and filled with grief for you. You incorporate it into your life, and continue as best you can - as a changed person.

- Ant Farm

x2 Amen

 

[BullChick]

Good morning, btw Whites