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

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Oh yeah, that sounds VERY familiar!!!

That's ok. We have essentially no winter. I'll take the trade.

(But ask me again in August, when I'm in the midst of discovering which chicken breeds will and won't "make it" in this climate.)

- Ant Farm

 

[kwhites634]

I'm calling it quits.

for those that want them.

 

[kwhites634]

Some Texas wine (forgive me) sucks. But I happen to be drinking an extraordinary red wine made from Black Spanish grapes (aka Lenoir). Black Spanish is partially derived from a wild grape in South Carolina (I believe), and moved to Texas to be used in communion wine for the missions way back when. It is naturally resistant to Pierce's disease, and the dirty secret that the French wine industry doesn't want you to know is that after all their vines were devastated by an outbreak, they rebuilt their entire industry by grafting their vines onto Black Spanish root stock.

It also is used by Dry Comal Creek vineyards to produce an extraordinarily delicious red wine that was grown just up the road from me. I prefer to buy my food/drink from the people who actually grew it. Neat people.

(I hope you have all enjoyed your Texas pride minute... Now back to your regularly scheduled programming)

- Ant Farm

Remind me to tell you some day about my experience @ the Texas Rangers home opener the same time I was there for the class I mentioned earlier.

 

[kwhites634]

So much for tall tales from the resident septigenarian. fossil; I'm going to bed.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

So much for tall tales from the resident septigenarian. fossil; I'm going to bed.

Good night! I'll get the story out of you later.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

 

[Jessimom]

Why are you crying?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Why are you crying?

because number fourteen just hatched and it's yolk sack start bulging out.so we put it in a cup.and it looks like the last one the other Silkie has died.hasn't internally pipped and no faint movement what so ever

 

[BantyChooks]

because number fourteen just hatched and it's yolk sack start bulging out.so we put it in a cup.and it looks like the last one the other Silkie has died.hasn't internally pipped and no faint movement what so ever

You got a good hatch rate...I was sad when mine died too, but then I looked at the full brooder and felt better.

Great job!
-Banti

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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I'm so sorry to hear this - I know it is upsetting. But sometimes things don't work out. You have a lot of healthy babies, so good job. Best I can tell (unless I missed something), you haven't done anything wrong, and for the baby that hatched with the yolk sac not yet absorbed, from what I've read, putting it in a cup to let it finish is the best you can do - now it's up to the chick to make it or not - sometimes it's out of your hands.

Oh, and I TOTALLY want more photos of Thing One, who is ADORABLE....

- Ant Farm