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

[5Sons Coop]

I want some of that! We are worried about dry lightning strikes right now.... No, no, no, no fires......already two big ones near here.... Thank you! Sometimes the smoke from the fires will help it rain... Here is Joe with his girlfriend.... Joe taking a bow. Apparently, thinking he's a peacock is a good thing in a show!

Hey, I am interested what kind of legbands you use.

 

[pipAchick]

And we have a baby....last night around midnight when I got home I went to check and this little fluffy butt was all dried off and warming under mama. Now I have to figure out what to do with the other egg that is super alive but isn't due til next Wed.

Beautiful. Really appreciate such a nice image.

 

[lindalouly]

Chaos, the last song I want to dedicate to you.

 

[Jessimom]

We have a few lazy rivers where most people tube. Some are mostly for rafting and some are mostly canoeing.
My family tubed with the inlaws one day. We put some valuables in the cooler floating in another tube. The river split. My son and I went one way. Everyone else went another. When the 2 sides rejoined past the island, we learned they weren't paying attention, hit a log jamb and everything in the cooler was at the bottom of the river.

OUCH that is rough. That must have been an expensive tubing trip!

For the Owens river trip, you start up near Mammoth Lakes - for anyone who has made that drive, you turn in to get to the river at the little green church. You get out of the river down in Bishop. So, the night before, we'd drive a few cars down to Bishop and leave them. This was back in the 80's. We had fanny packs we kept what valuables we didn't leave in the cars waiting for us. We did NOT have cell phones back then. There was usually beer in the coolers, so the tubes with the ice chests were connected to the beer drinkers. I can guarantee they would have gone in to recover anything that sank.

 

[Chaos18]

Chaos, the last song I want to dedicate to you.

Another good tune done by him

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Just popping in to say hi. I'm about 200 pages behind.

Sad news, I gave half of my April hatch to a friend. She called me this morning to tell me she put them in with her big girls and they killed all of the them.

We even had a big discussion about integration before I let her have them.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Sure is!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Congrats on the award!

-Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Sorry for the late reply but 3 of my graduate student came to me and gave me some presents of Acknowledgements from all of my class, for the 2 years they study with me. It is very emotional for me.
So I can say that it was a good day. The vaction is till the 1 0f September.

That is wonderful.
Quote:

Yes it is, I got in my long career a lot of Acknowledgments from principals and school inspectors abaout the good job and all the blabla bla, it is never Never interested me or moved me, but when I got it from my Graduate student, that basically don't owe me nothing it is always emotional because I know that it is a TRUE appreciation!

You should be very proud of yourself.

I have some 4 week old babies that have been inside my house (in my bathroom). I took away their heat lamp, since temps were 110 during the day, and 65 to 70 at night. The room stayed cool, it didn't reach 100 plus. At night, we are dropping to 65 or so.

I want to move them outside. I have 2 month old chicks that are in 2 of the 4 runs out there. They have a heat plate, but it hasn't been plugged in since it's so warm.

Do the twelve 4 week olds that I want to move outside, be able to keep themselves warm enough at 65 degrees? Or will they need a heat plate? If so, can I steal the one from the 2 month olds?

I would say the 4 week olds would be fine with the heat plate at night and the 2 month olds don't need anything.

I have 7 three week olds, 2 two week olds and 1 one week old together in the basement and I turned their heat off yesterday. I want to get them out to the brooder house but I think it will be too hot out there the next couple of days.
We had a cold front move in yesterday and we got a brief shower. It was beautiful this morning in the low 70s. It just hit 80 now. The respite will be brief. It's supposed to be 102 tomorrow. and near 100 on Thursday.

Hello everybody! Tried to catch up a little but only had minutes, not days. I want to post some pics soon of some recent chicks but will have to do it later when my Hughes net and camera are getting along!

My "yard pet" Serama just got a reserve champ at a large show!

Hotter than H.... here. I lost three hens from heat stroke. That's the first time any have actually died from it. Usually I can get them cooled off in time. I have another that was in a coma all day yesterday. I found her in the last stages of heatstroke and started treating her. Today she opens her eyes. I'll give her a bit longer and see if she starts responding or if her brain is damaged....

She's just sleeping so at least i don't think she's suffering now. I hate it when I have an injured or sick chicken and my efforts prolong their suffering and then they die anyway. Sometimes it's just too hard to tell if they're going to pull through or not.

I hope everyone is staying out of the heat the best they can, and if anybody's getting any rain, please send a little my way.

Congratulations on the Serama.
I've only lost one bird to heat but it is a shame. Can you put her in a cooler place for a couple days till she fully recovers?

Perhaps your daughter would like to make that drive again in 3 and a half weeks to watch the preview of the World Series?

Between which teams?

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I bet!

-Kathy