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

[meltel]

You're more than welcome, Mel.
Any new info on the hand/wrist from those guys with all the letters behind their names who get paid handsomely to "practice" on their patients?

LOL. Only one Dr. other than "their" physician in our whole hospital system treats my injury and i can't get in to see him until 10/18. It's ok because after reading numerous articles and best practice, most initial treatment is immobilization and anti inflammatory drugs anyway and I'm doing that.depending on the severity when he see me and the MRI, I will still be in the window for surgery if necessary. It hurts-not gonna lie but I am coping well and usually do ok with pain management for the most part. Thanks for checking up on me-it is what it is and I'm not going to worry-everything happens for a reason and this to shall pass

Now on to better news-BCMs are thriving and the 2 seramas that pipped hatched while I was at work, 1 more has pipped and so far 1 icelandic & 1 cream legbar have pipped too! Happy hatching for this girl!!!

 

[daxigait]

@daxigait


metal crib turned Goat feeder!

Cool, and cheaper than the ones at the farm store

 

[meltel]

I told mine that when they had their own place & paid their own bills they could do whatever the H... they wanted to, but until then they were going to play by my rules, like it or not. We did try to provide them with the reasons we did what we did...I grew up in a "because I said so" environment, & swore mine wouldn't be raised that way.

Just out of curiosity.... How many times did you have to provide them with a reason before you told them "because I said so" or they got a swat or put in time out if they didn't listen or follow the rules???? Or have a privilege taken away???

 

[kwhites634]

For the first time in a while I was able to put my chickens up before they got too high for me to reach. Heard a big ruckus, ran outside, 3 were out again and 1 was tangled from trying to get out. ~sigh~. Chickens all back out and happily perched in their spots on top of the run.

I may have saved a dumb chicken's life this morning. I was outside the juvie run counting beaks, trying to get an idea of who was where they belong after yesterday's "all hands" free range episode. At the far end, behind a cinder block they like to perch on, I spotted a bird that wasn't moving. I couldn't see its head from where I was. I went to it and saw that it had gotten it's head stuck in a narrow place between the block & a chain link panel covered with welded wire...part of the adjacent run. He got his head in, but was too dumb to get it out! I moved the block & he took off, none the worse for the experience. Good thing I happened to be there.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Sounds like it's popcorn time at your place

And, for the record, in the entire history of this or any other world, worrying has never solved a thing!

 

[campingshaws]

I've got an issue in one of the chicken eggs. It looks like it's only 3/4 full and today is day 19. The empty part is about an inch wide and goes from aircell to the point of the egg. I've never seen anything like it.

Local egg, from a girl across the highway. I was suspecting flock health/nutrition as a culprit already. Set upright and tilted several times a day, because that's what I was doing for everyone else. Embryo is still kicking. The other one looks great. The cochins have extra thick shells I guess and still look like day 14 AC. I've been running about 25% humidity except for those two days it was 30-45%. Temp has been steadyish, 101.5-102 except for that big 105.6 spike and a couple 103s.

Also, I'm not convinced the cam is right on the duck eggs. Looks awfully empty down there. They are also day 19.

 

[BantyChooks]

We need more mean moms!!!!

I wear leather work gloves, cut it with sheet metal shears or a side grinder with a cutting wheel, and, if cutting from a roll of wire, hang the roll off the edge of the table or work bench to keep it out of the way, and, if necessary, clamp the wire in place. I try to cut h/w cloth as close as possible to the edge of a square to minimize the wires that eat you up...I've donated my share of blood to projects that entail cutting the nasty stuff. You mentioned it being hard to bend...try clamping it in place and bending it over the edge of a board, table, or bench. If you don't let it slip, you can get a nice even bend. If you need more than a 90* angle, put it on a solid surface & tap it down with a hammer.  Easy peasey

Oh, I can bend it alright.... Just a bit tricky to do it with three or four fingers 'cause your others are busy keeping the HWC from claiming more digits.

I use gloves most of the time, but today they were MIA.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I always figured that "because I said so" was not an answer; I didn't like hearing it when I was a kid (like I was too dumb to understand just because I was a kid), so I didn't make a habit of using that one. I'll admit to swatting my son a few times, but never with a fist, like I was subjected to (another sad story unto itself). Don't know that I ever laid a hand on my daughter; I pretty much left her discipline up to her mother. And "time out" hadn't been invented when we were raising kids. Overall, I have to say we had a couple of well behaved kids. They never heard "just wait 'til I get you home", or "your father will deal with you later". We weren't ashamed or afraid to take them anywhere in public; they were raised better than that. It was another whole world in the 70's, before the gov't decided they knew more about raising kids than parents did.

 

[meltel]

I always figured that "because I said so" was not an answer; I didn't like hearing it when I was a kid (like I was too dumb to understand just because I was a kid), so I didn't make a habit of using that one. I'll admit to swatting my son a few times, but never with a fist, like I was subjected to (another sad story unto itself). Don't know that I ever laid a hand on my daughter; I pretty much left her discipline up to her mother. And "time out" hadn't been invented when we were raising kids. Overall, I have to say we had a couple of well behaved kids. They never heard "just wait 'til I get you home", or "your father will deal with you later". We weren't ashamed or afraid to take them anywhere in public; they were raised better than that. It was another whole world in the 70's, before the gov't decided they knew more about raising kids than parents did.

1973-that's probably why I'm so well behaved.... when it suits the situation

GN everybody-see ya in the am!!!!!!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Sleep fast