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[Leahs Mom]

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Yes. I'd say you look confused.... (As to who's photo you're posting

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[Old Salt 1945]

Leave her to take care of it. She will know what to do. Quit disturbing her or she may leave them to die. She's not getting up because she knows she needs to stay with the babies and hatch. Poop won't hurt them.

If, for some reason, she leaves the nest for more than a few minutes and there are still live eggs working on hatching, you can try putting her back with the babies too. Or put the rest in an incubator.

Usually they WILL NOT leave the nest while there is a hatch in process unless someone takes their babies away.

Seriously. Leave her, her poop, her babies, and the hatching ones. She'll take care of it.

Kab is just living up to her moniker -- hyper.

John

 

[kabhyper1]

Kab is just living up to her moniker -- hyper.

John

For sure John!!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Look! Margie perched this evening! I'm so proud!

Now I just need to convince the other pullets to perch. They're still going to the nest boxes every night.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Yes. I'd say you look confused.... (As to who's photo you're posting

)

Maternal, maternal great grandmother. I forgot to mention my genealogy work. My family tree has 8179 relatives so far. It goes back to 40 AD.

John

 

[Leahs Mom]

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Okay...so did you do that on ancestry.com? I've always wondered if it would be worth trying that but not sure I have the time to add another project.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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I can't kill mine either. Sometimes it is needed. It is too sad. I can study why a chick did not make it out of the egg or help one out but to put one down, nope not me. I have a method though. Stop reading here if you are easily grossed out.


I pass the dirty job on to one who enjoys the job and is quite quick. Moses my barn cat does not get emotional at all and he leaves nothing to clean up. Not entirely painless for the chick though but I'm not positive it is more pain that a long slow death. Thankfully I did not have any live ones for him this hatch. He did clean up the ones that did not make it out of the shell after I looked at them first.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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You must tell us about the cool ones. Any Spanish Pirates, American Indian Chiefs, wild west bank robbers or lawmen, famous revival pastors, ancient war lords, you know all the people that would be the stars of hollywood movies now a days.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Okay...so did you do that on ancestry.com? I've always wondered if it would be worth trying that but not sure I have the time to add another project.

I use Family Tree Maker in conjunction with Ancestry.com. The combination is very powerful. I had 1400 individuals in my genealogy, mostly unsourced. In a couple of years, I found Census, Birth, Death, Marriage records for many of them and using those sources, added thousands of related individuals, sourced. I am well pleased with it.

Ancestry.com is expensive, but I joined a Genealogy club through the library and got a logon that only costs $15/year. Family Tree Maker 2014 is $32.

Information is only as good as your care in verifying it's accuracy before adding it.

John

 

[Crafty chick]

HELLO! sorry guys, been super busy working and kid watchin. i started to look through the last 2000 posts... but, eh... i'm a quitter. my chicks are getting big, enjoying free ranging for the first time today. the whole family sat in the yard and watched their first adventure. the BOs were only interested in the chicks coop for food, glad they didnt bully them. the meat birds are so funny, either they are too stupid or really friendly i havent decided. got a bag of feed from orshyln in seymour yesterday, it had a corner taped shut, and it was $2.50 off. didnt look like much was missing. love when i can find a deal.