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[daskhan]

I need to check that out would love to get rid of what lamps I still use. I'll have to find them and see if they are cheaper than the foot warmers I have.

Yep you gotta do what ya gotta do... lol DH don't think he will ever get his garage back...

Not looking forward to that.

I don't think they will hatch. Your girls sound like they aren't truly broody. They wouldn't leave other then to relive themselves and eat and drink, then maybe a fast dust bath and right back to the eggs. Sorry.

Sorry for your loss that sounds real strange. Hope you figure it out soon. 

  When I first got into chickens I was told it was the color of the legs that told ya the color of the eggs....  didn't take me long to figure out that was a load of hog wash... lol

One of the main post this week is about making a broody out of a heating pad just thought I would point that out it looked really interesting to me and I might try it out she said it even works in the winter

 

[chick rookie]

Hope ya'll don't mind but I need to get a few things off my chest, just so its out.
Starting in Feb. of this year to today, I have been fighting illness after illness and loosing that battle. Some of you know I do rescues of all kinds. This year has been a goat year, and a bad one!! Between goat kids, chicks and 1 dog I have 41 new graves in my back pasture. and for the pst week i have been fighting Toxemia in my remaining kids, I am about to lose 1 and am treating 3 ( those 3 are preventive ) I am just sick of people that dont take care of thier animals and if I hear 1 more person say " it's just an animal " I will most likely end up in jail!! My heart is broken into a million pieces, I have not had time to heal from any of it it just hits 1 after the other. So I have decided that after this illness is gone one way or the other, I am done. God forgive me but I cant take anymore in. this is it I quite.
With all this going on I forgot what the date was ( bad on me ) I forgot that I was supposed to have my incubator egg start hatching yesterday, how can anyone forget a thing like that??? DH came in at 4 am and woke me from my 1 hour sleep and asked if I was ever going to take those chicks out and put them in the brooder???? I had no ideal what he was talking about!! Once awake and moving I realized I forgot the incubator!!!! I ran in to find 7 chicks alive and dry and 1 almost out. And more still working on it. It seems I'm going to have the best hatch since I started trying to hatch my own on the day I am ready to give up.
Now I wonder how many of this hatch am I going to loose???

 

[ChickCrazed]

Hope ya'll don't mind but I need to get a few things off my chest, just so its out.
Starting in Feb. of this year to today, I have been fighting illness after illness and loosing that battle. Some of you know I do rescues of all kinds. This year has been a goat year, and a bad one!! Between goat kids, chicks and 1 dog I have 41 new graves in my back pasture. and for the pst week i have been fighting Toxemia in my remaining kids, I am about to lose 1 and am treating 3 ( those 3 are preventive ) I am just sick of people that dont take care of thier animals and if I hear 1 more person say " it's just an animal " I will most likely end up in jail!! My heart is broken into a million pieces, I have not had time to heal from any of it it just hits 1 after the other. So I have decided that after this illness is gone one way or the other, I am done. God forgive me but I cant take anymore in. this is it I quite.
With all this going on I forgot what the date was ( bad on me ) I forgot that I was supposed to have my incubator egg start hatching yesterday, how can anyone forget a thing like that??? DH came in at 4 am and woke me from my 1 hour sleep and asked if I was ever going to take those chicks out and put them in the brooder???? I had no ideal what he was talking about!! Once awake and moving I realized I forgot the incubator!!!! I ran in to find 7 chicks alive and dry and 1 almost out. And more still working on it. It seems I'm going to have the best hatch since I started trying to hatch my own on the day I am ready to give up.
Now I wonder how many of this hatch am I going to loose???

I'm sorry you have had a rough summer. I think a lot of us animal lovers easily get in over our heads by taking on too many animals. I am feeling like I am toeing that line myself with adding my parent's two horses to my workload/financial load (2 years ago when they sold their farm for retirement). I also took on more rescue dogs than I can handle some days. There have been months where a couple chickens had bumblefoot, a horse had breathing issues and I had a dog whose head kept swelling and I was ready to give it all up. It all seems to hit the fan at once and last for weeks and I look at it all and wonder what life would be like with fewer animals. I am looking forward to getting down to two horses and fewer work at some point, but they are retired here and if they leave it will be in their final resting. Unfortunately I am still tempted some days when I hear about animals that need help, but I think it is easy to get yourself to a point where care suffers because I am only one person! I know I am not able to give every animal on my farm a total once over every day because there are too many. When Margo had her vent prolapse, I still stress that it might have been going on for days before I noticed. How many animals is too many? Heck if I know, but I think we all need to be careful that we don't get in over our heads. But then the next needy once comes along and we are animal lovers....

 

[flyladyrocks]

Hope ya'll don't mind but I need to get a few things off my chest, just so its out.
Starting in Feb. of this year to today, I have been fighting illness after illness and loosing that battle. Some of you know I do rescues of all kinds. This year has been a goat year, and a bad one!! Between goat kids, chicks and 1 dog I have 41 new graves in my back pasture. and for the pst week i have been fighting Toxemia in my remaining kids, I am about to lose 1 and am treating 3 ( those 3 are preventive ) I am just sick of people that dont take care of thier animals and if I hear 1 more person say " it's just an animal " I will most likely end up in jail!! My heart is broken into a million pieces, I have not had time to heal from any of it it just hits 1 after the other. So I have decided that after this illness is gone one way or the other, I am done. God forgive me but I cant take anymore in. this is it I quite.
With all this going on I forgot what the date was ( bad on me ) I forgot that I was supposed to have my incubator egg start hatching yesterday, how can anyone forget a thing like that??? DH came in at 4 am and woke me from my 1 hour sleep and asked if I was ever going to take those chicks out and put them in the brooder???? I had no ideal what he was talking about!! Once awake and moving I realized I forgot the incubator!!!! I ran in to find 7 chicks alive and dry and 1 almost out. And more still working on it. It seems I'm going to have the best hatch since I started trying to hatch my own on the day I am ready to give up.
Now I wonder how many of this hatch am I going to loose???

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

My first home hatched ducklings. From Janets lavender male and chocolate female (she was lavender mix lol) I have an atipico black, some atipico lavs and then some wild type of both.

 

[chick rookie]

So far I have 6 BYM's and 1 EE and 2 BR's only have 1 brown egg left to hatch but it's not showing any signs of that happening. and I have 8 EE yet to hatch and 6 Silkie eggs. Going to give them another day or 2 then that will be it. still have a Mix drying and a EE zipped. 2 are deformed in the legs ( dont look for them to make it and already lost 1 to what I don't know. Total hatched 13, 1 dead.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Yea thats not too good, I dont think I have ever had one detached hatch. But, being under a broody its better chance of hatching.

Got my first Olive egg yesterday! Excited to add another color to the egg basket. I just wish when the olive eggers hatched out, I could do better than one girl and 7 boys!

Congrats! Ouch thats terrible odds, tho

So have a question I have a friend/customer who has only resently moved to the country and wishes to expand her "farm" she mentioned that she is eventually gonna want a goat and I remember somebody on her sales them she mentioned she was interested in pygmies so if anyone knows of some for sale or would be in the future please give me prices and dates so I could pass it on to her/them

I do, but only breed Oberhasli goats, am milk breed. Adults are between 80 pounds for does to 140 pounds for a buck. Pm for prices and more information, BYC prefers we not list prices on general threads.

I'm unhappy that our hen goes broody so much, but it is awfully fun going through the hatching experience.

Our first baby Svart Hona chick just hatched! She’s still wet from the shell. Check out her feathers, beak, and eyes… Totally black!

Oh my, how adorable!

Cant wait to see that lil doll grow up!

 

[Hholly]

Just wanted to tell those struggling with their rescue animals... Give yourself a break and don't be too hard on yourself. Do the best you can, because it's way more than most people do. The animals know you care. Take care of yourselves, or you can't take care of anyone else. I work in an animal profession and I know there are people out there who collect or hoard animals and get overwhelmed. Knowing your limits is a good thing, and you can't save them all. Thanks to those that keep trying to help animals who need them.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Hope ya'll don't mind but I need to get a few things off my chest, just so its out.
Starting in Feb. of this year to today, I have been fighting illness after illness and loosing that battle. Some of you know I do rescues of all kinds. This year has been a goat year, and a bad one!! Between goat kids, chicks and 1 dog I have 41 new graves in my back pasture. and for the pst week i have been fighting Toxemia in my remaining kids, I am about to lose 1 and am treating 3 ( those 3 are preventive ) I am just sick of people that dont take care of thier animals and if I hear 1 more person say " it's just an animal " I will most likely end up in jail!! My heart is broken into a million pieces, I have not had time to heal from any of it it just hits 1 after the other. So I have decided that after this illness is gone one way or the other, I am done. God forgive me but I cant take anymore in. this is it I quite.
With all this going on I forgot what the date was ( bad on me ) I forgot that I was supposed to have my incubator egg start hatching yesterday, how can anyone forget a thing like that??? DH came in at 4 am and woke me from my 1 hour sleep and asked if I was ever going to take those chicks out and put them in the brooder???? I had no ideal what he was talking about!! Once awake and moving I realized I forgot the incubator!!!! I ran in to find 7 chicks alive and dry and 1 almost out. And more still working on it. It seems I'm going to have the best hatch since I started trying to hatch my own on the day I am ready to give up.
Now I wonder how many of this hatch am I going to loose???

Hang in there, I know its really hard. I went through a very hard winter, lost 1 gilt pig to repeating prolapse, and the second we assume the cold killed her. She was always a runt, and just didn't thrive. Its terribly heartbreaking, and you get to that point you just want to quit trying! It hurts. You are doing what you need to, sound off and talk about it.

I have been there several times this past year too, especially after Dads open heart and the added care he needed. After DDs both moved away this year, I really took a hard look and downsized, sharply and it helped some. Now, I look at my flocks and weed out the problems, sell the breeds that don't work. Goats and pigs will always be here, but really doubt I will do much more than a Jersey or brown Swiss cow eventually.

My first home hatched ducklings. From Janets lavender male and chocolate female (she was lavender mix lol) I have an atipico black, some atipico lavs and then some wild type of both.

Awwwww! Love seeing the new babies! Congrats on the hatch.

Quote: When you hatch more often, you will see some unusual things many folks don't. I have seen a turkey poult with no feet, a duckling with no eye or ear on one side. (duckling is alive and healthy, and is someones pet now) All sorts of odd things. Seen perfectly normal chicks hatch, and die a day later for no obvious reason. I feed all flock to my adults and give fermented feed as a daily treat also.. let alone all the good bugs and other stuff they get.
Its probably nothing you did/didn't do. I know its adding to the frustration you are going through right now, but honestly with poultry it can happen more often than you'd think.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Heard back from James Marie farms, and will be ordering Coturnix quail eggs this weekend! Current breeding flock is mixed, and from several different sources. Excited!