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[Soon2BChixMom]

Finally have running water. It thawed out earlier this week, but we had one pipe and one spigot burst, so we had to turn all the water off until those parts could be replaced. House is old and falling apart, basically, and we had to literally saw through the kitchen floor in several sections just to get to the pipe in question and then go through hundreds of dollars in equipment to replace the pipe because of how janky and old everything was down there. Plus, some of our huge floor support boards are rotted through, which is why the kitchen floor has an ever-increasing valley. Yay.

Had a lot of difficulties this first week of class--mostly with scheduling and the registrar's office not cooperating. Really hoping I can still get financial aid now that I'm finally at full time hours.

Checked on the birds last night and the coop stunk of ammonia pretty bad. It had been fine all week, but last night... blech. going to have to get a bunch of wood chips and PDZ next time I make it to RK. Can only guess that the smell must have been due to birds constantly coming in and out of the coop yesterday and dragging mud through all the bedding. I've been doing my best to clean things out, but if enough water makes it onto the floor, things start smelling nasty quick. Gotta figure a good way to keep that moisture out.

Glad your water is back on. How did you do wothout runnning water? We have a hand pump out at our well now, butnwe didn't a few yrs ago.
As for the amonia, it probably has to do with the quick January thaw we had.
Usually college stuff always seems to work out even with all the deadlines.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

Frostbite occurs from moisture and temps, it can be from getting wattles and combs wet or just too much moisture in the coop (not enough ventilation).

 

[Nyla]

A little upset today... Just last week, I bought 10 dozen Coturnix Hatching Eggs from a person whom I got started on quails. The 10 dozen I bought are more then half of them have cracks. I didn't candle them when I first got them home.
Well today the incubator smelled awful!
So I went through and checked all of them. 78 eggs had cracks, 10 of the 78 cracked eggs were rotten and smelling. Tried calling the person I bought them from. She said her niece collected them and must have dropped the pail of eggs. But refuses to refund my money or give more eggs!

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

Oh. @Nyla what a bummer. She should at least replace the eggs when she can!

 

[Nyla]

She said no replacements. She had all 10 dozen (120 eggs) in a box just piled inside it. Nothing to hold the eggs. But it's alright. I'll just buy some eggs off ebay. Gotta start small in these cases!

Oh. @Nyla what a bummer. She should at least replace the eggs when she can!

 

[Indyshent]

Leave her business pages some horrendous nastygrams, @Nyla. She'll have to take it seriously then, especially if you have pictures. Even without pictures, nasty reviews are terrible for business, and this seller deserves all the nasty business she can get, apparently.

 

[Faraday40]

Frostbite:

Here's a pic of our mature Orp roo on Jan 4 (When we were having several days of below zero temps) My coop is not heated but insulated with good ventilation. You can see how the tips of his comb got some frostbite. My other orp roo has a smaller comb/wattles & had no frostbite. I believe his wattles got some frostbite when DD decided to give the flock a treat by bringing some snowballs into the run. She knows better now but I really can't prevent them from eating snow outside anyway. For some reason, I always have a few chickens that decide to eat snow.

Here's our boy this morning (Jan 14th). You can see how some of the black tips have fallen off and the tissue below it is healing. I did not apply anything to his comb or even bring him inside. It's getting better all by itself. Considering how cold it was, I think he did OK. We do not show birds, so having a comb with rounded tips is actually beneficial and will make him more winter hardy in the future.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

She said no replacements. She had all 10 dozen (120 eggs) in a box just piled inside it. Nothing to hold the eggs. But it's alright. I'll just buy some eggs off ebay. Gotta start small in these cases!

Not good business practices. And it is a shame you helped her out and she is not returning the favor.
If there is a way to review her, I would make sure to do so.

 

[Faraday40]

A little upset today... Just last week, I bought 10 dozen Coturnix Hatching Eggs from a person whom I got started on quails. The 10 dozen I bought are more then half of them have cracks. I didn't candle them when I first got them home.
Well today the incubator smelled awful!
So I went through and checked all of them. 78 eggs had cracks, 10 of the 78 cracked eggs were rotten and smelling. Tried calling the person I bought them from. She said her niece collected them and must have dropped the pail of eggs. But refuses to refund my money or give more eggs!

I guess it would have been better to tell the seller right away, but usually people are willing to make some sort of compromise. (Especially if her niece may have dropped them!)

I've gotten some scrambled eggs in the mail. In those cases when zero hatched, I could at least see that the sender attempted to package them well, but the air cells were all completely detached. I was very sad once when only 5 out of 10 eggs arrived uncracked. ( 3 of those hatched despite being covered by goo & then washed.) Two were male, so this is my very expensive penciled rock.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

I guess it would have been better to tell the seller right away, but usually people are willing to make some sort of compromise. (Especially if her niece may have dropped them!)

I've gotten some scrambled eggs in the mail. In those cases when zero hatched, I could at least see that the sender attempted to package them well, but the air cells were all completely detached. I was very sad once when only 5 out of 10 eggs arrived uncracked. ( 3 of those hatched despite being covered by goo & then washed.) Two were male, so this is my very expensive penciled rock.
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She is pretty!