Kayla’s Chat Thread

[Cyprus]

hopefully this marks the beginning of the end of that. Wow that's a lot of chicks to lose.

You bet.
And it sucked every time.

And I don't even know why most died! I had 5 not make it to day 5, 5 not make it to a week, 10 who I gave away who died at the other residence, 5 who literally blew away and 5 who died of disease.


2018 was a very steep learning curve with a boulder on top that flattened me every time I got close to the summit.

 

[HuffleClaw]

:/ idk, ive never attempted syringe feeding.

I did it earlier and just now... it sucks, it really does. He cries so much and so often.

 

[MagpieDucks]

Something in me wants to order ducklings.

 

[Cyprus]

It’s crying non-stop now. It has been for a few hours now...

If you were me:
Would you feed it by syringe again tonight or leave it be?

What do you want to hear?
The good, the bad, or the very ugly?

I've been here, done that.
I had a chick mysteriously become nothing in about 1 hour while I was gone. Normal, healthy 5 day old chick who all of sudden turns into shaky, frail skin and bones who cried and cried and cried b/c all her buddies died

I will tell you flat out, I kept that chick alive for 3 days. Backbreaking work and heartwrenching maternal commitment beyond what most would try.

I can tell you what I did, what I did wrong, and what happened to cause her to perish, but only if you want to hear it from someone who's walked that road before.

 

[Rose Quartz]

I probably wont get to set eggs this year unless by some miracle i get my own place that has a usable building for chickens on it. My sister who ive been hatching for doesnt want more right now. And doesnt even have a place to brood them if she did. :/ it does mean no sickly chick problems, but i miss doing it.

Maybe i could convince her to hatch and sell them like she did once before.

 

[HuffleClaw]

What do you want to hear?
The good, the bad, or the very ugly?

I've been here, done that.
I had a chick mysteriously become nothing in about 1 hour while I was gone. Normal, healthy 5 day old chick who all of sudden turns into shaky, frail skin and bones who cried and cried and cried b/c all her buddies died

I will tell you flat out, I kept that chick alive for 3 days. Backbreaking work and heartwrenching maternal commitment beyond what most would try.

I can tell you what I did, what I did wrong, and what happened to cause her to perish, but only if you want to hear it from someone who's walked that road before.

I know it’s inevitable... I’m just making a sore attempt at holding it back. I want it to live and thrive like it should, but it gets worse by the minute.

 

[HuffleClaw]

I probably wont get to set eggs this year unless by some miracle i get my own place that has a usable building for chickens on it. My sister who ive been hatching for doesnt want more right now. And doesnt even have a place to brood them if she did. :/ it does mean no sickly chick problems, but i miss doing it.

Maybe i could convince her to hatch and sell them like she did once before.

If you weren’t so far away, I’d let you hatch chicks for me as often as you wanted

 

[HuffleClaw]

Something in me wants to order ducklings.

 

[HuffleClaw]

 

[HuffleClaw]

It’s official. I’m not going to sleep tonight. Maybe after the cousins go home in like an hour, I can get Grace to stay up with me, at least until later tonight.