Quote: Takes me back to the days when I was raising my human babies. I used cloth diapers, the old fashioned kind, with diaper pins and rubber pants, and even made some of my own diapers!... Yep, they are messy, but they are so absorbent. I found some packaged for rags at a store several years ago, and bought them for MHP use (told hubby they'd make awesome rags!) I wish I'd bought 3 or 4 more packages, b/c they are so handy. Hose them off, toss in a bucket of bleach/soap water, sozzle a bit, then, they MIGHT be clean enough to go in my washer. Warning, don't dump bleach water in your yard. I have a spot where I did that after processing roos, and 2 years later, the soil there is totally dead, and won't grow anything. I'm composting on that spot to try to bring it back to life.
Sorry for those of you who've had chicks die recently. It stinks, but... it's inevitable. I have 2 shipped chicks with extruded vents that I will most likely cull rather than put them in with the rest of the chicks. I'd rather cull them, than have them picked to possibly start a cannibalism habit in this flock.
My hatched chicks are twice as big as the shipped chicks. All hatched on the same day. IMO, that shows how shipping stress can retard growth, and how hybrid vigor, and superior nutrition can advance growth. chicks are 10 days old today, and almost completely feathered on their wings, have sprouts on their shoulders and their backs. Some of them more advanced with tail feathers than others.
