Michigan

[Hillbilly Hen]

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2010??

Thanks, I'm glad you caught that and I was able to see your post before I went the entire day looking stupid.

Opa, you could just say you had a "senior moment".
I think I am the one that looked stupid since I forgot to add the link in my siggy line for signing up. It is fixed now [I feel so stupid sometimes]

 

[chickflick]

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Finally home! Long day in Lansing. Sam, you're always nice to me, so quit pretending you're an old mean rooster!!

Glad we have the date locked in and we can now make plans and look forward to the picnic. It's always so much fun.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Finally home! Long day in Lansing. Sam, you're always nice to me, so quit pretending you're an old mean rooster!!

Glad we have the date locked in and we can now make plans and look forward to the picnic. It's always so much fun.

Thanks chickflick for getting the date locked in!

ChicwannaB, so sorry about your hatch.

It looks like the one that almost made it had a crossed beak too.

 

[babigyrl22]

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Awww what a bummer. I must have lucked out with my eggs. I only had two that developed and didn't hatch. The others hatched out fine. What kind of incubator do you have? Is it still air?

Did you use an egg turner or were you hand turning them? (just curious)

 

[Farmerboy16]

chicwannab- So sorry about your eggs.

They look healthy.

 

[Farmerboy16]

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Thanks, I'm glad you caught that and I was able to see your post before I went the entire day looking stupid.

Opa, you could just say you had a "senior moment".
I think I am the one that looked stupid since I forgot to add the link in my siggy line for signing up. It is fixed now [I feel so stupid sometimes]

WOOT, off to sign up.

 

[taprock]

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That is so sad, especially when you can find developed chicks. It happened to me and I lost my expensive eggs! For me the problem was I didn't have enough ventilation. I tinkered with my incubator trying to get it to hold more humidity and closed it up too tight.

I put chickenstock on the calendar, last year was out of the question but this year........


My husband got me a heavy bag for Christmas, today I got a lot of use out of it.... Our old home, we have been trying to sell for a year and a half, flooded. A pipe in the upstairs broke, it didn't freeze, just broke and flooded the entire first floor and basement. It sounded like a waterfall in there with standing water. My sister noticed the ice on the side of the house coming out the window frame. We had just found someone interested in buying. So tomorrow we get to deal with the insurance company. But tonight I had a "talk" with my heavy bag and am feeling a bit saner now.

 

[yorkchick]

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Henry, Penelope, and Libby send honks of love, Kim! We haven't had any serious snow yet, maybe an inch or a little more at the most. But I have to say, I totally dig seeing the webbed foot prints in the snow! So cute. And the snow has provided evidence that they for some unknown reason sometimes climb up the cement block stairs to the chicken's pop door (which is closed when we're not home). The pop door is maybe 2-1/2 feet up off the ground. Maybe that's why the goosers chewed through the original wooden gangplank I had leading up to the chicken door--they knew then I'd have to build something sturdier, that they could walk up!

Anyway, I've seen the tracks up the cement blocks!

They don't seem to mind the snow at all. They would highly prefer that their swimming pools stayed liquid, though. We've had a few thaws where they could swim a bit. I've got a five gallon heated bucket for water in Goose Jail, which has been improved with a tarp cover, straw bales for a wind block, and straw on the ground. Sometimes they even hang out there in the day. Not often, though. The other night, when we'd had a steady sprinkling of snow, I went out to put them to bed and the three of them were settled down in the snow in a circle, with their butt ends to the middle, each one facing a different direction outward. Pretty good strategy. Of course they were getting covered with snow, with nice cozy Goose Jail just a few feet away.

Usually they go quite easily into protective custody for the night. I used to be able to use the flashlight beam to herd them with, but it seems they have figured out that no permanent disfigurement occurs if they cross the beam of light. Sometimes it involves a few trips around the perimeter but then they go in. To prove in case there were any doubt that I am a total goof ball, I sing to them as I herd them to jail. I have modified the words to "Sweet Baby James" (apologies to James Taylor

), and to show I have no proper sense of shame, here goes:
Good night you moonlight ladies,
Rock-a-bye sweet baby geese,
Soft grays and whites are the colors I like,
Won't you waddle to jail in great peace?
And rock-a-bye sweet baby geese.
Sorry! Sorry! But possibly one reason I have pets is to sing (badly!) to them. My justification for this particular travesty of song is the geese might learn that when I sing it, it's time to go in their pen. However, when I sing and they scurry in front of me into the pen, I think they may just be trying to get away from my singing. Yeah, yeah, everyone's a critic.

My DH claims they would prefer Neil Young to James Taylor... Anyone know any good goose lullabies?

 

[chickflick]

That's such a sweet song. Wouldn't change a thing.

 

[Farmer Andy]

Yorkchick is back, after not seeing your posts for a little while, the last couple have been great once again. Keep them coming please.