Huh. I'm on Safari, too, but on an Ipad. But there's other things I can't get on the Ipad, like the smilies (no, they're not available up above, just 5 are available to the right of this box I'm texting in now). Also, I don't get WYSIWYG, as "the rich text editor is not compatible with your browser," so I have to see and try to edit all the BBCode. (Yes, I am totally faking that I understand anything about what I just wrote). We do have a PC, somewhere in the south wing of the Brady Bunch house. Maybe tomorrow I will use it and see what the differences are (we run IE on that). I'll just have to sneak on while the DH isn't playing computer games.
Hey...how do you scrape your poop boards when the poop is frozen solid??? I can only scrape mine when temps get over 32! I dropped my RV coop and flock off at my friends on Friday and hated to give her a coop with poop frozen onto boards. I have a hoe to scrape them off when not frozen but impossible when frozen!When I turned on the computer and logged in I had 135 unread posts, and I get on and read EVERY DAY! This thread is insane, but I love it. I started out replying to muliple posts but had to get up and do other stuff so often that the first ones I was going to reply to are now older than the hills. So, I'll just say to Farmerboy, I LOVE your sign! In fact, if you don't mind I think I'll make one of my own this summer.
Mama and the chicks are doing great. The 5th egg had not hatched or even pipped yet this afternoon. When I want to the coop she was half in and half out of the nest box and not on the egg, but all four chicks were under her keeping warm. I felt the egg and it was still a bit warm, so she must have just moved off it not too long before. She had pooped in the corner and I think she moved because of the poop. I cleaned the poop out, removed the nest box and put fresh straw in. Now there is more room without the nest box in there and I don't have to worry about a chick falling out and not being able to get back under Mama. I refilled the chick feeder with Mana Pro medicated chick starter and gave them fresh warm water. The chicks are all running around peeping and I watched all of them eat and get a drink, so it looks like they are healthy enough. I picked up the last egg and it doesn't feel really heavy like the others did before they hatched, so maybe it never started or wasn't even fertile. I won't take it out for another week or so unless Mama pushes it out or gets off it. The chicks are so cute, and like Nova said, they change so fast! The little yellow one now has tiny black flecks all over and the yellow spot on the top of the little black chick's head now does not look so perfectly round but more of a splotch, so maybe it's not a rooster after all. It will be fun to watch them change and mature into. . . what? I just hope they are all pullets.
Tonight when I went to clean the poop boards the chickens had all gone to roost already. As I was scraping I noticed a few spots of blood. They were under the spot that Worf always roosts in and when I looked up I saw that he had a little blood on the side of his head. It wasn't much, but something happened. I saw him and Joe sparring in the yard the other day and I hope they are not going to start fighting now. I really like having two roos because they are both on constant guard and I feel the hens are so much safer. I hope I don't have to make a decision to get rid of one.
Glad to see ChickwannaB is alive and well.
Woo Hoo, the weather report is for 38 to 40 degrees for the next week or so! Can't stand this super cold weather.
Everyone keep warm and safe.
Okay, this is a long shot but anybody in or near the area where Ionia/Clinton/Gratiot/Montcalm counties meet missing a black lab -- or know someone in that area who has and therefore might be missing a black lab? Sweet, young, female. Probably a mix as she's got a bit of a blocky head and white patches on her neck and chest. If so let me know. I know there aren't any active members in the area but also know we get lurkers so... PM me please if you happen to have a lead.
