Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[KimberlyJ]

Morning All. Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend and are now ready to get back to work!

OK I broke my #1 Rule and signed onto BYC before going to work....need to get outta here quick before I'm late

 

[Southernbelle]

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Beautiful!!!!

And the fish is cool, too.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Beautiful!!!!

And the fish is cool, too.

Aw, you all make a girl feel good. I was all worn down by doing 19 insurance inspections on Friday and Saturday, so going out on the boat and actually catching something brought me back to normal. I needed it.

I'm in the offices all day today, and on BYC - YAY!

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Good catch Buffy!!! And aren't you just the cutest thing!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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[Where's my boots?]

 

[LarryPQ]

I forget how pretty you all are! I tend to start thinking of people as usernames and not faces. Weird, I know.

I spent the weekend cleaning, and the house is still a mess.

CHICKENSTORY #1: I had a batch of chicks due the 30th, but they started pipping on the 27th. Then....nothing. So I checked, and 15 eggs were pipped, and shrinkwrapped. 10ish were still alive. Same deal with my broody with eggs on the 30th. It has been SOOOOOO dry and hot, I have had all the doors and windows open. Unfortunately, the bator is between front and back doors, where the cross-wind blows. (wind not breeze. hello, Phoenix!)

Long story short, I spent all of Saturday pipping, de-shelling, re-wrapping in warm wet paper towels, putting back in bator, waiting for the chicks to pull the blood in from the membrane, and subsequently sqeezing them out of the inner membrane.

After all was said and done, I think I had 8 chicks make it. AND THEY ARE ALL THE WRONG COLOR! THey were ordered eggs (for my breeding priject), and apparently the lady doesnt have what she thinks she has, because now my broody has all 8 teeny weeny adorable babies. She's happy, at least.

CHICKENSTORY #2:
It got hot-hot, I usually lose birds (any birds that will die of heatstrole) to heatstroke once it hits 100 degrees. That was Friday. 2 of my Easter hatch NNs got stuck where there was no shade or water. One was the only NN hen *sniff*.

CHICKENSTORY #3:
The chicks I ordered in December from the feed store finally showed up, even though they were supposedly cancelled (too hot to ship). Broody #2 got surprise Orloffs, so she is a happy camper.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Wow Laree, you've had some bad times in chickenland, haven't you?

 

[LarryPQ]

Good times too. It was just a busy weekend.

Chicks and happy broodies are always good, even if it is a pain to get there. But I am still hurting over the NNs that died. It was the ONLY day I didn't go double-check to make sure chicks weren't stuck in the shadeless area.

Lesson learned.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

 

[jbowyer01]

Good Morning everyone! LOOK WHAT I GOT

e Isnt my DH just wonderful to me! This is for the new house and the property. Its gonna take me a little time to learn all the ins and outs of driving it. I got it stuck on a big rock, you should have seen the look of horror on DH's face.