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Batty, I have written most of my article for your blog (about showing chickens), but am having a hard time finishing due to people walking in and needing something every time I start to get rolling good. Should I e-mail it to you when I'm done? Which version of Word do you have, so that I don't send somthing incompatible?
I culled a few boys this weekend and they are planted under oak trees. I still have too many, but these are more 'perfect' specimens of d'Uccle and might live to be sold in May (worthy of breeding, in other words). I have an outrageous amount of chicks at the moment, a number that staggers even me. DH does not know the grand total, and when he starts to ask I remind him that I culled and ask if he wants to plant more trees....
I hate culling, too.
BTW, I dreamed about kittens last night. I'm glad, since the other 2 dreams I remember involved death. I'll take kitten dreams ANY night over the other kind....
Ummm I think it's XP.
And I got to cull too. I'm thinking in the morning tomorrow when I'm rested for it. I have a bunch of boys and I need room for all the chicks to grow out. I don't know about planting them...maybe adding them to the compost pile for next year? Some are at least big enough for the freezer.
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Been there, done that!
At least you have a couple of hours as the baby dries off and rests...
I have 38 chicks in the garage brooder. DH bought me a ginormous tote for them. Some will graduate to the Beaner brooder later this week.
Suprise chicks are good. Dead chicks in shells are bad. I opened up the 4 eggs that went no where on this hatch, 2 internal pips, 1 day 18 quitter and one external pip with no absorbtion.
I looked back at my note to figure out why this hatch was so bad - up til now I'm doing a 95-100% rate this year. It seems these eggs were in the LG (normally hatcher only) the week and 1/2 I had too many eggs. They along with my 19th eggs are suffering from the temp fluctuations and lack of auto turner.