Official Squatch Watchers

[apryl29]

@apryl29
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The red circle is me. The yellow are roads the bear has been spotted. The arrow is the Home Depot in town where it was seen. Also the blue 165+ acres is protected land.

Oh wow... hopefully it stays away. Maybe there's enough stupid people in other areas who leave their trash out to keep it at bay.

@apryl29 shared a video people took of a bear destroying their bird feeder. There have been bear sightings around me but not sure if it’s one bear or more. I was saying that I’d be a person to snap a photo or two but letting it eat in your yard is only going to bring it back. I’m not saying kill it; it’s bad but scare the daylights out of it.
I saw a show about a guy who’s job it is to train wild bears to stay away from people. It’s a community with lots of campers and visitors so the town monitors the bears. If they break into cabins and get into too much mischief they uthinize the bear. So this guy tries to save them by scaring the tater out of them. The bears learn being in town and by campers is not a fun time and stay away. It’s working and saving people and bears lives.

That's a great idea.. Much better than killing them. Letting it feed will just encourage it come back again... then people complain when they put the feeder back up and it comes back. SMH

We now have 8 BC/CO babies and 1 Cornish baby!

I'm concerned about the first hatched BC/CO baby. It's umbilical is inflamed and the chick is kinda floppy. I moved it and the other chick that hatched last night into the brooder so I can keep a closer eye on the sick one without cracking the incubator. I put some ointment on the umbilical but basically I'm just crossing my fingers.

You could name one of the cornish babies Cornholio.. though I assume you avoid naming your future food.

 

[Redhead Rae]

You could name one of the cornish babies Cornholio.. though I assume you avoid naming your future food.

I've named a few roosters that we've eaten. But I only have....6-8 chickens out of 93 (yes, with the 10 chicks that have hatched so far I have 93) that are named and a few that are kinda-sorta named (my two broodies are "mama"). The Cornish chicks' parents aren't even named.

 

[Chickassan]

Finally got the big brooder set up and got the derps moved only took two days, I'm so slow and easily distracted it isn't even funny. Anyhoo they were understandably terrified but they're cool now that they've realized they have all that screaming brat space. Big brooder has 360 degree windows too so no more mystery they see everything...poor babies.

 

[apryl29]

Ok... I need a cliff's notes confirmation on Kiki's balut.. She intentionally bought 2 duck eggs, not realizing they were fertilized.. Then upon realizing they were fertilized she decided to incubate them < This all I know to be fact.
What I seem to have missed (and don't want to trudge through 29389238759 messages to discover) is >>> The original 2 eggs died? And she bought or will buy more to see if she can get them to hatch?

 

[Redhead Rae]

13 baby chicks now!

Of the 8 eggs left, 4 are pipped. 3 of the 4 unpipped eggs are from the batch that was due to hatch on Monday. 1 is a Cornish egg.

 

[Molpet]

I am down to 47 chickens.. I think.
A year old cx mix hen died Monday and I just got through sending 4 Thanksgiving boys to camp... Have 4 more boys and maybe a thanksgiving pullet that need to go to camp. 4 is about all I want to do at once... So far I have kept all the pullets, but these are runty birds... what they say about winter hatches being small is true, for me at least...
and they are so wild. Broody raised and with the winter I didn't do anything but lock them in their own coop when she dumped them, so they didn't get lost in the snow, and throw food at them. I usually don't handle them, but when they are in the coop with layers they see me a lot... seems to make a difference.

 

[Molpet]

Ok... I need a cliff's notes confirmation on Kiki's balut.. She intentionally bought 2 duck eggs, not realizing they were fertilized.. Then upon realizing they were fertilized she decided to incubate them < This all I know to be fact.
What I seem to have missed (and don't want to trudge through 29389238759 messages to discover) is >>> The original 2 eggs died? And she bought or will buy more to see if she can get them to hatch?

yes.. and yes( after she improves /makes a new bator

 

[ronott1]

Ok... I need a cliff's notes confirmation on Kiki's balut.. She intentionally bought 2 duck eggs, not realizing they were fertilized.. Then upon realizing they were fertilized she decided to incubate them < This all I know to be fact.
What I seem to have missed (and don't want to trudge through 29389238759 messages to discover) is >>> The original 2 eggs died? And she bought or will buy more to see if she can get them to hatch?

They were balut! and were at the end of incubation...she was about to crack one open but saw something moving inside the egg...and decided to incubate them as an experiment. Stuff on hand was used to build a ghetto bator. After a couple of day being the "wafer" thermostat, parts were purchased at about $45.00 to help regulate the temps.

All was good!...Until the sensor fell into water. The experiment then fell to the thermodynamic properties of water and air....Causing a temp spike that killed the eggs.

Kiki does not give up though! Plans are being made to build a second incubator and to modify the ghetto bator. More balut eggs will be incubated in part 2 of the experiment

Stay tuned for more fun!

 

[apryl29]

I am down to 47 chickens.. I think.
A year old cx mix hen died Monday and I just got through sending 4 Thanksgiving boys to camp... Have 4 more boys and maybe a thanksgiving pullet that need to go to camp. 4 is about all I want to do at once... So far I have kept all the pullets, but these are runty birds... what they say about winter hatches being small is true, for me at least...
and they are so wild. Broody raised and with the winter I didn't do anything but lock them in their own coop when she dumped them, so they didn't get lost in the snow, and throw food at them. I usually don't handle them, but when they are in the coop with layers they see me a lot... seems to make a difference.

Sorry about your bird.. I wonder if winter birds spend more time / energy trying to keep warm that they don't have the energy to grow as large.

They were balut! and were at the end of incubation...she was about to crack one open but saw something moving inside the egg...and decided to incubate them as an experiment. Stuff on hand was used to build a ghetto bator. After a couple of day being the "wafer" thermostat, parts were purchased at about $45.00 to help regulate the temps.

All was good!...Until the sensor fell into water. The experiment then fell to the thermodynamic properties of water and air....Causing a temp spike that killed the eggs.

Kiki does not give up though! Plans are being made to build a second incubator and to modify the ghetto bator. More balut eggs will be incubated in part 2 of the experiment

Stay tuned for more fun!

Thank you! I missed everything after the 'stuff on hand was used' part. So she's caving to peer pressure and popularity to try to get some balut to hatch?

 

[ronott1]

Sorry about your bird.. I wonder if winter birds spend more time / energy trying to keep warm that they don't have the energy to grow as large.


Thank you! I missed everything after the 'stuff on hand was used' part. So she's caving to peer pressure and popularity to try to get some balut to hatch?

Yes!