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FlyingNunFarm said:
So my niece is 20 months old and I realize I'm biased but she's the smartest 20 month old I've ever met.
Kid kills me on the regular with stuff she says.
Apparently her my BIL is growing his beard and a few days in she looks over at him and tells him "Daad wash your face. It's diiirTy." :lau
This girl is so Sassy! And not in a talk back smart mouth way. Just a super confident little Miss.
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She sounds like a real pistol! :love

Soooooo.... Did he shave???:caf
 
FlyingNunFarm said:
So I signed papers this morning! :fl Nothing goes wrong until I take physical possession. I did get more pictures of the “coop”.
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Front:Overhead door is rotten at top and bottom. Outside frame is also pretty done for.
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The large hole I then took the inside pictures through. LOL
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The right side without roof.
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What’s in the hole. Looks like some sort of wood floor was there.
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The wood chipper I inherited. You can see some cement by the overhead door. Inside beams look good.
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Inside right. Again beams don’t look bad.
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Inside left. Mystery medicine cabinet.
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A large hole...pretty sure this is how my tenant took up residence.
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That is going to be a great coop once you fix it up!
 
So, I had an interesting day. The 5 chicks that were in the stationary coop got moved out to the field. The 3 Cornish in the group got moved into the run with the Banty pullets since there will be less competition for food there. The oops chick and off colored Chocolate Orp got moved to into the field along with some bigger Cornish and EEs from the Banty pen. The 4 month old chicks that have been inside for WAY too long got moved out to the stationary coop, the two Cornish babies that hatched 1.5 weeks ago were left in the indoor brooder and I just moved 7 new Cornish babies in with them! I had 8 eggs that made it to lock down, one didn't survive to hatch.
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While moving birds around, I also was helping put everyone away for the night, so we started trying to herd Mama Leghorn and her babies into their box. When she was flapping around and squawking, I saw something REALLY odd on he toes. AT first I thought she had nasty bumble foot. Turns out, she had rock hard mud/poop balls on two of her toes. I've seen this happen before with chickens in a wet area, but only pea sized lumps on their toenails. Nope, these babies were the size of peace pits. It took a couple sessions of dunking her feet in water, carefully squishing the balls between two rocks, repeat, before we got her toes free. I'm sure she feels much better now. There was a week where we had a LOT of rain and we didn't move her enclosure as much as we should have, I think that is where it started. They also didn't impede her movement much, so it was hard to tell what went wrong.
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After I moved the 7 new hatchlings to the brooder, I set my last batch of eggs for the season (I'm pretty sure, don't hold me to it though). When I set new eggs, I always candle the eggs I set the previous week. I'm SOOO glad I did this. While I was candling some of the eggs that are supposed to hatch next week, I saw that one of them had a window of shell popped out. I panicked a bit, thinking I might have broken the egg. Nope, turned out, it was a PIP! I think this is an egg that got partially incubated outside, brought inside, moved to the incubator and the embryo SURVIVED the trip! So I just turned on my lock down incubator which I just shut off less than 30 min before and popped the egg inside. Hopefully it hatches. It still has some active veining when I looked in the window and it looks like it may be a malpo, so I'll probably be assisting a bit tomorrow if it doesn't hatch overnight.

Chickens are never boring, that's for sure!
 
Redhead Rae said:
So, I had an interesting day. The 5 chicks that were in the stationary coop got moved out to the field. The 3 Cornish in the group got moved into the run with the Banty pullets since there will be less competition for food there. The oops chick and off colored Chocolate Orp got moved to into the field along with some bigger Cornish and EEs from the Banty pen. The 4 month old chicks that have been inside for WAY too long got moved out to the stationary coop, the two Cornish babies that hatched 1.5 weeks ago were left in the indoor brooder and I just moved 7 new Cornish babies in with them! I had 8 eggs that made it to lock down, one didn't survive to hatch.
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While moving birds around, I also was helping put everyone away for the night, so we started trying to herd Mama Leghorn and her babies into their box. When she was flapping around and squawking, I saw something REALLY odd on he toes. AT first I thought she had nasty bumble foot. Turns out, she had rock hard mud/poop balls on two of her toes. I've seen this happen before with chickens in a wet area, but only pea sized lumps on their toenails. Nope, these babies were the size of peace pits. It took a couple sessions of dunking her feet in water, carefully squishing the balls between two rocks, repeat, before we got her toes free. I'm sure she feels much better now. There was a week where we had a LOT of rain and we didn't move her enclosure as much as we should have, I think that is where it started. They also didn't impede her movement much, so it was hard to tell what went wrong.
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After I moved the 7 new hatchlings to the brooder, I set my last batch of eggs for the season (I'm pretty sure, don't hold me to it though). When I set new eggs, I always candle the eggs I set the previous week. I'm SOOO glad I did this. While I was candling some of the eggs that are supposed to hatch next week, I saw that one of them had a window of shell popped out. I panicked a bit, thinking I might have broken the egg. Nope, turned out, it was a PIP! I think this is an egg that got partially incubated outside, brought inside, moved to the incubator and the embryo SURVIVED the trip! So I just turned on my lock down incubator which I just shut off less than 30 min before and popped the egg inside. Hopefully it hatches. It still has some active veining when I looked in the window and it looks like it may be a malpo, so I'll probably be assisting a bit tomorrow if it doesn't hatch overnight.

Chickens are never boring, that's for sure!
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We get that here in the winter. Our soil is mostly clay.

It sounds like you lived a year in a day! It does sound like things may turn out ok though
 
Redhead Rae said:
So, I had an interesting day. The 5 chicks that were in the stationary coop got moved out to the field. The 3 Cornish in the group got moved into the run with the Banty pullets since there will be less competition for food there. The oops chick and off colored Chocolate Orp got moved to into the field along with some bigger Cornish and EEs from the Banty pen. The 4 month old chicks that have been inside for WAY too long got moved out to the stationary coop, the two Cornish babies that hatched 1.5 weeks ago were left in the indoor brooder and I just moved 7 new Cornish babies in with them! I had 8 eggs that made it to lock down, one didn't survive to hatch.
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While moving birds around, I also was helping put everyone away for the night, so we started trying to herd Mama Leghorn and her babies into their box. When she was flapping around and squawking, I saw something REALLY odd on he toes. AT first I thought she had nasty bumble foot. Turns out, she had rock hard mud/poop balls on two of her toes. I've seen this happen before with chickens in a wet area, but only pea sized lumps on their toenails. Nope, these babies were the size of peace pits. It took a couple sessions of dunking her feet in water, carefully squishing the balls between two rocks, repeat, before we got her toes free. I'm sure she feels much better now. There was a week where we had a LOT of rain and we didn't move her enclosure as much as we should have, I think that is where it started. They also didn't impede her movement much, so it was hard to tell what went wrong.
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After I moved the 7 new hatchlings to the brooder, I set my last batch of eggs for the season (I'm pretty sure, don't hold me to it though). When I set new eggs, I always candle the eggs I set the previous week. I'm SOOO glad I did this. While I was candling some of the eggs that are supposed to hatch next week, I saw that one of them had a window of shell popped out. I panicked a bit, thinking I might have broken the egg. Nope, turned out, it was a PIP! I think this is an egg that got partially incubated outside, brought inside, moved to the incubator and the embryo SURVIVED the trip! So I just turned on my lock down incubator which I just shut off less than 30 min before and popped the egg inside. Hopefully it hatches. It still has some active veining when I looked in the window and it looks like it may be a malpo, so I'll probably be assisting a bit tomorrow if it doesn't hatch overnight.

Chickens are never boring, that's for sure!
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I’m exhausted just from reading all that! I hope that baby hatches!
 
ronott1 said:
We get that here in the winter. Our soil is mostly clay.

It sounds like you lived a year in a day! It does sound like things may turn out ok though
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staceyj said:
I’m exhausted just from reading all that! I hope that baby hatches!
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And I didn’t even mention work or the Milk Drinker ;)

Speaking of the Milk Drinker, I’ve got his bedtime schedule down pat now. As long as his nap isn’t more than 1.5 hours or so, he’s been falling asleep between 9 and 9:45pm. This morning, he slept in his own bed until about 20 min ago. Unfortunately, he didn’t go back to sleep. And now he is asking for his water bottle as saying no when I hand it to him. I have no idea what he wants.
 
Redhead Rae said:
And I didn’t even mention work or the Milk Drinker ;)

Speaking of the Milk Drinker, I’ve got his bedtime schedule down pat now. As long as his nap isn’t more than 1.5 hours or so, he’s been falling asleep between 9 and 9:45pm. This morning, he slept in his own bed until about 20 min ago. Unfortunately, he didn’t go back to sleep. And now he is asking for his water bottle as saying no when I hand it to him. I have no idea what he wants.
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I’m really impressed with the speed at which you’re sleep training him.
It’s a real struggle.

I was talking to my sister yesterday and we were laughing about when people have those rare “good babies”. The ones who hardly cry, sleep alone in their cribs from the beginning, in other words ,
Not like our kids.
 

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