Official Squatch Watchers

[21hens-incharge]

Yes there's a best buy other side of the next town. I will have to keep an eye out for sales

They should start firing up sales early this year. I heard on the news that many stores were going to start in October.


@Chickassan you asked a while back if anyone had birds molting. Mine are about a week into it now. Looks like a pillow fight gone wrong in my big house.

 

[Fishychix]

Sounds like he's trying to gross you out.

Unfortunately, I don’t think so. He’s always done this. At least he’s stopped bringing them into the house or dropping them by the door

Awwwww extra hugs for the old girl. I hope my coon hound mix makes it to 14 too.

Here...I do the work and hubs gets the hugs.
All poop is mine to clean up. For reals....mine have never gone poop or pee while on leash. I run them in the kennel playing ball before we do a walk. Poo ends up deposited at home that way.
River (bloodhound that was spayed on Wednesday) did her business here at 4am. We picked her up at 5pm. She whined all the way home. Once inside she was desperate for her potty space.

I would smack the tar out of my hubs for poop bag squishing. What if it broke open.

While the dogs here will go to hubs for petting when he gets home from work any other time they will leave his side to come to me. They know who passes out the treats.

She only started coming to see me a little over a year or so ago. Yep, she finally figured out who gives out the treats and who gets her food the way she can eat it with only half her teeth and the other half rotten, I’m sure. Neither of us can handle another surgery. It’s about a grand and she likely won’t survive. It’s a terrible place to be. I know she’s suffering, but she’s so perky and seemingly full of life it doesn’t seem right to put her down, and the vet doesn’t think it’s time either.

Any suggestions on a new microwave?
I put a corning ware microwave glass pot in the microwave. Started the microwave. Flash and a poof ...microwave went dead smelling inside of burning plastic. Nothing obviously burnt without taking it apart. It's from 1995... so doubtful if parts would be available.. Outlet works.

Wow! 1995?!? I don’t even remember how many we’ve gone through. Although my budget usually calls for off the shelf Wallyworld. That could have something to do with it. Lol!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Are they staying on the nest? Most broodies I've had leave the nest at 24-36 hours after the first chick. I have one NH/Cochin cross chick in with my flock because it was externally pipped when mama left the nest. I put her in the incubator and let her hatch. Her name is Lefty because she was a leftover.

No, I sold the hens and put the eggs in the incubator.

 

[Fishychix]

Can anyone help me figure out what’s in my eggs? I washed them off just before cracking. (Quail eggs)

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Holy crap Mo! I would of had to change shorts!

Probably not much help from me cause mine is 10+ years old but it works SOOOOO much better than those low wattage ones. Mine is a Kenmore model # 721.66339800

Try this mikerwave on for size.... 1984
Still use it constantly. They dont make anything that lasts anymore. I haven't even had to hotwire this one yet.

 

[Anansi]

Hey there, Why. That is old, but if it works and you don't mind the wait, why spend money to replace it.

Fishy, it looks like those are meat spots. Are your quail new layers? Sometimes the tissue around the yolk follicle in the ovary ends up heading out with the yolk and becomes part of the package inside the shell. It's usually seen in new layers, while their egg production system is working out the kinks. It can also happen after a period of not laying. My hen, Lizbeth, doesn't lay on a regular basis, so she has meat spots in her eggs. They don't hurt anything, from what I understand, but we give Lizbeth's eggs to Peach, DD#3s Anatolian Shepherd, because we don't want to add that extra protein to our diet. She's a banty, so they're half-sized eggs anyway.

Hope everyone has an uneventful Sunday.

 

[Redhead Rae]

No, I sold the hens and put the eggs in the incubator.

I had two banty Cochin/chocolate orp girls go broody last year. They were sitting on a pile of 35 eggs + 5 that hatched. The rest (except for maybe 6 obviously bad ones) were in different stages of development. However I wasn’t in a place to do a staggered hatch with my baters. I was fairly pregnant, not planning on hatching anything, and was leaving on a work trip within a week. So I sadly had to let the eggs die. I couldn’t trust my in-laws to manage 5 days of a staggered hatch and we weren’t ready to brood chicks.

 

[Fishychix]

Hey there, Why. That is old, but if it works and you don't mind the wait, why spend money to replace it.

Fishy, it looks like those are meat spots. Are your quail new layers? Sometimes the tissue around the yolk follicle in the ovary ends up heading out with the yolk and becomes part of the package inside the shell. It's usually seen in new layers, while their egg production system is working out the kinks. It can also happen after a period of not laying. My hen, Lizbeth, doesn't lay on a regular basis, so she has meat spots in her eggs. They don't hurt anything, from what I understand, but we give Lizbeth's eggs to Peach, DD#3s Anatolian Shepherd, because we don't want to add that extra protein to our diet. She's a banty, so they're half-sized eggs anyway.

Hope everyone has an uneventful Sunday.

They’ve been for a while now, maybe about two months. I think it’s in one of the blue eggs. If I had to guess, the one that was egg bound a while back.

 

[Fishychix]

Good morning everybody

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning everyone Have a great Sunday

Good morning Fishy have a relaxing Sunday

They are not little chicks any more! They grow so fast. The cockerels are always the prettiest!

Yes, the boys do tend to be prettier, the last 8 from the hatch are out enjoying the grass I'll see about getting a picture today .

Good afternoon everyone!

We did some chicken shuffling this morning and I did some more cull/keep decisions this afternoon. I have a lady that wants one of my Jubilee cockerels.

When I was only my way back to the house from sorting, I found this:
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I thought the guineas were done laying for the season. NOPE. They just switched from the dirt pile in the back yard to the one in the front yard.

I totally remember finding nests like that when DS and I would be out caring for the chickens before we had to keep them closed up. I think the most we found in one nest was between. 30-40 eggs!!