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[artsyrobin]

Robin, what you did with that snake is beyond brave. Those things have fangs just as scary as a viper's, in spite of there not being any poison in them.

NanaKat mentioned a minnow trap... it seems like anything of that type would work, but your timing would have to be spot on. You could put in a fence with openings smaller than the eggs, leave a nest of eggs inside the fence, snake goes in, eats eggs, can't get out until eggs are digested or broken. If you left it out there overnight it wouldn't work, but they typically go hunting shortly after full dark. I'd check around 10:00, then maybe 11:00 or midnight, just to be safe.

Poor duckie, she had to be scared! Poor Robin, she had to be scared too, but never mess with a mama's babies!

LOL! Yrsh SHE-bear syndrome struck me on that one- yes they have fangs, yes he did nip, then i really went after him- so this morning i decided to fence off the area so miss duck won't go back in there, i sure don't want to!



and some monday humor

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I hatched some egg's from ameracana cross hens and a buff Rooster all chicks are buff no green legs will they lay brown egg's?

A true Ameraucana would be OO, two blue egg genes (one from each parent). If they were really Ameraucana cross hens, they probably were Oo, one blue egg gene and laid blue or green eggs. So using Mendelian genetics half their offspring will get O and the other half will get o (if the sample size is large enouguh). So you should end up with half green eggs (blue +brown), and half brown eggs.

 

[bardies]

Robin, what you did with that snake is beyond brave. Those things have fangs just as scary as a viper's, in spite of there not being any poison in them.

NanaKat mentioned a minnow trap... it seems like anything of that type would work, but your timing would have to be spot on. You could put in a fence with openings smaller than the eggs, leave a nest of eggs inside the fence, snake goes in, eats eggs, can't get out until eggs are digested or broken. If you left it out there overnight it wouldn't work, but they typically go hunting shortly after full dark. I'd check around 10:00, then maybe 11:00 or midnight, just to be safe.

Poor duckie, she had to be scared! Poor Robin, she had to be scared too, but never mess with a mama's babies!

I think that the duck and the human both had that mama instinct going on! Yay for you two - the snake never had a chance!

 

[bardies]

A true Ameraucana would be OO, two blue egg genes (one from each parent). If they were really Ameraucana cross hens, they probably were Oo, one blue egg gene and laid blue or green eggs. So using Mendelian genetics half their offspring will get O and the other half will get o (if the sample size is large enouguh). So you should end up with half green eggs (blue +brown), and half brown eggs.

I thought that that was how you got olive eggs....that the brown is just a coating, but with green or blue - that is the egg shell. So a brown coating over a blue egg give you 'olive'. I could be totally wrong though.

 

[shelbydog]

I thought that that was how you got olive eggs....that the brown is just a coating, but with green or blue - that is the egg shell. So a brown coating over a blue egg give you 'olive'.  I could be totally wrong though.

if I recall right...olive eggers are created with chocolate brown egg roo over blue egg hen. I could be wrong.

 

[shelbydog]

My dad just sent me this pic

 

[artsyrobin]

My dad just sent me this pic

urk!!! no- don't want to see one up close for awhile

 

[Kyzmette]

My dad just sent me this pic

What in the world is that? Is that two snakes or one two-headed snake???


I need some advice from everybody. I keep picking up my chickies to love on them and thinking they don't weigh nearly as much as they should. On some of them, the breastbone feels painfully prominent.

What can I do to try to increase their weights? And I know a normal bird doesn't have that KFC keel, but what does a healthy chicken's breast feel like? I've never known any birds but my own. And the ones I bought at auction, which always seem skinnier, but I figure that's for a reason.

 

[shelbydog]

What in the world is that? Is that two snakes or one two headed snake?

It's 2 snakes mating. My dad was getting full blown Discovery Channel in his shed.

 

[Kyzmette]

It's 2 snakes mating. My dad was getting full blown Discovery Channel in his shed.

Aaarrggghhh, I hope they got full blown hunting channel!