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[Kyzmette]

My Serama, Channing, is a baby-daddy We had to leave earlier and when we got back his hen had pushed the pipped egg about a foot away from her and it was cold. Yes, you know it, I felt like bawling. I could hear faint clicking noises so I put it in the small incubator I've left running in case I needed it. He'd been pipped almost 24 hrs so I went ahead and peeled chunks of shell away. Yolk and veins were absorbed. He stretched and popped the top off the shell and I left him there with the bottom still on him. I'll check him in a few hrs again. He's tiny and black and precious!!! I'm hoping the other hatches, too.
Channing is passing out corn cob cigars!

Congrats!!! Have you told your husband yet that he's out of the will?

 

[bardies]

Congrats!!! Have you told your husband yet that he's out of the will?

Heck, I am thinking that the dh has been out of the will about 8 guinea pigs, 11 rabbits, and 27 roosters ago!!!

 

[miohippus]

Me too! I pre-ordered the eggs, so I won't even get them for a month. So, I'm still looking for some neat eggs to hatch now. I have two mini bators...one is empty.

Seems wrong, lol.

I is probably better that i don't have a bator or i would be hatching chicks all the time, lol. and i don't know what i would do with the extras.

 

[HeyBigRhondaq]

@Ksane Congrats!

 

[NanaKat]

Just finished giving 18 heifers shots to abort calves...The young heifers had been bred by what was supposed to be a low birth weight bull and none are over 2 - 3 months bred. The calves born this fall from the same bull have been too big for the first time moms to have without pulling. Death rate of calves has been 50/50. So to avoid the problem in the spring, we gave shots and will purchased another bull from an outside source. The heifers will be older and should have an easier time having calves in the fall. Hated to do it, but it was a considered decision.

Norman has approved an ordinance to allow citizens to have up to 6 hens in their back yards. My sister is so excited. She is in the process of building a coop for her back yard.

 

[Ksane]

Congrats Channing!  And grandma Mitzi!

Congrats!!! Have you told your husband yet that he's out of the will?

Heck, I am thinking that the dh has been out of the will about 8 guinea pigs, 11 rabbits, and 27 roosters ago!!!

@Ksane Congrats!

Thanks all!!
The only thing I've got to leave in a will are all these animals
This Serama chick is soooo tiny, it's intimidating. I was hoping the hen would be the one to raise the chick(s). I think she's just too young & doesn't understand what's going on. It seems her 2nd egg was a few days older, so we'll see what happens with that one.
This 1st chick still isn't standing & running around. He's literally no longer than my index finger. Such perfect little toes and face though.
Serama babies isn't something I would want to continue hatching though, they're just too tiny.
Hey-my 3 Pigeon babies are doing great! I think they're close to 4 wks old now, feathers and everything, but still in the nest. Their parents keep their crops the size of golf balls all the time

 

[bardies]

Thanks all!!
The only thing I've got to leave in a will are all these animals

This Serama chick is soooo tiny, it's intimidating. I was hoping the hen would be the one to raise the chick(s). I think she's just too young & doesn't understand what's going on. It seems her 2nd egg was a few days older, so we'll see what happens with that one.
This 1st chick still isn't standing & running around. He's literally no longer than my index finger. Such perfect little toes and face though.
Serama babies isn't something I would want to continue hatching though, they're just too tiny.
Hey-my 3 Pigeon babies are doing great! I think they're close to 4 wks old now, feathers and everything, but still in the nest. Their parents keep their crops the size of golf balls all the time

that's an image hard to get out of my mind, naked ugly pink golf balls with pointy beaks and toes.

 

[bardies]

Just finished giving 18 heifers shots to abort calves...The young heifers had been bred by what was supposed to be a low birth weight bull and none are over 2 - 3 months bred. The calves born this fall from the same bull have been too big for the first time moms to have without pulling. Death rate of calves has been 50/50. So to avoid the problem in the spring, we gave shots and will purchased another bull from an outside source. The heifers will be older and should have an easier time having calves in the fall. Hated to do it, but it was a considered decision.

Norman has approved an ordinance to allow citizens to have up to 6 hens in their back yards. My sister is so excited. She is in the process of building a coop for her back yard.

that is tough

, but way the right decision

....not only are you dealing with a potential 50/50 loss on the calves, but not so good for the heifers too. I've seen my share of black cows at our vets office having c sections with babies that are too far gone and the main point was to save the cow. You might want to consider a black longhorn bull....always low birthweight calves for heifers, and the F1 longhorn crosses can perform as well as anything else in the feedlot...hybrid vigor and all that!

 

[Kyzmette]

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Serama baby pictures! Unless you're holding off for emotional reasons, and then I certainly understand. But once you get in the safe zone we need pictures!

 

[miohippus]

Just finished giving 18 heifers shots to abort calves...The young heifers had been bred by what was supposed to be a low birth weight bull and none are over 2 - 3 months bred. The calves born this fall from the same bull have been too big for the first time moms to have without pulling. Death rate of calves has been 50/50. So to avoid the problem in the spring, we gave shots and will purchased another bull from an outside source. The heifers will be older and should have an easier time having calves in the fall. Hated to do it, but it was a considered decision.

Norman has approved an ordinance to allow citizens to have up to 6 hens in their back yards. My sister is so excited. She is in the process of building a coop for her back yard.

Wise decision we bred some gilts this year to a boar that seems tom be throwing big piglets and we lost one whole litter and the sow. Her pelvis was two narrow to deliver them but she might have had trouble when she was older too she just had such a small birth canal the other two we bread still need a Little help but did fairly well