***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[erinszoo]

No snow here yet. Let the birds out this morning for a few hours of free ranging...most nibbled and then scurried back inside. Decided to go ahead and run all back in their pens before the snow hits.

Erinszoo...a friend of mine had a tick bite back in 1990 and has fought the symptoms of Lyme's disease ever since. Rocky Mountain Spotted fever has many of the same symptoms. Glad you checked with a doctor. Too bad we can't take guineas with us on camping trips.

I had lymes when my son was young. Fought it for years. Yeah, they should rent guineas out to campers.

 

[erinszoo]

Over an inch after the big fluffy snow flakes started falling. 
Birdies are snug in their coops.

We are having steamed veggies, roast quail in cranberry juice and baked potatoes for dinner....sure smells good in the house.

We have been picking out pecans most of today.  Had to break down and buy cracked pecans in Earslboro....YIKES ..$20 for 5 pound bag of cracked papershell pecans and 2 pounds was shell.   Stillwater has them for $7 a pound cracked and blown...so less work picking them out. 
Sure like the taste of the oil in the natives so much better...We have 35 native trees on the farm and only two had pecans this year...the squirrels and crows beat us to them while I was out of pocket with surgery.

I must have weird pecans because my tree has only started to drop a few. Most are still on the tree.

 

[NanaKat]

Thought this was interesting

as a way to candle eggs.
I think it would be helpful for really dark eggs like Marans. I think I would use a little Oxine in the water just to be certain there isn't contamination. Read an article a while back in a poultry magazine about using bleach water to dip eggs before incubating. I prefer Oxine as a spray.

 

[kelielliott]

I have babies hatching like popcorn! However it is making my humidity sky rocket! It was at 80 something a few minutes ago. I have both plugs out. What else should I do? Can I take the dry chicks out when it's that high?

 

[kelielliott]

@lonnyandrinda @nanakat

I have babies hatching like popcorn! However it is making my humidity sky rocket! It was at 80 something a few minutes ago. I have both plugs out. What else should I do? Can I take the dry chicks out when it's that high?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I have babies hatching like popcorn! However it is making my humidity sky rocket! It was at 80 something a few minutes ago. I have both plugs out. What else should I do? Can I take the dry chicks out when it's that high?

Crack the lid of the bator a little bit so more humidity can escape. Or if you open the lid and take out a few chicks that should drop the humidity really quick- but do it fast because if the humidity doesn't recover to a normal rate within about 20 minutes your other hatchers will start to stick to their eggs.

Thanksgiving funny!

 

[NanaKat]

Quote: x 2 Watch the humidity when you crack the lid...it doesn't take long to reduce it..

 

[kelielliott]

Thanks @NanaKat & @lonnyandrinda!

The first hatch is so scary!

 

[Kassaundra]

Thanks @NanaKat & @lonnyandrinda !

The first hatch is so scary!

Congrats!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Brought the puppies in the house to weigh them and look them over. They are doing good! Just under 3 lbs. The blue merle male is going to be GORGEOUS- he's also the biggest one in the litter.








Contemplating putting them and the mom in the laundry room tonight- record lows predicted. Don't want these precious babies to freeze to death! Right now this is their setup. This is our first litter of puppies EVER. They've done well so far, they are blocked from the wind and have a bed of straw and a 250 watt heat lamp in the Premier1 heater. Mom can come and go through a small hole cut in the door. If I block her up with the puppies she just BARKS and it ECHOES. Any advice?