Shark snipers Wine dots NEW HATCHES and puppies 1/24/2011 update

[Nava]

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holy moses!!!! Is that a ghost I see??????

have lots of fun at the stock, and I still need to see that pic of the NN what happen? U still have her right??

 

[Nava]

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You lurker, you! Maybe I can get to that next swap, it would be nice!

it's going to be close to you, I better see you there, I'm bringing the Turkeys and some Buff orps to sale, how's your Mule?

 

[sonew123]

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holy moses!!!! Is that a ghost I see??????

have lots of fun at the stock, and I still need to see that pic of the NN what happen? U still have her right??
http://www.pic4ever.com/images/sm194.gif

yes I still have HIM! hahaha but he is going to a great home where he can have a whole slew of girls to himself! he is deffinately the bottom of the totem pole here and teh girls are not liking his advances--he turned out beautiful though I wasnt going to kill him -I couldnt knowing it was a gift from you guys but had to find him a great home and Muggs is taking him home with some of my other birds shes buying

 

[Brindlebtch]

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Nava, great to see you!! hopefully you will stop by more often.

Howdy Nava!

Glad you are feeling better hoppy!

 

[Phage]

HEY NAVA
Hellooooooooo

Sem - Any more silkie chciks?


As this was a hatching thread I will update with some BAD recent stats of the last 80+ chicken eggs (5 shipments) I have been sent up till yesterday

: 4 chicks hatched (3 roos and one pullet. The raccoons got the pullet

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: one egg pipping now,
: and 5 developing.

Oh yea, and 14 peafowl eggs that did NOTHING

The incubator is fine. It is the thrashing the PO gave the eggs. Most were either broken or had mobile air sacs on arrival.
To be fair the Peafowl eggs were too late in the season. PO did not trash them as 13/14 had intact air sacs... remarkably.

Good news is that yesterday I got 18 silkie eggs - none broken and only one with a mobile air sac

My lone blue egg (BW/W ameraucana) that has pipped will be one lonely (or spoilt) chick. The lav orps (5) are not due for about a week.

Raccoon came back last night but got nothing

It was Huge. At first I thought it was a coyote. It may have been pregnant.

 

[dak]

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Thanks Phage, you're trying to make me feel better, right! What are you going to do with a single Ameraucana? Darn raccoon. Are you going to try to trap it or do away with it?

On the hatching front... I have a mutt egg I should cull in the bator. Thought it might be a double yolker but wasn't and now I can't bear to cull it. The other egg is a definate DYer, and I'm waiting to see if starts two embryos. All in the name of science!

 

[Phage]

Dak Just letting you know that it gets bad for all of us. How are your babies?

I guess the ameraucana chick will get spoilt until the orps appear. Then I will give it to my SD vet buddy. The egg is such a pretty blue.

That raccoon must have been pregnant as it was sooo fat and humungo. Do not think it would fit in any trap I have seen. I would not know how to do away with it and could not do it myself (total wus) - never killed anything bigger than a rat.

Sorry about the DY trauma. Hope there are 2 embryos, if not it may be easier to fridge the 2 eggs and not think about them too much, or let them hatch and offer them for free on CL? That is what I would do.

 

[Brindlebtch]

What is with folks? I'm giving away extra pullets to friends. All of them are high quality, beautiful birds. A friend came by yesterday to pick up some pullets I kept solely for her. I told her that I was not 100% certain a couple weren't roos, but they are all probably pullets. So now she can't possibly take them if one might turn into a roo. I said take it to a feedstore or sell it or eat it. She doesn't have to hear it crow more than once. Nope. She lives in the country, mind you, and raises rabbits to eat. So I give her POL pullets I would have rather kept to equal to the # she wanted and I keep the younger birds.

Doesn't she understand that I have been feeding and rooming and getting rid of roos, too? I have gone through an enormous amount care raising these guys? I went through buying and hatching dozens of eggs? She can't take a slight chance a chicken may not be a pullet? I offered her 2 of the same breed, in case 1 was a roo. I'm tired of having extra chickens I have to get rid of and I kept these guys and fed and cared for them for many weeks just for her. I know I'm feeling put upon, and I shouldn't, probably, because I did it to myself. But it just got to me that this person refused juveniles I had kept just for her and so readily ran off with pullets I obviously would have rather kept. She even went so far as too point out one of my blue orps, just to see if I would let it go. I finally put my foot down and said no. She is a nice person, but she knows what she wants and she would rather my birds than take the slightest chance. I get attached to them too. I let myself be taken advantage of and now I am pouting about it and feel stupid. I was a marshmallow. I should slap myself.
I should have put on my big girl panties and told her to put on hers. Hmph.

Whiny rant over.

 

[Brindlebtch]

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I missed something? What did I miss?

 

[Brindlebtch]

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Thanks sem.

I really have no qualms about rehoming. And I really do understand that extra roos around my house must be placed quickly, because I can't have roos. I have given many roos to the feedstore, where people buy them to breed with, which they should because they are mostly nice roos, or to eat, which is the fate of most roos. It is tough being a roo, and I have pretty much come to terms with that.

For some reason, it just got to me yesterday. I was giving this person fabulous chickens I have taken a lot of time and expense over and saved just for her. She cannot possibly deal with the small chance one might be a roo and then quite readily and selfishly takes my lovely pullets and I was too much of a wiener to put my foot down until she really pushed it over the blue orp. She even said 'Your mad at me now, aren't you?' All I said was I could understand not wanting to deal with a roo.

She left immensely satisfied (as she should have been) and I was left feeling like a complete butthead because I didn't say 'too bad so sad you don't want your chickens that I kept just for you, I guess I'll just keep them and you can ask some one else to give you beautiful chickens.' Because she did ask me for them months ago, I didn't offer. I even kept them longer than I would have normally, because she went on a month long vacation, and then she didn't have her coop built, yet. I feel she pushed the envelope of our friendship, deliberately took advantage of me and behaved selfishly and I am disappointed in her. I went way out of my way to accommodate her. And I am disappointed in me for letting her do it. Tut tut. All over chickens. Live and learn. Hmph.