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[Ren2014]

I think the weird poop is the equivalent of meconium. Their bodies are clearing all of the junk out of their digestive tract that built up during their development. Once they start eating, the poo will become more normal. I give my chicks Poultry Nutri-Drench to get them off to a good start. For the first week or so, I alternate a bottle mixed with ND with a bottle of plain water.

I'm giving electrolytes now, thank you.

The only problem with being on the final game of the soccer tournament is that I have to wait to open this

May I ask how much you paid for shipping? I just bought some Jubilee Orpington eggs and the breeder charged 20 + and add'l 10.95 if I wanted the box to be labeled FRAGILE. I've not had any other breeders charge extra. I didn't pay it and WOW... the box wasn't marked this end up, live embryos or NOTHING. It was delivered on it's side in my mail box

I give electrolytes for the first 3-5 days. And then hard boiled egg yolk.

Mine was on the side too, even though it was clearly labeled!

Started the electrolytes and will give egg yolks in a few days. Thank you.

May I ask how much you paid for shipping? See my note above to Amy.

 

[meganhundley]

Great costume Ross, I crochet so I know that poncho was a little difficult to make, lol. It looks awesome though

 

[meganhundley]

Ah that's sweet, but I'm pretty sure I look all of my 41 years...lol


Nope. I refuse. I dye it...lol If I didn't I'm pretty sure I'd be gray like Gandolph.

I got lots of gray rearing it's ugly head so I dye too. As of right now my hair is blonde with what's left of a bright color phase. I dyed it blue, then purple and last but not least... hot pink!!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Sounds like the perfect roo.  How old is he?

I had the feed bucket in hand one day and jerk reaction I swung at him. The red end of the bucket came flying off and I thought I had decapitated him, lol.  He kinda looked dazed for a bit and then shook it off.  He stayed his distance for a few days but then started testing me again.

I really think a lot of men do, lol.

Ditto.  I just set 40 eggs in the bator.  Surely one will come out a gentleman

I believe Big Guy is 3-4 years old. My SIL gave him to me last fall.

LOL, 50 here but definitely don't act it... look it???  Feeling it Blessed to have made it this far

For 50. I've been told I dont look it, but I think its my small frame. I'm only 5'2, maybe 110# lol

I'm a total tease. I just know I don't have the space to continue on like I've been going. I need to pause for the winter and build some more runs and coops before I take on anymore fuzzies.
For me raising chickens, watching their silly little personalities..its the most relaxing experience I know. They bring so much joy and teach my kids so much...raising them is awesome.
My sense of humor may not hit its mark with most people...for that I appologize. I make jokes about most things in my life.

Good for you for staying sober. And I think we have about every sense of humor around here! So you are fine.

Thats amazing! I know my OH would absolutly love to fish the way yall do! Were in the right zone an all, but have no time, with my hobbies

Hello everybody!!!

Eggy update!

All 14 of the American Bresse that i set are developing despite being very pourous. Im worried, i have to do some more research on what will happen to the embryo in pourous shells?

In addition to those 14, the seller gave me 2 isbars she has been great and i havent complained about them being pourous, the two isbars are also like this though:

I Filled the incubator UP! Set 48 total by finishing it up with my own mixed layers eggs. Pretty freakin excited that the whole tray i candled last night (on day 7), only One was early death! Much better genes than the duckies i last incubated! The other 23?! (Of that rack) Including All the Bresse and 2 Isbars?! were expecting quite a hatch. So OH built me a new brooder i painted it

Dont mind the photo bombin turkeys, i been tol yall theyre bad, spolit! In a non aggresive manner, please believe i wont have that!

And the calf... He started scouring two days ago an i think i nipped it n the butt but thats where ive been, runnin like a... Well you know take care!

Awesome! You are unreal, woman!! Hows the rescued turkey doing now?

 

[Ren2014]

I got lots of gray rearing it's ugly head so I dye too. As of right now my hair is blonde with what's left of a bright color phase. I dyed it blue, then purple and last but not least... hot pink!!!

O wow, purple and hot pink are my favorite colors. I've seen some really beautiful pastel colors but my family and friends would freak if I dyed it that way

 

[Pyxis]

May I ask how much you paid for shipping?  I just bought some Jubilee Orpington eggs and the breeder charged 20 + and add'l 10.95 if I wanted the box to be labeled FRAGILE.  I've not had any other breeders charge extra.  I didn't pay it and WOW... the box wasn't marked this end up, live embryos or NOTHING.  It was delivered on it's side in my mail box

Oh yikes, that's crazy, $10.95 to take a sharpie and write on the box? I've shipped plenty of eggs, and that's literally all you do, there is no extra fee at the post office for bringing in a box marked fragile or anything like that. $20 plus is also crazy if it wasn't express. I live in VT and it costs me $15 to $16 to send a double boxed dozen of duck eggs, which are pretty darn heavy, all the way to Washington with priority shipping.

 

[meganhundley]

You traded one addiction for another, a chicken addiction.

You and I need a 12 step program for resisting buying endless amounts of eggs.

I too am a sober person...my family is chocked full of alcoholics. I decided I was going to raise my kids differently and I've been able to keep that promise. Clean and sober since I was in my teens. Its not easy but it's well worth it. Being addicted to chickens is a much safer route for me and more enjoyable.

Replaced with Chicken addictions I pray   I know they are therapy for me.  Happy you are here and prayers for nothing but good years now.

Yeah, I don't think y'all we're on this thread yet when I posted my "life story", I won't go in depth this time but I've had alot of drug problems in my past and am in the process of detoxing now, I should be done and completely clean in about 2 months. I never had much of a drinking problem cause I grew up in a home with alcoholic parents and brothers and I hated it so I swore I'd never be drinker but just about everything else was fair game. For 12 years now I've been an opiate addict buy I've been trying hard to kick it. I'm doing good so far, I go to a methadone clinic and am seeing a counselor. My chickens are wonderful therapy. I've always said, once an addict always an addict, so now I'm a chicken addict, lol, as well as an egg hatching addict, I'm not running out of space for them yet but I really need to wait til spring to hatch anymore :/ I don't like that idea but it's the best thing to do. I dove in head first and have gone deeper and deeper, if I go any deeper I'll drowned in chicks so I think it's time to come up for air for a while, lol.

 

[Ren2014]

Oh yikes, that's crazy, $10.95 to take a sharpie and write on the box? I've shipped plenty of eggs, and that's literally all you do, there is no extra fee at the post office for bringing in a box marked fragile or anything like that. $20 plus is also crazy if it wasn't express. I live in VT and it costs me $15 to $16 to send a double boxed dozen of duck eggs, which are pretty darn heavy, all the way to Washington with priority shipping.

I thought so too. It was express and did arrive earlier than planned. I've only bought from two others and they were 10.95 and 17. My PO knew I was expecting eggs but since it wasn't marked in anyway, they just thought it was a regular package and stuffed it in our mailbox on it's side. My chances aren't great with just 6 to start and now probably hopeless

 

[Ren2014]

Yeah, I don't think y'all we're on this thread yet when I posted my "life story", I won't go in depth this time but I've had alot of drug problems in my past and am in the process of detoxing now, I should be done and completely clean in about 2 months. I never had much of a drinking problem cause I grew up in a home with alcoholic parents and brothers and I hated it so I swore I'd never be drinker but just about everything else was fair game. For 12 years now I've been an opiate addict buy I've been trying hard to kick it. I'm doing good so far, I go to a methadone clinic and am seeing a counselor. My chickens are wonderful therapy. I've always said, once an addict always an addict, so now I'm a chicken addict, lol, as well as an egg hatching addict, I'm not running out of space for them yet but I really need to wait til spring to hatch anymore

I don't like that idea but it's the best thing to do. I dove in head first and have gone deeper and deeper, if I go any deeper I'll drowned in chicks so I think it's time to come up for air for a while, lol.

I can't begin to say I know what you've been through but you are definitely on the right track now. I believe with God all things are possible and I will be praying for you.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

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Mine was on the side too, even though it was clearly labeled!

Started the electrolytes and will give egg yolks in a few days. Thank you.

May I ask how much you paid for shipping? See my note above to Amy.

Well, we'd swapped canned goods for eggs, so the only shipping I paid was for the jam and beans going to Ravyn! That said, the eggs (and what I'd sent as well) were in a medium flat rate Priority Mail box, so shipping between California and Tennessee was $12.65.

We have a PO box, so after the eggs that ronott sent me last spring were jammed sideways into my mailbox (and I still say that that was what knocked all the aircells loose, because he does an awesome packing job) I have eggs sent there. That said, the box was carried to the front the right way 'round, though the guy had to tilt it sideways to do the final scan.

I've got pics coming in a minute, both eggs and unpacking.