She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[NTBugtraq]

Who had the snowbird neighbors that didnt like the rooster crowing? I saw this on another thread and thought of them!

Ruby, patent that sign and sell me 2..pls

 

[RubyNala97]

Mother, there is a ton to be learned from an ailed animal left to its own...they can be amazingly resilient. It might be a teaching point...and then it could be a reason ppl question god....you kinda gotta choose

Hahahaha! Love it!

Ruby, patent that sign and sell me 2..pls

I'm on it...

 

[mother of many]

Yes I agree completely.@NTBugtraq I dont see any way to fix it I have tried flex it out and work with it but its just kinda stuck that way. He isnt letting it get him down though. We will see how he does. And I believe that he is the loudest chick I have ever encountered in my life. So if he needs help he will let you know lol. The only thing is I unfortunately am leaving to go with the family on a 2 week vacation to Texas. So we have a pet sitter coming by to feed and water while we're gone. Hopefully nothing will go wrong but you can only pray.

 

[WalnutHill]

My personal opinion is that it really depends on the quality of life the animal will have. If its going to live a painful life then culling is the humane thing to do. Or if it can eat, drink, and be mobile, keep it as a special ed pet. I had a rabbit with bad wry neck. I was told to put him down but after a few rounds of antibiotics he was better, except his neck was permenately crooked. He was a sweetie though and lived a long happy life.

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[mother of many]

By the way AmyLynn thank you for the name idea we have dubbed our little crippled boy Tiny Tim.

 

[BlackwoodHollow]

It's a German Giant. This is my first year trying indeterminates, and I don't think I will ever plant another hybrid. I have never had a yield like I'm getting this year. The only problem is I didn't know how big the plants got. I will be building trellises for next year

Indeterminates are where it's at! If you're looking for a really solid heirloom cherry tomato, my absolute favorite of all time is the Galina variety. They are a potato leaf variety and they grow without fail herein Georgia. AMAZING flavor.

 

[BlackwoodHollow]

I was under the impression that they absorb the yolk before the pip the air cell. Is this not the case?

Sorry if this is TMI but... I had fully developed chicks in my last two hatches. Some of them even defecated inside the egg. None of them pipped the air cell. I'm sure there are many reasons they fail at 19-20 days but In my case I'm pretty sure they suffocated on CO2. As they get bigger they put off more CO2 and I didn't have air coming in from the outside of the incubator to exchange oxygen for CO2 through the shell.

I will know If that's the case if this batch I'm hatching this weekend has a higher success rate. I have given them a lot more oxygen this time around with air vents open the whole time.

Another theory I have from reading a scientific paper about incubators. The chick starts to generate it's own heat at about day 14. Everyone leaves the temp alone thinking it will be the same for the egg, but it's not. Using my temp gun I realized that even keeping my incubator steady from day 14 to 21 the egg shell temps themselves went from 100 to 103 degrees from day 14 to day 20. I honestly think that's why it works in a still air incubator to turn it down to 99.5. I think the beginning of the hatch is slow and then accelerates towards the end, but that is hard on the chicks and results in losses. I now turn it down .5 degree every other day after about day 15. I watch the shell temps closely and try to keep them at 100 degrees. We will see if it pays off this time, but they are shipped eggs so it's not a perfect test.

I'm rambling.....

Very interesting rambling.

 

[BlackwoodHollow]

Cattle panels?! I never would have thought of that; cool idea! Concrete remesh also works well. You can even grow watermelon and squash on them(pretty sure the cattle panels would hold those, too). A really cool idea I saw one time was to run 3 (1x4) planks, side by side, perpendicularly through the top of two of the mesh supports(which should be parallel to each other), fold the two end planks up around the middle plank, and secure them with bungee cord, creating a shelf with guards. Then you can set containers inside, all along the planks. Great for Sq ft gardening.

If anyone understood that, you get a no bake cookie. lol

It's late here. I just can't keep up with this thread! lol

 

[sjturner79]

up to post 4100 - only 10 days worth to catch up on now.
I hope amylyn sorted out her laying problem - The only way i found to get silkies to lay in the boxes way to set the nest boxes a step down from floor level - but i also have silkies that roost happily ( i do have a ramp up to the roost bar though) I may have to join some of the silly threads just so i can have something to post to reach 5000 posts - i don't like out of the brooder and really don't want to be hanging with the peeps ( sounds like a kid in the 90's) .

 

[RubyNala97]

up to post 4100 - only 10  days worth to catch up on now.
I hope amylyn sorted out her laying problem - The only way i found to get silkies to lay in the boxes way to set the nest boxes a step down from floor level - but i also have silkies that roost happily ( i do have a ramp up to the roost bar though) I may have to join some of the silly threads just so i can have something to post to reach 5000 posts - i don't like out of the brooder and really don't want to be hanging with the peeps  ( sounds like a  kid in the 90's) .

Yeah, it took me a week to read the thread before I joined! Any idea when silkie chicks will start to roost? I have two, 6 week old silkie chicks and they will not go on the roost yet!