Silence Is Not Golden Here

[Redhead Rae]

I have!
I would need a ton of practice but I have the drive for it.

Incidentally, that is what I'm watching on Hulu now.

 

[Cyprus]

Incidentally, that is what I'm watching on Hulu now.

Oooh awesome!
I've met someone who won.

 

[BlackHackle]

You should take a nap

I napped while waiting for the late parts to come into the pickup station
But it takes a lot of sleep to recharge me

 

[Cyprus]

I napped while waiting for the late parts to come into the pickup station
But it takes a lot of sleep to recharge me

Well at least you napped

 

[BlackHackle]

Well at least you napped

I guess some sleep is better than none
I was up real late last night youtubing and had to wake up at 5

 

[Redhead Rae]

Oooh awesome!
I've met someone who won.

There's only been one winner in all 9 seasons and only 2 guys made it to the finish line ever and that was on the same season. We are on season 10 now.

 

[Cyprus]

There's only been one winner in all 9 seasons and only 2 guys made it to the finish line ever and that was on the same season. We are on season 10 now.

I remember that the guy I met made it to the finish on his second try.
He was doing the course to raise money for his project with dogs. I remember him talking about a dog he had that was really talented in Frisby and inspired him to start his work.

 

[Redhead Rae]

So, I had an interesting day. The 5 chicks that were in the stationary coop got moved out to the field. The 3 Cornish in the group got moved into the run with the Banty pullets since there will be less competition for food there. The oops chick and off colored Chocolate Orp got moved to into the field along with some bigger Cornish and EEs from the Banty pen. The 4 month old chicks that have been inside for WAY too long got moved out to the stationary coop, the two Cornish babies that hatched 1.5 weeks ago were left in the indoor brooder and I just moved 7 new Cornish babies in with them! I had 8 eggs that made it to lock down, one didn't survive to hatch.

While moving birds around, I also was helping put everyone away for the night, so we started trying to herd Mama Leghorn and her babies into their box. When she was flapping around and squawking, I saw something REALLY odd on he toes. AT first I thought she had nasty bumble foot. Turns out, she had rock hard mud/poop balls on two of her toes. I've seen this happen before with chickens in a wet area, but only pea sized lumps on their toenails. Nope, these babies were the size of peace pits. It took a couple sessions of dunking her feet in water, carefully squishing the balls between two rocks, repeat, before we got her toes free. I'm sure she feels much better now. There was a week where we had a LOT of rain and we didn't move her enclosure as much as we should have, I think that is where it started. They also didn't impede her movement much, so it was hard to tell what went wrong.

After I moved the 7 new hatchlings to the brooder, I set my last batch of eggs for the season (I'm pretty sure, don't hold me to it though). When I set new eggs, I always candle the eggs I set the previous week. I'm SOOO glad I did this. While I was candling some of the eggs that are supposed to hatch next week, I saw that one of them had a window of shell popped out. I panicked a bit, thinking I might have broken the egg. Nope, turned out, it was a PIP! I think this is an egg that got partially incubated outside, brought inside, moved to the incubator and the embryo SURVIVED the trip! So I just turned on my lock down incubator which I just shut off less than 30 min before and popped the egg inside. Hopefully it hatches. It still has some active veining when I looked in the window and it looks like it may be a malpo, so I'll probably be assisting a bit tomorrow if it doesn't hatch overnight.

Chickens are never boring, that's for sure!

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

30 degrees F this morning at 6. Went to work

Whoa! You've already reached below zero?! I thought it was bad when I saw the predicted low for the 31st is 3.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

It's in my nature . I have to master every single thing I get into.

I got into Piano, I had to master it
I got into Cello, I had to master it
I got into skating, I have to master it
I got into crocheting, knitting, cross-stitching, etc.

I'll try to retrieve some of them off my old Etsy account or off my old laptop.
I know, everyone used to laugh at me cause I was a guy who mastered yarn-works

You play piano and cello too?
Cool!