Silence Is Not Golden Here

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Zinjifrah said:
This morning for the first time I sat out with the two-week-old muttly chicks and opened up the pen so they could come out and see the Big Bird run a bit. Of the eight, six boiled right out and started going insane, flapping around, playing, racing in circles and digging in dirt.

The smallest - doing just fine, now that it's back on vitamin water, alert, active, feathering in, but still not growing the way the rest are - had no interest in going out. I'd just put the ice tub in, and she was camped out on top of it soaking up some cool.

Her look-alike, with the tag on her jaw, was racing back and forth at the front. There's about five inches between the bottom of the pen and the bottom of the door that was open, all of it wire so they can see in, and the other birds can see out. About ten minutes, peeping and running back and forth frantically while the rest of the birds climbed in and out with no problem. She... might be a bit slow.

Then she sat up straight to let out a really loud, angry PEEEEP!!! about not being able to get out with the rest... and saw out the open door. Stood there looking at the other birds, squatted back down to look at them through the wire, stood up so she could see out the open door again, and it was like a light switch got flipped on. She realized she could get out the same way they'd been going in and out over the top of her! Guess who was doing the most racing around in circles and bumping chests, once she figured it out... and she's the second-to-smallest.
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Thinking the boys had a good day at the beach yesterday
Now to figure out what to do with these shells when I get back home next week!
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woodenfarm said:
Thinking the boys had a good day at the beach yesterday
Now to figure out what to do with these shells when I get back home next week!View attachment 1465607
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:eek: You found that many sand dollars.
We only find pieces of them here and only one every few years.

So LUCKY!
 
woodenfarm said:
Thinking the boys had a good day at the beach yesterday
Now to figure out what to do with these shells when I get back home next week!View attachment 1465607
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Rinse them very well in fresh water, then put them out in the sun away from where anything's likely to get into them - and away from the house! - for several days to dry, if the weather's hot. That gives any lingering 'fleshy' bits inside time to dry out and stop stinking. The sand dollars can be repeatedly flushed with hot, fresh water to try and get most of the sand out - they're a big reason for putting them away from the house, since before any fleshy bits dry out, they're going to stink.

I used to have crates of sand dollars, when I lived by the beach... I moved to the desert and gave them all away to people who'd never seen one before. Heh. Picking up a live sand dollar is weird - they're completely covered in cilia, so they... SQUIRM against your hand. I always chucked the live ones back into deeper water - just kept the dead ones.
 

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