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Good luck!104 chicken eggs - but, I've been having issues with my one homemade incubator not keeping stable temps, so I've not been getting the best hatches lately.
Trying to fix it, but set as many as I could in my Genesis 1588 which seems to be doing fairly well thus far on it's 4th hatching year.
Glad the goose egg is doing well!
First of all, I'm very sorry to hear about your grandpa. I have been dealing with my grandmother with dementia (and Parkinsons) for 5 years, so I know how hard it is. I bet his mood will improve with getting back on the medications. Most Assisted Living places are not equipped to handle Alzheimers and Dementia. Look for a place with a Memory Care facility. It sounds like a new doctor might be a good thing too. After they adjust to it, the routine of the memory care really helps them. They have activities and my grandmother's place even has "happy hour". (yes, alcohol, but they get a really really small glass) Please know that him not recognizing you is not his fault, and it's nothing against you. I've had to tell my brother the same thing, as he took it personally when our grandmother didn't recognize him.Hi guys. I don't have time to catch up right now.
Things are crazy here. I would appreciate it if everyone could please read this post I know it's long but the lowest half is what's most important to me. The upper half will give you a laugh.
We set chicken eggs for the Easter hatchalong on Monday at noon.
Yesterday we discovered something had damaged our kitchen cupboard under the sink. And later learned it's a groundhog. It would seem it hibernated in the crawl space under our kitchen floor and became stuck.
Everyone remember those holes last fall under our porch? I believe we know the cause. Well apparently the thing can't find its way out and of course has no access to water. Yesterday it chewed through the water line to our sprayer knozzle on the kitchen sink as well as chewing at the cupboard itself. There is a flap of wood that goes around the pipes that lifts out that is it's entrance point.
We were up until past 4 am last night trying to get the thing out. It's large for a groundhog and although I'm not frightened of it I do respect it and feel for it's plight. We are trying to shoo it out through the kitchen and out the back door. Unfortunately this has not proved easy.
Hopefully tonight we can manage to get it out. It is very fearful but not aggressive although if it felt cornered I'm sure it could be. In fact after it got out of the cupboard(pushed the cupboard door open) last night the wood fell and it wasn't able to get back down the hole for some time.
We weren't able to get the door open and get it out before it got the flap up again.
It was quite the fiasco with me trying to soothe the frightened panicked creature. And eventually it turned and walked right up to me in between the kitchen and the dining room. No fear what so ever and sniffed the tote lid that I held as a barricade before looking up at me. I told it gently it didn't want to go that way and turn around and it did. Lol
Quite the night. Hopefully tonight we will be more successful.
Now my friends please I need your thoughts and prayers for my Grandpa. I was informed today that he was rushed from his Alzheimer's care assisted living via ambulance a couple of days ago. His doctor had changed his meds and taken him off his pills for his mood. From what I understand. It was a short conversation. I will know more later. My Grandpa, who is the kindest most respectful man you'd ever meet, except for his Alzheimer's acted up without his pills. Any change at all is hard for Alzheimer's or dementia patients and he began to act out to the staff. From there they sent him to a hospital with a psych ward.
However upon admission tests were run and he has bacteria in his urine which we knew about but his elderly doctor chose to ignore when he saw him Friday. They also did a CAT scan and discovered he has pneumonia and a sinus infection as well as a urinary tract infection. He was not running a fever.
For those that don't know illness in patients who are elderly or have dementia or Alzheimer's often confuses and worsens their mental state. In the last three weeks he has not been recognizing family at all which has been spotty. He has good days and bad days but lately there all been bad.
We are hoping that treating these illnesses will improve his mental state and lesson his mood swings. If he remains violent or threatening of violence the place will not take him back.
Everyone please keep my Grandpa in your thoughts and prayers and keep my family in them as well.
My Grandpa is being monitored and treated with IV antibiotics. He did recognize my Grandma for the first time in three weeks yesterday when he looked at her and said her name.
I will keep you all up to date on Grandpa and on the groundhog when I know more. Thank you guys
We had trouble with my grandmother when she was in Assisted Living. They were not making sure she had eaten before giving her her meds, so she would say she had eaten and they would give her meds on her *empty* stomach. Then the meds would make her feel sick, so she wouldn't eat lunch or dinner. She was spiraling downward and was 92 pounds (at 5'7" tall) when we moved her to a memory care facility. They make sure she eats and even make sure she swallows her pills. (yes, we found pills in plants around her apartment at the prior place) The new place put weight back on her and she was really stable until 3 weeks ago.
I hope you get your groundhog situation taken care of. I know it's not funny for you, but it sure sounds funny from here!
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but she is pretty close. 
Everyone please keep my Grandpa in your thoughts and prayers and keep my family in them as well. 
