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Good morning folks

Have you guys n' gals seen this
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Also, another chuckle for the day. PS. I broke my broom yesterday but I was sweeping not swooping
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JaeG said:
Great to see the progress Teila. Your new garden looks nice and shady for your girls. Jessie looks as hard working as our pooch!

I have a quail baby pipping. Last night I candled them (day 14 and 2/3rds) and discovered one had pipped internally! It was quite a surprise to see that little shadow beak! I'd been going to wait until the next day to put them into lock down, seeing as I'd added a few more after the initial lot went in, but that kind of bumped up my schedule! It has pipped externally this morning. The only thing I can think is that it was pretty hot day and night when I was collecting the eggs and there is no where cool in our house to store them, so I figured I'd see what happened. Quail eggs are supposed to be very hardy so perhaps all that heat got them slowly developing before I put them into the incubator. I had to add more water this morning as the humidity was a bit low so I dabbed it's pip with a damp finger just in case. Now I'm obsessively checking the temperature and humidity every now and then. It's so much easier when a chicken does this!

I'll try and get a decent photo of my Java babies today. They are so bristly with pin feathers.
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How do you feed your Java babies?
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casportpony said:
How do you feed your Java babies?
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Here's my spikiest Java baby. They are fed at 3 hourly intervals 6 times a day with hand rearing formula (I've got the Vetafarm one). You buy it as a powder and mix each portion up with water, making sure it's the right temperature, and making a new portion each feed as it spoils quickly. I use glass eye droppers which seem to work well and are easy to sterilize. It's my birds first season breeding so I'm glad I was prepared with hand rearing formula on hand as I've needed it!

Java finches are a common hand reared pet in Japan so I'll be interested to see how these guys turn out. I had to hand rear two Society finches (whose parents abandoned them to help the other pair with their babies who had just fledged) and they are the cheekiest, cutest things ever.

 
JaeG said:
casportpony said:
How do you feed your Java babies? :pop
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Here's my spikiest Java baby. They are fed at 3 hourly intervals 6 times a day with hand rearing formula (I've got the Vetafarm one). You buy it as a powder and mix each portion up with water, making sure it's the right temperature, and making a new portion each feed as it spoils quickly. I use glass eye droppers which seem to work well and are easy to sterilize. It's my birds first season breeding so I'm glad I was prepared with hand rearing formula on hand as I've needed it! Java finches are a common hand reared pet in Japan so I'll be interested to see how these guys turn out. I had to hand rear two Society finches (whose parents abandoned them to help the other pair with their babies who had just fledged) and they are the cheekiest, cutest things ever.
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They are just too cute! How big are they?
 
We have had two days of pretty much constant rain and storms and the back garden is now threatening to go under water. Sadly, the heat and humidity did not get washed away
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Time to sing the praises of the covered run and deep litter .. while areas around the run are going under water, the run itself and the deep litter is high and dry.

Anyways, the only reason for mentioning that was that I snapped a picture of Blondie doing a dirty little waif impression .. not one of her finer moments
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Good morning!

Busy weekend, but fun. My cousin and I spent so much time together as kids, she's more like an older sister...I've really enjoyed living within 100 miles of her this past year. We spent Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado with my SIL. Lots of interesting shops, lots of people. Drove home yesterday and that was a bit nerve-wracking...driving head first into 50-60 mph winds is tiring, but made it ok. It's good to be home!
 
N F C said:
Good morning!

Busy weekend, but fun. My cousin and I spent so much time together as kids, she's more like an older sister...I've really enjoyed living within 100 miles of her this past year. We spent Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado with my SIL. Lots of interesting shops, lots of people. Drove home yesterday and that was a bit nerve-wracking...driving head first into 50-60 mph winds is tiring, but made it ok. It's good to be home!
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Good morning Debby! Glad you had a great time
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