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Pig seems just a hint better today. I was honestly surprised to see him still alive this morning. The worming medicine is definitely doing its job. I found a worm about 6" long in the hay by his mouth. I got about 4 oz of water into him (Which isn't much given he's about 180 lbs). His breathing is still rough. He does feel just a tiny bit warmer to the touch. Given he's been like this for at least 24 hours and still hanging in there, there's a tiny bit of hope.
 
Poor Mr Pig! Hope he starts perking up soon.

Well extreme humidity and heat does not make for fun cake making! Icing the cake (frosting it I mean) with Buttercream and trying to get decorations to stick was fun when the icing was so soft and had no hope of hardening up! I hadn't given much fore thought to what I was putting the cake on either so Mr Dragon ended up a bit squished up on a platter. He's not as beautiful as the first one I made when our son turned 1 but he was tasty and DS loved him. DH helped to decorate which I was very thankful for. He's got dragon treasure tucked up in his tail. I found a candy place that had 'gold nuggets', 'pearls', and 'rubies'.
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I've had 5 more Button chicks hatch but two yesterday needed help. I got up early yesterday morning and thought one of the other babies had escaped its cage because of all the peeping I could hear. I finally figured out it was the incubator so opened it expecting a chick to have hatched. It was a half unzipped egg yelling so I gave it some encouraging words (they do like it when you talk to them) and left it to it, thinking it would hatch soon. Next time I checked there were three chicks hatched out but this little egg hadn't made any progress. So I helped the poor little thing out but it was still attached to the egg. I left it to dry off in the incubator and it did detatch itself. Later in the day I checked the last two eggs that were due to hatch. One had quit just as it was internally pipping for some reason, but the other was getting no where and just making its pip hole bigger. The membrane had started to dry so I helped it hatch and it too was still attached to its egg. It was exhausted as it must've been struggling for ages but the pip was under the egg where I hadn't seen it glancing in. I didn't think that poor baby was going to make it as it was knackered and breathing heavily. I put it in the brooder with the others just before bed as it had perked up enough to start chirping. I dubiously peeked in this morning and was very pleased to see it is still alive.

It's raining and was hot all night so we are in for another uncomfortable day. There are mushrooms popping up everywhere in the lawn because of the weather too.
 
JaeG said:
Poor Mr Pig! Hope he starts perking up soon.

Well extreme humidity and heat does not make for fun cake making! Icing the cake (frosting it I mean) with Buttercream and trying to get decorations to stick was fun when the icing was so soft and had no hope of hardening up! I hadn't given much fore thought to what I was putting the cake on either so Mr Dragon ended up a bit squished up on a platter. He's not as beautiful as the first one I made when our son turned 1 but he was tasty and DS loved him. DH helped to decorate which I was very thankful for. He's got dragon treasure tucked up in his tail. I found a candy place that had 'gold nuggets', 'pearls', and 'rubies'.
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I've had 5 more Button chicks hatch but two yesterday needed help. I got up early yesterday morning and thought one of the other babies had escaped its cage because of all the peeping I could hear. I finally figured out it was the incubator so opened it expecting a chick to have hatched. It was a half unzipped egg yelling so I gave it some encouraging words (they do like it when you talk to them) and left it to it, thinking it would hatch soon. Next time I checked there were three chicks hatched out but this little egg hadn't made any progress. So I helped the poor little thing out but it was still attached to the egg. I left it to dry off in the incubator and it did detatch itself. Later in the day I checked the last two eggs that were due to hatch. One had quit just as it was internally pipping for some reason, but the other was getting no where and just making its pip hole bigger. The membrane had started to dry so I helped it hatch and it too was still attached to its egg. It was exhausted as it must've been struggling for ages but the pip was under the egg where I hadn't seen it glancing in. I didn't think that poor baby was going to make it as it was knackered and breathing heavily. I put it in the brooder with the others just before bed as it had perked up enough to start chirping. I dubiously peeked in this morning and was very pleased to see it is still alive.

It's raining and was hot all night so we are in for another uncomfortable day. There are mushrooms popping up everywhere in the lawn because of the weather too.
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That cake looks fantastic! Doesn't look squished at all.
Glad you were there to help the babies out and that they seem to be doing ok.
 
JaeG said:
Poor Mr Pig! Hope he starts perking up soon.

Well extreme humidity and heat does not make for fun cake making! Icing the cake (frosting it I mean) with Buttercream and trying to get decorations to stick was fun when the icing was so soft and had no hope of hardening up! I hadn't given much fore thought to what I was putting the cake on either so Mr Dragon ended up a bit squished up on a platter. He's not as beautiful as the first one I made when our son turned 1 but he was tasty and DS loved him. DH helped to decorate which I was very thankful for. He's got dragon treasure tucked up in his tail. I found a candy place that had 'gold nuggets', 'pearls', and 'rubies'.
View attachment 1260736

I've had 5 more Button chicks hatch but two yesterday needed help. I got up early yesterday morning and thought one of the other babies had escaped its cage because of all the peeping I could hear. I finally figured out it was the incubator so opened it expecting a chick to have hatched. It was a half unzipped egg yelling so I gave it some encouraging words (they do like it when you talk to them) and left it to it, thinking it would hatch soon. Next time I checked there were three chicks hatched out but this little egg hadn't made any progress. So I helped the poor little thing out but it was still attached to the egg. I left it to dry off in the incubator and it did detatch itself. Later in the day I checked the last two eggs that were due to hatch. One had quit just as it was internally pipping for some reason, but the other was getting no where and just making its pip hole bigger. The membrane had started to dry so I helped it hatch and it too was still attached to its egg. It was exhausted as it must've been struggling for ages but the pip was under the egg where I hadn't seen it glancing in. I didn't think that poor baby was going to make it as it was knackered and breathing heavily. I put it in the brooder with the others just before bed as it had perked up enough to start chirping. I dubiously peeked in this morning and was very pleased to see it is still alive.

It's raining and was hot all night so we are in for another uncomfortable day. There are mushrooms popping up everywhere in the lawn because of the weather too.
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You did a great job!! I’ve heard using shortening in your buttercream will help it hold up better in heat.
 

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