The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

Yep sends you straight up..... fight or flight and you cant go back to sleep for the remaining forty five minutes you are allotted.

Same thing goes for something wiggling in your ear... or percieved to wiggle.....

deb

 

[vehve]

The dog vomiting thing is interesting, wakes me right up, already prior to the vomiting when it's in the heaving stage. Karin sleeps right through it though. A dog whining reverses the roles for us. Interesting practical evolution, men are more sensitive to low pitch sounds that signal danger, while women react to higher pitched sounds that signal distress.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

The dog vomiting thing is interesting, wakes me right up, already prior to the vomiting when it's in the heaving stage. Karin sleeps right through it though. A dog whining reverses the roles for us. Interesting practical evolution, men are more sensitive to low pitch sounds that signal danger, while women react to higher pitched sounds that signal distress.

I don't conform to those rules. Let it whine.

 

[vehve]

I think that is mainly used to explain why men can sleep through a baby crying while women get woken up by it. I could see myself pretending to sleep through it as well though, so how true it really is, I don't know. I do often wake up to the whining as well, like tonight I got to see what the dachshund was complaining about. What woke me was Karin kicking me though.

 

[Latestarter]

She was kicking you Felix, to wake you up because the high pitched whining had already woken her up (you being male, obviously weren't phased by it) and she didn't want to deal with it. I seems with age, I've had the distinct misfortune of being able to sleep through bombs going off, only to awaken when a leaf falls from a tree the next county over. It would have to be that as I can determine no other reason for being awake... like right now for example... having woken up some 2 hours ago and not being able to re-attain a state of comfortable unconsciousness...

As for mother/dads & young children, It was always I who got up with the kids when they were babies and youngsters, despite the fact that I worked and she didn't. During their initial lives where mammary action was required, I would wake her up and turn them over to her then take them back till they were ready to go back in their crib. The slightest noises from their general direction and I was on it. As they got older where late night disasters were less an issue, they'd come to our room and climb up on my chest and go back to sleep.

I was fine with that.

 

[chickadoodles]

Klucky and Raven it sounds like y'all had fun! How awesome!

Deb it's nice they asked you and you had fun.

Al congrats on a great hatch!

Diva after reading about all the ice cream I told DH to get some ice cream and I made brownies so we had a brownie ice cream sandwich. Pretty good with some chocolate fudge syrup on top.

 

[Bunnylady]

Latestarter, sounds like you were a great daddy. It's very healthy and normal for little people to transition from mommy to daddy as they grow, and I always feel a bit sorry for the kids that don't get the chance to do that.

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah! hatch about over..,

Last one out was really sticky odd since everyone else was fine, makes me wonder if I remember reading that foamy and sticky can be signs of a slight infection? (It was a washed egg...I mark them). Two others are pipped, NOT zipped, but do not look sticky.. They are so slow though, not sure if they will make it.

No biggie though, because the results were GREAT!


Of my pure Doms, one died late in shell, and 13 hatched gorgeous and perfectly! No clears, no other loss! (Of course the Dom roo is over only 4 hens, so he doesn't have to work that hard )

Of my Spitz (just a pair, but very young, hatched late summer) they had 2 clears, one midway death and 5 good and healthy.

Leghorns are under my black Ameraucana that is covering way too many girls, 9 were clear, 6 hatched, of those three are white

My mutt, 2 clear, 2 early death and 6 super healthy, one that late hatched foamy/sticky


Pretty awesome!

I am gunna have to give the Ameraucana cockerel a small harem though....... Hummmmmm


Oh by the way, who used the boomerang on me? Total toss backs. Three feet of snow in less than 24 hours

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Maybe you had sticky chicks cause you went into the incubator

 

[sourland]

'Al', happy for you.