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Told the kids the kitchen better be clean by the end of the day..... it was a horror...

They were cleaning so slowly...did chores so slowly and so late... I was thinking of making them go to bed early tonight...thought they must have been up late last night when I wasn't looking.... I was thinking I needed to reinstate driveway loops...

Then I come back home.... kitchen is better, but still bad..and one kid is asleep on the couch????

What?!?!?!

I stood still for a minute, wondering.... and took the temperature of the kid on the couch.

Yep, fever.

Sheesh.
 
Alaskan said:
Told the kids the kitchen better be clean by the end of the day..... it was a horror...

They were cleaning so slowly...did chores so slowly and so late... I was thinking of making them go to bed early tonight...thought they must have been up late last night when I wasn't looking.... I was thinking I needed to reinstate driveway loops...

Then I come back home.... kitchen is better, but still bad..and one kid is asleep on the couch????

What?!?!?!

I stood still for a minute, wondering.... and took the temperature of the kid on the couch.

Yep, fever.

Sheesh.
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sure hope for summer cold
 
microchick said:
Ducklings are just too cute to be legal. I just love those cute pudgy little ducklette cheeks!

Chick #3 is out of the shelI and into the brooder drying out. I sent DH out to check on it in the incubator. He was gone for a while, came back in and I asked him how things were going with the new baby. He told me it looked lonely so he had put it over in the brooder with Burd, (who is a moose and definitely a boy) and BooBoo.

I had to see this to believe it. The chick had just hatched about 45 minutes earlier. Sure enough, it was sitting there with Burd and BooBoo staring at it as if they just didn't quite know what to think of this little wet creature. There were a few curious nibbles of wet down but everyone seems to be cohabitating for the moment.

I'm going to move them to the bigger brooder tomorrow. I'm not going to chance trying to graft them to one of the broody hens with chicks. The youngest are 8 days old now and while Burd is definitely the Jay bird chick in a humming bird nest he is still just a few days old and the two smallest wouldn't stand a chance in keeping up with the broody hens and older chicks.

This has been my toughest hatching. 6 out of 7 eggs, not bad percentage but the chick that died in shell died from a pip at the wrong end and Burd wouldn't have made it if I hadn't noticed him pipping at the pointed end of his egg.. I took a big chance going in after him and my risk paid off. He lost blood and was exhausted but proved to be a tough little Burd and beat the odds.

Lessoned learned. Sometimes you can't go by the book. Sometimes you have to take a big risk and have faith that you have made the right decision.

So here is Big Burd, BooBoo and BeBe:

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Yay!!! :wee
What type of chicks are those again? Those are lovely markings.:clap
The first chick is a good size compared to the wee guys.
 

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