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[chickadoodles]

Diva, I think there are a lot of people that would benefit from some more computer activity. Almost everyone has a need to communicate with others, or they'll go crazy.

x2 I know I would go crazy!

 

[chickadoodles]

I am going to try an experiment that CC and some others posted on trying to hatch a non-fertile turkey egg. My BBB hen has been alone or in the hen run since her tom died about a month ago so she is not fertile. She has had a lot of problems producing poults since I started trying to hatch from her. I have put every one of her eggs in the bator and I only have 6 poults of hers to date. So I am going to try to see if this egg I collected from her yesterday will develope. I have marked the egg as collected yesterday and put in the bator and marked it not fertile. I will upload a pic later as I don't have flash and it is to dark in there now.

 

[getaclue]

Diva, it's sad that someone would be so inconsiderate of others on purpose, and repeatedly.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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CC I am moving her and the chicks into a pen so she can get her chicks on the ground. I did not have an open pen till late yesterday. I re-homed some and sold some more birds. But when we move her I am sure going to take a peek.

I bet you will.

CC, a couple years ago I had read about an organic U-Pick strawberry farm, and decided to take my granddaughter to pick some strawberries for her first time. Off we went, and when we got there, a table had been set up with beach buckets, and Friskars blunt ended school scissors, and a lady handed us one of each. My granddaughter smiled, took her scissors, and bucket. I scratched my head. She led us through the opening in the plastic tarps, and I was dumbfounded. There were acres of poles with layers of bucket like containers. Nothing was planted in the ground. She led us to our row, and explained the containers turned, so be sure to turn them to get all the ripe berries. It was a hydroponics farm. They put just enough dirt in the containers to anchor the plants, so they don't blow away. I did the higher up containers, granddaughter did the lower ones. NO bending over to pick the strawberries. The berries were plentiful, so it didn't take us long to get a couple buckets of berries. The berries were so sweet. What I had intended as a first time experience for my granddaughter, became a first time experience for both of us. It was GREAT!

Pretty cool.
We brought 10 pounds home. My wife said she ate 2 in the field. Not 2 pounds, 2 berries!!!

I ate about 40.


They had wagons going to and from the field carrying 30-40 people on each trip. There were so many berries and a lot of them getting overripe. They'll never get them all picked.
There was a little girl on the wagon coming back from the field with red all over her face.

I'm not big on desserts but I had to have a bite of the strawberry pie with an Oreo crust. Kinda yummy.

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I have too many chickens.

I know the feeling.

Beautilful peafowl aviary:

beautiful birds
I wish I could keep some here.

I also do not see my friends face to face very often. I do not have any close friends (other than DH) in Utah. Utahns are very close knit and unless you have very similar interests, it is hard to start up a friendship. I still consider you a close friend SCG and would send you a friendship bread starter if I had any.

Utah is a little different. I like it though. Mostly Mormons and a handful of Hollywood types. I've just been there to ski.
Solitude, Park City, Alta, Deer Valley, Powder Mountain, Snowbird, Snow Basin and Sundance.
I avoided Sundance for years because I thought it was too small. Once I got over my snobbishness I gave it a whirl one day. Since then that's the only place I go in Utah. It has less acreage but plenty of steep terrain and good elevation. Add to that the fact that it is never crowded and rarely a line at any lift. They have a small parking lot and once that's full, they stop selling lift tickets.

Being in a Mormon state, the alcohol laws are a bit strange. At the warming hut on top of the mountain, you can't buy a beer unless you also buy something to eat.
Places that sell alcohol are private clubs but tourists can buy a temporary membership or be sponsored by a member.

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What do ya'll do when a hen goes broody and another hen keeps adding to her egg pile daily? I have a turkey hen gone broody sometime this last week and here companion hen keeps laying eggs in the same nest even though she has one of her own. I know it will be a problem come time for them to hatch so any suggestions? Please.
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Once I know they're broody, I mark all the eggs and remove volunteers whenever I catch them off the nest doing their daily stretch. I use a sharpie and an x on 2 sides.

I have an internet friend who will take my horse if I pass away suddenly.... we are making the arrangements final soon. My horse needs to go to someone who understands Draft horses and can deal with a Draft horse mare that is an Alpha and knows how to throw her weight around.

I have never met her... in person

deb

Good plan.

The coop fairy was going to help my wife take care of my chickens while my son and I go on an extended Father's Day canoe trip. But it looks like I have to make other plans.
She's in the hospital again and doing poorly.

My brother is doing poorly as well and going down hill fast. He called me a month ago in good spirits because he was going back into the hospital for a while to have his colostomy reversed. Sounds like it got messed up. Instead of losing the bag, he has 2 now. He's 73.
So yesterday was full of bad news.

I am going to try an experiment that CC and some others posted on trying to hatch a non-fertile turkey egg. My BBB hen has been alone or in the hen run since her tom died about a month ago so she is not fertile. She has had a lot of problems producing poults since I started trying to hatch from her. I have put every one of her eggs in the bator and I only have 6 poults of hers to date. So I am going to try to see if this egg I collected from her yesterday will develope. I have marked the egg as collected yesterday and put in the bator and marked it not fertile. I will upload a pic later as I don't have flash and it is to dark in there now.

Sounds good, keep us informed.

If a non-fertile egg hatches why is so hard to get fertile ones to hatch?

 

[chickadoodles]

DH and I move the Buff Orp and her nest into the pen that is safe for chicks and she was fine with the move. DH even moved her and her eggs into a larger nest and she accepted that as well.
I candled 2 of the eggs and they look only half done. I think she is still laying adding to the nest! UGH!

 

[kssunflower]

It looks like my computer will let me post - I have tried several times the last few days, Still dealing with *signal* issues, DD bid on, and won a computer at work and gave it to me. It seems to have a mind of its own. The chicks I had mentioned are growing well and another two hatches are being brooded by another hen. Doing great. There are some goose eggs ready to hatch also. The one surviving duck egg from the possum raid looked like it will pip, maybe today. The chicken hen that was on the destroyed nest is ok and back to her old routine. Hope the duckling will get along with the goslings until some more ducklings hatch.

 

[chickadoodles]

Here is the non-fertile egg in the bator.

 

[chickadoodles]

It looks like my computer will let me post - I have tried several times the last few days, Still dealing with *signal* issues, DD bid on, and won a computer at work and gave it to me. It seems to have a mind of its own. The chicks I had mentioned are growing well and another two hatches are being brooded by another hen. Doing great. There are some goose eggs ready to hatch also. The one surviving duck egg from the possum raid looked like it will pip, maybe today. The chicken hen that was on the destroyed nest is ok and back to her old routine. Hope the duckling will get along with the goslings until some more ducklings hatch.

I hope you can get your computer settled.

Sounds like you got some chicks and ducks coming and going. It's awesome that they survived the raid.

 

[Cynthia12]

And those strawberries alone look wonderful. I would have eaten a few just like that. Yum!

 

[chickadoodles]

Those strawberries do look delish CC I would have had to eat some myself.