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[microchick]

Of course! You were one of the people who cared!

Doggo has a urinary tract infection, Cap. He's been acting kind of punk the past few days. With him it's is it the DM or something else. Then today I took him out and was standing behind him when he peed. Smell made me jump back a few steps. Went in, told DH that I suspected he has a bladder infection cause his urine sure did smell skunky. Ran into that smell too often when I was working clinical not to recognize it. He got on line and discovered that bladder infections were common with DM. So Ding is on antibiotics now.

Ironically, he was laying here by the sofa tonight and dreaming. His feet, all four of them, even the paralyzed ones were twitching away. I told DH that at least he can still run in his dreams and for that I was grateful. Before he got sick my husband would ride his dirtbike back in the timber and Dingo would run alongside his motorcycle and sometimes even ahead of him, only stopping to take a quick swim in the pond to cool off before running some more.

I sure hope they soon have a breakthrough with this horrible disease.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Of course! You were one of the people who cared!

Doggo has a urinary tract infection, Cap. He's been acting kind of punk the past few days. With him it's is it the DM or something else. Then today I took him out and was standing behind him when he peed. Smell made me jump back a few steps. Went in, told DH that I suspected he has a bladder infection cause his urine sure did smell skunky. Ran into that smell too often when I was working clinical not to recognize it. He got on line and discovered that bladder infections were common with DM. So Ding is on antibiotics now.

Ironically, he was laying here by the sofa tonight and dreaming. His feet, all four of them, even the paralyzed ones were twitching away. I told DH that at least he can still run in his dreams and for that I was grateful. Before he got sick my husband would ride his dirtbike back in the timber and Dingo would run alongside his motorcycle and sometimes even ahead of him, only stopping to take a quick swim in the pond to cool off before running some more.

I sure hope they soon have a breakthrough with this horrible disease.

Oh gosh, i hope it clears up soon! He doesn't need any more problems, bless him.
How are you doing?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Of course! You were one of the people who cared!

Doggo has a urinary tract infection, Cap. He's been acting kind of punk the past few days. With him it's is it the DM or something else. Then today I took him out and was standing behind him when he peed. Smell made me jump back a few steps. Went in, told DH that I suspected he has a bladder infection cause his urine sure did smell skunky. Ran into that smell too often when I was working clinical not to recognize it. He got on line and discovered that bladder infections were common with DM. So Ding is on antibiotics now.

Ironically, he was laying here by the sofa tonight and dreaming. His feet, all four of them, even the paralyzed ones were twitching away. I told DH that at least he can still run in his dreams and for that I was grateful. Before he got sick my husband would ride his dirtbike back in the timber and Dingo would run alongside his motorcycle and sometimes even ahead of him, only stopping to take a quick swim in the pond to cool off before running some more.

I sure hope they soon have a breakthrough with this horrible disease.

it is so damn tough to deal with that poor Raudy here has a chronic licking he makes one side so bare he is 14 corgi x shelti just the sweetest temper he will act all tough
but say him name gently he stops

 

[Beer can]

If the eggs are packed correctly, they can take that!

I watched a video from a former member skyline where he and his son threw egg boxes 30 feet in the air and let them crash on the cement. Eggs did not break and hatched fine too.

Sally has a modified version here.

I've always wondered if anyone has ever shipped with them packed in a box in like a suspension system gyroscope setup where the inner packed eggs would always stay upright and absorb shock.
I've never shipped or bought shipped eggs but it ain't looking good for having eggs ready for Ehal, getting down to the wire soon ain't it... If they just get their butts in gear for one week I'll have plenty.
If not I've been looking at buying shipped hatching eggs, madagascar game, or maybe just a hundred quail eggs (no one tell DW)

 

[MrsMistyReal]

 

[Kusanar]

A friend of mine went to tractor supply and started bugging me about the chicks that will be there soon... I had to remind her that she lives in an apartment and I am currently in the process of moving all of my stuff from one farm to the other and neither of us has anywhere to put chickens...
That said, I got to thinking about how neat it would be to create a blue egg laying fibro game bird similar to an ayam camani but I would probably work with standard old english games as the base (planning on free ranging on my farm and want something that's not SUPER expensive but still has the brains to get out of dodge... Most likely using CCL hens with a black game cock to try and get the black feathers and blue eggs, then get a cull Ayam from someone and breed him to the resulting black feathered blue eggers. Anyone know if there is any genetic reason that that WON'T work??

 

[getaclue]

I like using a solution with Oxine, if I have to rinse my eggs prior to hatching. It seems to work really good.

 

[Beer can]

We had a egg drop contest in fifth grade. Three town school district here, used to be three separate elementary K-5, and then a junior high and high school in the bigger town. They sent us all in fifth grade to a sports camp for a three days two nights to get to know each other. High school students volunteered for counselors.
That egg drop contest was from a second story window, we were broke down into small groups. Our counselor talked us into just filling a garbage bag full of water and dropping it, we thought it was stupid and begged him to let us put a parachute on it also that he said was unnecessary. That parachute failed anyway and the bag dropped like a rock, water burst out with the egg and rolled down the hill unbroken! Amazing! We lost though. One group of kids made a gigantic cardboard airplane all decorated, they won.
That sports camp closed shortly after, 30yrs ago. Our two smaller elementary schools closed after our oldest went to kindergarten, now our kids have a hr long bus ride each way even though the school is only about 15min away.

 

[Beer can]

A friend of mine went to tractor supply and started bugging me about the chicks that will be there soon... I had to remind her that she lives in an apartment and I am currently in the process of moving all of my stuff from one farm to the other and neither of us has anywhere to put chickens...
That said, I got to thinking about how neat it would be to create a blue egg laying fibro game bird similar to an ayam camani but I would probably work with standard old english games as the base (planning on free ranging on my farm and want something that's not SUPER expensive but still has the brains to get out of dodge... Most likely using CCL hens with a black game cock to try and get the black feathers and blue eggs, then get a cull Ayam from someone and breed him to the resulting black feathered blue eggers. Anyone know if there is any genetic reason that that WON'T work??

Yeah it'll work. Plenty of people with naked neck crosses that lay blue or green, and some with fibro birds from crosses.
I saw on Craigslist last yr a beautiful Ayam Cemani cockerel for free! And It looked good, black comb and wattles. It was tempting but I have too many birds already Lol.
I did hatch some silkie/giant X naked necks last yr. One hatched fibro but the color faded when it grew out. Maybe someday I'll try for fibro NNs with a Cemani.
It was a cute little bugger anyway,

 

[Beer can]

I like using a solution with Oxine, if I have to rinse my eggs prior to hatching. It seems to work really good.

I was trying to think of what some people use, must have been that. I would rather not wash them but did in the diluted bleach last yr cause my eggs were nasty, kinda hard to get clean eggs when it's muddy.