The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

I just read a story that people are having problems getting live chicks from hatcheries getting to them alive! Seems as though the lay offs by the postal system is the culprit. Sad is all I can say.

@penny1960 I hope your eggs get to you in an unscrambled state.

 

[CapricornFarm]

okay just shoot me bought 12 green eggs from ebay Amercuana

Welcome to the chicken obsession!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Dh is better and I am back sick and nauseated.

I hope your goats recover Cap.

Thanks Chicka, I am pushing meds and fluids. I ordered more syringes and a tube for feeding if needed. Windy at least is still going outside and eating with the other two. Misty is just sitting in the goat house. She seems like she has no balance. So I am pretty sure she has Thiamine deficiency. I have been injection medication to combat that.

 

[microchick]

Got my first look at Screech's babies. Little darlings. One looks pure Fayoumi and the other half Fayoumi. Perfect. Now I need to work on them both being pullets!

 

[chickadoodles]

I would hold off on judgement on Gender. California whites have huge combs and wattles even for hens.

The hackle and sickle feathers and crowing would be your best way to tell.

If you zoom in on the one with the large comb it looks like sickle feathers to me.
I guess if it’s going to crow it will in the next couple of months.

 

[sourland]

Continued improving health, more chicks, healing goat kids - best wishes to the OF.

 

[chickadoodles]

Sorry your still sick chickie hope you get better fast

Thanks Penny.

Thanks Sour.

 

[cheepteach]

good morning all!

 

[microchick]

Good morning everyone!

Beautiful early fall, late summer weather here. No real rain in sight. Ample sun.

Today we are going to go back to the timber again and work on one of the big downed sections of the triple trunked tree that went down. Two sections are hung up on other trees and teh third is on the ground. We are going after the one on the ground so it doesn't degrade over the winter months. The other two will keep till spring.

Candled my 6 eggs last night. They were all jumping around in the eggs like little Mexican Jumping Beans. I love to see that when they are gestating.

@chickadoodles, hope you are feeling more human this morning. I've read that it isn't unusual to feel good with this virus for a couple of days and then relapse. Take it easy. Lots of fluids. They are more important than food. If you have jello in the house, mix it with cold water only and make a flavored drink out of it. Old Pediatics' trick. The fluid gives you a sugar jolt plus oodles of protein.

@CapricornFarm. Hope your babies are feeling better this morning. I can empathize with what you are feeling right now.

 

[chickadoodles]

Good morning everyone!

Beautiful early fall, late summer weather here. No real rain in sight. Ample sun.

Today we are going to go back to the timber again and work on one of the big downed sections of the triple trunked tree that went down. Two sections are hung up on other trees and teh third is on the ground. We are going after the one on the ground so it doesn't degrade over the winter months. The other two will keep till spring.

Candled my 6 eggs last night. They were all jumping around in the eggs like little Mexican Jumping Beans. I love to see that when they are gestating.

@chickadoodles, hope you are feeling more human this morning. I've read that it isn't unusual to feel good with this virus for a couple of days and then relapse. Take it easy. Lots of fluids. They are more important than food. If you have jello in the house, mix it with cold water only and make a flavored drink out of it. Old Pediatics' trick. The fluid gives you a sugar jolt plus oodles of protein.

@CapricornFarm. Hope your babies are feeling better this morning. I can empathize with what you are feeling right now.

We are also getting a bit of cooler weather in the am and late evening here. It is nice.

Good luck on your hatch.

I am feeling a bit better and so is dh. I will look and see if I still have any jello. Thanks


Penny good luck on your green eggs hatching!