~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[SilkieSensation]

 
You must be buying the wrong kind! Olive oil is amazing in small amounts, if you buy the good stuff. I use the silly Walmart brand for my pans when cooking, but anything like salads or purees gets the good stuff from the glass bottle. Still sounds better than the cinnamon rolls my kids wanted for breakfast this morning. It's too early for such sweet stuff but they love it!

ETA: I just re-read that you're getting rid of your sweetgrass! Was there something specific that you didn't like?

THey are lovely-- but I have decided that I like free ranging my birds and keeping all the varieties separate to sell eggs is a big head ache. I have acres and acres and all the turkeys like to congregate at my front door where I zip in and out. Nosey busy bodies that like to follow us around, lol.  I started with the BR and have more invested in them, including 2 toms that are my babies and not going anywhere.  I'm trying to convince myself to let the Auburn go too .  . . and the 2 narri boys. They stay togther as they are buds.

ANy one looking for 2 narri toms??

Wish you were closer. I would take them in an instant!

 

[winteree]

well good news!! i got the call from my feed store today that they got their new shipment of chicks in and i rushed do there after work and i finally got me some chicks i want to get 6 but i was a bit short so i got 5 chicks i checked the chicks over and one of them had a mild case of pasty butt. But one of the two red\brown colored chicks is acting a bit lethargic which scares me (not the pasty butt one). I don't know it may just be from the trip home it took like 45 minutes but i hope it will be doing better tomorrow if not back to the feed store.



<---- thats' the one acting sleepy

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

I've removed them from the bowls now, so they can get some muscle tone & break up the remaining armor crust; they're stumbling/dragging around in there.
The FR was sidewise in the (fat)egg, with maybe no room to move when the air cell shrank down? (=the shrink-wrapped one) and the bottom pipper was just backward; head under right wing, but that wing seems like it's a little stiff and there's a 'clump' looking thing at the elbow - whitish, much like the waste material left in the vacated shell. Not sure if it's some abnormality or waste, not going to maul it just yet to see. Anyway, so far they're hanging in there, and I'm happy

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[winteree]

man we are having our 3rd tornado warning today it reminds me of this music video

 

[K Epp]

man we are having your 3rd tornado warning today it reminds me of this music video

Stay Safe.

Well my little poult had not progress, but not declined either. I peeled the shell off more and didn't see any blood. I put it back in incubator. Later when I came back it had moved half way out of the shell. I didn't mess with it anymore but I didn't see any yolk or blood. Taking that as a good sign.

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Just checked on them after coop & bottle chores; the BO has severely curled toes... *sigh* Off to make boots.

 

[lsmith]

Just checked on them after coop & bottle chores; the BO has severely curled toes... *sigh*  Off to make boots.

Booties aren't so bad! At least the little guy is alive and trying.

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Booties aren't so bad! At least the little guy is alive and trying.

Yes,

Just kinda overwhelmed with special needs babies right now. Got a bottle calf (twin) in the barn, a cow/calf pair in the barn lot that needs 2x daily assistance to nurse, miss feets with her social maladjustment, and a meatie that got beaten up as a one-week old & has a slipped hip that the vet said not to put back... and it's planting time. This, too, shall pass.

 

[jbenson]

I lost 5 of my 7 mille fleur d'Uccles in this week's hatch. I think my humidity was a touch high during incubation. The first one that hatched was great, the second one pipped in the middle of the egg and needed a bit of help at the end cause it had cracked off a large chunk of the shell around the middle and the membrane was starting to get a bit yellowed. I went to candle the non-pippers to look for movement and veining and picked that egg up first and found the bottom was where the chick pipped and quickly put it back right side up. Before bed, I cracked the remaining portion of the shell all the way around and removed the membrane over it's beak. By morning it was out and I put them both in the brooder. Candled the remaining and there was no movement and all veins had receeded. Still weren't hatched by the time I got home from work, so I called the end of the hatch since I have another to set tonight (2 d'Uccle crosses and 3 Ameraucana/Araucana crosses). Here's hoping this hatch goes better than the d'Uccles this week since the d'Uccle crosses are the most adorable things I have ever seen and the A/As have been insanely difficult to hatch. I have A/As in the brooder right now, but I fear 3 of those 5 are cockrels and there's just one I plan on keeping to replace one I lost this month - it's the same coloration.)

 

[winteree]

Stay Safe.

Well my little poult had not progress, but not declined either. I peeled the shell off more and didn't see any blood. I put it back in incubator. Later when I came back it had moved half way out of the shell. I didn't mess with it anymore but I didn't see any yolk or blood. Taking that as a good sign.

hope everything goes well