Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[QuackerJackFarms]

QJ, what do you mean my mama was killing those babies?

GUYS!!!!!! My Pregnant sheep had twin girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Their so cute! AND they are mine!!!! theres something wrong with the sheep and their hooves are getting hurt, so we are takeing any lambs that are born so we can save their feet..... and i get to bottle them all!!!!

trying to upload a pic now! they are still wet!..... and bloody to! EEKK!

DG: The mama chicken.

And what's wrong with their feet.

 

[JulieNKC]

Good morning, duck hatching friends.

Today is day 26... day 27 starts at 6:00pm. Still no sign of anything happening with my little cayuga egg. I keep trying to tell myself that it will be ok if it does not hatch, as I have 12 eggs growing great on day 11 in my store bought bator. But, it is killing me to not open the homemade bator and candle egg to see if beak has broken through air cell. Ugh!

If it hasn't pipped and you can get the humidity back up it won't hurt to candle.

I candle all the time until external pips, then I manage to keep my hands off the incubator.

 

[JulieNKC]

DG- Do the adults have that hoof rot thing? Does it keep the babies from getting it if they aren't on the same pasture? I know nothing about sheep, other than they aren't very bright but they are very cute. The only sheep I ever see are at the zoo.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

DG: The mama chicken.

And what's wrong with their feet.

OOOHHH!

They all have hoof rot we didn't want the babies feet getting hurt.

CG, i guess we just have bad luck with that. any baby we take off mama after 3 hours would never take a bottle.....

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Julie, yep, its hoof rot. our sheep have it bad! we had to have a vet come out today to treat (spelled that wrong i think) our goat. she now has these cool little camo shoes on. lol.

Sheep are stupid, but OH man! are they CUTE!

 

[country_girl011]

OOOHHH!

They all have hoof rot we didn't want the babies feet getting hurt.

CG, i guess we just have bad luck with that. any baby we take off mama after 3 hours would never take a bottle.....

sometimes it takes a day or 2 until they are hungry enough.
some babies are stubborn lol

 

[jbourget]

Sheep are only as stupid as thier owners.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Oh i hope my mom gets home soon with those bottles! (we forgot bottles! the most inportant part!) they are hungry!

CG, do you have sheep?

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

oh i didnt know you had powdered colostrum
and that not totaly true.
we have had to take week & 2 week old babies off of mom before
and they take to the bottle.
if they are hungry, they will eat.

Goin' with CG on this one.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

Oh my lord.