Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Cr8z4ducks]

Thank you all for the encouragement! I've got 12 more in the incubator, so please keep your fingers crossed for me and maybe a little prayer for my sanity! Lol! My girl has stopped laying too, does this mean she's resting? My Mom who raises chickens said that she's laid her clutch, and will rest for a while. Is that the case? Poor girl, she's laid almost every day since March 15th!

 

[Kevin565]

I've got to vent for a sec:

[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]This ad is haunting me: [/FONT]

http://waco.craigslist.org/pet/3057778469.html.


I know that plenty of animals have to get euthanized every day. I've accepted that and try to just not think about it. The thing is these look EXACTLY like my dog. Face, Body Shape, everything. It literally feels like I'm seeing my dog on craigslist about to be euthanized. I know it's not really him but I just can't shake it. I made myself feel better by reposting that in a few different near by areas so they are more likely to be adopted out. I'm such a wimp sometimes

 

[Marty1876]

Your sweet and sensitive.

I hope you stay that way.

 

[Kevin565]

Your sweet and sensitive.

I hope you stay that way.

Aww thanks hun

. You really are too!

 

[Kevin565]

Hey Baking!

 

[bakingintherain]

Same here! I don't understand why they can't get along better like us waterfowl people. Sure we have the occasional disagreement but we're never all at each other's throat. I think the animals we raise show a reflection of our personalities. I've always thought of chickens as more proper and bickery...like some of the chicken people. Now ducks on the other hands are messy, fun loving, and don't kill each other when someone new is around... like us.
That is word for word exactly how I feel! The whole EE thing has actually bothered me a few times. I see people so excited thinking the have a Ameracuna and next thing you know you have a pack of "Ameracuana Experts" down their throat saying oh no that's a mutt EE. I rarely see that being put in a nice way.
I had the exact same experience when I had the egg bound goose. Replies in the Chicken section? None. Same thread in the goose section? 3 pages worth and people checking in every morning asking how she was doing. Now THAT'S how it should be.

i hate that! i am also considering selling my chickens (i may keep my ee trio and mama hen, but that is it!) they are a complete PITA and they are almost all free loading at the moment! Hubby glares at me every time they do something stupid!

I always view Geese as Crazy Loving Old People. They're always so sweet and seem to want to help every single baby.

I found this labeled as a "Goose":

if only i could convince hubby they are not evil!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my gosh - that's funny. When I first starting getting into Serama chickens about a year ago, I couldn't believe the drama! I wanted to butt in and say, "Uh, guys, you do realize that all this nasty fighting and name calling is over CHICKENS, right?!?" That's why I really like this thread. It's my fav on BYC.

I haven't been on here in awhile, though. This week I found out my Pointer has cancer - hemangiosarcoma. I am devasted. This dog has been with me through thick and thin for over 12 years. He has been both the best and the worst dog EVER! He makes the infamous Marley look like an angel, but his charming personality makes up for all the chaos he leaves in his wake. I am having a hard time imagining my life without him in it. I lost my Lab less than a year ago to cancer, too. This is the hardest part of having pets.

Celtic - I am so sorry to hear about your husband. I hope the specialists can figure out what's going on.

so sorry about your dog!

and X2 to Celtic!

We have returned from picking up our buff girl after surgery.

Diagnosis: abscess from an old bite wound that got infected. According to the vet, it is possible that it was not obvious before shipping and the stress of the trip caused it to balloon, but I'm frustrated. She must have been hurting pretty bad during travel from Cali to Utah, only to get picked up from the post office, then taken straight to a vet clinic for surgery to her face. We won't even get into what it cost to treat her.

Treatment: They lanced her face and drained the pus, which should make her feel better almost immediately.. Her post-op care is a bit intense, as we have to stick topical into lanced opening twice a day for the next week, which causes it to bleed, and is not at all pleasant for her. Then, the vet wants to see her next Friday.

Prognosis: 100% recovery.

poor girl! i hope she feels better soon!

I'm more than frustrated!! I feel so bad for what this girl has been through and will continue to go through for the next 7-10 days. Plus, it will make it that much harder to bond with her. So much for the fun of enjoying a blossoming new relationship. Here is her face. Doesn't look very happy, eh?

Sorry I haven't been on today. I had a hair experience from hell. I was chemically straightening my hair as I always do and this time it fell out. ALL of it. I'm basically bald now. I bought a wig but it just doesn't look right on me. Today was just one of those days

oh no! atleast you wont be hot for a while! have you tried hats, a woman i know lost all her hair during chemo and it never came back, so she has a HUGE selection of cool hats!

Heres a pic of my newest sebbie. Its a girl. My lone grey dewlap is a boy. I gave in after years, and got bifocals. Now I can see to vent sex.

Its much easier than making my kid hold the bird, and me get the vent ready, and grab the magnifying glass to peek, or try....

I have recieved my Fancy eggs !
1st box $71 for 3 eggs.... 2 cracked (box leaking) noted by my PO..... When I spoke with them again today. INSURED .... Now I get to submit a claim... OH WHAT FUN!

& I found out even though you get insurance it does NOT cover delayed delivery. Only broken etc contents.... SO if this was my GUINEA egg shipment & it had insurance I would still be SOL !!! ( I would be crackin me some eggs)
But I did get my impeyans ($255 for 5 eggs

& they put in 1 extra) So THESE BETTER HATCH !!! or hubby will leave me

I also got my Swinhoes & Elliots
Bought ~ 12 Swinhoes for $123 & 10 Elliots for $110 ~ So I am going to be sleeping with my Master Bator

So does this make me Bat Sh$t Crazy????

CRAZY thing is my Impeyan Pheasant eggs are almost as big as my Bourbon Red Turkey eggs !

hubby would leave me! good luck with you hatch!

EVERYTHING gets insured now, no question about that. If the PO wants to juggle my eggs they will pay for them. I really want some pretty birds to put in this aviary we are building in the next couple weeks!
& am picking up a 9' round pond/stock tank for my geese! Then I want to stock it with fish so they can go "bobbibg for apples" so to speak!

In the aviary I am buying really cool plants & running power out their & all! Will be fun to build, & bought some grass seed that is edible & desirable, so gunna be tilling to. I will post pics of my progress if you guys want?

yes please!!!!!

Wanted to share a photo of our huge artichoke plant. Thanks, duck poo.

cool!

Morning report:

Injured buff girl is looking better. Swelling not as bad this morning as yesterday, and she and her grey dewlap boy look so cute cuddling together. Hate having to drain her face 3x a day, but I think she is realizing that we are not going to kill her when we pick her up and is not stressing quite as bad when she gets treated. But it is sad to enter and see her go into back corner and turn her back to me while all the greys excitedly run to me.

At least the other two new buff babies are warming up nicely! Last night, we put them in their own garage pen adjoining the other two pens to make sure they could have free access to food/water without getting bullied, but hope after another full day of turnout with Barley and the ducks, they will be accepted.

Spirit turned 3 weeks old yesterday and has gone 48 hours without falling!

We are going to take all the indoor babies outside for some exercise today. Fingers crossed Spirit has better balance moving around than the last time she went outside.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vultur...958?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20c642e7ce

very cool!

Thanks to Celtic, we have a name for our expensive girl... Diva! Here's a pic of Diva with Tank, her new best friend.

Am I just heartless?

So today I was taking the dogs out and there was a cat on the drive. Fairly normal but I went over to investigate. It ended up that it was hit by a car. It's eyes were blood shot and spitting up blood. My first reaction was to grab the gun and put it out of it's misery. Before I could make it to the door, the neighborhood old man came over to look at it. (He basically takes care of all the stray cats and calls them his own.) He ended up taking it with him and stayed with it before it passed. Should my reaction been so quickly to dispatch it? Am I really that heartless? When he picked it up it was crying and meowing and I'll admit it pulled at my heart strings and I did cry a bit. I haven't had the guts to go over and ask him if it's passed yet.... I'm not sure I honestly want to know.

not at all! that poor thing was probably suffering till the moment it passed

Fred update...... whee she was nesting one of the babies got out the back and she didn't see it. So we resqued baby..... the proceeded to move the family. Fred and Ethel Were Not HAPPY! Knowing that moving her would probally break her off the nest we had the bator on stand-by. got them moved and gave back one of the 2 babies that were fully hatched. The other was kinda flippy so we brought it in for vitamins and to keep an eye on it. Hatched and gave her more of the babies today. She's up to 4, the last one was SW. I have it's head out now and it's making noise.

Hoping it does the rest by it'self and make it. I figure 5 babies for one year olds and their first hatch is pretty good. Fred has learned that I'm not taking her babies, just making sure they have food and water and know where the baby food is

I plan to give vitamins in the water till all 5 stop flipping and are doing good. Pics tomarrow and pics of my new Black Sumatra chickens

GQ You can borrow my first edition Geese Gone Wild

.

Thanks everyone!! Hubby has been taking a special liking to Diva and Tank. Yesterday afternoon, as I was going to take a shower, I mentioned to hubby that I wanted Diva and Tank to get outside for a little play time before dark. When I got out of shower, I Iooked out my window and saw this:

too cute!

I lost my Ollie on Friday. It happened so fast. He went peacefully and, I think, painlessly - it was the end I was praying for. Still sucks. Cancer sucks. I lost both my boys, less than a year apart, to osteosarcoma and then hemangiosarcoma.

The house is so quiet without his "talking." I forgot to feed my Golden Retriever dinner until 10:30 last night because she doesn't remind me.

Momma Fred and Ethel with 4 babies


#5 assisted hatch still shaky and a bit sprattle legged in the hatcher/brooder




Godzilla- black Sumatra Rooster with 2 black hens and a splash hen Mom bought

and godzilla is gorgeous!

Dutch!!

. Yep I'm basically bald for the moment. Perk of tall, having no boobs, and bald? No one dares to cut in front of you in the grocery line

. Plus instead of like 2 hours of hair styling I'm done it like 3 minutes. Plus all the money I'm saving on hair products I'm sooo going on a Poultry Shopping spree

I've got to vent for a sec:

[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]This ad is haunting me: [/FONT]

http://waco.craigslist.org/pet/3057778469.html.


I know that plenty of animals have to get euthanized every day. I've accepted that and try to just not think about it. The thing is these look EXACTLY like my dog. Face, Body Shape, everything. It literally feels like I'm seeing my dog on craigslist about to be euthanized. I know it's not really him but I just can't shake it. I made myself feel better by reposting that in a few different near by areas so they are more likely to be adopted out. I'm such a wimp sometimes

i would take 1 (or 2

) if they weren't so far away!

Hey Baking!

 

[bakingintherain]

ok here is my rant (of the month):

so this last week has been rough and thoroughly depressing! saturday i start feeling like crap and i'm in bed with a broncial type thing, long weekend so i suffer along till tuesday, monday night ear infection starts by midnight i am in screaming pain! by 8am i haven't slept at all have taken strong pain meds that help for about an hour each time, and i am throwing up my ears hurt so bad (yes it has progressed to both ears now) by 8am i think i am saved by i call and the doc office is not open for some strange unexplained reason, and the clinic 1/2 hour away is closed too! so hours and pain later i end up having to go to ER (thing i was trying to avoid) i waited in the triage room for about an hour them they admitted, hung around in the room for about an hour the doc comes in takes 2 minutes looking me over and says "yup you have an ear infection"! another hour for discharge and i am on my way to pick up my 3 scripts and on my way home.
They whole week i was wiped out and felt horrible, and today i go in for my follow-up with my doctor, he looks in my ears and now it is infected behind the ear drum in both ears! he said it looked like i have a very severe infection and should have gone to the ER sooner! so 2 more scripts later my head is still ringing and i can't sleep

and to add to that we built the "teenagers" a more permenant house and only 3 out of 15 will use it! Mama has gone rouge during the night with her babies. And 5 of my ducks have come up missing

, no feather, nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and they were here this morning, now there are only 2 and they have been wandering around looking for their friends

oh and did i mention they all got their voices in and there were 2 males and 5 females!

 

[DutchChic]

Hey Dutch!! I'm still waiting on new pics of all of your dewlaps!!! How's everything going??

Ok...will try to get some tomorrow. They are growing fast, and Simon is a tank. They are like puppies, so sweet. I let them out of their hoop house to free range around 6pm, then lock back up at dusk. It's so fun to watch them run around, play in the pool, and follow me around as I do chores. I absolutely adore them! Mother Goose and her man keep an eye on them, too.

Dutch!!

. Yep I'm basically bald for the moment. Perk of tall, having no boobs, and bald? No one dares to cut in front of you in the grocery line

. Plus instead of like 2 hours of hair styling I'm done it like 3 minutes. Plus all the money I'm saving on hair products I'm sooo going on a Poultry Shopping spree

Hey Kevin

Sounds like it has it's advantages,

Hmmmm....the wig thing sounds pretty cool. They are so well made and real looking these days. What kind of poultry??

Thank you all for the encouragement! I've got 12 more in the incubator, so please keep your fingers crossed for me and maybe a little prayer for my sanity! Lol! My girl has stopped laying too, does this mean she's resting? My Mom who raises chickens said that she's laid her clutch, and will rest for a while. Is that the case? Poor girl, she's laid almost every day since March 15th!

I've got to vent for a sec:

[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]This ad is haunting me: [/FONT]

http://waco.craigslist.org/pet/3057778469.html.


I know that plenty of animals have to get euthanized every day. I've accepted that and try to just not think about it. The thing is these look EXACTLY like my dog. Face, Body Shape, everything. It literally feels like I'm seeing my dog on craigslist about to be euthanized. I know it's not really him but I just can't shake it. I made myself feel better by reposting that in a few different near by areas so they are more likely to be adopted out. I'm such a wimp sometimes

They look really sweet. Sounds like a bit of a scare tactic to get them adopted. I'd think they'd get adopted quick, though.

ok here is my rant (of the month):

so this last week has been rough and thoroughly depressing! saturday i start feeling like crap and i'm in bed with a broncial type thing, long weekend so i suffer along till tuesday, monday night ear infection starts by midnight i am in screaming pain! by 8am i haven't slept at all have taken strong pain meds that help for about an hour each time, and i am throwing up my ears hurt so bad (yes it has progressed to both ears now) by 8am i think i am saved by i call and the doc office is not open for some strange unexplained reason, and the clinic 1/2 hour away is closed too! so hours and pain later i end up having to go to ER (thing i was trying to avoid) i waited in the triage room for about an hour them they admitted, hung around in the room for about an hour the doc comes in takes 2 minutes looking me over and says "yup you have an ear infection"! another hour for discharge and i am on my way to pick up my 3 scripts and on my way home.
They whole week i was wiped out and felt horrible, and today i go in for my follow-up with my doctor, he looks in my ears and now it is infected behind the ear drum in both ears! he said it looked like i have a very severe infection and should have gone to the ER sooner! so 2 more scripts later my head is still ringing and i can't sleep

and to add to that we built the "teenagers" a more permenant house and only 3 out of 15 will use it! Mama has gone rouge during the night with her babies. And 5 of my ducks have come up missing

, no feather, nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and they were here this morning, now there are only 2 and they have been wandering around looking for their friends

oh and did i mention they all got their voices in and there were 2 males and 5 females!

Wow....very sick lady! I so hope you get well soon

 

[Iain Utah]

Bakin,

Hope you feel better! Ear infections are nasty!

Dutch, promises, promises! I want to see pics!!

 

[Marty1876]

ok here is my rant (of the month):

so this last week has been rough and thoroughly depressing! saturday i start feeling like crap and i'm in bed with a broncial type thing, long weekend so i suffer along till tuesday, monday night ear infection starts by midnight i am in screaming pain! by 8am i haven't slept at all have taken strong pain meds that help for about an hour each time, and i am throwing up my ears hurt so bad (yes it has progressed to both ears now) by 8am i think i am saved by i call and the doc office is not open for some strange unexplained reason, and the clinic 1/2 hour away is closed too! so hours and pain later i end up having to go to ER (thing i was trying to avoid) i waited in the triage room for about an hour them they admitted, hung around in the room for about an hour the doc comes in takes 2 minutes looking me over and says "yup you have an ear infection"! another hour for discharge and i am on my way to pick up my 3 scripts and on my way home.
They whole week i was wiped out and felt horrible, and today i go in for my follow-up with my doctor, he looks in my ears and now it is infected behind the ear drum in both ears! he said it looked like i have a very severe infection and should have gone to the ER sooner! so 2 more scripts later my head is still ringing and i can't sleep

and to add to that we built the "teenagers" a more permenant house and only 3 out of 15 will use it! Mama has gone rouge during the night with her babies. And 5 of my ducks have come up missing

, no feather, nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and they were here this morning, now there are only 2 and they have been wandering around looking for their friends

oh and did i mention they all got their voices in and there were 2 males and 5 females!

Baking, sounds aweful. Usually such severe ear infections also involve strep bacteria. Its not always in the throat. I've gotten strep infections in my sinuses 2x and ears 3x, but only 1 time in my throat. Did they test? Your still in pain. Do you have a fever too? IF so, I'd get strep test.

I hope you feel very much better soon. Big hug.