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[T Hi]

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Interestingly black runner ducks lay green eggs!

So do white and saxony colored runners. I believe all runners are supposed to.

Well I'm pretty much 99.9999% sure that this particular egg that is being discussed was laid by a black runner!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Sooner or later you have to not let it break you, though. Fix what went wrong, save what you can, and move on. I shipped a cow last year who was a brand snatched from the burning the year we got taught about bovine viral diarrhea, a disease we'd never encountered, somehow, until we got a bull that was a carrier. I caught her as soon as she had the scoots, shot her full of antibiotics and gave her activated charcoal and psyllium to minimize GI damage, and tube fed her for two weeks (tried to milk her mother to feed her and got ROYALLY stomped for my pains) and then one day she got up, took off, and went back to mama for good.

I saved her, I got five nice calves out of her, but cows don't live forever (and we keep ours as long as they breed back and have teeth to feed themselves). Nothing does, and the point is you have to get all the joy out of animals, or people, as long as they're around, do everything you can to make their lives pleasurable and healthy and productive, and then let go with grace, or at least learn how to live joyfully in grieving.

 

[Chickielady]

OK pictures of my new baby..both of them

Lonely 1 chick hatch WILL NOT SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!

ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Now the good baby:

Oh, she's tight but sighted in today at the range and she is shooting dead on at over 100 yards........

That is a BIG tamale.
Going out salmon fishing again tomorrow morning, then get back at high tide, pull the boat out, and come home & sit in a chair gillie suited until dusk~~~~~~~~

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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My dad has told me often enough, a farmer has to be big hearted, a veterinarian, and a a mortician, all at the same time.
"Farming ain't for the squeemish", I think someone famous said that, Mark Twain?

And that was, such a beautiful baby goat!

What brought on her demise?
Does anyone know?

This lone baby Ameraucana chick I have is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Need some EEs for company?

Nah, I'm fine, they're fine, cute little buggers...

 

[ReiMiraa]

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Haller, when you get some, you can come trade too!

BUTT chick feed does not kill off birds, unless it is mouldy, infested with bugs or whatnot...........fermented?
Chick feed never kills off birds.
Poor handling of chick feed does.
Keep it dry, away from vermine.
I keep mine in garbage cans, sealed rubbermaid types.

well the other chicks in the brooder weren't affected. I assumed because this breed has been so isolated that it wasn't used to the highly concentrated diet that other birds have evolved with... Icelandics did survive on dung heaps...... So i figured either it was the medication in the feed or they were either getting too much or were come how deficient in something. because i haven't heard of a disease that causes bones to soften.... i mean i could bend the chicks wings UPWARDS. it freaked me out. I also haven't heard of anyone else who has birds from the line i have had this happen. It could have been a disease of some sort.... they also didn't have the advantage of evolving with all the other avian diseases.... so yeah.. I have been looking in my spare time in the few poultry texts in the vet. library here at WSU but nothing has fit quite right. I keep thinking excess of deficiency...

 

[Chickielady]

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My dad has told me often enough, a farmer has to be big hearted, a veterinarian, and a a mortician, all at the same time.
"Farming ain't for the squeemish", I think someone famous said that, Mark Twain?

And that was, such a beautiful baby goat!

What brought on her demise?
Does anyone know?

This lone baby Ameraucana chick I have is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Need some EEs for company?

Nah, I'm fine, they're fine, cute little buggers...

I have a pip tomorrow, thanks!
This little #$@$% was the product of a fertility test....out of 8, and at 10 days I set more, so brothers & sisters will be here tomorrow.
HOWEVER I now have a beautiful white Silky in the brooder pen...and the woman that wanted it tells me she does not want it after all,, so..............Silky hen has to go!
She is gorgeous, so quiet & beautiful...but IN MY WAY!!
That is why this little #$%$$# chick is in the cabin in a cat crate!!!
ARGGH!!!

 

[ultasol]

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But then you don't have tasty culls. Last week I had a Saxony duck dinner (I gave my friends a butchered duck and they had us over for a Sunday meal) and silkie enchiladas. I suppose you could cook Seramas like doves...?

Yes, a serema would not make very many tamales

BUT, I DO have Dark Cornish, over white rocks, and Dark Cornish, over Buckeyes, AND Midget White Turkeys, half a freezer of the processed birds and the half of red salmon...so yeah, we are eating good in the neighborhood.
So..that is why I have these "yard candy" icelandics..and maybe get some seremas....

DH loved them, and that was startling!

Still, I think he's blow a gasket if I got anymore birds.
I would have brought ALOT of birds to Stevenson, tried last show, but it involves a motel, and we cannot afford to do that right now as we are building a house, CASH, while living in a cabin the size of an RV.
Monroe & Chehalis allow us to do the day & drive home.
Sorry!
But we did have fun, and the Stevenson show looked well organized, & clean!
The sale barn was great!!!
Good job to all who worked on the show.
And what a gorgeous drive, the scenery & weather were added awesome!!!!!!

re the hotel...
I always either find someone to stay with or we stick as many people in a hotel room as possible and split the costs. Somehow I can usually make it work,...

 

[T Hi]

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Hey! I was having fun with it!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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what cal.?? 243 270

 

[KMHunter]

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Lock the roosters away in a separate area?