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[Stumpfarmer]

Longish day: first round of chores, changed clothes and went in to town for Flu shots, run past Marshall's for a scarf (blue violet silk/wool, cheap and warm and very plain) when my choice of sweater proved inadequate, and the first stage of grocery shopping at Freddie's (where my husband bought a pair of suspenders, since the belt seems to be exacerbating his back pain) came home and changed again and got things shut up for the night and then made dinner. DH's weird hours means he gets every other Friday off.

My clever mode of suspending the sheep's pen cover has been a great success so far, but there's been no wind, so I'm not bragging about it yet.

 

[lovinchickypoos]

WE FINALLY GOT SOME RAIN! Unfortunately, it was not much and now we are having horrible wind to dry it all out again.

That's how it goes in this dusty wind tunnel we call home!

Renee, I hope you feel better! Don't be so hard on yourself as I don't think it's all over yet!

Sorry to hear about your condition, VelvettFog. Sending good vibes, hoping no sx needed!


I experimented with my Silkie man by seeing how he was with the 6wk younster Silkies today. He was sooooo funny and kept doing his funny rooster dance trying to impress them. He didn't! I think we'll do more supervised visits until they are older. I want them to be friends.

 

[TerrorBird]

I experimented with my Silkie man by seeing how he was with the 6wk younster Silkies today. He was sooooo funny and kept doing his funny rooster dance trying to impress them. He didn't! I think we'll do more supervised visits until they are older. I want them to be friends.

I call it the Wing-a-ling dance. Lyle looks very surprised when they are not impressed with his sweet moves.

 

[TerrorBird]

George started laying today. The shell had a lot of dark brown specks, so it looks quite nice. The only young one not yet laying is Pengin. Her comb and wattles are still so tiny! Since she's a sweet girl, I don't mind her being a late bloomer.

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

I decided I had a few minutes to catch up with you all tonight.
Next thing I know, it's been a good part of the evening! LOL!

Thanks for the light hearted puns. Very fun!

Jen, sorry about Gimp. I was really hoping she'd make it.

Greg, I went to that workshop on putting the garden to bed for winter. Thanks for posting that info.

UE - I had a problem with one of my male canaries picking on a female. The avian vet told me to take both birds out of the aviary and house them in seperate cages side by side so they could see each other but to place the aggressor's cage lower so the aggressor always had to look up to the other bird. Two weeks, he said, and he was right. Never another problem.
I know that canaries are not chickens but who knows??? Maybe something similar would work. Good luck.

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

George started laying today. The shell had a lot of dark brown specks, so it looks quite nice. The only young one not yet laying is Pengin. Her comb and wattles are still so tiny! Since she's a sweet girl, I don't mind her being a late bloomer.

yay for George!

 

[Greg Richardson]

Quote: Very interesting idea.
Hate to punish the innocent one but when it's going to benefit her then oh well.
I like his idea.
If my way doesn't work some day this gives me an option. I know it was to her but thanks.

 

[lovinchickypoos]

I call it the Wing-a-ling dance. Lyle looks very surprised when they are not impressed with his sweet moves.

THAT'S A PERFECT NAME FOR IT!!!

 

[Justahannah]

George started laying today. The shell had a lot of dark brown specks, so it looks quite nice. The only young one not yet laying is Pengin. Her comb and wattles are still so tiny! Since she's a sweet girl, I don't mind her being a late bloomer.

Too cool! I'm still waiting for my girls to start...2 of them are 26 weeks, and the other three are 20 now. One of the older girls and one of the younger both have really red wattles, and both of the older girls have been doing the squat, so I'm trying very hard to be patient.

 

[itsren]

Renee, I hope you feel better! Don't be so hard on yourself as I don't think it's all over yet!

Thanks. I hope it's not over, but we did candle the white one, and the embryo wasn't moving. When we candled before lockdown, it was a little kicker. The second egg in that bator, I think quit a long time ago, so that one doesn't worry me at all. It never developed an air pocket. The sad thing is we became pretty attached to the white egg, because it was the one that we saw develop so well. The others we rarely looked at because we couldn't see through the shell.

We didn't touch the incubator with the three eggs in it. I figured why bother. If the paper towels caused them to drown, they have drowned already. I locked down on Wednesday (at day 17) because the eggs were wiggling so much in the bator. No movement since a short while after lockdown.

We'll keep them in the bator and see what happens. Now that I've pulled myself together, I'm looking at it as a science experiment again. Now we're going to watch how much humidity grows on the walls of the bator with 1 paper towel vs. 9 paper towels.

Come mid-next week, I'll probably open them and take pictures to show the kids (if I think they can handle it) of what a "quit" embryo looks like. Of course, that will have to depend on how gross they look.