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[Ogress]

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Boys are great starter babies! Mine was soooo easy. I was just feeling really confident that I had great parenting skills, and then I had Olivia

. Man, was she high maintenance, and I'm not talking about the pregnancy here. Heck, she still is!!! Pediatrician said it is often the case when the first is a boy that first babies make you cocky and the second one makes you humble.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Things which are much less fun with cracked ribs, in order of decreasing fun: coughing, hickups, snnezing (OH OUCH SNEEZING!!!!argh!!!!!! ouch, ouch not another sneeze please no sneezes)

 

[hallerlake]

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Got name picked out?

 

[Ogress]

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I've got a latex allergy so I can't do neoprene either. I've got some thick heavy tape specifically designed to hold the patella in place, but I hate using it because it takes a solvent to remove it, and that stings! (and is likely toxic as well).

 

[KMHunter]

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Boys are great starter babies! Mine was soooo easy. I was just feeling really confident that I had great parenting skills, and then I had Olivia

. Man, was she high maintenance, and I'm not talking about the pregnancy here. Heck, she still is!!! Pediatrician said it is often the case when the first is a boy that first babies make you cocky and the second one makes you humble.

I love my boys!!! They are somuch easier than girls once they hit the tween years and beyond. Although I still can't get over how they come up with the stupid, dangerous things they do for fun. I may never get it. But other than that they are pretty easy.

 

[herbandteas]

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Oh we have a grandson who is almost 3 months old he is the 1st one in years for our family.

 

[herbandteas]

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I wish I had money to have one made

 

[RedReiner]

ok hatchers, someone help me out here. I never open the bator during hatching but had to help the last little serama out. the yolk had oozed out a little and then dried on the membrane so he could not push the shell apart to get out. no other eggs were pipped so I used a q tip and got the yolk off, he then pushed one more time and popped out. he is worn out... anyway I candled the 3 eggs that had not pipped, they are orp eggs. 2 have very large crooked air cells...are those goners? and one has virtually no air cell...hope for that one?

 

[Ogress]

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My New Hampshire hen sometimes crows. She was Queen of the Coop, but has been happy to pass that duty on to the Black Orpingtons. She's quick to defend them too when the Barnevelder tries to challenge the orpingtons for King of the Coop.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I have a lot of crows fly fairly low over my chickens. There are 2 nests that I can see from by back lawn. I have never seen them dive for the hens, but the hens scatter all the same. Luna, the light Sussex from RFF is very good at spotting them, sounds the alarm, and they all dive for cover. She also listens to the songbirds, and when they stop, she calls and everyone runs to the hen house! She's a better flock guardian than any of my roos! Only she will not wander far from the coop where the others like to explore new territory.

LOL That's too funny!

She was (I think, if I remember correctly) third in command behind my big roo and Clara...