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[cheryl98117]

RFF!!! rest sweety! Drink lots of fluids, and do your darndest to follow the Dr's. The last few weeks are the worst, most uncomfortable, be strong hun. Youll pull through it, and come out with a very precious baby girl! remember to take care of yourself, and call on others to help you whenever you need it!

 

[cheryl98117]

VF, How are all your new additions? And do you still like that little splash pullet you got from me? lol Hows the little black escape artist doing for you? Everyone getting along ok?

 

[justbugged]

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Welcome back!!!

x2 .... where ya' been?

I have been hibernating. I don't like the cold, because I can't think when it's cold. It is sure nice to know that I was missed.

 

[Kaneke]

OMG !

5 eggs so far today from 6 pullets !

big pink one which may be a double yolker; almost-turquoise, pale robins-egg blue, pale minty green, and a very odd colored one, if it was office equipment or nylon stockings, it would be called greige ! --- gray-green-beige .. definitely not olive colored, almost floor-sweepings-dust colored ... not an easter color at all

I'll have to see if I can scrape the bloom off it, or go ahead and crack it, see what its base color really is

missing is the pointy stuffed-olive colored one, so it looks like all six of them are laying now

waiting to hear from SadieSue (Dana) to see if we are meeting at the Red Wind casino today

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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I used an old Ikea toy box that was missing its lid. We built a new one from wood and hardware cloth. My chicks go out to the big coop (juvenile side) at 2-4 weeks because I hate the dust. They still get their "Electric Hen". (Brinsea Ecoglow - I think it is about $75, but you will make that back on your electric savings by 2 months)

I have a 4'x4'x18" wooden crate that I used. Like someone else said, you can staple card board to the sides to make it taller. I have PVC pipes made up into a frame to put netting over and/or hang feeders when thet ge a little older. I had them in there until around 8 weeks. If you have a vehicle that would hold it, you are ore than welcome to borrow it until your babies go outside. If you are getting them in Sept. I would keep them under heat until around 8 weeks when they are definitely feathered out, and if it gets pretty cold by that time I would maybe offer a little heat at night. But maybe we will have a nice September and October. PM me if you want to borrow the brooder.

I saw a woman at Costco a few months ago asking the folks there if she can have one of the big cardboard bins they sell the potatoes out of, and she was using it for a brooder! Thought it was a most excellent idea!!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Sorry you had to go through all that. I'm glad you are putting your feet up now while you can. Take it easy and do keep us updated when you can!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Welcome back!!!

x2 .... where ya' been?

X3!!!! So glad you are back!!!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Glad the baby is fine! Those anti-contraction drugs sure are fun! Initially I was on indocin by IV, and starting at 28 weeks I went into real labor a few times, so then I got injections of terbutaline or something like that. It stopped the contractions, but they failed to first mention to me that it makes your heart race, so I had a panic attack thinking I was about to have a heart attack! I'm a but surprised they stopped your labor at just about 38 weeks. 38-42 weeks is considered full term. Olivia was born by C-section at 35 weeks. She was tiny, and had no sucking reflex then, but she was breathing on her own. I would have preferred it had she come out a week or 3 later. One nice thing about being born early, their lungs are not developed enought to be screamers. She was nearly 2 months old before she could cry loudly.

If you make it till Tuesday,your baby will be born on my birthday

We need some more good things associated with that day, right now, it starts with the Greco-Persian battle of Artemesium in 430 BC, the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, Nixon's resignation, and Jerry Garcia's Death (Greatful Dead). About the only good thing is Betty Boop's public debut in 1930.

Or if you have her on Saturday, that's my youngest DD's b-day!

 

[Illia]

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Very pretty couple. You haven't seen the worst though

This shot, not only is almost inappropriate, but check out the size difference!!

. . . . I really miss that rooster though. Best Marans I ever had. (he unexplainably died one day)

 

[Ogress]

bok bok bok bok, bok bok bok bok, bok bok bok bok B'GOK! bok bok B'GOK! B'GOK!

My hens are WAAAAAY noisier than my roosters.