YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Lynn79]

Good afternoon chicken peeps! I have a confession to make. About three days ago I had my eggs out to candle and dang if I didn't knock something over and crack one! Nothing was leaking out as it was at the air cell end. The next day the chick was still kicking around like normal so I just duct taped the bad spot. He's still moving around today so maybe I'm in the clear. I felt so sick when I did it though :/

 

[carcar80]

How much duct tape? LOL. Will he still be able to pip thru the air cell end?

 

[carcar80]

Like this??

 

[Lynn79]

LOL no, just a tiny little square, smartypants! Hey isn't this the week that Ladd's is supposed to have BR chicks again? Or maybe next? I don't remember now..

 

[carcar80]

Something like that.. I think it said, "last week of April"..

 

[ChickDancer]

Good afternoon chicken peeps! I have a confession to make. About three days ago I had my eggs out to candle and dang if I didn't knock something over and crack one! Nothing was leaking out as it was at the air cell end. The next day the chick was still kicking around like normal so I just duct taped the bad spot. He's still moving around today so maybe I'm in the clear. I felt so sick when I did it though :/

I've done that before too. Hit a shelf with an egg when I was trying to candle it. It left a pea-sized dent in it. But I melted birthday candles over it to cover it with wax, and it was good to go!

 

[Flowerbh]

My sil has a frizzle maybe I can talk her into an egg trade later, her roo looks like the typical red with black tail feathers you see in the states so they should be interesting and I could get a lovely NN frizzle at some point too. But for now 17 birds is enough. My bil has geese and hes offered me baby goats we named jar jar binks cause of their long ears. Friend with turkeys so its just a matter of finding a house. I bought 4 kilos of hamburger and 6 kilo of chicken breast at the butcher shop yesterday cost me 64 dinars for 3wks of meat. Eggs run 4.50 for a flat of 30 eggs. Food is relatively cheap here but quality is another matter. Think of butchers meat hanging by a hook on the store front, we're not far off. Some stuff you can get frozen but if a power goes out they just let it refreeze. If I cant see inside I wont buy frozen. But fresh sits out in cases very little temp control, no ice, so buy early, get it home, freeze it quickly or cook it. Most people buy 1 to 3 days meat I buy for weeks or months. And I NEVER let them cut up my whole chickens they chop the heck outta them and too many bone shards. Before we came here my family of 7 could finish a 20lb turkey in one night. Now we eat around 1lb between the 5 of us. Meat is a luxury here.

Wow, sounds like a hard life to me. My sister and her husband have described the market places around the world as you have described. They have been sailing the world for over 20 years. My brother in law was actually on PP Island when the saname (wait! How do you spell that big wave thing??? lol Brain freeze here) hit. We Americans are so spoiled with our grocery stores and refrigerators! I'm glad you have chickens. They will help you a lot with the food side. Anyway, glad to have you on this thread.

 

[farmerChef]

Wow, sounds like a hard life to me.  My sister and her husband have described the market places around the world as you have described.  They have been sailing the world for over 20 years.  My brother in law was actually on PP Island when the saname (wait!  How do you spell that big wave thing??? lol  Brain freeze here)  hit.  We Americans are so spoiled with our grocery stores and refrigerators!   I'm glad you have chickens.  They will help you a lot with the food side. Anyway, glad to have you on this thread.

Tsunami

 

[ChristyinGA]

I can't read 500 messages to get caught up!

How the heck are ya'll??

@abmaddox1981 - how are your dorkings faring? I read 500 messages ago that you are having to move and I will track back and see if I can find out your current status. Hoping you can find some land!

I've been busy busy busy and haven't been on BYC except to quickly research webbed toes and raising meal worms

 

[Lynn79]

I've done that before too. Hit a shelf with an egg when I was trying to candle it. It left a pea-sized dent in it. But I melted birthday candles over it to cover it with wax, and it was good to go!

Good to know! It was the only large brown egg I got that was fertile and I was really hoping to hatch it They should hatch a week from tomorrow I think. I can't wait!