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Our cat, Smoky, had kittens today. When would it be ok to hold them.
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my daughter does rescue animals and hopes to study gor vet care. We helped birth a few here held them right away. As long as momma knows you your fine but try letting momma do her job. They cant control body heat so too much playing not good. But hard to resist new babies.
 
I'm gonna have to find my poor little Pekin boy a lady. I'm sitting here on the porch scanning the waters edge.. Mama & Papa Mal... A pair of Canada Geese... And then on the other side, my poor Lonely White Boy alllll alone in the shade. :(

Of course, for all I know he's the envy of the other guys here. He's all like, "yeah maaan, I paddle where I want, when I want!":lau
 
... And then I hear a rustle from under the porch. Out pops THIS pitiful-looking thing!! That was one HECK of a dust bath.. Her legs, even her face are all but black! :gig
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Speaking of dust.. I checked the girls today after their DE baths on Wednesday. The BO here had originally had the bright red bugs around her vent- lots of them. Today only about 7-8 ran across when I parted the feathers, and instead of red they were pale and slow moving.

So I dusted each a little more, just the vents and under the wings. Cleaned all bedding from coop (no sign of bugs in there), DE'd the floor, bleached the laying boxes and roost poles and put in new shavings. Also raked the hay out of the run and DE there also. Left bare ground for now.
 
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Carcar:so glad to hear positive news about those pesky bugs! I hate those things uggghhh...:(
I checked my girls yesterday nothing crawling, but I think I spied a few surviving eggs on my Helen. Crazy Lucy is all clear. The Silkies were dusted despite the fact no bugs were seen and they are kept in a vastly different part of the house. Today the older babies got their first dusting, but not heavy lol I use an old spice jar with the lid to shake it on just their bodies and necks :D They still freak out!

I finished the plumbing job in the kitchen....putting it back together. Now to make sure all the dishes are ready to be loaded in the dishwasher and wash on sterile setting. Our pipes suck! Can't even get a bucket under the j pipe...

My girls are laying well so happy abt that :D
 
Home from work, settling in, finished off three dozen eggs so far for the school project. Really hope everyone else will be able to fill in the rest that I need for it.

In the meantime I've taken a step backwards with it, AND got a big surprise in the way of a BROODY SUMATRA!!! McMurray Hatchery listed them as "not at all likely"
to sit on eggs, and other sources have said the same. But sure enough this one is ready to attack the moment I reach my hand in, and she's spent two consecutive nights on the nest!

Only problem is, I don't want more Sumatra babies right now. And I'm gathering eggs for the school project, too. But hopefully soon after that is done, I'll shove some eggs under her - probably a combination of silkies, frizzles, and easter eggers.


And we also lost a duck today, thanks to... unsupervision. Yeah I made that word up, but it fits.

My sister had all of the ducklings and goslings out in the pool for a swim. She ran inside to the bathroom, during which time they all decided to climb the board to get out of the pool and jump off the chair onto the ground (the board is held up in a ramp fashion by an iron patio chair). But two of them got injured on the way down - one gosling and one duckling. I'm not sure how. I was on my way home when she called me about it, but it sounded like they both got neck injuries. She brought the two inside, because they would not/could not hold their heads up. After a few minutes of rubbing their necks, the goose suddenly popped a ligament or something and held her own head up after that. She was wobbly for a few minutes, but eventually started to act like a goose again. The duckling didn't make it. It died while she was holding him.

I still have no idea what happened. And the duckling that did pass away was probably a female, because it was slightly smaller. But whatever it was, we lost a duck, and almost lost a sebastopol goose.
 
Hello I'm from Walton county I just picked me up two puckeye chick from a local feed store I don't know much about them but here's a picture of them
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