•Worked in pharmacy 8:30-20:30 :th
•Bought some kombucha because I’m not as cool as @Sally PB
•Visited my guineas tonight & saw my 11.5-month-old cockerel “Junior” (in pfp) with a bruise over his left ear? What has the world come to?
Oh yes, back on topic:
1. Did laundry
2. Spent time with guinea fowl, who are infinitely perplexing
3. Made dinner with spinach & onion & mushrooms & celery & carrots & cumin/cayenne/black pepper & a few guinea eggs*
*Sometime in the seemingly near future, I will be almost all the way vegan...
Just wait until you learn about cooperative binding of oxygen to hemoglobin!
⛓️ This article could be presented more effectively
https://earth.callutheran.edu/Academic_Programs/Departments/BioDev/omm/jsmolnew/hemo/cooperative.html
“Percent oxygen saturation as a function of oxygen partial...
1. I got hissed 🐍 at by my adopted 5-year-old lavender guinea hen, who decided in the past week to be broody.
2. Picked some cilantro for cooking…
3. Cracked open the first double-yolk guinea egg I’ve seen! 66g when it was collected in April.
Except a certain egg was very unusual: it weighed 66 grams, when the typical weight ranges from 35 to 48g.
I set it aside in a certain carton with plans to bake with it, since reading that successful incubation of double-yolk eggs is very rare (hesitate to say ‘impossible’).
For lack of a relevant place to post this:
On April 19, I collected 7 eggs and my 3-y/o hen Melba released what may classify as a lash egg. There were 8 female guineas of laying age, and 8 egg-like formations (all but one being proper in form).
This was the day (in March ‘24) that I feared I would lose “Almost” forever.
She was named based on the state of her egg at final candling: dark @ tip, but angle of air cell not quite ready.
She did fly safely down, and probably laid a few of her own eggs in the collective nest before abruptly...
@Kiki you were all I could think of when I read the world-changing news that Gen Z has canceled ankle socks. That, along with edema being masked again by fabric.
Poultry diary:
If it’s not on B-Y-C,
It did not happen.
A pullet’s body
Still warm but stiff, no response
Witnessed yesterday.
Immediately
Placed on ice, then drove today
Diagnostic lab.
Poultry venture fate
Hangs in balance of findings:
Botulism/Flu?