EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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So the 3 bantam eggs WITH OUT detached air cells... should I set those under the broody? We leave this evening for a 3 day trip :rolleyes: so I won't be here to turn them in the bator... which I read is beneficial for eggs with detached air cells (the other 11). :fl
 
Hot day here - currently 96F. The S&G girls got their new paddock today. I went on an errand and when I came back, I caught them all flirting with the GNH bachelors (driving them nuts). Bad girls....

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Here's Muffin cooling off and imitating a duck.

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Fire Ant Farm said:
Hot day here - currently 96F. The S&G girls got their new paddock today. I went on an errand and when I came back, I caught them all flirting with the GNH bachelors (driving them nuts). Bad girls....

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Here's Muffin cooling off and imitating a duck.

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The nurse wouldn't refill my prescription for progesterone, she was going to force me to wait, and all sorts of other crap, so I had to have the local OB here, write a prescription and pay out of pocket for it, until I could get a prior authorization for it. :/ I need to find a good high risk specialist, the local OB here is a really nice guy, I like him a lot. I'll be getting some referrals for a high risk OB and a primary health provider up in SA once I'm 8+ weeks and we know if we just have 1, or multiples.
 
kajira said:
FYI she's a very smart bird.

My silkies also will cool themselves off in water, where as most of my birds just suffer.
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She is! (Her sisters still need to learn, though.) This was their first day in the new paddock, and I was hoping they'd put themselves to bed, but they didn't. Alas, no cockerel or rooster to herd them in to roost. I herded them in myself at about 9:15 and am hoping they'll figure it out going forward. When they're a little older, I may go ahead and put one of the GNH boys or Bubba (the biggest S&G boy) with them. I'm just more comfortable if each group of girls has a good male caretaker.

Meanwhile, I was sitting in a chair inside their run then I saw a streak of grey that I knew to be one of the neighbor's cats who likes to hang out in my yard. Upset the Alohas (it was lurking near their coop). But then I saw ANOTHER bit of grey, and as I looked.... Bushy tail. Small (quite small) grey fox, heading to the (not yet fully dismantled) brush pile. :he

I took a 6 ft steel pounding post and drove it into the brush pile in order the possibly scare anything in there (if I didn't injure it). Then I spent some quality time doing some additional blocking of the fence line. Dismantling the rest of the brush pile is actually one of the to dos for my time off, so with pretty secure paddock fencing and me being around most of the time during the day until then (though not all), I'm hoping nothing horrible happens until I can get things more secure back there. :fl At least the coops themselves are quite secure from nighttime attack.

Been working in the yard all day - I'm beat! I have to go to work tomorrow for a bunch of long meetings (otherwise would have taken the day off), but coming home once they're done.... :fl:fl:fl

- Ant Farm
 

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