Good Morning! <=2017

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:56 pm

HAHA KB! Iv had bear a few times but there is no bear season around here. maybe in a few years. LOL.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 6:28 pm

Fyi: there is a nasty stomach bug going around here. It hit me a week ago thursday: i thought it was heatstroke: had me down for four days. You don't want the details....
A couple of other people i know got it around the same time.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 11:09 pm

Woohoo a dozen bantam spangled cornish free and clear. I was getting worried for a bit. Started with 3 1/2 dozen eggs. Lots started devolpment then stopped. 14 no action (infertile?). I'm not one for a necropsy (yep i'm a wimp in this area.)
This is the 3rd year i've run this bator. Year 1 was early spring ("the Rev" wanted chicks for her Easter service) with a 90% hatch on purchased eggs.
Year two (last year) was a 50% hatch from the fertile eggs.
This year: a 30% hatch on ducklings and 50% on chicks running it in a school.

And now a 50% on the guineas and chicks (of the fertile eggs).

Hmmm... Acceptable but lots of room for improvement. Gotta tweak my recipe and conditions. And they went in on a Wednesday noon and all clear on a Thursday evening....a full 22 days....i better test my thermometer. If I recall correctly a day late means a degree low. I'll check the book in the morn.

Thanks again for the eggs kenya.

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:25 am

Good show, I've had really good luck with the Cornish this year, they just seem to like the weather, sorry you didn't get more though. They all hatched pretty much together though so you must be doing something right.

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:28 am

Ha! Ha! I used to open every egg and check to see why it didn't hatch, don't bother any more though, Sometimes you just can't see why they didn't hatch.

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 2:19 am

Good Morning all.
Well, after the Piknik, I needed some down time, but didn't get it of course :/. Drunk driver crossed lanes in front of my house, hit my ditch, and one of my dogs. He was horrible enough to continue weaving down the road, leaving it several more times before I lost his tread on the pavement, but nice enough to leave a broken fender shield behind, so I know what he drives and have a good idea of who it was. I've holed up a bit and been liberal with the libations, so as to cool a bit before I go looking for him in earnest. Or to convince myself NOT to go looking for him, though that hasn't worked yet. Just hoping to come down a little first, and procrastination is something I'm good at.
So the search for a new LGD has just been bumped up a notch, whether I want another dog or not--I'm not comfortable with only one pair of eyes on my birds, and, Tellem (aka Wendyll Whiner) is lonely now, begging us to get up to doggy shenanigans that used to be Askems' (aka dirty mop dawg, RIP) providence. Thought I found the ONE, a big mutt puppy of breeds I'm well familiar with, until I saw the price. No shots, no vet, no nothing, for a mutt. Then looked around a little better and saw EVERYONE is charging arms and legs for mutts. Even mutts with no idea what's in the mix. Looked to my local shelter, only one dog, a pug mix, definitely not for us. Looked in shelters farther afield, NO DOGS!!! Well, one in Renfrew I think it was, also not suitable for us. SO. Ten years ago the shelters had dogs, now there's none. Why? Well, apparently, shelter dogs are being snapped up by "rescues" and resold. Um, what? I guess "rescue" doesn't mean the same around here anymore. One ad I saw on kijiji was for big dollar puppies from a mutt bitch being 'fostered' for a 'rescue' that had 'rescued' the pregnant dog from a shelter. Um, what, again? Boggles the mind a little. Money really isn't the object here for me, but It looks like my search is going to take a while. Blarrggh.
In the meantime, it looks like a tornado has gone through my house, because I took a pill or two of fukitol :D That's the good stuff, right there!

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 5:44 am

Www- I just read this and 1. Got mad at the drunk driver and 2. Got sick at the thought of that happening to one of my dogs then 3. Got bummed out at the reality of finding another dog in that scenario. Then i fired up google to look up a fukitol pill as i'd never heard of it ....then went.....oh....d'uh.

My heart goes out to you....good luck.

ross · Post by **ross** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:01 am

Luck Jan , be cool . All takes time . Yu let an egg hatch not hit it with a hammer .

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:41 am

I'm with Ross on this one, Jan..takes time..both to heal from the hurt and for that perfect new addition to find you...I'm personally crushed at your loss ..RIP Askem...

Post by **Killerbunny** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:46 am

SO sorry about your dog. They were so cool at the PikNik. Yup I had to take a few of those Fukitol pills after my birds were attacked. Think I could have done serious damage to someone.