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I would have eaten Jerkface too, but I had a friend in need of a rooster, so I gave him away.

It's a lot easier to kill them if they piss you off ;) (Stupidhead made great soup.)

I think a single slice divided up between 9 chickens isn't going to dilute their nutrition too much. I think it's adorable, and all anybody can worry about is the extremely remote possibility of malnutrition from a slice of bread once a day? Forrest for the trees folks. Let's not get so caught...

I found out why the bread has been disappearing so quickly. My husband has been giving the chickens treats He squats out there and they all flock around him while he calls them his girls. He chastises them when they fight over the pieces too.

Well, I was just reminded this morning that, even if the chick in the egg is alive, sometimes they just aren't meant to hatch. I helped my oopsie egg a little bit. I pulled back the membrane and discovered that this chick was badly badly deformed. It hat no eyes or upper beak. Just the...

OOOPS! So, after tapping and float testing, I chipped open the air cells of the last two eggs. The first one was a late quitter. Day 16 or 17. The other one...oopsie. Still alive!!! I accidentally tore the membrane a little, so there's a leeetle bit of blood, but I misted the 'bater up...

Ok, nobody got the Victor/Nora joke. *le sigh* it's tough being a geek sometimes. (from wikipedia)

Hugs to you Sally. It's amazing how both fragile and resilliant these little guys can be. You'll never know what they'll bounce back from, and the things that hurt them can be suprisingly small. I've got you and your little chickes in my prayers. If it lives you should name it Victor if it's...

*sigh* You're a gem Oz. Thank you for the words of encouragement. I think I need some sleep. I have to work tomorrow, early (I was supposed to have it off, hence the frustration today) Good night every body. I'll be better in the morning.

Oh hell Oz, now I'm crying. Today has been one crummy day. Other stuff too, not just the chickens. (I work fast food. Need I say more?) I think I'm getting days off, but then I gotta work anyway. I show up up on time and do the work of 3 people, because 5 people never bothered to show up...

I give up. The whole reason I got this order of eggs was for the CLs. I candled once it got dark. The one I couldn't tell what was going on earlier? Day 6 quitter. The other, the cracked one still has no internal pip. I'm going to give it two more days. But I'm not optimistic. I'm...

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One of the CL eggs *may* hatch. I finally got impatient and pulled them out quickly and held them up to my ear and gave them a tap with my fingernail. No response from one, but a thump (not a tap yet!) of movement from the other. Back in they go, and I'm back to sitting on my hands. I don't...

I've got three live chicks, and one hatching. I helped the hatcher a tad. The membrane was looking kinda dry, so I pulled off a small bit of shell, put on some antibiotic ointment, and opened the tear in the membrane just a tad more. (My last hatch I had a chick pip at the wrong end. It would...

That's why I only got four :(

Two ameraucana/orpington chicks, two pips in the OE eggs (two still intact) aaaaaand...still no action in the cream legbars. I really really really hope I get at least one. I'd love for both of them to hatch though. Then again, I really wanted FOUR to hatch, but with one clear and one early...

Well, the question is answered. One of the bonus freebie eggs hatched while I was at mass, there is a pip in the second. WOOT! The two CLs and four OEs remain intact though.

I agree that the spike would be more lethal than the drop, but, we're talking a quick spike vs. hours at 83 PLUS the wandering off and reading rather than monitoring the temp once she'd 'adjusted' the temperature. She was already in trouble for reading instead of doing her homework, so this was...

Today is day 20. I've been on lockdown since yesterday. No pips yet. There was an incident last week though. Girl child discovered the incubator had spiked to 104! (totally my fault) Thinking quickly, she unplugged it. That would have been mostly ok (I don't think she knew I'd put a...