BYC Edu thread, keep on rambling - HERE incubation Qs answered, lots of information!!

[Turtle Rock Farm]

Ouch, sorry sunshine, that's horrible.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

its typical I think, not the sideways but the packing anyways. oh well

 

[Turtle Rock Farm]

its typical I think, not the sideways but the packing anyways. oh well

Remind me to never buy from anyone that doesn't follow your see-how-much-bubble-wrap-is-humanly-possible-to-fit-in-a-box method.

 

[Razadia]

@Sally Sunshine Yikes! That's awful!

Good afternoon, folks! Well, maybe not good. This morning was bad. No change in the lone egg. It's taking its dear, sweet time. I woke up to a dead cat and one of her kittens. Found one still alive and in hiding. One is still missing. This was one of many feral and stray cats that hang out around my house that the neighborhood likes to feed, but refuses to help me get fixed. So I'm overrun with kittens. One of the calmer males came on the back porch to eat and his tail is torn up. Something is out to get the cats. I can't tell if this is a coyote or dog doing this. There are tons of coyotes around and there's a feral (possibly an abandoned fighter) pitbull (male) and some puppies running around that are starving. I can't get animal control to do anything about them. I ran one of the puppies out of the yard earlier. It looked awful and I felt bad about it, but I can't risk the pup going after a cat or one of my chickens. I think I'm going to take a friend up on their offer to use their trail cam.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Soooo my icelandic eggs (not from mike) came packaged in toilet paper in paper egg cartons and SIDEWAYS! if the paper didnt suck the moisture out of them and make air cells larger, the eggs traveling on their side was too much for these eggs.

so sorry! mine are doing well, one got tossed cause of blood ring others are very good

um no

@Sally Sunshine Yikes! That's awful!

Good afternoon, folks! Well, maybe not good. This morning was bad. No change in the lone egg. It's taking its dear, sweet time. I woke up to a dead cat and one of her kittens. Found one still alive and in hiding. One is still missing. This was one of many feral and stray cats that hang out around my house that the neighborhood likes to feed, but refuses to help me get fixed. So I'm overrun with kittens. One of the calmer males came on the back porch to eat and his tail is torn up. Something is out to get the cats. I can't tell if this is a coyote or dog doing this. There are tons of coyotes around and there's a feral (possibly an abandoned fighter) pitbull (male) and some puppies running around that are starving. I can't get animal control to do anything about them. I ran one of the puppies out of the yard earlier. It looked awful and I felt bad about it, but I can't risk the pup going after a cat or one of my chickens. I think I'm going to take a friend up on their offer to use their trail cam.

that stinks so sorry, what about traps?

 

[aart]

Soooo my icelandic eggs (not from mike) came packaged in toilet paper in paper egg cartons and SIDEWAYS! if the paper didnt suck the moisture out of them and make air cells larger, the eggs traveling on their side was too much for these eggs.

Three rollers, one cracked, dont laugh I hot clued the sucker cause its one of three that air cells were only slightly bad.... the other dozen.... well look at the image and you can see why they all got loose on one side of them,

AwwCrap!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Remind me to never buy from anyone that doesn't follow your see-how-much-bubble-wrap-is-humanly-possible-to-fit-in-a-box method.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@Sally Sunshine Yikes! That's awful!

Good afternoon, folks! Well, maybe not good. This morning was bad. No change in the lone egg. It's taking its dear, sweet time. I woke up to a dead cat and one of her kittens. Found one still alive and in hiding. One is still missing. This was one of many feral and stray cats that hang out around my house that the neighborhood likes to feed, but refuses to help me get fixed. So I'm overrun with kittens. One of the calmer males came on the back porch to eat and his tail is torn up. Something is out to get the cats. I can't tell if this is a coyote or dog doing this. There are tons of coyotes around and there's a feral (possibly an abandoned fighter) pitbull (male) and some puppies running around that are starving. I can't get animal control to do anything about them. I ran one of the puppies out of the yard earlier. It looked awful and I felt bad about it, but I can't risk the pup going after a cat or one of my chickens. I think I'm going to take a friend up on their offer to use their trail cam.

oh no thats terrible! How old are the kittens? how old are the pups? dang if they are young enough cant you use a live trap? may be early enough to save them or at least do something with them.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

so sorry! mine are doing well, one got tossed cause of blood ring others are very good



that stinks so sorry, what about traps?

you must have a boatload of eggs at this point lol

 

[Razadia]

so sorry! mine are doing well, one got tossed cause of blood ring others are very good



that stinks so sorry, what about traps?

oh no thats terrible! How old are the kittens? how old are the pups? dang if they are young enough cant you use a live trap? may be early enough to save them or at least do something with them.

I don't have a trap big enough. Mine are sized for squirrel and rabbit. The kittens are a month old at most. They're just starting to get their legs under them good. There's another litter close in age that I put the one I found with. Mama didn't care that she had an extra kitten. The pups, I don't really know. They're less than 6 months and I've never seen them with a female. It's always the male with them if they have an older dog with them at all. I think there's 3 of them if they all survived since the last time I saw them over a month ago. The thing that kills me is that these pups and the male aren't mutts. They're all American Gatormouth Pitbulls. They're the favorite around here. No one has even tried to catch them. They've managed to escape rabies so far.

I'm wondering if there may be a way to keep them coming back, but have them leave the cats and chickens alone. I could probably tame them the same way I've been doing with the feral cats. Food and patience.