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AClark
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Bruce, we didn't...very fortunate for us (and unfortunate for the employees) that Walmart is open on Thanksgiving and had ones already thawed out.
Changing goals and speed
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greybeard
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People pay good $$$ for blackened red snapper and blackened shrimp...blackened poultry not so much...
Bruce
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Might depend on just HOW black!
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AClark
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It had caught pretty good, it was a charcoal turkey lol.
So, apparently, these are Ancona ducklings! Two out of the 4 that have hatched are bright black and yellow with black spotted beaks and feet. I'll post pictures later, my brain isn't quite functional yet. "Bill" is an Ancona. Two are white, two are black and white so far, and one is mostly unzipped.
I did have one pip at the wrong end. It was pipped yesterday morning and hadn't made progress this morning. I did end up helping it and I'm glad I decided to. Poor thing was so tangled up that it couldn't turn. Wing and a leg over it's head. Lucky for it it had pipped a big hole and could breathe. As soon as I cracked enough that it could straighten out, it tumbled out immediately. It was ready to be out for sure.
So, apparently, these are Ancona ducklings! Two out of the 4 that have hatched are bright black and yellow with black spotted beaks and feet. I'll post pictures later, my brain isn't quite functional yet. "Bill" is an Ancona. Two are white, two are black and white so far, and one is mostly unzipped.
I did have one pip at the wrong end. It was pipped yesterday morning and hadn't made progress this morning. I did end up helping it and I'm glad I decided to. Poor thing was so tangled up that it couldn't turn. Wing and a leg over it's head. Lucky for it it had pipped a big hole and could breathe. As soon as I cracked enough that it could straighten out, it tumbled out immediately. It was ready to be out for sure.
CntryBoy777
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I bet they are just adorable and put a smile on your face just looking at them....
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AClark
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3/5 are black and white. The smell in the incubator is pretty blech. I can't wait for them to dry out and finish hatching so I can move the little stinkers.
Bruce
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Why can't you move those that are already dry to a Mama Heating Pad brooder?
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I believe 5 is our grand total. I lied, 2 are black and whites, one is blue and white, and two white ones. I couldn't tel lthe one was blue until it was dry and it's light gray instead of black.
Today is pre-op, surgery is next week. They are doing something different and I shouldn't have a huge scar, but they don't want to give me much of a time line on going back to "work" due to the nature of the work.
So I have the 5 inch scar on the back and will have a new 1-2" on the side, since this one will be arthroscopic. So all but the outside of my elbow will be scarred (I have one directly on top from an accident that required a bunch of stitches).
What I don't like is from the MRI, my neurosurgeon couldn't find my ulnar nerve at all, since it has been previously transpositioned and isn't where it was originally...but also isn't where it should be after a transposition. Kind of weird. The thought process is that somehow it either slipped, which it shouldn't be able to, or something is pinching it again.
The neurosurgeon thinks I may get some feeling back in my fingers. Personally, and as I told him, I don't care as much about that and I'll call it a success if the constant pain stops. He may be right about the feeling, the position they had me in for the MRI did elicit feeling in my fingers...pain, but feeling all the same. I haven't even felt pain in those fingers in years. I snapped my pinky a couple of years ago and all I really felt was pressure from it. I knew it was broke since it sat at a 90 degree angle to my hand, but it didn't really hurt.
Anyway...I gotta get out and feed so I can leave in an hour or so.
@Bruce I didn'tw ant to drop the humidity by opening it to remove the 2 dry ones. I think the rest are failed though, I don't see movement on candling when I removed all 5, two were wet, but I dried them with a towel and put them under the lamp, didn't seem to bother them.
Today is pre-op, surgery is next week. They are doing something different and I shouldn't have a huge scar, but they don't want to give me much of a time line on going back to "work" due to the nature of the work.
So I have the 5 inch scar on the back and will have a new 1-2" on the side, since this one will be arthroscopic. So all but the outside of my elbow will be scarred (I have one directly on top from an accident that required a bunch of stitches).
What I don't like is from the MRI, my neurosurgeon couldn't find my ulnar nerve at all, since it has been previously transpositioned and isn't where it was originally...but also isn't where it should be after a transposition. Kind of weird. The thought process is that somehow it either slipped, which it shouldn't be able to, or something is pinching it again.
The neurosurgeon thinks I may get some feeling back in my fingers. Personally, and as I told him, I don't care as much about that and I'll call it a success if the constant pain stops. He may be right about the feeling, the position they had me in for the MRI did elicit feeling in my fingers...pain, but feeling all the same. I haven't even felt pain in those fingers in years. I snapped my pinky a couple of years ago and all I really felt was pressure from it. I knew it was broke since it sat at a 90 degree angle to my hand, but it didn't really hurt.
Anyway...I gotta get out and feed so I can leave in an hour or so.
@Bruce I didn'tw ant to drop the humidity by opening it to remove the 2 dry ones. I think the rest are failed though, I don't see movement on candling when I removed all 5, two were wet, but I dried them with a towel and put them under the lamp, didn't seem to bother them.
Good luck with pre-op and I hope the surgery is a success.
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AClark
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Short update.
Surgery went well, it looks awful and feels really awful but so far so good. 13 staples in the surgical incision.
Day 1 post surgery.
Day 3 post surgery, please excuse my carpet, apparently I'm the only person i the house that knows how to function a vacuum.
Surgery went well, it looks awful and feels really awful but so far so good. 13 staples in the surgical incision.
Day 1 post surgery.
Day 3 post surgery, please excuse my carpet, apparently I'm the only person i the house that knows how to function a vacuum.
