I hate to think I still overwork my body, but I do. I just don't realize how bad until the next day. I mucked out several coops and tilled and my wrists and arms are feeling it today. I picked up feed buckets yesterday and it hurt my ribs too, so instead of trying to remove all the spent/composted bedding in the run of the big coop, I have been cleaning and organizing some. I got the pantry done and I am almost done with the laundry room. I keep egg cartons and containers in there. I have been throwing things on top of the fridge and freezer in there in plastic bags. I finally organized all of them and wiped down, dusted a bit...got fifty million grocery sacks out of the pantry too. So I am not resting...just changing the muscles I am using, well except probably when I vacuumed and mopped.
I have another gosling trying to hatch, it started pipping yesterday. It is not due to hatch until tomorrow. It made no progress overnight which concerned me. I have picked at the shell and removed enough to make sure it can breath and I can add a little water inside the shell every couple of hours. I won't pick any more shell off until tomorrow, and then only if it has not escaped or made progress. I have ducks that will need to go on lockdown soon too. Mercy, Hope and Gracie are all doing well. Mercy has chewed on her wing stub a bit, I started spraying it with Scarlet Oil more often. I am just trying to get her to heal up...she will be a keeper. I tend to get attached to my special needs critters. Maybe we can hope for a miracle for her and her wing will regenerate?
The nine baby ducks are doing really well, they are cute little boogers, but messy as all get out. I have changed out their bin twice today because they are playing in the water and pooping up a storm. I am using five layer puppy training pads in the brooder bins and they still got all wet and nasty. I hate giving them a bath so early in life, but it may end up being a necessity. It probably doesn't help that Hope the gosling is in with the ducks she is ten days old now, but since we put her in with the ducks we can tell she has grown, in just two days. I tried putting her back in with Mercy, but Mercy grabbed her by the tail and was tossing Hope around so, I put her back. She is slightly larger than the ducks now.
I sold 10 dozen eggs today, I know he is going to hatch them. I didn't wash them or refrigerate them so it was easier on me. He is going to set more on the 16th and asked me if I would have more then. I am going to hatch chicks soon, just trying to get some things done first and I would like to have breeding pens built so I can hatch full breed chickens. My chickens are laying like gangbusters so I will have them, even after selling him 10 dozen I probably have 25 dozen still and I have not gathered eggs today yet. I have been getting 4 dozen plus eggs a day lately. Ah well it is about feeding time and I still have to finish my kitchen mess. I just thought I would write while I am taking a break.
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