STEEMIE IS DEAD - WHAT WE LEARNED AND WHAT WE ARE DOING MOVING FORWARD
I am sorry to be the "bear of bad news..."
Many of you may remember that one of our hens recently hatched a chick. It was a happy day for our people. Since two of our hens had been sitting for some time on some random eggs, we were happy that one actually hatched. A few had broken open and stunk, but to actually get a chick was amazing.
RIP Steemie
However, Steemie (as we named it) was the only one. Since we could not raise it alone, we left it with the mother. The first night went great, but the second night... not so much.
THE DEATH OF STEEMIE
On the second night, a rotten eggs burst and covered little Steemie. That night, Steemie also died. This lead us to evaluate a few things.
First off, these chickens are first time mothers and are still new at this. Additionally, we have never hatched chicks before either. We do have a game plan moving forward though.
MOVING FORWARD
A few days later, the other hen hatched 2 chicks. Since chicken eggs usually take 21 days to hatch. we moved all the old eggs under the mother with the chicks. That way, if any more hatch from those eggs they can all grow up together with the same mom. We also took a batch of fresh eggs and put them under the other mother. That way, we know that she has about three weeks until her eggs should hatch.
Moving forward we will try to do things this way and get each hen sitting on her own batch of fresh eggs. We will see who hatches around 21 days, and if it gets a few days past, we will remove the old eggs and start again.
Hopefully this will help improve the reproduction of our chicken flock moving forward. Last I knew the two little chicks were still doing good, so we named them "Steemie" and "Steemy." It sure was hard to leave so many young animals for our trip up to Wisconsin, but some neighbor kids are watching over them, and they have some experience with these things.
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-moving-forward-with-a-better-plan
Until next time…
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It is an unfortunate loss but what matters here is to learn to do things better in the future. You will. Greetings.
Thanks for the encouragement.
good work thanks !!
Nature - it can be cruel, but its wanderful
These days there is no life without death.
sucks for sure having a homestead everything is like family for you as they provide your family with memories and with food to survive.
PS I died myself in the game got called away on work and ended up not getting to post in time lol RIP.
Look forward to more of your homestead videos and information seriously love them and how everything works there such adventures and memories for you and your family.
Thanks @bitcoinflood!
Rest in peace sweet prince. takes hat off
Thanks man!
R.I.P Steemie <3
R.I.P.
I'm particularly touched by this chick's story. We've had birds in our house for as far as I can remember, even grew chicks in the backyard. Many have died over the years, so it's an emotional experience for me when I see birds die 😢
Some of us just are overly empathetic to the point where it can cripple us with sadness and you have to just block it out sometimes, also remember The souls easily reincarnate into newborn chicks, YOLo is a lie, you dont only live once, biological life is just like a machine the spirit is eternal (but is also physical and can be acptured into copper tubes, its scarey but nothing is really immortal, you can have your soul captured like Ghost Busters, and stored as energy, and you cant do much to stop an advanced being with beter tech than you from doing this to you if they wanted! Scarey but try not to think abouyt it!
I'm not too saddened though, I rejoice because life goes on, and more happy healthy chicks will hatch eventually 🐣🐥🐤🐔
yes and they are just velociraptors! they have livd on this planet for tens of millions of years
chickens are super ancient! i guss we all are lol its silly to call one animal a living fossil as if its more ancent than anything else
what is intresting is to think if your parents take longer top have you, could some people be moe evolved than others? Like hear me out:
some people have kids earlir, and so lets say one generation in oene village waits untill theyre in their 30s every generation to have kids, the other village has kids when they turn 15, so after 100 years, one village is already twice as evolved! over thousands or tens of thousands of years, certain peopel end up having kids faster, some sloewer, so wont some peopel end up more evolved than others? or does it average out?
Like if some family just has a tradition of having kids at an earlier age, like right at puberty, to create as much genetic diversity as fast as possible, wont that allow that family to not only grow faster but adapter quicker? or has human civilization stopped natural selkection??? I dount it, i think women still choose the striongest men or what they perceive as the striongest high status men, and the dominance hierrhcy is a tool for natural selection etc, so i thnk were still evolving somehow, to adapt to our industrial world for sure!
yes i also named lil mice babies i found and rescued as stemit mascots, and yeah hard to see baby animals die, but they will not be forgotten! Most animals dont ebven get to be online! At least steemy got to be in a steemit post!
And im sure there wil be steemy 2 and steemy 3 etc
I cant wait for the steem branded eggs with steem logos on them!
this is so amazing post..like it...thanks @papa-pepper
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