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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)
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having to sort out an administrative clusterfuck this week, thank you government

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[–] memfree@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you haven't encountered it yet: bad eggs really do explode. I haven't seen them explode any distance nor into tiny pieces, but we did have a nest with an egg that was turning color and I didn't think to remove it. A day or so later, I heard a muffled POP and looked to see the mama with a look of stiff panic as she sat incredibly erect on her nest. I shooed her off and found a horrible , stinky mess. Mama got a bath, we put the whole next in tripled garbage bags, and wrote off the clutch as potentially infected. Mama was not happy.

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup, been there. I've been getting bitten this week while removing the suspect eggs. Sometimes the girls will get off of them for enough time for me to inspect but sometimes they come back quickly and angry

[–] memfree@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

hooray for broody girls! We can't get mad when they are being such good guardians. :-)