Do No Harm Farm

16/11/2024

08/11/2024

Awesome Ilsa stopped by the farm last night to donate some pumpkins to our barnyard friends.
Thank you for always thinking of the animals, Ilsa.
☮️🐷💜

17/08/2024

Since hatching our last 4 chicks myself, we’ve had another chicken go broody, followed by one more!
I joked that it’s a broody pandemic over here.

Mama Gray-Gray is sitting on 2 eggs that should hatch Monday.

We are letting Gray-Gray hatch out some eggs because I fear she is too smart for the bait & switch and would not accept any day old chicks we try to sneak under her over night.

Norma is in another coop so I’ll put a camera there tonight or tomorrow. We will be trying to have her adopt chicks instead of letting her hatch some. Why?
1. She won’t have to sit as long
2. We have a breeder in the community that can give us sexed day olds so we know whatever we get are girls.

We fear Dahlia & Juju bee from the last batch are boys so we’ll have to wait and see.

16/08/2024

Sometimes we get to enjoy the fruit we grow too.

12/08/2024

Update on our chicks. Tippi, Jubilee , Juju bee, and Dahlia are almost 4 weeks old now.

17/07/2024

I’m now mom to 4 sweet babies 🐣🐣🐣🐣

17/07/2024

Egg-citing day here today!

12/07/2024

We’re about 5 days away from hatch day.

Here’s what we can expect.

When do chickens start chirping in the egg? Chicks will typically start chirping from inside the egg around day 19-20, indicating hatching is close.

07/07/2024

It’s never dull around here! About 11 days ago when things weren’t quite so hot, another one of our hens went broody.

She was sitting on 4 eggs in a coop that is in direct sun a good portion of the day, and poor insulation.

After moving her to cooler coops repeatedly failed, we set up shade sails & misters around the coop she chose to sit in.

Then we were all faced with temps over 105°. Embryos won’t survive over 104.5 so we decided to move the eggs she was sitting on to an incubator to keep them safe and replace what she was sitting on with decoys.

Still she sat, for a couple more days. Until finally, not knowing the real eggs were safe, she abandoned the nest. I think she knew that the eggs couldn’t survive these sustained 109+ days.
Ultimately, this was the healthiest choice for herself that she could have made.

So it looks like we’ll be hand raising these 4 chicks that are growing. Unless, as it cools down she decides to go broody again.

Yesterday, it was soooo hot, that the incubator itself reached 104.5 degrees. As we were coming home from the gym I could hear the temperature alarm on the incubator. I rushed in and immediately got the incubator open and to a cooler area.

It’s often sustained temperatures of 104.5 or higher that would kill an embryo. Since we weren’t gone more than 2hrs I was hoping that the babies were ok. But I wouldn’t be able to check until dark.

All 4 had survived 😅
Here’s a video of one of them so you can see what an embryo looks like at day 10. Pretty cool!

05/07/2024

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🐾 ☀️ In this heat, our local wildlife needs your help! 🥵

1. Keep an eye out for animals that need help. If you can walk up to wildlife during these hot temperatures and they appear injured or do not try to get away from you, they probably need assistance.

2. Remember - concrete and asphalt get SUPER hot during these high temperatures and can lead to burns and even be fatal to animals who cannot move off of it.

3. Remember, do not feed or water an orphaned or injured wildlife. Keep them dark, cool, quiet, and get them to us as quickly as possible during our open hours (8am - 5pm 7 days a week). Once they are cooled off, babies can actually be kept warm (but not hot).

4. Cooling off an animal using water, if injured or sick, may actually make them worse. Call us if you need guidance or have questions.

5. If you have any questions about an orphaned or injured wildlife, call our emergency phone system, leave a message, and you’ll get a call back - 530-885-0862. You can also visit our website for more information www.goldcountrywildliferescue.org.

Remember, while we are in the midst of a serious heat wave with record temperatures, animals struggle as much, if not more, than humans do. While we are all inside trying to stay out of the heat, there are animals being forced out of nests and dens to try to escape the heat. Additionally, if they don’t have access to water dehydration and heat stroke can also be serious issues for wildlife and humans alike.

14/06/2024

31/05/2024

Toby-Doo hopes you all stay cool this summer!