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Last evening I went out to look at Drama's beak to see how it was doing.  She had managed to break the tip off.  Honestly, despite the slight underbite, it looked so much more comfortable for her.  So... there's like a pad of thick skin that sits beneath the beak shell.  I'm guessing that's what is meant by the "quick"???  Through research, it sounds like the hard part is like a fingernail and will grow back.  I'm sure hoping so!

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Originally Posted by itsren 

 

That's one reason I can't wait for my chickens to start laying.  I won't feel as bad throwing out the egg whites if I'm not buying the eggs.  Eggs are a byproduct of our family having a pet.

don't throw out the whites, cook them and feed them back to the birds, it's protein, don't waste it!

You can feed the whites to Drama

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Originally Posted by Chicken Rustler 

On their legs ???         

Sheesh! As an ex-English teacher, I'm ashamed to have fallen in to that one!

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Originally Posted by Totalcolour 

don't throw out the whites, cook them and feed them back to the birds, it's protein, don't waste it!

 

You can feed the whites to Drama

Good idea!  Thanks.  I'm not sure why I didn't think of that.

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Originally Posted by Judges4 

Sheesh! As an ex-English teacher, I'm ashamed to have fallen in to that one!

Why "EX"? Didn't you like doing it? We need good English teachers.

My pet peeve in this country is the bad English.

To / too

there / their / they're

course / coarse

then / than

These are ones that I really hate. I think even worse though, is that there are so many people who home-school, yet they cannot speak or write properly themselves. I find myself slipping into bad ways too, now.

Falling off soap-box  with foot in mouth!

So... Drama...

When we took the pictures of Drama's broken beak, I had set her in my 10-year-old's lap so he could hold her still.  She let me take the shots, then struggled against him to get out of his lap and hopped down.  It wasn't far at all.  That poor chickie... she landed on her feet then went face forward and landed on her face.  Poor girl.   At that time it didn't look like it did any more damage to the beak.

Yesterday I did see her scraping her beak on the concrete, which, I would guess be what caused that tip to come off.

I'm thinking her body is just too big for her feet.  She's a chunk.  I should reweigh her - she's feels a lot heavier than when I weighed her last.

When I went for a walk last evening, DH yelled for me to put her on a leash and take her for a walk so she could lose weight. 

Are there any chicken exercises I can do with her to help her build strength in her legs?  From all the Brahma pictures I've seen, it seems like they have sturdy legs that can hold them up.  Or are they all clumsy like Drama?  Anyone know?

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Originally Posted by Totalcolour 

Why "EX"? Didn't you like doing it? We need good English teachers.

 

My pet peeve in this country is the bad English.

 

To / too

there / their / they're

course / coarse

then / than

 

These are ones that I really hate. I think even worse though, is that there are so many people who home-school, yet they cannot speak or write properly themselves. I find myself slipping into bad ways too, now.

 

Falling off soap-box  with foot in mouth!

Ex because of two reasons -- I had kids and wanted to stay home with them, and I was really tired of dealing with high school parents who didn't want their kids to have so much homework getting in the way of watching TV or didn't want their kids to read the terrible Grapes of Wrath.......

My goal is to get a MA so I can teach college. Someday.

I had a high school English teacher who used to bring in her pet peeve of the day for the class to analyze (no apostrophe on a sign, no comma in a newspaper article......). I used to do the same with my high schoolers. Amazing how little they actually caught!

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Originally Posted by Totalcolour 

Why "EX"? Didn't you like doing it? We need good English teachers.

 

My pet peeve in this country is the bad English.

 

To / too

there / their / they're

course / coarse

then / than

 

These are ones that I really hate. I think even worse though, is that there are so many people who home-school, yet they cannot speak or write properly themselves. I find myself slipping into bad ways too, now.

 

Falling off soap-box  with foot in mouth!

I have a friend who frequently writes "loose" for "lose" on Facebook.  Drives me crazy!  Not that I'm any better.  I mistype all the time because I type fast and don't pay attention.

I agree with the homeschooling issue.  I know too many people who have, unknowingly, short-changed their children's lives because they chose to do so without the help of an outside teacher.  The state has homeschooling for free, where kids can be monitored by a teacher, but many home-school families don't want anyone to supervise what they do.

I felt bad for one family, by the time the mom realized that her kids were far behind, her oldest couldn't even qualify to get into college and was struggling at a lower level school.  It was at that time the realization hit her that the only skills her high-school daughter had was house-cleaning.  The mom had made an assumption, that because she was a business owner, she was qualified to teach.  When, in reality, her concept of teaching turned into her children taking care of household tasks for the family while she worked on her business.

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Originally Posted by Judges4 

or didn't want their kids to read the terrible Grapes of Wrath.......

I enjoyed reading "Grapes of Wrath" in High School.    I know.  Sad.  LOL!

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Originally Posted by SweetSilver 

I've seen rubber boas big enough to eat an egg.  I've seen skinny garter snakes eat slugs 4x their girth.  Their jaws unhinge amazingly far.  (Sorry for that image, snake-haters!)  But I would not worry about snakes in WW.  I'd worry *for* the snakes.  Snakes seem kind of slooooooooow here in the PNW, relatively.  I think the heat makes the SE snakes fast and bold and ornery.  

I remember a couple years ago when my flock found a really great toy.  They had a garter snake-it must have slithered into the run.  They had it inside the coop and were running around with it.  They took it outside and dropped it.  It was rearing up and striking like a cobra.  ****** off snake.  I rescued it poor thing. 

I like having them around.   They are pretty harmless.  If they want to hang out in my garden and sun themselves and eat slugs, that is fine by me.