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Whew.  I left ALL my drama at the door. Thank goodness!

I am coming here to get away form drama. I need to just sell my chickens, shut my mouth about anything I know about them, and let the chicken people be mis educated and think they are right.  I have spent 2 years researching constantly, but I know nothing apparently. 

. Julie you know more about Chickens than I ever will! Not to mention your knowledge of genetics is mind blowing! 

Julie, Thats the way I feel on some of the threads for chickens but not all are bad. There is one however that is the worst. I don't know if I can say on here which one it is but they are talking about a little tiny chicken from Malaysia. I know of about three or 4 times that BYC moderators have just shut down the thread. They are terrible. Why can't they all get along? You know differences of opinions are what makes a horse race. LOL! This thread on the other hand has become my favorite because everyone has made me welcome and have been very patient and helpful to me. I really appreciate it.

Kevin, I too try to have all kinds of animals. Lol! I am never so happy as when I'm mucking a stall or cleaning the goose room. Feeding takes up a large part of my day and I find myself pressed for time but I cant imagine living any other way.

Janet, How was your day? I haven't seen you on here today. I hope all is well with your babies.

Celtic, I'm trying hard to behave and not covet your baby sebs. I need to fininsh my pens first for the ones I have but its not easy. I want them all! Aren't I terrible?

If anybody stays up late tonight, I'm still on graveyards, give me a holler.     

Lol! I couldn't imagine not having any animals around either. Love the good old Zoo life . Well Ladies I'm heading out for the night since I have to be back up at 3 . Night Everyone 

Seramas? Lol The people I'm talking about aren't on here, but chicken people all seem the same. I'm just tired of my EE's being called mutts and being told that any bird that isn't any other breed is an EE basically. Even if it lays a brown or white egg. EE's might be mutts, and there will be an occasional one that missed the blue gene and doesn't lay blue/green (which I think then makes it a barnyard mix, not EE), but whatever. According to these people basically if I breed my leghorn to my silkie I can call the chicks EE's. 

Thanks, I've learned most of it from here. There's tons of information, and I lurked and read this site for a lonnnggg time before I ever got my chickens or joined.

Night! Added anything to your zoo lately? You know, if you moved up here by me we could combine our zoos and have quite the impressive one, lol. 

Yes I was referring to the Serama breeders. Most of them are nice but there are a few bad actors on there who make it very difficult for the rest. I'm afraid to post any pictures or comments on that thread. I might pull back a bloody nub where my fingers used to be. Lol! I do know that EE's genetically are way above my head. So you have to know more than the average bear to breed those. I can never figure it out. I do know that they are a breed though, because they breed true don't they? I have one little OE pullet that was bought at a show as an egg. I hatched it for my friend who bought the mixed egg lot. Then she did not want it. She has not started laying yet. And a have a couple of hatchery quailty Ameracaunas that lay green eggs and one barnyard mix that lays a huge green egg who looks like a RIR but with just a few black and white specks on her. Go figure!  I inhereted her from my brother in law who was dying with cancer and gave me his whole laying flock. Everyone else at my house lays either a white egg or more commonly a brown egg. Thats the extent of my colored egg knowledge. LOL!

Hi everyone, I just go in from doing some very late chores (11:40 pm). I slept until noon and them had to do chores,shopping then go and see some family friends before they leave tommarrow. Things have been slow going with me as the humidity has just kicked my butt and the skeeters are in swarms. This afternoon I fell twice in the barn and once outside thank GOD I missed the concret pile in duck pen #3 and the brooder tanks (old leaky water tanks) inside the barn. So now back to my two canes and as slow as molassis but I still get things done just alot slower. Good news is the swamp that is next to Pens 2 and 3 has started to dry up, gone down by 5 inches and is back where it belongs and not in my pens. I did find my other call duck that I thought had been eaten. He was in the swamp hiding under the 4 ft tall grass and he flew right to me. When I went shopping I picked up some bird netting that I will be sewing togther to make it large enough to cover thier area so nothing can fly in and take them.

Julie, you are wonderful for helping those ducks!! 

 

Hey Shannon. Hope all is well with you and yours.  Been a busy weekend here.  Mother in law is in town visiting and we have been doing a lot of family activities.  Spirit was doing so well that I allowed her to overdo it yesterday and she has been having a tough day today.  Found her splayed tonight for the 1st time in almost 6 days.  She has a vet appt at 9am tomorrow, so hope we can continue to make progress on correcting her feet & legs.  Piper (my buff boy) is much improved, however, and I plan to turn him out for a few hours tomorrow afternoon.

 

On that note, I'm exhausted and so will say goodnight.