Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long! - Page 581

OMG....DS was outside with DD and I was watching them through window while I was doing dishes.  They're playing with dirt and sticks and stuff and all of the sudden DD starts screaming.  I run out and she has a small cut on her finger and its bleeding. after I clean it up I make her show me what cut her, it turns out its my missing aquarium thermometer.  The alcohol part is intact but the glass and beads aren't.  DD says DS was eating the beads.  So I run and check his mouth and there's no glass or cuts in his mouth but theres beads all over it.  Does anyone know what those beads are?  ARe they lead?  Should I take DS to the ER??  I feel like the worst mommy ever.

OMG....DS was outside with DD and I was watching them through window while I was doing dishes.  They're playing with dirt and sticks and stuff and all of the sudden DD starts screaming.  I run out and she has a small cut on her finger and its bleeding. after I clean it up I make her show me what cut her, it turns out its my missing aquarium thermometer.  The alcohol part is intact but the glass and beads aren't.  DD says DS was eating the beads.  So I run and check his mouth and there's no glass or cuts in his mouth but theres beads all over it.  Does anyone know what those beads are?  ARe they lead?  Should I take DS to the ER??  I feel like the worst mommy ever.

I want to play!

its only 11.04 am here, so Im still good?

I will be setting 3 buff and one white silkie egg for a grand total of FOUR.

I couldnt hold my other eggs this long, and I set them thurs.  But if my black hens get it together, Ill run out and see if I can add another, LOL!

whats the deadline for guessing on the questions?  I have company here and dont have time now to go over all of that...

thanks!

A warm day here in Maine - sunny - snow melting - windows open....a day like this is why we live here!

And I have 48 eggs in to be part of this hatchalong!!!

Don't forget to buy your chick starter feed and prepare a brooder situation for your chicks who will be asking for you 21 days from now!!!

Desserts for work cherry vanilla layer cake and white cake(green) w/ sour cream ganache

Okay, here is my entry for ChestnutRidge's Most Ingenious Chicken Design - First some background.  I experienced a "guinea population explosion" summer-before-last.  I built a 12 x 16 open air, covered run to house the guineas and whatever chickens wanted to stay there.  The roof is over 12 feet high at the peak and the birds like to sleep in the rafters.  All the birds.  Even the old, fat, laying hens will make their way all the way to the highest rafters to roost.  Within a week of finishing the coop, I needed a way to get then out of the rafters so I found a scrap of wood about 30 inches long and a smaller scrap to nail on top.  I called it my "Chicken Gitter."  I have used it nearly every day since and have several times intended to make a more presentable version, but this one is functional and always handy.   I had a neighbor come over to care for my birds while we were away on vacation and I labled it for her.  I wrote "Chicken Getter"  on it so she could differentiate it from other scrap wood laying around and because I was afraid she would think I didn't know that "Chicken Gitter" was incorrect!  I now have three old hens that will stay in the rafters until I help them down.  They stand on the rafter until they see the "Chicken Gitter" in my hand, then they squat and I touch the back of their legs with it.  They step back onto the cross piece and I lower them to the ground.  Spoiled girls!