Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long! - Page 716

The babies ventured all the way out today... at 10 weeks old this means My Life is ready for new additions, right??? They scared the POO out of the Angus calves, so in my book they will do just fine

Pictures to follow, if the camera will cooperate...

So... my calves are too scared of the little peeps to come get a drink, but my little 4lb dog thinks he is master of it all... LOL

I got 12 eggs today!  Four are pullet eggs!  I am so egg-cited!  I have 9 hens and 10 pullets and they are kicking into high gear.  I have an Exel spreadsheet that keeps track of my chickens (date hatched, date purchased, date deceased, gender, breed, color, name and distinguishing features) my eggs collected daily, and monthly, and yearly.  It also tracks feed purchased and consumed.  I tried to share it but I don't have permission to have attachments.  I got 132 eggs in January`, 172 in Feb., and 161 so far this month.

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Originally Posted by kvmommy 

Deb, I have been wanting to learn to tat so long.  Do you have any recommendations on books or anything on how to get started? 
 

 

I always said I wanted to learn how to tat for many years.  I finally decided "you can find anything on the internet".  I typed in "how to tat", found about four websites that had pictures/diagrams of the instructions and printed them out.  I laid all my directions out on the floor, held everything in my hands and looked back and forth until I figured it out.  There was a lot of cursing until I managed my first ring with picots.  Once you've gotten down the technique, you can work without looking.  An entire project can fit into a sandwich bag.  It is truly a take along type work, for waiting rooms, etc.

You can find lots of books of tatting patterns on amazon.com.

My favorite shuttle is the cheap, plastic Daisy brand shuttle.  I suggest working with fine or extra fine crochet thread to practice.  When you move on to actual tatting thread, it's like working with spider webs.  When you make a mistake tatting, there is no backing it back out like with knitting, crochet, etc.  When you make a mistake, you cuss, cut out the mistake and start that part over.

Deb
 

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Originally Posted by NotAFarm 

 

 

 

Hey your have great smilies where'd you get them?   Please share.

Michele

 

Many of these are from the Emoticons site http://momstheword.b1.jcink.com/index.php?act=sbextras&CODE=emoticons2&s=718bfebb6a4a801aa7cca6b9e7db4b10
 

You can find others by searching for smileys or smilies............lots of places out there.....

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Originally Posted by Wisher1000 

I got 12 eggs today!  Four are pullet eggs!  I am so egg-cited!  I have 9 hens and 10 pullets and they are kicking into high gear.  I have an Exel spreadsheet that keeps track of my chickens (date hatched, date purchased, date deceased, gender, breed, color, name and distinguishing features) my eggs collected daily, and monthly, and yearly.  It also tracks feed purchased and consumed.  I tried to share it but I don't have permission to have attachments.  I got 132 eggs in January`, 172 in Feb., and 161 so far this month.

Congrats on the great egg production!!!     Wow, an Excel spreadsheet...........wish I was that organized!! 

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Originally Posted by Wisher1000 

I got 12 eggs today!  Four are pullet eggs!  I am so egg-cited!  I have 9 hens and 10 pullets and they are kicking into high gear.  I have an Exel spreadsheet that keeps track of my chickens (date hatched, date purchased, date deceased, gender, breed, color, name and distinguishing features) my eggs collected daily, and monthly, and yearly.  It also tracks feed purchased and consumed.  I tried to share it but I don't have permission to have attachments.  I got 132 eggs in January`, 172 in Feb., and 161 so far this month.

I'm at 247 so far this month, LOL.  I also keep a spreadsheet of every egg (I also weigh them in grams, but only record the egg as J, X, L or M (used to have S & P), but haven't had one of those since they first started.

This is from my 15 girls.  The best they've ever done is a 14 egg day, still haven't hit a "no boarder" day.

Congrats, your numbers will continue to climb.  Mine are all about 11 mos old now.

Deb
 

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Originally Posted by debs_flock 

I always said I wanted to learn how to tat for many years.  I finally decided "you can find anything on the internet".  I typed in "how to tat", found about four websites that had pictures/diagrams of the instructions and printed them out.  I laid all my directions out on the floor, held everything in my hands and looked back and forth until I figured it out.  There was a lot of cursing until I managed my first ring with picots.  Once you've gotten down the technique, you can work without looking.  An entire project can fit into a sandwich bag.  It is truly a take along type work, for waiting rooms, etc.

 

You can find lots of books of tatting patterns on amazon.com.

 

My favorite shuttle is the cheap, plastic Daisy brand shuttle.  I suggest working with fine or extra fine crochet thread to practice.  When you move on to actual tatting thread, it's like working with spider webs.  When you make a mistake tatting, there is no backing it back out like with knitting, crochet, etc.  When you make a mistake, you cuss, cut out the mistake and start that part over.

 

Deb
 

 

I'm going to try that!  Thanks!!!