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  1. jxp

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Can't eat ladybugs - that's a good thing, right?
  2. jxp

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I'm sorry you're going through this population boom. I hope you, @WthrLady and anyone else affected by them stay safe and protected.
  3. jxp

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Must you come in physical contact with them or is it some sort of chemical they give off when they're present in volume or ???? Do antihistamines help?
  4. jxp

    What did you do in the garden today?

    What are the symptoms of a ladybird allergy?
  5. jxp

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    I'm telling ya - get you a couple of grandkids. You will never have an unnamed chicken again. Or puppy. Or kitten. Or ladybug.
  6. jxp

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    The 4 little women (silkies) please - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
  7. jxp

    Fresh perspective on camouflage for free-ranging chickens

    What does my dogs see? What does the local hawks see?
  8. jxp

    Ferragosto adopt-an-egg hatch-a-long

    So much fertilizer to keep your plants green and growing. Glad the babies have their new forever homes. How's Mom doing?
  9. jxp

    What did you do in the garden today?

    First sunny day in a while, eh?
  10. jxp

    Redinator's First Hatch-Along w Bonus Broody: And Everything Thereafter

    After Sherry, I'll probably not get another sex linked. She started laying at 5 or 6 months and laid through her first winter. Molted second winter and then this last summer has been in a semi-molt and egg decline since June. Will now lay just a couple of times per week and the shells are either...
  11. jxp

    Redinator's First Hatch-Along w Bonus Broody: And Everything Thereafter

    Almost enough to cover the feed and treat bill.
  12. jxp

    Your 2025 Garden

    Somehow that seems like a small harvest for you. Not a complaint, just a surprised observation.
  13. jxp

    I'm so old I Remember when:

    I bet you could entertain yourself for hours with a can of alphabet soup.
  14. jxp

    Redinator's First Hatch-Along w Bonus Broody: And Everything Thereafter

    They were gorgeous! Also intelligent, independent yet loyal and loving, fierce yet friendly - not quite dogs but great companions.
  15. jxp

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    I'll do like this one woman I once knew whose incubator stopped working in the winter. She put the few eggs she had inside her brassiere under and between her ample breasts and wore a sweater for extra insulation while her honey made the few hour trip to town and back with a new incubator and...
  16. jxp

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    If you can wait until I get back to the home state later this week, I'll candle one of Black Sunday White's eggs and let you know. Guaranteed not infested with rooster ejaculate. :eek::lau
  17. jxp

    Redinator's First Hatch-Along w Bonus Broody: And Everything Thereafter

    Mom - Arctic Wolf and Alaskan Malamute Dad - Timber Wolf and Siberian Husky
  18. jxp

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    Heat shouldn't bother rubber bands. And if it doesn't work, easily removable.
  19. jxp

    Redinator's First Hatch-Along w Bonus Broody: And Everything Thereafter

    A number of years ago my Hybrid had her cubs in mid-December. We named them Dasher, Dancer, etc. Three hours after Blitzen, Rudolph completed the pack. As things turned out, Vixen was the only little boy in the litter. :idunno
  20. jxp

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    Just thinking out loud here but what if you used something like a hot glue gun or a rubber band to place bump lines every couple of inches along the roller tubes so the eggs cannot get past them. I'm thinking something like speed bumps on roads that slow down traffic.
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