Candled my Welsh Harlequin eggs on day nine and noticed three of the eggs had some odd development. They've got these clear pocket/culdesac type things where normally there is development. Otherwise, they're normal -- nice squirmy big-eyed babies!
All the other eggs are fine, except for one...
I will preface this by saying that the chicken is now dead and has been for about three hours.
Anyway, she was a Dark Cornish SQ and had just finished feathering out~ hadn't quite got her adult voice figured out yet. She was a bit skinny when I got her, but didn't think much of it, because...
I was one of the 30 kids selected to go to Mongolia through a 4-H exchange program, and I leave tomorrow!!! We were selected out of a group of 156 throughout the Western United States, and every cent is being paid for by an EXCEEDINGLY generous (and, as far as I know, anonymous) donation. We...
This is my first hatching in my new incubator (it's a styrofoam hovabator) and I'm having a terrible time with fluctuations. I'll wake up to 98.5 and come home to 102.5- with little to no adjustment on my part. I have one plug in. I think that the room temperature is partially to blame (my room...
So I came in from outside awhile ago and sat down at the computer, and then I actually looked at myself in the mirror. My hair decided to be curly and is now flying every which direction and it has leaves and twigs in it, my fingernails are filthy, my arms have an unknown chicken-related...
So today I got my new little foam Hovabator...and naturally, I got some eggs to go in it! They are Saxony ducks, and I'm really looking forward to having ducklings! However, I need to know what about duck incubation is different from chicken incubation. I know that I'm looking at 28 days...
I was sick for a week(the dreaded flu) and now that I'm finally coming out of the haze....
NOOOOOO!!!!
My best Sumatra hen, Indira, Champion Large Fowl Hen and Best of Show Large Fowl AND Third overall poultry at Oregon State Fair, that I was going to take to the PNPA show in 2 weeks, has gone...
'Stewardesses' is the longest word
typed with only the left hand.
And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed
with your right hand.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
No word in the English language rhymes with
month , orange, silver, or...
Hi! I love Sumatras, and I only have two hens at this point. One of the hens took Best of Show Large Fowl, and took third place over all the poultry at state fair. WOOT! Anyway, I want to get a good cockerel for her.Here are some options I am looking at.
Cockerel 1:
Cockerel 2:
They are...
Is anybody here planning on going to the Oregon State Fair? The 4-H poultry stuff is tomorrow.
Also, I'll be going to the PNPA show in Washington this fall. Anybody else? Terrielacy, perhaps?
"Here we go. The silky freaking hen. What is this thing thinking when it goes outside every day? It's like David Bowie meets Tim Burton meets Colonel Sanders. Did you just step out into the light after a night of clubbing? CHICKENS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO DRUGS, SILKY HEN.
I'm just going to be...
Okay, so my grandmother is not exactly the easiest person to deal with. That is what I like to call an understatement. I still love her, it's just...hard.
So anyway, this time her issue is that I don't send thank you cards. Here's the situation:
she lives 20 minutes away from me.
she's at every...
I like the polls in the other sections, but in Random Ramblings, they need their own section, because I get too distracted. I go to random ramblings because I want to read, and occasionally give a well thought out opinion that doesn' t necessarily fit into what the creator specified.
Also, I...
Only in America ......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
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Only in America .....do people...
I'm looking to buy my first wheel. The Sonata seems to be exactly what I want!
For $520 you get
the wheel, which is portable (according to the Kromski site, worth$520)
the carrying bag (worth approx. $75)
Two pounds of white corriedale wool-carded(worth?)
A large niddy noddy (worth around...
It's true! Potatoes can form fruit, and it has happened right here at my house! It looks like a tomato vine growing off of a potato plant. It happened on our volunteer potatoes, and it was completely possible that they hybridized, except when I googled it, it turns out that it occasionally...
My NEW NAME IS IN THE SUBJECT LINE. DON'T LAUGH UNTIL YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOUR NEW NAME IS!
We all need a little stress-reliever! This only takes a minute.
Sometimes when you have a stressful day or week, you need some silliness to break up the day. If we are honest, we have a lot more stressful...
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Okay, so my neighbors have(had) three dogs: two choc labs that they got at the same time(big mistake) and a new st. bernard cross. The labs have been anti people ever since they got them, only one has ever been able to be touched even by my brother-and my brother gets along with any dog. Well...
If you could change your name, or your child's name or your dog's name-whatever, to anything you wanted, what would you choose? Why?
You don't have to include your real name, only if you want.
I wouldn't change my name, I would go by my middle name. My first name has been THE most popular...