↓2011-04-04 After years of traveling and moving with my first career (Navy), I'm finally in a place and position where I can have a garden and CHICKENS! Got my 16 peeps Friday (Apr 1st), and like so many others, should prolly start my coop!
Brand new to chicken raising: Would that be...
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This post is really interesting...
I have 4 WCBPolish (one is a roo), 5 EE's and 6 BR's, all about 17 wks. The Roo, Walter, will chase the smallest of the Polish, but she just runs behind the hay bale until Walter finds some other entertainment. Other than the occasional race for...
What a timely post! Great info here, especially since I just scored 15 sheets of Ondura for $40!! A couple have dings or small holes, but since it will be going over plywood, it won't even be noticeable...
I never cease to be amazed by what I learn lurking around here
Thanks, BYC folks...
Woohoo! Too busy to fix bre-fas' yesterday, so had that first egg this morning. Don't know if this is an omen or what, but the first egg of all was a DOUBLE YOLK!
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Can't get the links to work!? I tried going to the Science News site, but can't find the articles. Could you tell me what heading you found them under? I'd love to read 'em, 'specially about supplementing red yeast rice. Of course, then I'll need to read about red yeast rice, cuz...
I've never heard they are completely cholesterol free, but free range eggs are just generally healthier than "factory produced". Mother Earth News has this chart comparing the nutritional levels of several breed eggs that, while not comprehensive, is kinda interesting...
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It's funny, because when I saw that perfect little egg in the sand box, I did a double (and triple!) take!! I mean, I started with chickens for the eggs, but now that the first one was sitting there, it was like I was looking at an alien or something! I just DID NOT expect them so...
Congrats, gertiie!! We're first eggers together!!
Guess my 16-17 week old gals didn't read the book either! Thought I had at LEAST another month, but went out last evening and found one in the sandbox, one in the temporary coop.
I REALLY have to stop answering my phone, learn to say NO...
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Shelter Girl, I was a Navy Hospital Corpman (medical bubba) at PI: Please know that your Kate is going thru a course of training that NOone in the civilian world could possibly understand, and at PI? DAMMIT hot this time of year and those recruits are beyond exhausted at the end of a...
To Kate/PVT ?:
Doc here: PI is hard. Beyond hard. I've been there. I've seen it.
Here's the deal. YOU are stronger than anything they throw at you. Really.
YOU are going to be a MARINE! VERY few can say that... MORE IMPORTANTLY: YOU are going to be a WOMAN MARINE! Harder still.
You...
Ya'll, I was just responding to the way an earlier poster described her ex's dancing and flirting, not my feelings on the age subject! I am truely sorry if I offended anyone.
Honestly, I don't give a happy hoot who someone marries. Age, religion, race: It all makes for variety, interest and...
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We have a rescued horse named Bob!
My Dodge p/u is Chief: He ain't pretty but he works hard, he's reliable, and every now and then, has a few too many barley pops and has to sleep in town...
Hubbies work van is just Blue. He's an awesome builder but not much of a visionary
The...
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I am so sorry to have been part of this post getting so far off the topic.
I think you did an awesome job of displaying your flags and wish you all the best. And I'm hoping that anyone with issues will actually have the courage to talk it out with you and maybe get some understanding...
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Really? I thought pretty much every state had the right to suceed, but don't all successful states pay the penalty in the form of federal taxes? Maybe not. I've never lived in Texas...
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Um... I thought the subtle tease was kinder than a spelling-faux-pas slap, but I...
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Good question! I'm guessing that most people breed their own...
Among others, mine is unattended children running around in stores like it's their personal playground. I have been known to corral a ricocheting rug rat (generally after they've run a cart into my...
Swimmer's ear can be bacterial or fungal, and since the wee-beasties are normally sitting in a little drop of trapped water in the ear canal and not circulating thru the body, they aren't affected by antibiotics taken by mouth, and as Godsgrl mentioned, not all anti-bugs treat all bacteria.
We...