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Aww Pebbles! :love I have mentioned before that the difference in Australorps seems to rest in the big hatcheries. I've seen breeder pics from the US that look like your Australian birds. There is an out of state breeder I've book-marked that ships eggs from his BBS show stock. Bantam...

I know, right?! For those not familiar, this is an Ohiki rooster. They are an old Japanese bantam breed with shared blood with the Japanese (Chabo) bantams and Onagadori long tails. Can't have roosters if I want to remain legit. My neighbors on one side are deaf, though. ;) I am looking...

It is just humans being a social primate and banging on their chests to show others how magnificent they are. It is hard wired into the species, though being "sapiens" you'd think we'd grow to understand ourselves a bit more. I grew up in a conservationist and environmental family. I remember...

Oh, Shad, if you had set up that table at our Santa Monica farmer's market, all the trendy hipsters would have had you sold out before the end of the day.

:lau Okay, Shad, I am your living proof! I've got everything ready for them and I can't find chickens! I've been to three fairs to try to find local breeders and it was a bust. Craig's List was just a bunch of people reselling started pullets that they raised from hatchery chicks, same...

To be fair, that horrible video was showing either a hatchery for commercial egg layers or commercial meat birds. That level of mechanization would not be found at McMurray, Hoover, etc, that hatches many breeds to be delivered to feed stores. Still, the multi-breed hatcheries are bad enough...

This reminds me of this TED talk from 2013 about desertification. While research has refuted some of the ideas, much of it stands. Allan Savory's TED Talk Speaking as a biologist, so much of our world's problems are simply that our population has grown far beyond the carrying capacity of the...

Oh, I forgot about the Matthew! As someone who has sailed long distances in modern and even vintage sailboats, I am always astonished that people got around the world in caravels, galleons, and such. I crewed on the replica of the Bounty in the South Pacific and on some local brigantines, and...

It gives me anxiety to see that pic with everyone driving on the wrong side of the road. :lol: I spent nine month in New Zealand and it is the worst not being able to drive just on your muscle memory and having to think which lane you are going to every time you turn. Is that tall ship the...

One of the easiest to understand and best (I think) food philosophies for people is simple statement "Don't eat anything your ancestor (caveman) wouldn't recognize as food." :lol: This is recognizing that humans are omnivores and hunter-gatherers; none of these fad diets and weird s**t...

Oh my, that expression says it all. She looks like she's telling those youngsters "Don't make me come over there and give you something to cry about!"

Sorry I missed this advice. I will definitely try here, but the usual advice is to get shipped eggs and hatch them. That will be a last resort for me. We do have more rural areas in California, it is just more of a drive. I'll be traveling several hundred miles up the very agricultural...

:sigh: I am so disappointed. I went to our local "poultry show" this weekend. I have been so looking forward to making contacts with So Cal chicken breeders so I can acquire a few bantam pullets. The new coop is coming along between all my other projects. I was looking for pretty much the...

As you know, I teach college students sailing (for 25 years) and have seen young peoples' weird fashions come and go. The most important part of the beginner class orientation was about what is and is not appropriate sailing attire. That crotch-around-the-knees look went out of fashion on US...

Oh, there are plenty of BD videos of the robots doing the skills they are "supposed" to be doing, as per the organization's vision. Yet, they keep putting out these fun videos as well, that show the creative side of coding. Those coders had to come up with the moves they wanted to code, to get...

The inner joy apparent in the video is absolutely from the programers themselves, not the robots. This is a programmed sequence. This video makes me smile every time because to me, it is a bunch of geeks using the robots as an artistic medium to express themselves, as any artist does in other...

I agree, but I could say I like tigers but that wouldn't justify me having them. ;) I was concerned that I didn't have enough land to provide a trio of chickens with an adequately interesting environment. They are not like my dogs which get to go with me on all sorts of wonderful...

Ahem... native to Africa. Check out the debate around the Pleistocene Megafauna extinction. Is it coincidence that where Homo Sapiens went as they left Africa, megafauna extinction followed? Maybe, maybe not... it is being debated. Note that there were still Wooly Mammoths in Siberia during...

Thank you for taking the time to answer so thoroughly, I appreciate it. Looks like I have the same keeping method as your sister, albeit with what looks like a smaller yard, but also a smaller number of chickens. I was seriously questioning whether I should get new pullets. I fully admit I...