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So does Nyx, my small Black Ameraucana (with 5 toes per foot). I just figure she has a loose crop.

Well aren't we full of our royal selves!! No wood siding? But only not on the front? Used to be the rich(er) people put wood siding on 3 sides, shingles on the front (because they were expensive). And only concrete or blacktop driveways? I guess they would poo poo the laid stone (brick like but...

Phew, I thought I'd lost it. I was thinking "who is Major, what happened to Henry?? "

Actually it was put in to keep the Southern slaveholder states from torpedoing the entire Constitution. They needed the guns so the few non slaves on a plantation could control the many slaves who obviously had no guns. My experience is extremely mixed. I had 2 Ancona chickens that NEVER went...

I would have thought that was mandatory. A little information would save them a lot of time. The person who came to your flat wasted their time and yours. Scary that there are 100 times more guns in households in the USA than in the military. Is that the "yard" or the entire lot? My prior...

Exactly, and wheel chairs even more. Older folks may not have need for a 10m x 5m living room but geez, there should at least be enough room for a table, a couple of chairs and enough room to turn around with the walker. Ours is not overly large, about 5m x 5m I would guess. Enough room for a...

Agreed. DD2 never got it even though she was definitely exposed, twice. She had the vaccination. So did DW and I but we both got mild cases June last year, never were in contact with anyone known to have it or showing symptoms. Covid Mary? Seems DD2 might be one of the few with natural immunity...

Interesting that there was a piece on NPR just today about the 2nd amendment. Turns out it isn't in the Constitution so people can protect themselves but to keep the southern states from torpedoing the whole thing. They needed the guns to keep the slaves controlled. Way more slaves on the land...

I do too. I looked up the blood type diet. As a type A I should be eating opposite of what I do. But I don't do well with what it says I should be eating.

Showing that tell tail hint of cockerel red on the wing! He is beautiful!!

I find most in the big professional sports are massively overpaid and not worth watching. This is Zeus

Start with a straight pin, makes a smaller hole and less likely to crack the egg than using a larger object. This too. Last summer I saved an egg, waiting for it to go bad so I could give it to the egg eater and MAYBE break her of her bad habit. She's alone in a stall next to the coop stall...

@ronott1 pointed me to the Costco generic version (Aller Flo). Exact same stuff and way cheaper. When they have it on sale it is ~$17 for 5 bottles. Compare to over $20 for 1 bottle of Flonase at the grocery store. Found this: Is it legal to relocate wildlife in Illinois? And you must have the...

Tax - Zeus. He mostly hangs in the barn alley during the day, still staying away from the girls. He has been on the roost on his own the last 5 nights, always in a different spot

Glad you are unscathed. I choose to live where there are neither hurricanes nor tornadoes! All my girls have been raised and live the same. The coop is an old 10'x12' horse stall with 1/2" hardware cloth over all openings. The auto door opens and closes with daylight into the barn alley...

In that instance I would consider the lab work as field work. Discovering things personally, just less travel.

for a guinea ;) I did necropsies on several of my girls over the past years that just dropped dead. In all cases it was fatty liver disease. Liver explodes, bird bleeds to death almost instantly. So he is like people on BYC that read something then repeat it without finding out if what they...

When does a cockerel become a rooster? Dang! There went your lunch :( That is the general behavior (or behaviour ;) ) I have seen in my girls over the last 10 years. Maybe the bugs are more active at those same times?

I don't understand why people want their email clogged up with BYC messages about posts. I follow a number of threads and most of them have at least one new post every day. This is one of them. Many I could check 10 times a day and always fine a new post. I just open the site and click on...

I am worried about that with Zeus. Got him as an "oops" EE cockerel from the guy who watched our animals while we went to my daughter's wedding. He said "young" but when I picked him up it was obvious his definition of young and mine are not the same. I'm guessing about 4 months old, about as...