➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[NanaKat]

Yes! Jean Auel was awesome, although the last book was quite a disappointment. It essentially just recapped the previous books.

Really enjoyed Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth series. Historical fiction is my favourite genre. If you can find any of the books, Pauline Gedge is great for ancient Egyptian (waaay before Cleopatra). Colleen McCullough has an amazing series on Rome. The 1st one is called First Man in Rome.

Yes, Auel's last book was disappointing.
Thank you for the suggestion on Follett, Gedge and McCullough.

You are going to be sore coming morning!
Go get some 10lb ice bags to put in your bath tub.

You have THAT many broodies?

Yes! And two more trying to go broody.

Good grief, good job! That would kill me in this heat. You and your chooks are gonna be so happy when it’s over haha.

Spent this morning changing the filters in the evaporative cooler (swamp cooler) in the brooder room.
Nothing like happy cool chickens.

Mom and little brother started pounding on our door. The Ginger jumped up and I heard “SNAKE IN THE COOP” and he was gone. I’m not supposed to get up but momma bear adrenaline hit.

There was two SMALL gaps in the hardware cloth on either side of the longest back vent where the roll wasn’t long enough. One was 1x2 inches, the other was about 0.5x4 inches. I was going to stuff a shirt in them next time I went out but I thought NO WAY would a snake find that tiny gap that far off the ground. I feel so damn stupid.
If it didn’t get in there then it would have squeezed through a cloth part much lower down that wasn’t a gap, but wasn’t totally flush against the wall. It would have had to push the wire quite a bit.
We screwed patches over the gaps and tightened the loose bit. I do not see any way a snake could get in now, period. I’m terrified that I’m wrong.

Glad the babies are safe.
Snakes can climb up posts and along rough wood surfaces or along brick walls. Anything their head can go through, the body can follow.

 

[BantyChooks]

Sorry if I sounded like a smartass haha! I was just reading about naked human popsicles the other day.

You need something better to read!

 

[Pugsabi]

Fake or real? Jk... just showing off what's going down this Friday. Starting early bc it's making today's task much more bearable. Deep cleaning the coop and bathing chickens. Not exactly fun but with the help of beer... Anyway, I will catch up later. Unless I die of heat stroke. If so it's been nice knowing you all.

Now I'm getting retardus I forgot to add the pic!!! View attachment 1475635

At 4.5% I'm pretty sure that's a soda.

 

[Tesumph]

View attachment 1475637 You need something better to read!

My husband agrees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

 

[BantyChooks]

My husband agrees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

Creepy...

 

[Glitterchicks]

My husband agrees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

 

[jwyles]

At 4.5% I'm pretty sure that's a soda.

Did I mention I'm actually trying to get things done while this goes down?

 

[Glitterchicks]

Did I mention I'm actually trying to get things done while this goes down?

HA! That's impossible. I've been trying to do my 1 hour of billing for like 4 hours.

 

[jwyles]

HA! That's impossible. I've been trying to do my 1 hour of billing for like 4 hours.

I hear ya. im back already... seriously not for long tho... I'm serious... like for real... I swear...

 

[Glitterchicks]

I hear ya. im back already... seriously not for long tho... I'm serious... like for real... I swear...

Sure...