2018 Newbie Chat!

[llombardo]

wow... I guess I should've just kept my mouth shut huh
How was I supposed to know about your relationship with them?
You live in their house. I assumed that meant it was a good relationship.
I'm very sorry I offended you.
You are absolutely right...I don't know you. None of us know each other.
I understand your anger but why would it even matter to you what I think about anything?
Why would you let it upset you?
You shouldn't. I am nobody to you. Just some lady online.
All of this is nobody's business but yours but you posted about this situation on a public forum and I responded to it based only on what details there were at that time.
I also gave my opinion. I gave it in a very incautious and flippant manner.
Which has offended you. My opinion was based on few details.
I should have asked you more questions or sent you a PM to get more facts and a clearer idea of the whole picture.
Now that you have explained, I can understand why you said it.


"...people who love us." I meant this as the key phrase.
I'm sorry I assumed your parents love you and treat you well.
I made an assumption. I was wrong.

What animal did I kill? Loki and Conan? I can't keep multiple human aggressive roosters.
I raise them for meat, not just eggs. I don't support factory farming but I do support homestead farms and self sufficiency. My mistake was naming them before I knew their sex and before I had created a plan for excess/aggressive cockerels.

If everyone else, including the school, has chickens then why are you worried about it?
They have to take everyone to court not just one person. Maybe that's why they haven't yet?
I mean, that's only fair. They can't just pick on you.
I'm sorry I don't understand.
If it's not a law then it's some sort of agreement?
I thought it was a law because you got so upset about it and say they might make you get rid of them and talk about them taking you to court or something.
What kind of power do they actually have?
It seems odd but I guess maybe it's like a HOA here in the US. Where the Homeowners
Association creates policies the home owners who live there have to abide by.
Some HOAs are very strict (they have monthly meetings and employees and go over things people are doing) while others are nothing more than a passing mention in the deed.

I admit that I can offend people. I am a very blunt and forward communicator.
I offer my apologies for that.
All of this could have been exchanged in a PM (personal message) instead of publicly.
I admit that it was very bad form for me to write it here instead of a PM.

Sorry about your parents and their treatment of you. It sounds like they're now putting pressure on you.
I've had toxic relationships too. I broke ties with those individuals (sometimes only for a time) because I realized they weren't changing and it would cause damage to me and/or my son.
I'm not the kind of long-suffering person that will allow myself to be treated badly when I can walk away. I used to. But my life was chaos.
I didn't want my son observing them and getting ideas that because I put up with it that made it okay.
I believe we teach people how to treat us by what we allow them to do.
In other words, if I allow it they'll probably keep doing it.
Boundaries are important to me to keep relationships balanced and healthy.
That's just my philosophy.

And you have taught me that I went completely overboard with you.
I won't do it again.

I pray Jesus will bless you, your daughter & grandson and that He will bless your fight for your animals.
I hope you can forgive me for reacting to your post in such a presumptive way.

I think I should take a break from this thread for a while.
Or maybe just stay off of it altogether.

Again my sincerest apologies!

P.S. To send a PM just click on the "Inbox" with the letter icon.
P.P.S. If my country outlaws Christianity I will do what I have to do. All the way up unto death. I'm not worried about it. I worry about very little.

Both of you guys are very strong apparently independent beings.

It takes a lot to post about an issue and it takes a lot to apologize.

Both of you are my kind of people

 

[No More Empty Nest]

Personally, I like everyone here and I hope everyone will stay. Written words can be difficult, there's no facial expressions, no vocal inflections, and most important, no give and take of a spoken conversation. @ChooksNQuilts , your response to @Anna Ranieri would have been quite different had you been having a spoken conversation. You would have had a much clearer understanding due to the give and take of a conversation. It's my sincere hope that we can get past his and remain a group of people who enjoy their chickens and ducks and enjoy writing about them.
I really really hope that Anna doesn't have to give up her birds. It saddens me that you even have to think about the possibility.

 

[CannedMonster]

Both of you guys are very strong apparently independent beings.

It takes a lot to post about an issue and it takes a lot to apologize.

Both of you are my kind of people

Thank you.
I still feel bad.
It seems I’m offending people sometimes and I really don’t want to.
I just need to ask more questions and give more thought to things I post.

 

[CannedMonster]

Personally, I like everyone here and I hope everyone will stay. Written words can be difficult, there's no facial expressions, no vocal inflections, and most important, no give and take of a spoken conversation. @ChooksNQuilts , your response to @Anna Ranieri would have been quite different had you been having a spoken conversation. You would have had a much clearer understanding due to the give and take of a conversation. It's my sincere hope that we can get past his and remain a group of people who enjoy their chickens and ducks and enjoy writing about them.
I really really hope that Anna doesn't have to give up her birds. It saddens me that you even have to think about the possibility.

Yes exactly!
It’s impossible to infuse written communication with tone and body language and things like that.
This isn’t the first time I’ve put my foot in my mouth.
You’d think at my age I’d learn!
I want to stay but I don’t want Anna to feel uncomfortable in any way.
I hope we can move past it too.
I’ll probably just lurk on the thread for a while without posting much.
I’ll do updates on Pippin and the baby for sure.
I do want to post about my chickens reaction to seeing snow for the first time today.

 

[llombardo]

Thank you.
I still feel bad.
It seems I’m offending people sometimes and I really don’t want to.
I just need to ask more questions and give more thought to things I post.

It's always hard when writing. I never get my point across the right way. As soon as I saw what was written I thought oh no. I got what both of you were writing. That is because I can come across the wrong way too without meaning it..lol

Things are not like they used to be in this world. I grew up in a very loving home, I'm strong and independent. I have learned that not everyone has that loving family. And it can change in an instant. It's hard.

We just need to move forward and hope for the best.

 

[llombardo]

How did they do with the snow?

***You have always been helpful to Anna, I'm sure she will accept your apology***

A bunch of cute chicken in the snow pictures are just the ticket!

 

[CannedMonster]

It snowed today for the first time this winter.
My chickens have never experienced snow yet except for Red but clearly she didn’t remember it lol.

I should’ve taken video!
It was so funny!
I opened the big coop door this morning and they were all right near the door.
They took a step and all collectively stopped in their tracks.
Whaaaat!? What is this? They seemed to be saying.
You would’ve thought the Apocalypse had come!
They absolutely refused to come out and step in the snow.
I’m had to bribe them with scratch and chopped banana peel.
Even then they’d only go to the places protected from snow.
Poor Itsy was in the nesting box trying to lay and there were birds standing all around her getting in her business.
Clearly it was a hostile work environment for her.
She was complaining and squawking.
Oliver got scared of Angus and accidentally stepped on the snow and you would’ve thought somebody goosed him.
He squawked and flapped and jumped onto the chain link fence.
I was afraid he’d jump into the neighbors yard so I gently pushed him to jump down and he kept leaping through the snow like it was biting him.
I went into the house for a while because I figured it would be a while until they actually came out into the yard.

Later I went back out and they were still kind of reluctant.
I moved around doing chores and soon I witnessed the first brave adventurers making their way cautiously into the alien environment.
The first ones were Taka (ha! of course), and all 3 Speckled Sussex!
They were so curious and at first didn’t want to step out into the wide stretches of snow but would keep near bushes or fence lines.
I decided to use the shovel and create some grass pathways for them to walk on.
The snow wasn’t too deep. Only a few inches.
While doing that I saw that Taka was making her way along the fence line and half the flock was following behind her and my Sussex girls.
Even Oliver and Angus too.
After a while I suddenly heard Agatha squawk loudly and launch herself into the air flapping with everything she had.
She had been left behind because she was so reluctant to go in the snow.
She was trying to get to the others without stepping in the snow!
She did it in two great bounds.
But when she landed in the snow between jumps she jumped off again so fast like the snow was hot lava lol.
All the others eventually got pretty used to it. Especially the young ones.
They were walking all over it like they’d always been doing it.
The bantams did better after I made pathways for them.
As soon as I made one going from the deck to the coop area, Itsy (who’d been complaining the whole time) marched right over to the prefab and into a nest to finally lay her egg.
But Agatha just hated it.
She really did.
She just huddled by the fence and wouldn’t use the pathways.
I finally picked her up and with her protesting loudly I plopped her down on the grass pathway and she started walking towards the deck to join Emily and Angus.
By the end of the day they were all pros at it and couldn’t care less that it was snow.
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[CannedMonster]

I don’t think my final photos posted

 

[Cbarr00]

Ok so first off I don't want anyone leaving this forum! We have hardly any active posters and it will surely die if we lose more. Lol! Also I enjoy reading chicken updates!

Secondly I think we have to remember this is an open internet forum. Meaning anyone and everyone can read what is on here without having to be a member or friend. We should all be cautious of being too personal on this thread. Internet safety 101. I mean this why most of us dont use our real names or exact location on our profiles. Let me tell you there are some crazies out there. Like Chooks stated earlier, direct messages would be more ideal for personal information. We are, after all, all internet strangers here.

I surely hope this thread can get back on the chicken track.

 

[PNW_Peepers]

Show me your eggs! How many did you all get yesterday/today? Here’s my loot from yesterday, not very many for 17 chickens.