Not familiar with that development.. Does anyone else have chickens in your neighborhood?
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Not familiar with that development.. Does anyone else have chickens in your neighborhood?
So, all of a sudden I see lightening.. Far off in the distance, towards Ahwatukee/south Mtn.
The sky has clouds and I had a felling rain was on the way.. Sure enough just enough
to mess up the "just waxed car".
As the neighbor and our son rush to pull stuff in, it has come & gone.. So bizarre..
Oh & for the people out there that do not believe me about the grass seed not getting
eaten up by the birds.. Day 2 still not a single bird has come for a nibble..
The sky has clouds and I had a felling rain was on the way.. Sure enough just enough
to mess up the "just waxed car".
As the neighbor and our son rush to pull stuff in, it has come & gone.. So bizarre..
Oh & for the people out there that do not believe me about the grass seed not getting
eaten up by the birds.. Day 2 still not a single bird has come for a nibble..
Our BCM, Millie Fluer de' ullce, buff orphinton, Ameraucanas, & 1 of the E.E plus the little silkie are the friendliest.
They do love to follow me around & are interested in everything I am carrying..
I set up piles of wood that are stacked.. The crickets go inbetween for hiding.. Not for long though.. It is just a
TRAP.. :yiipchick
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Ladyk I think your timing is a little off about having solar at your house in 1962. Unless you were living on a first gen satellite in space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_solar_cells#1960-1978
In 1962 I was in 9th grade, I desired to design my dream house. I was miserable at Judson, lonely and no one to talk to. I did not fit in with the little clicks that you had to belong to to fit in. I was not a cow girl, didn't have a horse, from the city. The cool California kids, well I was from Minn, never been on a surf board, the smart group (the geeks, at the time a geek was a Circus performer that bit the heads off chickens and never bathed). Then there was the small micro clicks that I did not want to belong to, they were snobs. So I had a lot of time to think.
In one of my clases they talked about ant hills and how they kept it cool in hostile deserts. One source, I had a lot of them, I started to assemble these idea's and restarted drawing. I had an underground house. I thought, we are living longer, what about mobility? What if I was hurt and lost my legs? I would still want to be active as Possable. So I made it wheelchair access able. I would not wish to lug anything down all those stairs, so I had a large dum waiter, could be used as an elivator in a pinch. Next to it I had a shaft for pipes to be used for unknown technology. The house was to be self contained with a ground water well and a 12'X24'X16' water storage under tge house. Thru the utility shaft rain water that was collected would be pumped with wind power into the water storage after selt and debre settled. That would become part of the garden when cleaned. I used prestressed concrete for the underground roof. In the main room I had plants and a water affect, humidity and oxygen cleaning. Sun light entered thru a window wall facing South. The short hallway to the reast of the house was on a ramp going down an additional 4'. In the hall was a trap access door to the under structure, {please remember was in 9th grade, 13 years old. If I was to do it to day it would be not so explosive}. for maintenance on the dum waiter, my food storage shelves, methane production, and water storage need to be done. Also this was the attic and storage room. Back to the living quarters. The kitchen had a counter work top that could be raised or lowered (remember handicap access). The stove and oven had 2 energey sourse, electrice and methane gas. A generator also burned methane when there was a greater need for energy then the sun could provide. I had a large disk, looked all the world like a satellite dish for solar power. Wirh a note that I could not find anything one what it looks like.
There were countless other things I designed into the house, and I can't remember clearly what they were. I had sealed vacuum tubs to the surface placed at an angle to bring light down into the darkness. My dad, who I sent the drawing to was all excited years later. He could not find them, the drawings. I told hi. He had sent them back and my mom thru them out when I was not there. Apparently it was the sun tub or Sky light I designed. He, my dad, was very disappointed. He said he would have backed me on getting the patent on it because he was sure it pre-dated the sky-light that just came out.
Also, a note on small minds, I thought teachers were godlike and knew everything. I was basted as being stupid and not relistice, living in a Fantacy world......
In 11th grade to come to The Taylor School, the teachers ware old! The were retired collage/university professors, most haveing mutable Doctorates. The did not know how to teach Dogma, they taught thinking. Being a bad speller was not a measure of intelligence to them, thinking was. I was falling school until I came there.
I was ashamed and loved my creation, I never showed it to them. My Senior year I looked for it and my mom told me she though out the tub with trash in it. Meaning my drawings of my house and lot of my art work. She also though out my oil paintings.
So yes, in 1962 they did not have solar power, but I know the sun had energy, and we could harness it. Also in 1962 recycling was a stupid idea.
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Bobby, if you want to get Delawares from a breeder, there are some good ones out there. There is a Delaware club, and they have a breeders list. Also, I remember not that long ago seeing someone local advertising Delawares on Craigslist, said they had been breeding them for a while. I didn't pay the ad much attention since I was not interested in getting any. But if you put a query on Craigslist Farm and Garden section for Delawares, you may find that person, or search back. OK, also I have some of BYC Kathyinmo's Delaware that she recreated from the original breeds used to get Delwares (New Hampshire and Barred Rock). There is a thread dedicated to her Delawares for everybody who has them. They have a long ways to go to be up to standard, these are 4th generation. I am parting with a pair of them right now. I have two cockerels and one of them is going to meet the knife probably on Tuesday....sounds like you are not quite ready for birds yet, but thought I'd tell you. I kept back one of my Delaware hens (hatchery stock) from 2011 hatch. She had a really massive head compared to the others. If she ever starts laying again, I am going to breed one of Kathy's males to her just to see how they look, an experiment. I always encourage people to get their birds from breeders rather than big hatcheries.
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****** DOVES are eating my chicken food. I'm not a hunter but I'm thinking about getting a pellet gun...
That's a real shame! They just didn't realize how far ahead of your time you were!
HELP!
Of my 4 girls, Lemon has been the slowest to develop. She is smaller than the other birds, tends to be on the lazy side. Her head feathers have not filled in as well as the others. She gets to eat with the others, there is no pecking going on except for arguing over a roost when they go to bed. A few days ago I noticed she had a few missing feathers on her neck and her neck is much skinnier than anyone else's. They all eat together and get along just fine. They pretty much got the full run of the yard this weekend since we were home and working in the garden. This afternoon I noticed she now has a pink tinge to her face, around her eyes, etc and raised bumps that are also pink behind her ears. Could she have gotten an irritation from one of my herbs? Did she possibly eat something she shouldn't have? No one else has these symptoms. She is acting normally, not weak. Does it look topical, or internal?
This was a pic I took the other day which is what everyone else's head and face look like.
Of my 4 girls, Lemon has been the slowest to develop. She is smaller than the other birds, tends to be on the lazy side. Her head feathers have not filled in as well as the others. She gets to eat with the others, there is no pecking going on except for arguing over a roost when they go to bed. A few days ago I noticed she had a few missing feathers on her neck and her neck is much skinnier than anyone else's. They all eat together and get along just fine. They pretty much got the full run of the yard this weekend since we were home and working in the garden. This afternoon I noticed she now has a pink tinge to her face, around her eyes, etc and raised bumps that are also pink behind her ears. Could she have gotten an irritation from one of my herbs? Did she possibly eat something she shouldn't have? No one else has these symptoms. She is acting normally, not weak. Does it look topical, or internal?
This was a pic I took the other day which is what everyone else's head and face look like.
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kpgoldstar
1. Give her a shot of vitmain B12 or another vitamin boost ie pedi-i-sol
2. She is at the bottom of the flock and not a lusty as the others, seperate her, make her lap chicken with extra treats. (She would rather be with the others but this is for her own good/health.)
3. She is not a failure to thrive but just not as healthy and robust as her flock mates.
1. Give her a shot of vitmain B12 or another vitamin boost ie pedi-i-sol
2. She is at the bottom of the flock and not a lusty as the others, seperate her, make her lap chicken with extra treats. (She would rather be with the others but this is for her own good/health.)
3. She is not a failure to thrive but just not as healthy and robust as her flock mates.
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If the HOA says no chickens the answer is NO CHICKENS. HOAs can have stricter rules than the city.
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