Bisquick, Buttermilk, Snap, and Junior's chat thread. NOW ACCEPTING JOINING!!!

[earlybird10842]

Me: B&P, I am going along with your post as if the chickens have not contacted each other yet. Is that alright?
Elanor: I wonder where Beeps and Peeps co is. We haven't seen them for like...an age and a half?
Marianne; Two or three months is all, Ellie.
Sophia: According to some of their posts, they had a very touchy dumbputer which would delete their posts at any moment. So...maybe they are trying to contact us but cannot?
Colonel: Seems likely enough. Think we can contact them through some friends somewhere?
Marianne: Only if one of those friends has a connection to the coopschooling network chatroom. That's the biggest set of people I can get ahold of that are in their area.
Sophia: Um...that would be kind of weird. Remember the last time someone was looking for someone on the coopschooling network chat room?
Colonel: NO, DO NOT BRING THAT UP PLEASE!!
Sophia: It shouldn't be embarrassing. You were completly innocent. And BBSJ has a right to know such an anecdote
Colonel: NOOOO!!! DO NOT POST THE RECORD OF THAT ON BBSJ!!!
Elanor: Okay, Okay, we won't.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

"We're back, how have you been?" Bird On Hand leaped up onto the lawn chair.

Ivy and Columbine chimed in together "Only Bird On Hand had ever molted before. We hated it. Even if we did get extra mealworms. How was your molt? Colonel, is it harder for roosters because you have such *big* feathers?"

 

[earlybird10842]

"We're back, how have you been?" Bird On Hand leaped up onto the lawn chair.

Ivy and Columbine chimed in together "Only Bird On Hand had ever molted before. We hated it. Even if we did get extra mealworms. How was your molt? Colonel, is it harder for roosters because you have such *big* feathers?"

Colonel: No, it's not, because I molt more slowly then the hens, and also because I don't have to stop laying when I molt. It's really not a big deal for roosters.
Sophia: *pushes aside small mountain of white feathers that can only be Colonel's* That's what you think, while the rest of us wade through your feathers for weeks!

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Rose: Columbine looked really silly. She had no feathers on her upper neck and head for *two* months. She looked like one of those Turken hens.

Daisy: Be nice. She just looked like she had gone bald.

Violet: That's nice? I'd like to see how many feathers a rooster sheds. I felt like I lost several tons of them!

Violet turns and head into the chicken house.

Bird On Hand: Violet, are you going broody?

 

[earlybird10842]

Sophia: That's what I looked like when I molted. But at least I had the sense to put my feathers somewhere other than the FLOOR! *Sweeps up white feathers*
Colonel: Rooster molting isn't a big deal most of the time, though. Unless you molt hard and fast, or are a frizzle.
Elanor: Don't go broody, Violet!
Marianne: Oh, Violet, can I join you in being broody?

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Sophia: That's what I looked like when I molted. But at least I had the sense to put my feathers somewhere other than the FLOOR! *Sweeps up white feathers*
Colonel: Rooster molting isn't a big deal most of the time, though. Unless you molt hard and fast, or are a frizzle.
Elanor: Don't go broody, Violet!
Marianne: Oh, Violet, can I join you in being broody?

Violet: Come on over, Marianne. We have *four* nests in here, two on each side. I'll take one on this side, and you take the one over there, and we can chat with each other and our eggs.

Bird On Hand: Sophia, you lost all of your head feathers for a long time? That must be hard. I molt fast, so it is over quickly; but it is so itchy and tender! It must be horrible for it to go on awhile.

Daisy: Why is rooster molting harder if you're a frizzle? What's a frizzle? Is that like one of those Asian hens, with the hair on them?

Rose: Poor Daisy was talking with a Silkie who Mommy was chicken sitting, and I couldn't get Violet's attention without saying something out loud. She was talking to the poor girl's *back.* It was so embarrassing. But the Silkie was so nice about it; she says it's a common mistake if you aren't a Silkie, especially with people doing it.

Daisy: But, oh, she was such a nice, friendly hen and a lot of fun. I wish Mommy hadn't given her back to her people.

 

[earlybird10842]

Quote: Marianne: Violet, I've been sticking around in the corners of the coop a lot, so Mommy is alternating between thinking"She's pre-broody" and "She's getting bullied". Either way, I'll join you in the nestboxes!
Colonel: Here's some pics of frizzle roosters molting
https://www.google.com/search?q=fri...v&sa=X&ei=6Zy5VNi3AsTeoATAxIHoAw&ved=0CCAQsAQ
Elanor: According to my Breeds II class, a frizzle is a chicken breed with a distinctive feather shape, like no other breed.
https://www.google.com/search?q=fri...oAw&ved=0CCAQsAQ#tbm=isch&q=frizzle+roosters+
Sophia: Just for like a week. Good thing we didn't have school that week! It was kind of tender, though, until the feathers re-sprouted.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Quote: Marianne: Violet, I've been sticking around in the corners of the coop a lot, so Mommy is alternating between thinking"She's pre-broody" and "She's getting bullied". Either way, I'll join you in the nestboxes!
Colonel: Here's some pics of frizzle roosters molting
https://www.google.com/search?q=fri...v&sa=X&ei=6Zy5VNi3AsTeoATAxIHoAw&ved=0CCAQsAQ
Elanor: According to my Breeds II class, a frizzle is a chicken breed with a distinctive feather shape, like no other breed.
https://www.google.com/search?q=fri...oAw&ved=0CCAQsAQ#tbm=isch&q=frizzle+roosters+
Sophia: Just for like a week. Good thing we didn't have school that week! It was kind of tender, though, until the feathers re-sprouted.

Violet: Great, Marianne. Let's go sit in the nest boxes. (Leads the way into the coop.)
Violet: Aren't they nice and roomy?

Bird On Hand: Oooh, Colonel, that looks painful.

Daisy: Is it painful for Silkies to molt? I'd hate for our good friend who stayed with us for a while to go through something that looks that painful!

 

[earlybird10842]

Marianne: Ohh! About twice as big as ours! Maybe I can get Mommy to build a bigger one.
Colonel: I'm no expert on Frizzle molts, I just know they look bad. I know very little about silkie molts. I can ask the chooks across the street, and if they don't know, the chooks next door go to 4H, so they have to know.
Elanor: The only friends we've ever had visit are humans Mommy has check on us. We've never had a chicken friend around, but we do have neighbors within crowing distance.
Sophia: I hear the Northern neighbors crowing right now!

 

[earlybird10842]

Marianne: Ohh! About twice as big as ours! Maybe I can get Mommy to build a bigger one.
Colonel: I'm no expert on Frizzle molts, I just know they look bad. I know very little about silkie molts. I can ask the chooks across the street, and if they don't know, the chooks next door go to 4H, so they have to know.
Elanor: The only friends we've ever had visit are humans Mommy has check on us. We've never had a chicken friend around, but we do have neighbors within crowing distance.
Sophia: I hear the Northern neighbors crowing right now!

Elanor: Hello?
Marianne: This thread is in a slow spot.
Colonel: Slower than snails
Sophia: Frozen snails in Antarctica!