BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[hellbender]

Seems a lot of folks don't sleep well. I could sleep very deeply but if I take this sleeping med they give me, I'm liable to wake up in Bangkok or Seville.

 

[cyborg]

Seems a lot of folks don't sleep well. I could sleep very deeply but if I take this sleeping med they give me, I'm liable to wake up in Bangkok or Seville.

I just nap early and get up early. Actually, I work night shift. I'm off tonight, but my circadian rhythym is permanently screwed up. Don't tell my wife I said that.

 

[hellbender]

I just nap early and get up early. Actually, I work night shift. I'm off tonight, but my circadian rhythym is permanently screwed up. Don't tell my wife I said that.

 

[gjensen]

Seems a lot of folks don't sleep well. I could sleep very deeply but if I take this sleeping med they give me, I'm liable to wake up in Bangkok or Seville.

I used to be more normal. Not normal, just closer to normal.

 

[hellbender]

I used to be more normal. Not normal, just closer to normal.

 

[DesertChic]

Seems a lot of folks don't sleep well. I could sleep very deeply but if I take this sleeping med they give me, I'm liable to wake up in Bangkok or Seville.

My sleep has never been normal. As a teenager I went three days straight with no sleep at all. It was horrible! By day two I was constantly hallucinating. In college, one of my professors actually put me into a sleep study as part of a group, and then removed me from the group to study my sleep patterns exclusively. At different points in my life I've experienced prolonged periods of every form of insomnia imaginable, and some of my most creative periods have been during those insomnia bouts. When I worked for the power company they put me in the float position, which meant I had to work rotating shift work that would place me on day shift right after graveyards with less than a day's break in between. I was the only one in the department who could handle that level of abuse because of my messed up brain.

 

[gjensen]

I had a pretty good sleep pattern. 7 hours per night religiously. Since developing a neurological disease, my sleep pattern is unstable. I do get periods of time where it is not as problematic, then periods of time where it is very problematic. Some of the dysfunction going as far as flirting with dangerous. Fortunately, much of the time is just mildly abnormal. Compared to the extreme. Not compared to normal. It is not unusual for me to dread going to sleep (knowing what is coming), and waking up is no fun either. Especially early and suddenly.

It is ironic how much we take for granted, and how little is under our control.

The physiological changes that accompany the transition from wake to sleep, sleep to wake, and between sleep stages/phases are not small. There are a number of processes that can be disrupted (or disruptive) and effect quality of sleep.

 

[hellbender]

My sleep has never been normal. As a teenager I went three days straight with no sleep at all. It was horrible! By day two I was constantly hallucinating. In college, one of my professors actually put me into a sleep study as part of a group, and then removed me from the group to study my sleep patterns exclusively. At different points in my life I've experienced prolonged periods of every form of insomnia imaginable, and some of my most creative periods have been during those insomnia bouts. When I worked for the power company they put me in the float position, which meant I had to work rotating shift work that would place me on day shift right after graveyards with less than a day's break in between. I was the only one in the department who could handle that level of abuse because of my messed up brain.

I don't think I've really had more than 2 or 3 hours of continuous sleep since 1969 and the times I slept were under heavy sedation...either Dr. prescribed or self medicated.

Until about 15 years ago, I did use MJ pretty often and that relaxed me enough to allow some restful sleep but it also required a fairly heavy hit of prescribed pain killer. I had to let one go...so the MJ was discontinued.

 

[Beer can]

Five straight is my norm, anymore than that and my back hurts for days, otherwise back is fine. No sleep or little does suck. Wife says I'm
miserable when I'm doing a lot of double shifts. Just keep going like a robot. I hate alarm clocks..

 

[Beer can]

Anyone here cull their stock at a younger than optimum size for eating? I'm sure their meat will be more tender, but less of it. I've never thought of doing it before but feed $ is getting $$$ and I can clearly see a few giants and a few sussex that I do not plan on keeping anyway. With them not laying yet and winter coming soon some of them might not lay till spring, and I'm getting enough eggs from the others. I'm starting to think feeding now for a few more pounds is not going to give me much return, they're eating like hogs. In the low 40s at night right now I know they will only start eating more.
I can clearly see the sussex cockerels that I don't want also, giant cockerels I'm not sure of yet.
Be a different story if I'd hatched them out in the spring or if SandHill shipped them in early May like they said they were and I planned on growing them out for meat.