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[BlueBaby]

Right there with you. It just kills me to see all the places around me being sold to developers for building subdivisions. How in the world do people think that food will be grown to feed people if all the land is taken up by neighborhoods? Here they keep trying to take water from rural areas and pipe it into the cities - where it goes to water lawns and cement. Texas is under drought conditions most of the time, the last thing rural areas need is to lose their water so they can't grow anything.

Land developers can't stand to see an uncovered piece of dirt just sitting around. They have to put something there. They can't leave things alone. There's no money for them in that.

Some people seem to think that farmlands are no longer needed. After all, don't they grow and package all of that stuff in the back of the grocery stores these day?

 

[bnjrob]

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Don't get me started about Texas and water and development. Only time I have actually ranted at a politician. He told me "my views were very important". They still approved the whole Vista Ridge thing anyway.

They don't know anything. When I've gone to Austin to do some lobbying for certain things, I was amazed at how the reps and their staff know NOTHING about the rest of the world. They live in these little sheltered worlds and don't have a clue about the real world that their constituents live in. They truly are ignorant of most things outside of their small spheres and yet they are the ones that make regulations....no wonder things are so screwed up. They sit around and wait for someone to tell them what to do and it's the big money that has the most resources to spend educating the politicians and getting them to vote a particular way. Unfortunately the big money people don't have a problem screwing over the rest of us. I'm reading a book right now written by a sociology professor around the turn of the 20th century. It discusses how things become culture and normalized in societies - it could have been written yesterday it is so relevant. Makes me laugh when it talks about politicians. Some things don't change and politicians have always been corrupt and ignorant, and always will be.

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Originally Posted by BlueBaby


Land developers can't stand to see an uncovered piece of dirt just sitting around. They have to put something there. They can't leave things alone. There's no money for them in that.

Some people seem to think that farmlands are no longer needed. After all, don't they grow and package all of that stuff in the back of the grocery stores these day?

Yep, that's where most people think their food comes from. Every time we go to the state fair and hear the conversations going on when we're in the livestock barns and the ag pavilion - I am amazed the people even know how to breathe by themselves. They bring in the city school kids and their chaperones and they have no idea about the animals or crops. It's frightening.

 

[DesertChic]

Here ya go, folks...a charming way to ID your chickens.

I can now die....I've seen everything now.

My husband bought me a package of these for Xmas. I didn't have the heart to tell him I probably won't use them out of fear the chickens will become obsessed with the charms and peck the darn leg off.

 

[DesertChic]

Right there with you. It just kills me to see all the places around me being sold to developers for building subdivisions. How in the world do people think that food will be grown to feed people if all the land is taken up by neighborhoods? Here they keep trying to take water from rural areas and pipe it into the cities - where it goes to water lawns and cement. Texas is under drought conditions most of the time, the last thing rural areas need is to lose their water so they can't grow anything.

They're shutting off the water to my house tomorrow to finish installing all of the pipes for the new housing development they're building right next to my property. Never mind that we've been paying for this water for years. A new developer can come in and just have our water shut off for his building project. This area used to be open range. Now....it sucks.

 

[bnjrob]

They're shutting off the water to my house tomorrow to finish installing all of the pipes for the new housing development they're building right next to my property. Never mind that we've been paying for this water for years. A new developer can come in and just have our water shut off for his building project. This area used to be open range. Now....it sucks.

GRRR! And you can't fight it. If you do, they steal your home out from under you through Eminent Domain and then you have nothing. And it's always in the name of *progress* and *the greater good*. They seem to forget that the rights of the individual are supposed to be protected.

 

[GabrielBane]

I wish I could share more about my on-going battles with exactly this. All I *can* say is that we're suing the state for water contamination in our pond. Enough is enough on our end. As soon as the water is fixed, we're probably selling this property and hitting the road out of Florida.

 

[DesertChic]

My SGD flock is REALLY hard to photograph...not because they run from the camera but because they insist on running towards me to snuggle. So, here's a few updated photos, including some of "my" birds. The flock is nearly 8 weeks old now.

So far, this little pullet, Celine, is showing the best color. Her breast feathers have that lovely reddish-brown hue, while most of the other girls have a lot of white and grey mixed in.


Three of my pullets, including this one, have managed to remove their leg bands these past two weeks, so I'm not even sure which girl this is. I should know better at weigh-in this week. You can see how much lighter her breast feathering is compared to Celine's.


My two boys, Wesley (front) and Squiggy, the larger cockerel but with crooked toes.They are very chill and friendly.


Andres and Lenny hanging out. These two boys are bigger than any of my other birds for their age with really impressive growth rates. And they also have incredibly calm, sweet dispositions.


Closer shot of Lenny.


Sweetie Pie. She's the bossy one in the group and sometimes quite a handful.


Buttercup playing peek-a-boo


Andres from the top.

 

[GabrielBane]

Lenny is going to be such a stunner when grown!

 

[holm25]

IF I was you I would keep Andres around... He looks promising.

 

[miss heny]

I wish I could share more about my on-going battles with exactly this. All I *can* say is that we're suing the state for water contamination in our pond. Enough is enough on our end. As soon as the water is fixed, we're probably selling this property and hitting the road out of Florida. 

MS has lotsa land for grab