BYC Café

[WVduckchick]

Wrangled 4 of the young ducks to move today. Will get pics once we turn them out.

 

[sourland]

Morning! And thanks! Lol That's at home, my seramas. They all like dust bathing in the potty.

Doesn't everyone?

 

[Bantambird]

Yeah,brucellosis is why Montana rounds up and slaughters all the bison that stray from the park. The park refuses to manage it, but it's a real danger. The environmentalists are real nut jobs about letting the bison be wild and free, but even native Americans managed herds better than the park service, and they would simply run them over cliffs when population was too high. Sheesh!
Besides, the bison in Yellowstone have brucellosis since the 1930s when they repopulated the park with bison fed infected cows milk, raised in Texas, then shipped north to the park. For all the hullabaloo, Yellowstone bison aren't even pure bison.

 

[Mtn Margie]

34.6 degrees last night with a very light frost. Now I know why those tent poles were so cold, but the contraption is up and all good.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yeah,brucellosis is why Montana rounds up and slaughters all the bison that stray from the park. The park refuses to manage it, but it's a real danger. The environmentalists are real nut jobs about letting the bison be wild and free, but even native Americans managed herds better than the park service, and they would simply run them over cliffs when population was too high. Sheesh!
Besides, the bison in Yellowstone have brucellosis since the 1930s when they repopulated the park with bison fed infected cows milk, raised in Texas, then shipped north to the park. For all the hullabaloo, Yellowstone bison aren't even pure bison.

I heard some of them were mixed with cattle too either accidentally or on purpose or escaped ones and are actually beefalo

 

[sourland]

87 F and humid today - just finished mowing the lawn. It hasn't given me a break all season. About that frost baloney

, I'm counting on picking tomatoes through mid NOV.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Did this dumb thing tonight...

I had some wood scraps propping the nest box roof open for more ventilation but since they've been sleeping on the roof lately, I decided to take it out tonight. Well I dropped one of the plywood scraps right on top of a full nest of 9 eggs.... cracked 5 of them. 2 were badly cracked, one leaked in the next box but managed to get it out. And yes 9 though we have 8 chickens, we were gone 2 days and i guess the boys didn't collect them all LOL

Gave all 5 to the dog. I was going to give him the 2 most badly cracked ones and save the hairline fractures, not thinking he would take all of them as he usually stops when he wants no more... he took 4 gladly. Thought he was done, offered him the 5th like 2 or 3 times, told him take it, he sniffed it/touched with nose but refused it so I said fine and walked away. Wouldn't you know it, as soon as I walked away, "WAIT MOM!" LOL so he finally took the 5th and ate it too. It's especially surprising since he also just wen back and forth to his bowl 3 seperate times and finished it off. So I would have thought he was full but guess he can't turn up fresh eggs, especially ones already cracked for him LOL lately we've been giving him one or two eggs when we collect them so he's beginning to expect it, even though it's not every time, and gets excited when I come out of the run with the egg basket, so he got rewarded MEGA tonight lol he loved it. Funny thing is he used to eat raw eggs but then he started HATING them and he would not eat them. You had to cook them for him. Well now he LOVES them and lives for his fresh egg from his chickens after nightly egg collection. Guess there's just something extra special about farm fresh eggs!! I don't blame him though, store bought eggs are GROSS!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Also went on the boat this weekend

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Good morning...work today, hoping for some rain. It keeps threatening, but so far, nothing!

Well it's rained enough now.....

Just started pouring! Dogs will be on the couch watching westerns all day!

Sounds like a plan to me.

OH, that sounds like fun Margie. I can bring dessert!

It has been lightly raining all through the night, and looks to continue today. I will be baking, as I did none this week due to work and the "dad projects".

I do have to get some work done I the garage. We've been cleaning and organizing the upstairs storage....mostly trying to get rid of the junk and figuring out just what we want to keep. It's around 800+ square feet, or about four storage units. We had a lot of stuff up there "waiting" until the house was built. Well, the other day I went up there "looking" for something. I was sure I knew where it was, because I had just seen it when I was searching for something else. An hour later I still hadn't found whatever it was I was looking for...the was the last straw. We are about 2/3 of the way finished and DH Wants to make another trip to the dump today!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Yup we are doing the same thing i think it's called down sizing.

 

[sourland]

It's late, folks, good morning. Fresh pot is over on the hot plate.