Colorado

[Mtn Margie]

Hey, I just had another thought..., based on Wendell's and my scientific research, Chicken Math Syndrome, is a genetic disease and therefore our insurance companies should cover the cost of our medications, which of course is more chickens and the means to care for them, otherwise we are at risk of having severe mental issues without our medicines. And there is no cure, it is a permanent disability!

 

[wsmith]

See, you just proved my point..., you can never have too many chickens! They lived to pass that info on.......

 

[wsmith]

Hey, I just had another thought..., based on Wendell's and my scientific research, Chicken Math Syndrome, is a genetic disease and therefore our insurance companies should cover the cost of our medications, which of course is more chickens and the means to care for them, otherwise we are at risk of having severe mental issues without our medicines. And there is no cure, it is a permanent disability!

LOL... ...MORE Chickens!

 

[jgurshtein]

Hey, I just had another thought..., based on Wendell's and my scientific research, Chicken Math Syndrome, is a genetic disease and therefore our insurance companies should cover the cost of our medications, which of course is more chickens and the means to care for them, otherwise we are at risk of having severe mental issues without our medicines. And there is no cure, it is a permanent disability!

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Gah... The cold is driving the mice in. Bonzai, my Manx cat, proudly brought one upstairs last night. We traded him for some praise and crunchy treats (his fav). I remembered later that I left the slider open a crack when I checked on the girls that afternoon, so I am guessing that is when the little bugger got in.

I hate mice.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Cold and windy! Note to self...., it has been windy when the 2nd story windows have snow drifts in the nooks and crannies of the storm windows! No mice here yet.

 

[Irie74]

oh my-- yall are making me cold just listening to your weather reportings!!
Although we had a doozey of a cold front move through last night - apparently the 60 mph wind gusts brought it down! I woke up about 3am to it howling outside -- went to check the girls -- no worries, they were still tight as a drum and giving me the evil eye for disturbing them !! hahah it was almost as if I'd opened the door to one of the teenagers rooms.. "MOMMMM!!"
Good to know on the oatmeal - will try it soon! Maybe today since we dropped from 80 degrees yesterday to 30 something ......
I'm surprised to hear they eat meat, but maybe we'll give that a shot too at some point - guess I was going off of composting mindset - no meats. LOL
Thanks for all the welcomes and offers of help -- I'll message you so we don't clog up the board with details!
Rhonda

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Rhonda- found this on utube. I have seen better ones but I just felt sorry for the cat. Poor cat had his lunch stolen.

 

[wickedlees]

I think all three of my black girls are laying now, come on Tini my little EE, you can doooooo it! (she is squatting now though!) I heard serious egg song earlier, got one egg, thinking that we shall have another before the day is out. My girls seem to lay around 12-2 is that odd? They are NOT liking the snow. They got a big bowl of oatmeal (warm) mashed with bananas, Spoiled.
They are not real thrilled with the cold. I think I'll go shovel off the back area a bit so they can get out of the coop, even though the door is open.
Not too many mice here, we do have 3 cats, and I put down poison blocks behind rocks where the chickens can't get it, I also keep my basement pretty well poisoned with blocks. Hey you stupid mice better stay the heck outta my wine cellar! I'm tellin' ya! We do get rats from time to time because the crazy cat lady down the street (as opposed to the crazy chicken lady up the street me) feeds them! That and the coons, but I have an pellet gun that deters them from visits here. Helps to be a good shot

I too made beans last night! I made lentil soup, my fave. Oddly my girls don't much care for beans, I would have thought they would. They do love the wild rice though! I am going to have to pop over to the market later and pick up some fruit for them on the markdown rack, love that middle eastern store!

Chickens are for certain like potato chips, you just can't have 1!

 

[canesisters]

Weird question....

I had a friend ask me if I would consider driving her Mom home to Colorado - from Virginia.
I've never been further west than Tenn so it would be an adventure. She said that it shouldn't take more than 3 days to get there.... ? Could that be true?