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[21hens-incharge]

I would like to borrow the peacock lol. Neighbor giving me a hard time today since my dog is an outlaw and barked at 10 am.

For the love of Pete is was 10 o'clock. Maybe they would just be glad when the peacock went home and forget the dogs are there.

It is not like the bark constantly. They bark if someone is harassing them over the fence or if there is a raccoon or fox in the alley. They don't even give the squirrel the time of day anymore.

 

[Latestarter]

Had to share from another thread. I did do some minor revisions/additions/deletions/reformatting/order changes: It is so right on the $!

The Man Rules

Now, here are the rules from the male side. The MALE "operating manual" if you will.

These are OUR rules! Please note … these are all numbered '1' ON PURPOSE!

1. Men are NOT mind readers.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be totally clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it! Be SPECIFIC! TRY to be CLEAR & CONCISE!

1. Come to us with a problem ONLY if you want help solving it. That's what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. You can either ask us to do something, or tell us how you want it done;
NOT BOTH!
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to; Expect an answer you don't want to hear.

1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, football, basketball, the other football, (sports in general), hunting, or fishing.

1. If we ask YOU what is wrong and you say 'nothing,' We will act like nothing's wrong.
We suspect you are lying, but it's just not worth the effort/hassle. See rule 1 above.

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
If you give any other answer, it leaves room for doubt or misinterpretation.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry;
we OBVIOUSLY meant the OTHER one!

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. We need it up. You need it down.
You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.
You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports
It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.
After that period, we won't even remember the discussion!

1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us! See rule 1 above.

1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched... We do that.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine … Really.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape !

1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

1. Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight.

Did you know, men really don't mind that? It's like camping.
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[Ashdoes]

Lmao Latestarter!!

 

[michaelpivola]

hi all,
we have humming birds but the honey bees decided to come and eat the necter. i dont belive it.the bees cober the holes. wasps seem to be eating the bees! i like bees.

 

[COChix]

@Latestarter

 

[21hens-incharge]

Latestarter,

It is about time SOMEONE told me the rules. Sheesh all this time I knew absolutely NOTHING.

 

[uzisuzuki]

I would like to borrow the peacock lol. Neighbor giving me a hard time today since my dog is an outlaw and barked at 10 am. For the love of Pete is was 10 o'clock. Maybe they would just be glad when the peacock went home and forget the dogs are there. 

It is not like the bark constantly. They bark if someone is harassing them over the fence or if there is a raccoon or fox in the alley. They don't even give the squirrel the time of day anymore.

Instead of a dog barking at 10am, you could have a peacock making a clown car horn honking noise whenever he felt threatened or ticked off!

Neighbors are weird.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Totally funny! My DS's loved it, but then I had to set them straight.....

 

[21hens-incharge]

Just to test my dogs.... today I put them outside at the usual time. I came and went in various vehicles, made noise in the front yard talking and planting flowers etc. My DS was home all day still sick and listening for them while I was gone. There was not one single bark until after dark when they would have been in for a few hours on a regular day. They were hungry and wanted dinner.

I am thinking the snobbish neighbor is just wanting to put pressure on her husband to move to a larger house in a gated neighborhood or something.

Funny how they complain about the dogs but not about the 32 chickens singing the egg song. I got 26 eggs today so I know the singing I heard was due to laying.

All the planting is coming along. The front yard should be an explosion of color from April through June with a few things that will bloom in July through to winter.
I am still waiting on a ton of bulbs and about two dozen plants to come in the mail. (I may need a larger flower bed.)

 

[rf12345]

One of my small 2 month old straight run chicks looks like that one may be a roo, growing larger than others from the same hatch and feisty... If that one is a roo, it should be a larger orloff mix rooster, it will be good to fight hawks, orloffs were bred as a fighting breed even if they do not fight them for 100 years already the genetics should be still there, not docile birds they are, and americanas as bossy as well, not sure how the mix would look like, but papa is an orloff rooster with protective attitude. Not a huge rooster, good size. Orloff supposed to be 60cm tall according to Russian standard, not sure what strand we have here in US so. My neighbor has good success with black giant rooster, hawks do not bother them. Also I put more plastic 'flags' on bird netting, I think I did not have me a visitor yesterday, even had little ones out with us in the yard .. So things are mowing along it looks like, but hawks do come back if they found chickens...

I have some questions to more experienced folk here.
One americana hen I got from elderly lady that supposed to be last year hen is with the flock already a week, no eggs, does not seem to be molting and I did see her sitting on the clutch of fake eggs too and making the egg sound. I wonder if she is bound and stressed, she is a 'chicken' kind of a chicken more to the bottom of the pack, But not most bottom now, I even moved 2 other hen that were messing with her (on the intro day) and the babies last week aside and put them back couple bays ago (the 2 went to the bottom of the pack, so the americana hen moved up), it supposed to help to settle thing but I do not know if it did. The top hen lost the interest as soon as she has established 'she is the top' and was done with it. The top is orloff hen, bossy chicken as the breed should be.
Should I worry if new americana is egg bound, I tried to catch her and test, but she is really freaking out... So I maybe should wait for evenings when it's very dark... Where can I reed how egg bound supposed to feel like?
When you introduce a hen how long does it take for the things to settle? I have 2 americana babies and needed older hen to replace my over 4y old americana (x-top hen, it was time for her to go, she got some problems and stopped laying over summer it looked like and she was not looking so good in general, stopped eating as much too, so culled her, sigh...) new americana hen kind of supervises the americana babies when they are out and about, The top hen seems to care of her own breed babies only. It is kind of interesting how same breed chickens seem to stick together even if they were from different hatcheries... Did someome observe the same?


And I need to add roost or something... my rooster gotten into the habit of sleeping on the feed bucket... no you don't. Moving that rooster to the roost daily is getting old... Cause he falls down at night and here goes the mess... I have 2 3.5 feet roosts for 13 chickens (2 are set aside, I have 15), I think I'll move the planks so I have 3 roosts not 2... At least no one is trying to sleep on the floor or in nests... that is the progress already... I made them new larger house and they have settled in, but not all the way it seems so far.

What kind of respiratory illness is going around except of avian flue? I did hear at chicken swap that some have coriza at farms and those folk were bringing the birds from infected flocks to Brighton swaps. Is any of it true? Should I worry? I went there, coops have good feed prices, did bleach my shoes and stuff, but...
I have a small flock, is it even possible to vaccinate small flock I looked most of it for like 1000 dozes, its just way too much.. I have some of the chicks from hatchery that were already vaccinated for marrec, but I'm not sure of others so. Really worried about coriza, sounds like very bad stuff if it goes around the area. I did meet one lady who is nursing the chick and not willing to let it go, and that sure sounded like coriza (swollen face, bad smell...) At the swap and feed store there is a lot of traffic, so there is a risk to bring stuff in even if one is careful. Shows too... Do I worry too much? I isolate the bird at every sneeze now just in case and observe for a week or so just in case.