Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[FortCluck]

I actually sat at the grass in the run (addition we did) and the chicks were climbing all over me. Then the Muscovy wanted to cuddle then the turkey Covid has changed my life for the better

 

[ShrekDawg]

Go outside and hang with your chickens! Chicken therapy is awesome, just go out and sit with them and just be. You will feel better!

It really is! And I do that sometimes but not nearly enough haha I don’t even really hang with my budgies much atm. The cat helps sometimes when she feels like it lol

 

[Ab1010]

I find I usually tailor my language to whom (type of people) I'm speaking and if they are open to hearing and/or learning what the proper terms may be. I've done a lot of large events where I spent a majority of my time educating the general public. I tried to always use the proper terms but when half the time you just keep repeating what a term means over and over again, it eats into the actual education you are able to impart. Though it didn't take long to work in little phrases to explain terms while not derailing things too much.

When I'm in a group who knows the terms it's much easier than a group who knows nothing. With the know nothing group I try to work in 2 or 3, tops, important key things... otherwise they don't keep anything because it's too much at once.


Responding to the AgLinkEd snippet...
I have never, ever, in all my years... heard of an intact male referred to as "Entire". Across multiple livestock species we always say "intact male" or use the proper term like stud, bull, buck...especially when most have terms of their own for the castrated males like wether, steer, gelding, etc....

Much of this depends on where you live and how you compost.
If you live somewhere with heavy winter freezes this takes care of a lot of pests and sometimes fungus and disease issues. Somewhere warmer...not so much.

If you hot compost (where the pile heats up) this kills most pests and diseases as well as weed seeds. If you cold compost then many of these things can stick around depending on what is in the pile/heaps.

I live in the nw. I get all the seasons. Freezing-snowing winters 80-100 degree summers.
Also same about the entire thing. Never heard that used. Always called my gelding, a gelding. A stud is a stud. Can say intact male. Grew up around livestock and never heard that. Maybe a regional term..

 

[FortCluck]

Go outside and hang with your chickens! Chicken therapy is awesome, just go out and sit with them and just be. You will feel better!

I agree... and reading helps a lot too. A nice book and read outside while sitting with the chickens... next I’ll be reading to them

 

[Folly's place]

I have heard 'entire' used to mean a stallion or bull, don't remember in what context.
And to be a purist, a stud is the farm where stallions are housed and breeding takes place. i agree that the term is often used referring to a stallion, but it's actually the place where they might reside.
So there!
Mary

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Oh ... Be still my poor, wounded heart! I feel a "Fred Sanford" coming on ..."This is The Big One ... I'm comin' to join you Elizabeth ..."
Methinks Mr. Webster hath underthunk and oversimplified his definitions! At the best, his research is incomplete. At worst, he is completely misguided and uninformed! Oh ... my faith in our printed word and an entire lifetime of relying on Mr. Webster was so shaken that I had to look it up ... and got some partial relief for my poor, pounding heart.

Looking further into the Webster website, we find a bit more clarification:


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Then we have the Macmillan Dictionary definition:
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And on the US Department of Agricultire's site we find this, which is still incomplete as it doesn't include the proper identity of poor John & Walker, the trusty oxen.:

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I feel a little better, now. My faith in the validity of modern definitions is partially restored. Mary? ( @Folly's place ) We have a big job ahead of us. Do you happen to have Mr. Webster's phone number, so we can get this mess straightened out?

Oh. Oh I see how it is. You're a dirty prescriptivist! Engard I say! Engard! Language is fluid and beautiful and definitions change over time and that's ok! I shall defend my descriptivist definitions to the death!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

... I want one.
Forget my other idea for Halloween, I want to go as a plague doctor. I'll probably end up making the mask, though, as I try to spend as little money as possible on costumes.
Long coat... a cane... a mask... and a hat.... can I do it all in black? I want to do it all in black.
Might also deter any... creeps... who like young ladies -- after all, who knows what's under that big, long coat? Could be a fat old guy, who knows? And it has a cane, too! A weapon!
I'm liking this idea more and more!

All black would be the classic way to do it.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Cool!

I have a new one to show off in the next day or two - this one is a groundhog though! Their skulls are so flat and wide and the muscle attachments are even bigger than on the rabbits. I'll be sure to get some pictures later.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Whew! Now I'm all caught up!

Today I had to clip the chickens wings and that made the morning hectic, trying to keep the killer husky away while I picked each one out of the coop, clipped, then tossed gently into the chicken pen. I have a whole bunch of 12 20-week chicks that are due to start laying soon.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

I agree... and reading helps a lot too. A nice book and read outside while sitting with the chickens... next I’ll be reading to them

I read one of my hens "Chanticleer and the Fox" when she was having a soak for egg binding. She seemed pretty mellow about it.