Dixie Chicks

[perchie.girl]

DuH.... like which colleges in Texas DONT offer equine studies....

I have a friend whos daughter has been accepted to a college in Texas. The daugher is an excellent equestrian and is bringing her horse. But shes actually Going for a degree in Nursing..

This gal did western pleasure and reining when she was a youngster. But as she became highschool age she aged out of her group. Her horse was getting older so she found him a forever home to teach another western pleasure kid. She then Switched to Dressage and hunter jumpers.

They bought an Awesome mare from a frined in West Verginia. And the two have been progressing in leaps and bounds. Back when I took Dressage lessons my trainer was up and coming and headed for the Olympics. Sadly I wasnt any kind of caliber rider... My trainer settled in Willis Texas and has a great sets of stats on her belt.

Long story I was wondering how close Willis Texas was from college. From the map pins of all the possible colleges she would be close enough to drive for an audit. To audit a clinic you pay a fee but dont ride and get to listen.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah, WAY too many possibles in Texas.

The biggest would be Texas A&M in College Station, Texas. That is where I went, and they have both a very good nursing school and equine school.


@1kluckychik as to Isabelle breeding... Copied from a guy that understands genetucs and Leghorns, so NOT me:

The Isabella is actually self blue duckwing,wild type and lavender. So varieties like Cream light brown,golden duckwing and light brown are close,dark brown could be used but lacks the duckwing allele,being eb ,without the salmon breast,plus being two colored rather than three.

 

[1kluckychik]

Yeah, WAY too many possibles in Texas.

The biggest would be Texas A&M in College Station, Texas. That is where I went, and they have both a very good nursing school and equine school.


@1kluckychik as to Isabelle breeding... Copied from a guy that understands genetucs and Leghorns, so NOT me:

The Isabella is actually self blue duckwing,wild type and lavender. So varieties like Cream light brown,golden duckwing and light brown are close,dark brown could be used but lacks the duckwing allele,being eb ,without the salmon breast,plus being two colored rather than three.

I will pass this on to dude. Well above my pay grade.

Snowballs chance he even hears me when I tell him.

 

[Alaskan]

Haha.

Hard for my pea brain to follow... So I totally understand deciding to ignore it.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

liquid bread stores well and is the liquid I add to my batter bread and sometimes I use it for bread that needs to be kneaded. It makes a great pizza dough. Stores well
In refrigerator and the chickens love a bit in their feed after a hot day of free ranging (mowing the grass for us). They are happy chickens. I had RIR out west that loved wine. Turned my back on her one day while refinishing furniture and she was guzzling wood stain. We did not eat her eggs for weeks!

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Meant I say about the pic.
My sugar sometimes gets a wee but off.
My asthma acerbates it and the chickens acerbates the asthma. It is a cycle.

 

[CanuckBock]

Wohoo, move is complete, let the hatching begin! Or whenever anyone decides to start laying again.... Ugh

Wohoo indeed! Congrats on getting ready to set your feets in deep, eh!

Well I wish your hens begin to lay but not the ones I have that are right now. Sure the chooks ARE laying a storm over here and that's a good thing (Canuck bocks ARE suppose to excel in production of WINTER eggs)...

BUTT the wild sided ones...good gack...NO! Not now thanks...cannot imagine babes zipping about (ha, some zip, more like frozen solids) in a month and a bit...

Yeh...found this aquamarine blue one all warm, inviting and yeh...why now...I get that Australia is opposite this side of the Planet for seasons but NOW...

Major BLAH!

Problem I got, sure you can incubate these AND hatch them, keep them warm and cozy INDOORS artificially but well, the Mandies scurry at impossible speeds (for old farts such as I!) and there is NO WAY I wanna be raising babies at my age in winter (jest because it is unseasonably warm right now...donna let that FOOL one...there could be a whammer of forty below and we know how THAT song goes!). I am WAY past being a volunteer Momma! Spoil them rotten as GRANDbabes...of course let the wild stocks raise their OWN broods from clutch to fully feathered out. Fill them grandbabes fulla bad foods (candy...yeh, that surely one of the major required FOOD groups...right?), filled fulla BAD moods and attitudes...that is the whole point of getting old and crusty--to live long enough to ruin other's tranquilty...get in the way and all. Meaning to life as we get on, is so you get old enough to attempt to ruin otherwise pristine family groupings.

Well I suppose though I should rejoice over the wanny one. This is Black Pearl's third time clutching...maybe Stove Pipe has finally figured out his contribution to the endeavour...I've tested out the two other clutches and more or less, she's on the game plan but he's not...clears. For a fifteen pound bird, it really does blow my mind you get a 261 gram egg every two days TWICE a year from these ones. If we could get the Aussie Blacks into more regular production than just twice a year...imagine THOSE egger omelettes we could be marketing off. How exotic is that...never mind peafowl tongues...what about swan omelettes on the menu...I might just get to fully retire besides being just TIRED from playing too much.

At 261 grams, that's 3.7 times a JUMBO egg! Never mind the traditional restauranteh three egg omelette...that be near enough a FOUR egg omelette, eh.

I am one sick pupper eh....sick sic sick!

Gotta fly...

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Beer can]

Tara, I was thinking you had some weird Canadian setting on that scale, Lol!
Biggest chicken eggs I've had were brown leghorns 86+ gram pullet eggs.

 

[hennible]

Lol beer can

 

[BriardChickens]

@BriardChickens


How about a write up on the trip???      when you catch your breath

I am mostly on my phone right now. Maybe Monday... It sure was fun.... Not! The first drive to BC I did on my own and was very lucky with the weather and road conditions. I had the feathered friend's with me as the sheep were too stubborn to get onto the trailer (we lack a proper loading ramp)

Then dh and I drove back to AB together to get the sheep and remaining stuff. On the way there we must have hit some ice as all of a sudden we found ourselves on the other side of the road, twice within a few seconds of regaining control.. I screamed, I was so sure we'd be tumbling down a steep mountain side or hit an incoming truck. So scary but dh is an awesome driver!!
On the way back to AB (now fully overloaded) we hit 2 snowstorms and 2 rainstorms through the 3 mountain passes...
I am glad it's over