EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Kiki]

Let's see...71-6=64, 2017-64=52. You're certainly getting there, pal. If you ain't topped the hill yet, it's in sight, no glasses needed.

You suck at math!

 

[Akrnaf2]

People are friends, not food.

Depend who you ask!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_humans

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

We didn't get it by a tornado last night!!

Howdy, all! Just popping in to check in quickly and say hi, and that things are fine so far here in San Antonio, though more flooding certainly expected starting soon, because the ground is already saturated from rain we got before Harvey even started (several roads are already closed), and this is supposed to last for days. Folks east of us toward the coast are getting their butts kicked, as is Houston, it seems, from what I can see online (glad you're ok, @KikisGirls! Stay safe!). They've evacuated a lot of the patients from the coast to San Antonio, so things are busy this weekend at the hospital, but since I'm on the lab side, I haven't needed to be called in for emergency operations like the clinical folks are, at least so far. Since the wind and flooding forecast was/is unpredictable, and I'm sort of the "over-prepared" type, I cleared the yard of potential projectiles yesterday afternoon (boy, my yard was more of a mess than I realized!!!!) and disabled the automatic chicken doors - everyone's staying locked in their coops today (which I'm sure will make them grumpy!). I've sandbagged (well, soil-bagged) the spot where flash flooding tends to direct a stream of water toward my door (the rest usually runs around the house, which is on a higher on a slope and so doesn't otherwise flood) - one coop (the S&G NN girls) is flood prone, so I'm set to evacuate the six of them to the brooder/pens in the house if needed. Chicken feed is up on pallets, and I'm set with water, food, batteries, a charged generator, a full tank of gas, all the eggs I can eat, lots of books, and beer. I'm likely to get a lot of cleaning done this weekend - I've got at least one closet to reorganize.

Hope everyone east of me in Texas is staying safe and dry!

(Hoping to get back on BYC regularly soon - trying to get more reliable control over my migraines first. )

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Howdy, all! Just popping in to check in quickly and say hi, and that things are fine so far here in San Antonio, though more flooding certainly expected starting soon, because the ground is already saturated from rain we got before Harvey even started (several roads are already closed), and this is supposed to last for days. Folks east of us toward the coast are getting their butts kicked, as is Houston, it seems, from what I can see online (glad you're ok, @KikisGirls! Stay safe!). They've evacuated a lot of the patients from the coast to San Antonio, so things are busy this weekend at the hospital, but since I'm on the lab side, I haven't needed to be called in for emergency operation like the clinical folks are, at least so far. Since the wind and flooding forecast was/is unpredictable, and I'm sort of the "over-prepared" type, I cleared the yard of potential projectiles yesterday afternoon (boy, my yard was more of a mess than I realized!!!!) and disabled the automatic chicken doors - everyone's staying locked in their coops today (which I'm sure will make them grumpy!). I've sandbagged (well, soil-bagged) the spot where flash flooding tends to direct a stream of water toward my door (the rest usually runs around the house, which is on a higher on a slope and so doesn't otherwise flood) - one coop (the S&G NN girls) is flood prone, so I'm set to evacuate the six of them to the brooder/pens in the house if needed. Chicken feed is up on pallets, and I'm set with water, food, batteries, a charged generator, a full tank of gas, all the eggs I can eat, lots of books, and beer. I'm likely to get a lot of cleaning done this weekend - I've got at least one closet to reorganize.

Hope everyone east of me in Texas is staying safe and dry!

(Hoping to get back on BYC regularly soon - trying to get more reliable control over my migraines first. )

- Ant Farm

KRISTIN!!!

 

[BantyChooks]

Free?
You better go get busy on that coop!

In a bit. I have indoor cleaning to do too, soon as the rugrats get their butts in gear... Just a few more minutes and then I can vamoose.

Oh, and free = nowhere to go today. Doesn't mean not busy!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Awwwwww



Its just been a few years that GPS would get you to our house, it would take people to the center of town and stop. Now it gets you here but has the house on the opposite side of the road. The gps on my phone has the house on the correct side of the road.



Which 4?

Hebrew, Italian, Arabic, English (and some, French, Spanish, and I know also to curse in Russian and Persian )

 

[BantyChooks]

Hebrew, Italian, Arabic, English (and some, French, Spanish, and I know also to curse in Russian and Persian )

Pretty impressive. When did you start learning English?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Let's see...71-6=64, 2017-64=52. You're certainly getting there, pal. If you ain't topped the hill yet, it's in sight, no glasses needed.

Oh gosh...don't I know it. The world is a glorious, amazing, place! And I learn something every single day I come on BYC. I LOVE it!

I just wish I had 2 terabytes of archival space instead of 2 gigabytes. I have to keep dumping my cache and deleting old files just to keep up!

 

[BantyChooks]

I just wish I had 2 terabytes of archival space instead of 2 gigabytes. I have to keep dumping my cache and deleting old files just to keep up!

Hear, hear. All this poultry stuff is making the science-y stuff I used to know more of all rusty. Need to brush up....

 

[Akrnaf2]

You really missed the point of my post, oh wise one

Write it in Hebrew then!