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

[OneMountainAcres]

Hope he's ok. Bess chasing you can be scary.

he sprayed their nest and missed half of it.

Ew, that is scary. Around the end of summer, I woke up in the middle of the night by getting stung by a yellow jacket. The next night, hubby got stung. Here, they found a way to get behind the siding of our house right by our bedroom and we're finding their way in at night. They were in the breed, between the blankets, on the walls...it was terrible! I got sing twice and hubby once. It didn't take too much to kill them off, thank God, but the paranoia and attempting to sleep in there was hard lol

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: This may raise some hackles, but this is my take:
Sounds like the breeder has substandard stock and doesn't want more of those genes out there. Either that, or they're afraid of the possible competition. After the first few years of breeding bird dogs, most times I didn't even fool with AKC registration, unless I was cross-registering ; I was promoting field dogs, so I pretty much stuck with FDSB. That's not to say I didn't register dogs both ways, but if AKC had refused to register any of my dogs I'd probably have considered it a compliment to my breeding program.

 

[kajira]

Ew, that is scary. Around the end of summer, I woke up in the middle of the night by getting stung by a yellow jacket. The next night, hubby got stung. Here, they found a way to get behind the siding of our house right by our bedroom and we're finding their way in at night. They were in the breed, between the blankets, on the walls...it was terrible! I got sing twice and hubby once. It didn't take too much to kill them off, thank God, but the paranoia and attempting to sleep in there was hard lol

Yikes. I dont' blame you.

I'm allergic to bees, so i'm scared of getting stung.

 

[kajira]

This may raise some hackles, but this is my take:
Sounds like the breeder has substandard stock and doesn't want more of those genes out there. Either that, or they're afraid of the possible competition. After the first few years of breeding bird dogs, most times I didn't even fool with AKC registration, unless I was cross-registering ; I was promoting field dogs, so I pretty much stuck with FDSB. That's not to say I didn't register dogs both ways, but if AKC had refused to register any of my dogs I'd probably have considered it a compliment to my breeding program.

Honestly, that's how I feel about working dogs like great pyr's... the show dog ones aren't nessecarily bred with the same traits as the working dog lines, and often great pyr's that are from working lines, oftentimes have anatolian shepard, or other sheepdogs mixed in and aren't 100% pure.... but their workabiltiy is far more important to me, then them being 100% purebred.... a nice show dog doesn't mean you can throw their puppy out in the field with a bunch of goats and trust that the instincts the working dogs have been bred for, would kick in the way stock from working farms would be.

 

[Pensmaster]

he sprayed their nest and missed half of it.

Yes I've done a paper wasp nest once. Putting the spray on the paper thinking that would do it. Nope they all came out of the hole at the bottom and the race was on. I barely made it through the slider door. They continued to hit the slider for a few minutes. Next morning bright and early I went back sprayed poison into hole dropped everything and ran for the door, which I left open this time. Nothing came out of nest all falling to the ground. It was a really cool nest 9 layers deep.

 

[Pensmaster]

Yikes. I dont' blame you.

I'm allergic to bees, so i'm scared of getting stung. 

I'm allergic to pain and those thing hurt.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I'd just slow you down, Phil. I haven't been able to work on cars since the carb & points days, and wasn't any great shakes at it even then. I could set points & gap plugs (always Champions), & advance or retard the timing, but that was about the size of it. I'm a fan of the "older" cars ('57 T-bird's my all-time favorite), but a gear head I ain't!

 

[kajira]

I'm allergic to pain and those thing hurt.

yes. He swears we have a swarm of killer african bees that occasionally stalk him when he mows. He's yet to find a nest. LOL

 

[Pensmaster]

Yay!!!!

So now you have time to come help me do an engine in a Jeep?
And then some fishing and hunting after.....

Love that green engine Phil

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Not a single one. 'Course it hasn't rained all day, either. Hired a "Jack of all trades" type, who brought a couple of young, inexperienced brothers along to do the shingle carrying & ladder climbing, while I stayed comfortably in the shed manning the miter saw. Best $240 I ever spent!