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

[mlm Mike]

I know some can't comment, but I need help deciding which of these two to enter in the fowl celebrity contest as my last entry. Help!
Lady or Willy and the electric socket?

 

[kwhites634]

Anybody see this commercial yet?

BTW, I wasn't suggesting that what you said was stupid; just Brown's idea

 

[mlm Mike]

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[kwhites634]

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I've seen property owners watering grass in a rainstorm; one guy was even wearing a raincoat while he did it. You can't cure stupid

 

[mlm Mike]

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I've seen property owners watering grass in a rainstorm; one guy was even wearing a raincoat while he did it. You can't cure stupid
No you can't.

 

[kwhites634]

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I've seen property owners watering grass in a rainstorm; one guy was even wearing a raincoat while he did it. You can't cure stupid
No you can't.
The only thing watering grass does, anyway, is create a shallow root system, rather than letting the roots grow deeper to subsurface moisture. The only time I've ever watered grass is when I'm trying to give freshly sown seed a chance to set roots before the birds eat it all, and that was only after a rather major excavation I didn't want to erode before a stand of grass was established to stop it.

 

[daxigait]

@kwhites634 You mentioned apple butter earlier. Do you have a good recipe?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

BTW, I wasn't suggesting that what you said was stupid; just Brown's idea

NO offense taken. I think it is hard for us back east to wrap our heads around the seriousness of the situation and they're grasping at straws.
100 years ago there were 3 million Californians. During that century, which scientists say was the wettest in the last 1000 years, cities have been built all over the desert. Now that the weather patterns have returned to normal, there isn't enough water for the 38 million that live there now and they're wondering how many people will have to leave the state and how many towns will be abandoned.
Snowpack in the Sierras is 6% of historical averages - the lowest in history. The inability of farmers to plant fallow ground raises food costs for all of us.
Here's a good read on the circumstances and Jerry Brown's steps in an attempt to ameliorate the disaster.
http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/03/31/record-low-sierra-snowpack-will-drive-home-drought-impacts/

This doesn't even address the impact on fish and wildlife.

By the way, my friend's estate is all brown and he's no dummy. They just had 10 of their 80 huge palm trees removed because they died.

I've seen property owners watering grass in a rainstorm; one guy was even wearing a raincoat while he did it. You can't cure stupid

When the local Lowe's was built they put in automatic sprinklers on the hills leading into the parking lot. One of the sprinklers popped off and created a geyser everytime it turned on creating gullies and a flooded muddy parking lot.
I told them about it but it took almost a month to fix it.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

@kwhites634 You mentioned apple butter earlier. Do you have a good recipe?

I made some butter before. All we did was cook down applesauce in a crock pot until it was the right consistency.

 

[BantyChooks]

I've seen property owners watering grass in a rainstorm; one guy was even wearing a raincoat while he did it. You can't cure stupid

Please tell me you're joking?