@Sally Sunshine
@MotorcycleChick
it appears that the discussion about men and what they wear is ........well......there is a certain amount of trust involved before you will ever find out what I wear, at the present "if there are no pictures"..............
Roosting bar for when you must have a house/bathtub chicken! 2 coat hangers with the hang part straightened and stuck into a bamboo stick; hockey tape wrapping to keep the bamboo from spinning around.
Here's a bag collar feeder I built which I use for 25-50lb bags of feed. My idea was that the bag can do what it already does - hold feed, and the collar just directs it down the feed ramp. Currently feeding a bunch of cornish x off it.
I don't know if I can call this an actual "invention...." But for those of us whose chickens cannot forage nearly as much as we'd like and who have an abundance of grasshoppers, I created a jar top that allows for "stuffing" the critters in, but they cannot jump out. I cut a circle out of an old plastic file folder to fit the top of a canning jar and cut a cross-wise slit in it and screwed on the ring. It works really well. You can even put it down long enough to make a two-handed catch.
Quote: I am from the southeast US, but I have occasionally gone through periods like that - I read a lot, and it always happens when I've been reading a lot of British classics. I actually had to break myself of the habit.
So when I see it in an American who has not lived in the UK, I generally assume Avid Reader...
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OMG, how horrible! How wonderful that you were able to care for her and bring her back. She's a sweetheart - loved the pic with her on your shoulder...
You made my day with this... I first heard of this at a German festival in New Braunfels soon after I moved here. Closest thing to Octoberfest I had ever seen outside of Munich. Then again, in Munich, they played Bon Jovi...
It was an unseasonably warm 65F at 7AM this morning. It will be mid 20s by tomorrow night. First quick drop of the season always makes grumpy chickens.
We hit a record of 83F yesterday. Blew away the old record by 3 degrees.
I just saw an aerial view of the area and leaf colors are at their peak. That usually happens the second week of October here.
We'll easily have the warmest November on record - which followed the second warmest October on record - last year was the warmest Oct.
After being quite warm, it's going down to 41F tonight and 36F tomorrow. The Naked Neck hens who are molting (and therefore nearly, well, NAKED) are used to roosting on the perches in the enclosed run, not the sheltered coop. I may need to retrain them for their own good until their feathers come in. (They look like porcupines now. Hard molt.)
It was windy here too but not that strong. You guys seem to get a little more extreme stuff than we do. More wind, more snow, a bit more rain and a bit colder.
So cool! And I have an immersion/sous vide thingie, too, so I could try this!!!!!
I loved the "100 year old eggs" in the breakfast buffet when I went to Taiwan about 10 years ago. JUST this side of spoiled. You have to be adventurous sometimes...
(I had chicken uterus on a stick in the Taipei Night Market. Chewy. Nothing to write home about. Durian ice cream, on the other hand...)
