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

[Wickedchicken6]

Especially when half the basement is below grade, at the bottom of a hill that wasn't graded properly.

If it helps any, our house was built on a hill, but the contractor failed to calculate the wrong part of the house as the base, thus putting our garage at a lower level the front property and subsequent ditch.

The contractor was a relative. Let's just leave it at that.
(That's a forced smile by the way...lol)

 

[kwhites634]

If it helps any, our house was built on a hill, but the contractor failed to calculate the wrong part of the house as the base, thus putting our garage at a lower level the front property and subsequent ditch.

The contractor was a relative. Let's just leave it at that.
(That's a forced smile by the way...lol)

Better a relative than a flocking drunk! I was picking up empty Pabst Blue Ribbon cans for years. House is at the bottom of a 600' lane, which was graded the wrong way, so whenever we had a gully-washer the water ran right to the block foundation.

 

[hippiestink]

@Wickedchicken6 @Akrnaf2 @Farmer Connie I can't agree more with your discussion. I'm thankful my mom (born in the 70's and was a part of Gen X) thought to engage our minds from an early age and gave us a stable and structured home life. It's what I hope to do with my own son. A lot of parents my age just hand off their kids to the iPad or the TV and I can't help thinking what a waste it is for the child to never interact with their parents. While I try not to judge other's parenting I just wish more parents would actually spend time with their kids and talk or read stories to their kids. Scientific studies all tout the benefits of interacting with your kids and reading to them for a child's development, but no one seems to be listening.

(Also I seem to be an oddity. I ask my mom and mother-in-law for advice on parenting, I largely have dismissed blogs and those parenting magazines as full of bull poo. I'd ask my grandmothers too, but both passed away a long time ago.)

 

[Lazy Farmer]

While I try not to judge other's parenting

I wish those words were on the tip of my tongue prior to my post. Perhaps I envy the short cuts to "ME TIME",or maybe not. Having a grandson by my side part time to help me carry on INTERACTIVE TRADITIONS is only a part time experience. My stamina in my 50's could not handle it on a full time basis. But younger parents seem to take the low road more often than the high road.
Sign of the times I suppose. Someday soon we will have machines we will be returning to the customer service counter because they don't wipe our butts good enough.
Hard work that inspires inspiration and accomplishment should be thee ultimate reward, enough to make you thrive to exceed and raise the bar higher for your next challenge. Or use an ap to do it and microwave a bag of pizza rolls and call it a night.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Enjoy

 

[Akrnaf2]

There are some people that have been specially gifted by the all mighty.

 

[daxigait]

No, didn't loose it! Just cut the branches(, and smierd the cuts with anti fungal ointment) to avoid the wind to fall it entirely, and will give it a push with a ratchet to straighten it back. Hopefully will get it to produce in a year or two.

I hope it heals itself. I love the idea by the way on the lemon cubes I will have to try that. I would also like to get some bigger trays and try egg cubes.

 

[kwhites634]

There are some people that have been specially gifted by the all mighty.

Very talented. Wonder how many hours went into it.

 

[daxigait]

She was the first and only bird I have lost to those symptoms. Everyone has Marek's in their flock, it's only a matter of if it expresses or not. I have under 35 fowl total right now, and 2 coops totaling 192 square feet of space. I think I have enough room.

It could have been Botulism too from something she noshed on in the woods. No way to tell now, she's been dead and decomposing since last September. Symptoms were leg paralysis and lethargy that started with a limp on the far side. Vitamins did not help.

Could have been ms too.

 

[daxigait]

Have you seen me?

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My blue Icelandic rooster was last seen Wednesday morning. I saw him outside in the morning before I had opened the coop. Deb said he was in the buck barn Tuesday evening when she did goat chores. Looked for him Wednesday night, wasn't in coop, buck barn or doe barn. Looed around the back pasture, no feathers, blood, or body found. He's just gone.

I am way behind. I hope you found him alive.