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

[daxigait]

wow your on now! lol

dont get mad but I cant figure this site out and I see my posts over and over again and it never makes sense on here

What do you mean? I am mobile so I never see anyting.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I won't ever be able to afford to visit them critters or no critters.

Never say never!

 

[daxigait]

I have not seen enough of this country to even wish to go to another, yet alone places where I would never understand a thing someone is saying. Give me a lake or river in the mountains somewhere with a fishing rod away from people and I would be set forever.

I would have to add my horse a backpack and a camera to that but I'm with you. my goal is to do another National Park next year

 

[daxigait]

Best beards, sounds like fun a bunch of stinky bucks with long old man beards maybe throw in some tobacco aka tobacky scent <3

it is called strut the rut. but yeah I suppose if a bunch of us went out to eat after the classes were over we could clear out a restaurant I've heard they've done that in the past

 

[daxigait]

Never say never!

I will be happy if I can get my house paid off so I don't have to work well into my 70s assuming I live that long

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I won't ever be able to afford to visit them critters or no critters.

You've taken some very nice trips. The kind that appeal to you. That's great.
I've never had much money even when I had a job, but it didn't stop me from figuring out inexpensive ways to travel domestically and internationally.
The basic concept is to wait for extreme air fare sales, regardless of the destination. Book the fare and then figure out cheap lodging. One can normally eat cheap if eating where locals eat or getting food at markets.
Bed and breakfasts and small village out of the way pensiones and bungalows are usually cheap. Even in Europe I never stay in the major cities like London, Paris, Zurich or Rome. For 1/3 the cost, you can stay in a small town outside the city and take a train daily into the city if you must visit a major city. There's just as many cool things to see in the countryside.
Once, in Mexico we stayed and ate in a Mayan village. Only once have we ever stayed at an all inclusive resort and that was only for one night so that we qualified for heavily discounted air to Limon, Costa Rica.
I think I created travel monsters because my kids have adopted the same approach. My daughter takes an exotic trip at least once a year. All but two trips she took alone. On her last trip, she and her boyfriend spent a couple weeks in Columbia. On the trip before that, she found cheap airfare to Iceland so she went there for a couple weeks visiting glaciers and hot springs. Even though she got air fare for about $200, it was one of her most expensive trips due to high food and lodging costs.
Her mantra is "work, save, travel, repeat". I'm very proud of her.
My most notable coup was finding $25 per person roundtrip fare direct from St. Louis to Cancun on my wife's birthday. Her mother wouldn't watch the kids so I took them along. She said, "we're busy this week but we'll watch them next week". I said, "next week isn't her birthday". plus the cheap fare would have been gone. I found a Mayan hut on the beach in Tankah bay for $50 a night. It had no electricity or running water and one night a Jaguar tried to claw its way through the thatched roof but it was wonderful. You had to fill the toilet from the well. There were no window screens, just sticks to keep predators out. That was $250 for air and 3 nights lodging for 4 people on one of the world's best snorkeling beaches. So we could splurge on food at local eateries.
We never went anywhere without taking the kids with us.
I've been to 20 countries, my daughter had been to 27 countries before she was 30 and many of the places I've been, she's been to more frequently.
Go figure.

I swear we are in the tropics now, some of our trees are sitting in water way too long and if it doesnt dry up will soon perish with the others from last year I was laying on a pool float looking up into the sky and noticed how many dead trees are throughout. My son is way too busy to help down trees, I guess when they fall they fall

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It's been an unprecedentedly wet year.
The buffalo gnats have been horrible.
I'm just thinking, as long as one is on high ground, it is probably better than dealing with incessant drought like recent years in CA. A friend in Santa Barbara had over 20 dead palm trees removed from his property last year.

I had a huge maple next to my house die a couple years ago. I wasn't proactive enough to take it down in a timely manner. Parts of it hit my house in windstorms but luckily no permanent damage. The roof is flat and the gutter fills with all sorts of tree debris. I finally muscled the 24' extension ladder onto the back porch roof to get onto the flat roof, clean out the gutter and get all the sticks off the roof right before the last big storm. I mean by minutes.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have not seen enough of this country to even wish to go to another, yet alone places where I would never understand a thing someone is saying. Give me a lake or river in the mountains somewhere with a fishing rod away from people and I would be set forever.

I feel you. I'll take the mountains over a beach any day. My family loves the beach so I relented. Being somewhere I could ski would be a bonus.
I was skiing at Grindewald. Switzerland and met a friend who was a nuclear physicist and had defected from Czechoslovakia. At the end of the ski day we were sitting at an outdoor café drinking beer with skiers coming and going. Everyone was so happy and friendly. I commented on that and Lubomir said, "you know why everyone feels this camaraderie? Not everyone can do this. Anybody can lay on a beach."
That is so true.
I think I could spend the rest of my life canoeing and fishing in the mountains. I'm not a lake fishing fan. I like small streams. I rarely canoe a big river.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I would have to add my horse a backpack and a camera to that but I'm with you. my goal is to do another National Park next year

Have you been to Acadia National Park in Maine? That's on my wish list as is Denali and the other Alaskan parks. I've been to a good number of the others.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I feel you. I'll take the mountains over a beach any day. My family loves the beach so I relented. Being somewhere I could ski would be a bonus.
I was skiing at Grindewald. Switzerland and met a friend who was a nuclear physicist and had defected from Czechoslovakia. At the end of the day we were sitting at an outdoor café drinking beer with skiers coming and going. Everyone was so happy and friendly. I commented on that and Lubomir said, "you know why everyone feels this camaraderie? Not everyone can do this. Anybody can lay on a beach."
That is so true.
I think I could spend the rest of my life canoeing and fishing in the mountains. I'm not a lake fishing fan. I like small streams. I rarely canoe a big river.

I'm not one for the cold so skiing is always out for me. The snow is beautiful though so I'd never want to move away from here. I love the woods and the mountains. I'm lucky enough to live near where I went camping a kid, along the ridge tops in the woods. There's a nice lake 10 minutes away with hiking trails all through the woods. I could sit out there for hours and just listen to nature. Little Creeks and streams are all around us. But since we live here, I love going to the beach lol. I could walk along the shore and listen to the waves for hours

 

[DwayneNLiz]

mmmmm bacon, whut happenin Lizzzzzabeth?

growing bigger everyday
Mmmmmm

I’m confuuused! I am pretty sure it’s a duck egg that is mis-shapen. I’m not sure though because I have ANOTHER (!!!!!!! ) new layer that might have laid it.
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Yesterday’s with the funny egg to the left.
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Today’s are all chicken. The light one is actually tan as it appears in the above photo.
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looks chicken

I think I found my way out of the rabbit hole.

LOL my friend has these incubators that I think are bigger than my kitchen. I saw a pic of her husband in front of one of four doors and there were shelves like cookie sheets behind him. I think she said she they are gqf . I dont know what that means

I have a gqf sportsman 1202

footrot in goats

what’s best way to get rid of it?

Went to Thailand on honeymoon. It was great! Just a heads up that “Phuket” is not pronounced quite as it looks.....

poo-ket

Great News!! I am glad you got on test!! Good for you!!
I never followed through with testing, when I started the soap it was way too chaotic and Ive just no time. I am not even milking anyone now. I put the baby back on her mom and let everyone dry up. I lost paige and really got depressed and didnt milk and then I couldnt get them back up on production I have a freezer full of milk, plenty for soaping just sucks not making sweets and cheese this year.

sorry to hear that!!!

Have you been to Acadia National Park in Maine? That's on my wish list as is Denali and the other Alaskan parks. I've been to a good number of the others.

remember when the government shutdown happened? Yeah, that was my vacation to Acadia
At least I was still on MDI

Lol