Farm chatter

[ackie]

Name one time where I have successfully kidnapped something on the kidnap list

what do you mean? you're a professional

 

[ackie]

the orange is Leo and the calico is Ary or Arya as in The Cat with No Name

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

Goodnight, everyone! God bless you all!

 

[ackie]

but I have 20 nameless chicks

 

[orloffer]

Guess what I pulled out of my skin with tweezers? It isn't the first one, either.

It's a cactus spine from a "spineless" cactus. Tessa brushes against the cactus all the time and gets the tiny spines (less than a mm long) on my clothing and skin. Ouch!

 

[ButtonHoarder]

*Que unnecessary panic attack*

Jellybean laid yet another shell-less egg (on the roof of the coop of course ) it's only her second one and it's been well over a month or two since the last but I'm worried anyway. I can think of no reason for this to happen. @aart

I don’t think you should worry too much. On the roof?!

 

[orloffer]

Guess what I pulled out of my skin with tweezers? It isn't the first one, either.
View attachment 2679149

It's a cactus spine from a "spineless" cactus. Tessa brushes against the cactus all the time and gets the tiny spines (less than a mm long) on my clothing and skin. Ouch!

Rrr...got another one, this time in the bottom of my foot, on the way to the door to go out and put the chickens away. This one is even smaller, maybe half a mm. We need to section off the whole area that has cacti and chickens, because the puppy wants to eat chicken poop and snurf around in the shavings and leaf litter too.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Guess what I pulled out of my skin with tweezers? It isn't the first one, either.
View attachment 2679149

It's a cactus spine from a "spineless" cactus. Tessa brushes against the cactus all the time and gets the tiny spines (less than a mm long) on my clothing and skin. Ouch!

Oww why are they called spineless then?

 

[orloffer]

Oww why are they called spineless then?

They don't have long, visible spines like a lot of cacti typically have. Instead they have dots all over them, and each of these dots has a small cluster of tiny micro-spines that can't be seen unless you look really closely. If you search up "spineless prickly pear cactus," you'll see what I mean by the dots.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

They don't have long, visible spines like a lot of cacti typically have. Instead they have dots all over them, and each of these dots has a small cluster of tiny micro-spines that can't be seen unless you look really closely. If you search up "spineless prickly pear cactus," you'll see what I mean by the dots.

Oh. Makes sense now