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BY Bob said:
I should have known. How do they practically check that? I'm very curious.
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There is an online portal to upload your test results. They only accept results from trusted sources. Visitors also have to fill out a health questionaire online. Once you’ve done both and test results are verified, they send you a QR code. Upon arrival, you must flash your QR code to get to the next step, which is where a live person scans your QR code and compares the data against your ID when releasing you. We also had to enter our accommodations into the database amd our cab driver from the airport (who had the front row sealed off with a sheet of plastic) had us fill out a little form, I assume for contact tracing). Everyone is masked up and (mostly) distancing. I’ve been back in the office since June and know the drill. The husband of a colleague died from COVID-19 early in in the pandemic and we are hyper aware.

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Kris5902 said:
Now it is just do you want to try to to get Queenie a friend or reunite her with this boy... vetting the boy? And what happened to that handsome Roo?
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Yes, I worry about the the care she will get with a kid looking to maximize egg production. Don't know if he'll care about each chicken, have any money to help care for them (her, really), and if the guidance he's getting is the old school of "just let them die" or "kill 'em when they stop laying" type.

However, my worry about that is balancing with knowing that Queenie will really benefit from being back with at least some of the flock individuals that she knew. Don't chickens really know each individual, and remember them? She was very anxious to be with the Buckeye chicken strangers as soon as she saw them, so maybe it has to do with the prime directive of being with a flock to survive.

Lil' Queenie's flock was split up apparently by two separate groups of people that came and nabbed them all except for Queenie. I don't know which group the rooster is with, I will hopefully find out. Maybe the kid is hoping to raise chicks and has the rooster. Or maybe they came second and the rooster had been taken.

The lady I spoke with said she was going to give them my number last night. They have not called me this morning yet, which is not a good sign, maybe.

On the other hand I am getting attached to her, but on the third hand I am concerned about how it would go over with the Buckeyes to integrate her, seeing how Butters totally treated her like an enemy. As Shad says, I have a stable flock right now so why disrupt that?

Lil' Queenie ate out of my hand today, and is pretty calm and astoundingly docile at times, more than the Buckeyes, which is a nice thing to experience. Yesterday, once I got her picked up (nervous about that) and then standing on the bathroom counter in good sunlight to look her over, she just stood there, letting me ruffle through all of her feathers, all over her, back and front, up and down, burrowing into the enormous pillow fluff of her legs, and she was totally relaxed letting me lift her wings to look under there too. Wow that's a new experience! I did find some dry hard green-black poo cemented to some side back feathers I cut off as minimally as possible. She even started preening herself during this! It was nice.
 
ChicoryBlue said:
Yes, I worry about the the care she will get with a kid looking to maximize egg production. Don't know if he'll care about each chicken, have any money to help care for them (her, really), and if the guidance he's getting is the old school of "just let them die" or "kill 'em when they stop laying" type.

However, my worry about that is balancing with knowing that Queenie will really benefit from being back with at least some of the flock individuals that she knew. Don't chickens really know each individual, and remember them? She was very anxious to be with the Buckeye chicken strangers as soon as she saw them, so maybe it has to do with the prime directive of being with a flock to survive.

Lil' Queenie's flock was split up apparently by two separate groups of people that came and nabbed them all except for Queenie. I don't know which group the rooster is with, I will hopefully find out. Maybe the kid is hoping to raise chicks and has the rooster. Or maybe they came second and the rooster had been taken.

The lady I spoke with said she was going to give them my number last night. They have not called me this morning yet, which is not a good sign, maybe.

On the other hand I am getting attached to her, but on the third hand I am concerned about how it would go over with the Buckeyes to integrate her, seeing how Butters totally treated her like an enemy. As Shad says, I have a stable flock right now so why disrupt that?

Lil' Queenie ate out of my hand today, and is pretty calm and astoundingly docile at times, more than the Buckeyes, which is a nice thing to experience. Yesterday, once I got her picked up (nervous about that) and then standing on the bathroom counter in good sunlight to look her over, she just stood there, letting me ruffle through all of her feathers, all over her, back and front, up and down, burrowing into the enormous pillow fluff of her legs, and she was totally relaxed letting me lift her wings to look under there too. Wow that's a new experience! I did find some dry hard green-black poo cemented to some side back feathers I cut off as minimally as possible. She even started preening herself during this! It was nice.
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Sounds like every Buff I've ever had. They really are the sweetest and seek human affection.
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ChicoryBlue said:
Yes, I worry about the the care she will get with a kid looking to maximize egg production. Don't know if he'll care about each chicken, have any money to help care for them (her, really), and if the guidance he's getting is the old school of "just let them die" or "kill 'em when they stop laying" type.
However, my worry about that is balancing with knowing that Queenie will really benefit from being back with at least some of the flock individuals that she knew. Don't chickens really know each individual, and remember them? She was very anxious to be with the Buckeye chicken strangers as soon as she saw them, so maybe it has to do with the prime directive of being with a flock to survive.

Lil' Queenie's flock was split up apparently by two separate groups of people that came and nabbed them all except for Queenie. I don't know which group the rooster is with, I will hopefully find out. Maybe the kid is hoping to raise chicks and has the rooster. Or maybe they came second and the rooster had been taken.

The lady I spoke with said she was going to give them my number last night. They have not called me this morning yet, which is not a good sign, maybe.

On the other hand I am getting attached to her, but on the third hand I am concerned about how it would go over with the Buckeyes to integrate her, seeing how Butters totally treated her like an enemy. As Shad says, I have a stable flock right now so why disrupt that?

Lil' Queenie ate out of my hand today, and is pretty calm and astoundingly docile at times, more than the Buckeyes, which is a nice thing to experience. Yesterday, once I got her picked up (nervous about that) and then standing on the bathroom counter in good sunlight to look her over, she just stood there, letting me ruffle through all of her feathers, all over her, back and front, up and down, burrowing into the enormous pillow fluff of her legs, and she was totally relaxed letting me lift her wings to look under there too. Wow that's a new experience! I did find some dry hard green-black poo cemented to some side back feathers I cut off as minimally as possible. She even started preening herself during this! It was nice.
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I am thinking if you take it slowly you will be able to integrate her with your others. I think getting a friend from the kid would be good. And I know you don’t have space but I am thinking maybe a small extension.
And now I will shut up because I am being a hopeless enabler.... She is so sweet!
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