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[Herducks]

zip ties, my favorite marking temp tool

Where do you buy your zip ties? locally I can only find large black and white ones?

 

[crazypetlady]

Ok these are gone.

We should have chicks next week and the week after.


We have that can ship today----------GONE!!!

2 lemon cuckoo orps
a pair of legbars
a rhodebar pullet We have a roo but he is a week old so we would have to ship him along later
a russian orlaff
a Oladnsk Dwarf

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Quote: I just ordered 100 packs and 1000 packs yesterday, let me grab the info for you

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

here you go: http://www.cabletiesandmore.com/cableties.php


we band ganders from geese so we have 1000 pink and 1000 blue

then we have colors to band goslings from certain color lines since you cant tell lilac from buff, from lavender often at hatch.
brown, green, grey, purple, yellow are our standard colors used.

 

[Herducks]

Thank you!

 

[Bettacreek]

I buy mine at the Dollar Tree. 100 cables for $1.06. You get something like 25 large ties and 75 small ties (4") in four different colors (blue, pink, green and orange). If you'd have to ID individual birds, just use something like two pink right leg, two pink right leg, one pink one blue right leg, etc, etc, etc. Plenty of combinations with two legs and four colors, lol.

 

[SewChaos]

all sorts of reasons for buying verses making. You never know when there is an allergy, or other dietary reason. How about a military family with a deployed parent? Yep things get away from you when your spouse is gone and well store bought is less stressful when you are concerned about your spouse returning home in piece physically and mentally.

I like it when classes (super little ones) make it a class project to make valentines. Then if parents want to add something to it they can, but the class had fun making them together.

Nope, I was in no way inferring handmade is always better, or that I am a "better" mom for making valentines with my son. My point solely was that not a single parent took the time to do a craft with their child in my sons class. Unfortunately, that is because the parents in my area are not very invested in cultivating their children, leaving it to the school systems. I am not making assumptions that this is happening everywhere, just that it is in my town. I have witnessed it, and it really saddens me. I also don't assume that people are bad parents because they don't take the time to do crafts... Its not my place, and its because people are having to work so hard to make ends meet.

I know you weren't trying to say anything, it's just been a super crappy week. I over-reacted to the original post. We unexpectedly lost my FIL in October (he was only in is 50s). my MIL was doing okay, and now she's not. My Mr. just left to tour with his company for the week (no valentines day for me), my sister's Mr might lose his job, I'm falling behind in my schoolwork because I'm trying to care for everyone, and to top it all off I burned the special cookies I made for valentines day for my kids. I wish I could just curl up on the couch and eat bonbons but no one has clean socks and I can't find the kitchen sink, and my kids will want to eat something for dinner.

Life just keeps on going, regardless of how I feel.

Where do you buy your zip ties? locally I can only find large black and white ones?

Dollar tree or wal-mart. In the electrical section.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

We go though too many zip ties to buy locally. Not enough colors or enough of the colors in the bags of multi packs.

 

[caj1985]

I know you weren't trying to say anything, it's just been a super crappy week. I over-reacted to the original post. We unexpectedly lost my FIL in October (he was only in is 50s). my MIL was doing okay, and now she's not. My Mr. just left to tour with his company for the week (no valentines day for me), my sister's Mr might lose his job, I'm falling behind in my schoolwork because I'm trying to care for everyone, and to top it all off I burned the special cookies I made for valentines day for my kids. I wish I could just curl up on the couch and eat bonbons but no one has clean socks and I can't find the kitchen sink, and my kids will want to eat something for dinner.

Life just keeps on going, regardless of how I feel.

Every mother has felt overwhelmed at times. Don't feel guilty. Feed the kids a hot dog tonight with some carrots and ranch to dip it in. Put them in the bathtub and relax for a few minutes. You have to take care of yourself to be able to take care of them. Either that or if it is nice weather pack up a picnic supper and take them to the local playground and let them blow off some steam while you relax and read a book and drink a soda. Throw the socks in the washer to run while you are gone and throw in the dryer before you go to bed.

 

[Bettacreek]

Sew

I get overwhelmed easily, and that's just with basic life stuff, not the loss of loved ones! I'm overwhelmed now, and I'm VERY bad at managing it... When I get overwhelmed, I tend to waste too much time on here! I SHOULD be packing stuff (we get the keys TOMORROW), I should be getting daycare around, should be finishing up the school stuff, should be studying, should be making soap and candles, should be building a topper for my car bed to move birds, should be working out details of where to put the birds, should be doing laundry, should be washing dishes, should be hitting the store, etc, etc, etc. Instead, I've been wasting time on here for the past few weeks, avoiding all of the stuff that HAS to be done. At least you're getting some stuff done, even if the cookies did get burnt. Just scrape the bottoms off and try them, lol.