Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[hellbender]

In response to Karen's Polar Vortex worries, I'm looking forward to just a bit of this planetary warming issue we've had brandished almost violently, about our heads.

Perhaps my area will be lucky enough to be stricken a glancing blow...and sooner the better.

 

[hellbender]

I think this is funny ................but very accurate!



Jeff Foxworthy's commentary on West Virginia:

If you consider it a sport to sit in a tree stand all day long with a
bow or a gun just to put food in your freezer, you might live in West
Virginia .

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights
each year because Elkins is the coldest spot in the nation, you might
live in West Virginia .

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you
might live in West Virginia .

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the
year, you might live in West Virginia .

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work
there, you might live in West Virginia cause you're all so **** friendly.

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his
forehead, cause he wears a hardhat you might live in West Virginia
.
If you have worn shorts, sunglasses and a parka at the same time, you
might live in West Virginia .

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, or if you are
in church and your priest or minister asks you to p ray for the
MOUNTAINEERS, and wants to get you all home for 1 p.m. kickoff, you
might live in West Virginia ..


If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
dialed a wrong number, you might live in West Virginia .


YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE West Virginian WHEN:


1. 'Vacation' means going up north past I-64 for the weekend.

2. You measure distance in hours.

3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

4. You often switch from 'Heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back
again.

5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard, without flinching.

6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including
weddings).

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave
all the doors unlocked.

8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how
to use them.

9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow.

11. You know all 4 seasons: almost fall, winter, still winter and
road construction.

12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a concrete statue of a deer
next to your blue spruce.

14. You were unaware that there i s a legal drinking age.

15. Down South to you means CHARLESTON , WV .

16. A critter is something you eat.

17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his NEW FORD F150.

18. You go out to a fish fry every Friday and bingo every Wednesday.

19. YOUR 4TH OF JULY PICNIC WAS MOVED INDOORS DUE TO FROST.

20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

21. You find 0 degrees 'a little chilly.'

22. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all
our West Virginia friends.

​

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/west-virginia/534814-jeff-foxworthy-west-virginia-charleston-elkins.html#ixzz2uskz7el9

 

[NYREDS]

In response to Karen's Polar Vortex worries, I'm looking forward to just a bit of this planetary warming issue we've had brandished almost violently, about our heads.

Perhaps my area will be lucky enough to be stricken a glancing blow...and sooner the better.

I'm with you. So far I'm pretty disappointed with Global Warming. I was looking forwars to planting a palm tree in my yard.



ETA: Upstate NY must share some things with west Virginia. Several items on your list are familiar to me.

 

[NYREDS]

Well hellbender, I have just about had it with this show chicken stuff. All my show prospects combs
have been ruined by the polar vortexes. I have to start over again. Have decided I will never over winter
more than one coop again. Even if it means overwintering only one cock. If that means I don't have a
breeding project, then that's fine with me. Already did the purebred animal breeding thing with collies
for 15 years. At this point, after this winter, I think I may just enjoy my birds and if my replacement birds
happen to win, that's fine. But there ain't gonna be no hundreds of chicks raised here. Not even close.
Gonna build a 6 ft. extension on the big coop so it will hold 12 birds. 11 hens and 1 cock. Figure to raise
about 36 chicks a year. And no, I don't want any of you population genetics experts coming on and
telling me how that's not a sustainable population, and how my birds wll be inbred and weak and weedy
because of it. Because I don't care. I have already proved in collies it's not about the numbers, it's about
the choice of stock and wise selection. Yes. it takes a ton more study than just hatching more birds,
but I still believe it is doable.
Best,
Karen

I won't be showing any single-combed cock birds this year either. This winter's sure been a rough one & it's not over yet.

 

[thedragonlady]

Here we go again. 26 forecast for here tonight, with 28 MPH winds, AND rain. Hopefully the ice will coat all my pineapple pear tree blooms, and protect some of the buds. After this winter, you had better look at the glass as being half full, or go nuts. At least I know my birds will be snug. I'm not taking my tarps down until the Easter Bunny has come, and gone.

 

[saladin]

Here we go again. 26 forecast for here tonight, with 28 MPH winds, AND rain. Hopefully the ice will coat all my pineapple pear tree blooms, and protect some of the buds. After this winter, you had better look at the glass as being half full, or go nuts. At least I know my birds will be snug. I'm not taking my tarps down until the Easter Bunny has come, and gone.

I just hate it. But at least it was 75 yesterday!

You going down to Barnwell in a couple of weeks for the Sandlapper Show?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

In response to Karen's Polar Vortex worries, I'm looking forward to just a bit of this planetary warming issue we've had brandished almost violently, about our heads.

Perhaps my area will be lucky enough to be stricken a glancing blow...and sooner the better.

We're getting a glancing blow Thursday and Friday at about 50. Then cold and snow over the weekend.

I think this is funny ................but very accurate!



Jeff Foxworthy's commentary on West Virginia:

...
22. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all
our West Virginia friends.

​

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/west-virginia/534814-jeff-foxworthy-west-virginia-charleston-elkins.html#ixzz2uskz7el9

That really gave me a good laugh, I didn't get the first couple then I caught on. I was slow on the uptake since I've only been there once and that was passing through. In retrospect though, it was April and I hit a blizzard on the way east and had balmy weather on the way back.

I'm with you. So far I'm pretty disappointed with Global Warming. I was looking forwars to planting a palm tree in my yard.



ETA: Upstate NY must share some things with west Virginia. Several items on your list are familiar to me.

I was looking into palm varieties too, I'm glad I didn't jump in.
~~I still think most years will be warmer. I'm still planning on figs, olives and camellias. I may start with the figs in pots like my limes.

Here we go again. 26 forecast for here tonight, with 28 MPH winds, AND rain. Hopefully the ice will coat all my pineapple pear tree blooms, and protect some of the buds. After this winter, you had better look at the glass as being half full, or go nuts. At least I know my birds will be snug. I'm not taking my tarps down until the Easter Bunny has come, and gone.

~~ It's officially 4 right now and colder at my house. That blows away the old record cold of 15 for this date. Down to 2 tonight.
Normally there would be spinach at the very least growing in the garden. It's frozen solid and white right now.

 

[LindaB220]

This is the story how Naked Necks were created.. It's a long story but I'll make it as short as possible.

It was long ago, can't remember the year but it was long time ago.. Sir Dracula of Transylvania was killing innocent humans for there blood. He then grew a soft side about killing innocent humans and wanted to stop his actions. Sir Dracula 2nd favorite blood was chickens but hated how there was feathers in the way on there necks. Sir Dracula then ordered his slaves to create a breed with no feathers on there necks so it would remind him of human necks. It took a long time for his slaves to create the naked neck genes but then it happened.

True story from the dark side.

Bahahahahaha. Yeah right. I believe you. Really

 

[LindaB220]

I think this is funny ................but very accurate!



Jeff Foxworthy's commentary on West Virginia:

If you consider it a sport to sit in a tree stand all day long with a
bow or a gun just to put food in your freezer, you might live in West
Virginia .

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights
each year because Elkins is the coldest spot in the nation, you might
live in West Virginia .

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you
might live in West Virginia .

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the
year, you might live in West Virginia .

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work
there, you might live in West Virginia cause you're all so **** friendly.

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his
forehead, cause he wears a hardhat you might live in West Virginia
.
If you have worn shorts, sunglasses and a parka at the same time, you
might live in West Virginia .

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, or if you are
in church and your priest or minister asks you to p ray for the
MOUNTAINEERS, and wants to get you all home for 1 p.m. kickoff, you
might live in West Virginia ..


If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
dialed a wrong number, you might live in West Virginia .


YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE West Virginian WHEN:


1. 'Vacation' means going up north past I-64 for the weekend.

2. You measure distance in hours.

3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

4. You often switch from 'Heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back
again.

5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard, without flinching.

6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including
weddings).

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave
all the doors unlocked.

8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how
to use them.

9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow.

11. You know all 4 seasons: almost fall, winter, still winter and
road construction.

12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a concrete statue of a deer
next to your blue spruce.

14. You were unaware that there i s a legal drinking age.

15. Down South to you means CHARLESTON , WV .

16. A critter is something you eat.

17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his NEW FORD F150.

18. You go out to a fish fry every Friday and bingo every Wednesday.

19. YOUR 4TH OF JULY PICNIC WAS MOVED INDOORS DUE TO FROST.

20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

21. You find 0 degrees 'a little chilly.'

22. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all
our West Virginia friends.

​

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/west-virginia/534814-jeff-foxworthy-west-virginia-charleston-elkins.html#ixzz2uskz7el9

Boy, you said it all. You live in West "By God" Virginia. I had no idea. I thought W. Virginia was in the South. Like me. Louisiana

 

[NanaKat]

hellbenders..sounds like OKIE land!

3 degrees this morning...with a high of 25 today. Even the water in the hen house was frozen ..under a red heat light!

Chicks were toasty under their hens.

Egg shape on both eggs is acceptable here because one breed lays the rounder egg and the other breed lays the oval. I candle a few of the rounder ones to determine where the air bubble is located before setting.
City kid cousin in law thought I had quit bleaching my eggs when he saw my brown eggs.