INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[BullChick]

The meat is stringier, but due to their diet, the meat is better for you.

 

[BantyChooks]

Before seeing this, I used that word elsewhere. That is funny!
And the real reason is that they are filthy, flea bags that pee in my sunroom, get into the garage (they have broken a lot of windows!) and poop and pee on my stuff (once the Harley!) and they are still cats that could hurt my chicks. I also hate when they go into the coop, and scare a laying hen.

You've never met a good cat! The neighborhood cat around here leaves chickens alone, is housetrained, and wears a flea collar.

 

[Akrnaf2]

What I read: "Don't worry, Abi! You can still catch a cat while you are waiting to catch a few raccoons! Just remember they can find their way home, so it is best to drown it and shut up. Use tuna under the trap for best results." e

That about sums it up. I just used tuna as an example. I use canned mackerel. It is just as effective but much cheaper. No sense in wasting some good tuna to feed the flies and ants while you're waiting on a predator.

I just closed escrow on the place yesterday, so I'm hoping to file the paperwork for the overlay on Monday!!! I have someone helping me get signatures on a petition to help support my application. I'm getting ready to go talk to the neighbors I know, and see what their thoughts are. I'll know more in about 3 weeks. Thanks for checking!

Sounds good. Have you tried getting media involved? Having my story plastered all over TV news really helped our cause.

Do you think i should zip it up in a plastic bag or would that damage a potential chick from not getting humidity?

Oxygen, not humidity is the issue. Closed in a plastic bage would suffocate the embryo. Humidity would be higher in the bag because the egg has to lose moisture during incubation. What day is the egg on?

She is about a year and a half old.

She should be mature enough to handle the job.

Most of them weren't sold anywhere except feed stores. All the ones I mentioned were popular with the field trial crowd. One of those "He has a very successful dog that he feeds Brand X feed, so it must be good" deals. Then there was the AKC faction who figured the more it cost the better it was; they fed something like Eukinuba, or some other high-priced spread that their vet was hawking that year; more of a status symbol than anything else.

The number of dog food brands has grown exponentially. Walking through Petco or Pet Smart is amazing. My wife feeds Blue Wilderness. 100% grain free and several types of meat as main ingredients.

The problem I have with dog shows is the dogs from hunting breeds, like Pointers, Setters, German Shorthairs , etc., that the judges are putting up, couldn't smell a game bird if they tripped over it. The show people are breeding for beauty, length of feathering on the legs, gait, and a slew of other criteria that in no way go along with what it takes to enable a good bird dog to perform in the field. Hip dysplasia, for example, in the larger breeds, is all too prevalent in show-bred dogs, but seldom is it a problem in their field-bred cousins. The average show dog of a hunting breed couldn't carry the feed bowl of a field-bred dog of the same breed.

I've never been to a "dog show". But we go to agility trials, obedience and herding competitions and similar events. Mostly at Purina Farms about an hour from my house. They have competitions there almost every weekend. This weekend they have 3 days of agility trials, disc dog competition along with an all breed cat show. In 2 weeks there's an Australian Shepherd Specialty event. http://www.gatewayasc.org/

The mommas had no problem with me going in to move the wall for them this morning. They were happy to get some scratch, and I think they liked the meal worms too. I hope so! Just touching the bag is enough to gross me out.

No live ones?

DW have millions of them, I will try. All the obvious of course ( not to much!) Amazing ice creams, pizzas, fish,pasta, cheese, fruits,pistachio cream, notiola creem I tasted kobe beef, and liters of the best coffee add to that wonderful views and nice people and you get a wonderful experience! Venezia was a disappointment rood Italian vendors that shout at you if you ask a quastion, miliard of Japanese, Chinese, Indian and a bunch of other tourist sailing on gondolas and kissing under any bridge and awful awful tourist trap food! I'wont return!

I liked Venezia but I wasn't there in tourist season. Did you make it out to Lido? There's a nice beach across the island. Last nights dinner. Fried Calamari with cherry tomatoes, pepperoncinis, chili flakes, spinach, carrots & red pepper aioli House made wild boar ravioli in a tomato-vodka cream sauce & Parmigiano-Reggiano Hands beer braised rabbit, ricotta gnocchi, zucchini, tomatoes, braising jus & black plum relish A fine Chianti 3 nights in a row eating out Mexican, Cajun and now this, I'll be cooking at home for quite a while now.

... Food looks delicious and it looks like a fun place to go.

Very fun place. I've been going there for over 40 years.

Eventing Dressage is on in an hour..... I'm gonna miss it. Phooey. Anyone taping it?? LOL

You can probably see it on NBC.com. They're live streaming. http://www.nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule/equestrian We have about 20 locals in various Olympic events we're following. The US Women's Rugby team split yesterday 1-1. Today they have to play Australia. Australia beat Columbia 53-0 and Fiji 36-0 yesterday. The bicycling is pretty exciting. Lots of climbs and lots of crashes on the windy downhills.

yummy meal!! cute place

It's one of the oldest parts of town close to the riverfront. There's dozens of places like that up and down every street. Right next door is another good one, B.B.s Jazz, Blues and Soups. My daughter lives down there. Lots to do for a young person.

A woman does a cooking show on her ranch. The show started out with her grocery shopping. I beg of you guys! Someone please tell me why she is bulk buying chicken and beef when she lives on a ranch!!

Actually this weekend has been very relaxing almost feel guilty....almost. Going to try to rearrange some chickens today and perhaps mow the orchard. Good to see only one mutt out of the broody. Hope your Icelandics eggs do well. If temperature keeps going down here I'll be able to have the pullet shipped. He likes to ship chickens in the mid 80's.

That still seems hot to me for shipping a mature bird.

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Where is that?

I wanna catch a cat.

You will eventually. I just heard cappuccino is free at the Olympics in Brazil.

No I didn't, we didn't sray yo long there. Nice food you have there!

 

[BullChick]

You've never met a good cat! The neighborhood cat around here leaves chickens alone, is housetrained, and wears a flea collar.

I like cats better than dogs. MY cats never would dare jump on a table. They were kept in the house WHERE THEY BELONG!! If I had a lot of property, I would have a barn cat (two. They need company). Three cats is always too much.

 

[BullChick]

I dug up a mole in the run. I wanted to stomp on it. How nauseating! But the idea of it eating the chicken feed was upsetting too. So, I called over the lead drake. He looked at it, then came over to me. A few chickens came, and jumped out of the way of it. They followed it, but none would eat it. I am disappointed in them.

 

[Pensmaster]

Sounds like a very cool place. It was a nice picture.

This is just my opinion but knowing that chickens start panting at 85, suffering at 95 and start dying at 105, I think 80s is a bit warm for shipping anything but baby chicks.
It can easily get higher than that if they spend any time in a truck or in the sun.

The truck is what I was afraid of. Our post office is really good at calling.

The humidity must really play a significant role in the chickens capabilities to cope. Ours don't usually start panting until the 90's and I haven't lost one yet to heat this year and it's been 106. But we are dryer here.

History of the place is supposed to go back to the gold rush time. Not sure of that. Picture is cool, but it was better in person seems they always are. I couldn't quite get the right angle with phone without drawing attention to myself. Bad enough I had to go around people and the table trying to get the shot. Thanks.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

I like cats better than dogs. MY cats never would dare jump on a table. They were kept in the house WHERE THEY BELONG!! If I had a lot of property, I would have a barn cat (two. They need company). Three cats is always too much.

Three is too much? . Afraid to say how many I have.

I dug up a mole in the run. I wanted to stomp on it. How nauseating! But the idea of it eating the chicken feed was upsetting too. So, I called over the lead drake. He looked at it, then came over to me. A few chickens came, and jumped out of the way of it. They followed it, but none would eat it. I am disappointed in them.

My dogs keep digging up moles, so gross!

 

[BullChick]

Bad enough I had to go around people and the table trying to get the shot.

Thank you for thinking I was worth that.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Before seeing this, I used that word elsewhere. That is funny!
And the real reason is that they are filthy, flea bags that pee in my sunroom, get into the garage (they have broken a lot of windows!) and poop and pee on my stuff (once the Harley!) and they are still cats that could hurt my chicks. I also hate when they go into the coop, and scare a laying hen.

My problem is with them killing songbirds, lizards and amphibians.

You've never met a good cat! The neighborhood cat around here leaves chickens alone, is housetrained, and wears a flea collar.

I've had a couple good house cats and one very bad one.

My son has a great cat that lives with us now. In the house.

... They were kept in the house WHERE THEY BELONG!! If I had a lot of property, I would have a barn cat (two. They need company). Three cats is always too much.

I wouldn't have a barn cat though regardless of how much property.

I dug up a mole in the run. I wanted to stomp on it. How nauseating! But the idea of it eating the chicken feed was upsetting too. So, I called over the lead drake. He looked at it, then came over to me. A few chickens came, and jumped out of the way of it. They followed it, but none would eat it. I am disappointed in them.

My chickens have never eaten a mole, no matter how small. They eat mice pretty often.

 

[Pensmaster]

You only need one brunch! Put it in the soil and you get a plant!

Just want to get the right variety. We have several bushes from slips here. One that my dad got when he was 6 years old from his neighbors that we have kept slipped from place to place. Dad is 99 will be 100 at Christmas. It's flowers remind me more of an apple blossom than a geranium.
Here's a picture of it but it's very dried out.