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Good looks are over-rated, IMO. At my age I've learned to be comfortable with who I am, and not worry so much over if I am "pretty". I look back at all the "pretty" people I went to school with and such, and they are, for the most part, awfully miserable - so I guess being "pretty" isn't that important (and sometimes detrimental). Some folks think that being "pretty" gives them a magic ticket so that nothing will ever go wrong in their lives
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I like who I am and where I am, and if someone wants to have a problem with that, than they aren't worth my time - in my not so humble opinion
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About the Delcorns - I'm not surprised they are sweeties - My dellie roo is a big sweetie (good thing, he is at least 10 or 12 pounds by now) the brahma girls, too - and the babies I get out of them are just big puppy dogs.

I thought at first it was just this chick or that one, but almost every chick I've hatched from them runs to the cage front to be petted - not just given treats, they want you to reach in there and scratch their chests and talk to them.

Fluffy, my girl I kept and have outside, still comes running every time she sees me. I figured once she got outside and mingled with other chickens she'd lose some of that - but she is the first one to come running and peeping when she hears my voice. I have to pick her up and she likes to ride on my shoulder, if I let her (she has sharp claws, though, and hangs on too tightly, usually
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) Gump, the other girl (BR mixed with OEG) is friendly, but doesn't care to be petted or to come running up to you quite so fast - she is more leary of people. I think it has to be the Dellie and Brahma heritage that makes the others that way.

I've got a few more older girls I'm considering keeping - just because they are too sweet to get rid of
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That's why I want more Brahmas and Dellies. They are such big babies
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I do understand that my relative is an aberration - some people just shouldn't be allowed any semblance of "power". One reason I have a problem with "the church" is that there are so many folks there who have no idea whatsoever what God or Christ were about. I've met more "Christlike" folks on the street corner begging change than I ever met in a church.

Ya know why I married my husband? I met my husband at my sister's house - I was getting one of those "home perms". If you've ever been around when one of those is being done, you'll understand how stinky and horrid it really is.

Everyone left me in the kitchen to "brew" cause I smelled so badly (even my sister left me)
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He kept coming back in to sit and talk to me and keep me company - when it was over the perm turned out horrible - I looked like a poodle on steroids. He smiled and said "I think maybe next time ya ought to leave it the way it was, I like straight hair, and by the way, would you like to go out for dinner next Friday?"

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I figured anyone who had seen me at THAT bad of a moment and still hung around was worth going out with (and who wanted to be seen in public with me with that hair
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He's still my little Sweetie
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He's never tried to tell me what to do - he makes suggestions, and I usually am happy to follow those suggestions - if he ever told me I HAD to do this or that, he knows I'd have something different to say about it - and I wouldn't be polite
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I usually just tell men (or women) like my relative , that God created woman from man's rib from his SIDE, not from the soles of his feet - so that means, to me, that God intended them to be side by side, not one standing over the other. Just because men and women are different (and yeah, I believe men have certain skills and natural abilities that women just cannot possibly possess and vice versa - I like it that way
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Hey FrChuck - yer online so I see ya didn't get blown away
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it got really windy and rainy down here but not like it was up there - I think it died down a bit before it got to Adair County.

It sure is cold and windy and wet today though
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where did my SPRING go????
 
Mojo Chick'n :

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Hey FrChuck - yer online so I see ya didn't get blown away
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it got really windy and rainy down here but not like it was up there - I think it died down a bit before it got to Adair County.

It sure is cold and windy and wet today though
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where did my SPRING go????

Yeah luckily I didn't get blown away and the power stayed on, haven't really gone out to check for any damage yet though. I have let the fur kids out, but they didn't even want to stay out like usual. It's supposed to go down to 38 degrees tonight. And theyare calling fo rain on Tuesday and Thursday again, just what I don't need!

I like your philosophy that you stated earlier, much my same sentiments. I have to check on my babies in the brooder and make sure they haven't plugged up the waterer again.

Be back in a bit.​
 
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Hey FrChuck - yer online so I see ya didn't get blown away
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it got really windy and rainy down here but not like it was up there - I think it died down a bit before it got to Adair County.

It sure is cold and windy and wet today though
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where did my SPRING go????

Yeah luckily I didn't get blown away and the power stayed on, haven't really gone out to check for any damage yet though. I have let the fur kids out, but they didn't even want to stay out like usual. It's supposed to go down to 38 degrees tonight. And theyare calling fo rain on Tuesday and Thursday again, just what I don't need!

I like your philosophy that you stated earlier, much my same sentiments. I have to check on my babies in the brooder and make sure they haven't plugged up the waterer again.

Be back in a bit.

Good idea, I need to go check waterers, too - those chicks sure do yuck it up fast!!

bak - had to do incubator humidities,too
 
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Not a bad hatch going this time - had 22 eggs, 14 hatched so far, one pipped and died, one is pipped right now. The others may still pip and hatch, I have duck eggs in there, anyway, so they can stay awhile longer.

Somehow I got one of George's eggs in there, though
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I thought I had just Mr. Speckles' coop, and I got one black baby in the mix.

I hope at least half of my duck eggs hatch - I've got 7 of them in there. 4 would be nice - 7 would make me faint. 3 I could be pleasantly happy with, though.

I finally talked hubby into letting me wait to set some more eggs (for at least a couple of weeks
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) what convinced him,a ctually, was walking into the hatchign room and seeing ALL THOSE CHICKS.
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I do have one more batch that goes into the hatcher, soon, though. Next week when I put those in I have four or five more duck eggs to go in, then I won't have any for a little bit (the other duck eggs and the geese eggs have awhile to go.)

I told him I want to empty the chicken bator and put in a quail rack or two - so I can do some quail eggs. Plus, I want to take the turner out of the waterfowl bator to lay those on their sides - well, I'd leave in a couple racks, for call duck eggs, when I have some more to set. 7 goose eggs take up a lot of room, though, so I need a little more space (more racks out than I already took out). I want to swap out the fan in that bator, too - it is running funky.

I'm not sure why that one chickie pipped and died, it didn't seem stuck in the membrane when I opened it, was fully formed, ready to come out - just died before hatching.
 
I just woke up. Still out of sync for day and night. I have to go to work tonight at 10PM. So I'll do a little running around today then go back to bed and try to get some more shut-eye.

I hear you Mojo.

FrChuckW... nothing much happened here in Lexington. I quess the line of storms kinda blew itself out before it got here. I saw some lightning but no harsh winds and the rain was light. The winds were blowing pretty good and the rain was steady, but nothing harsh.

And I don't want to ignore Shelleyd. I was asleep when you were on.

All my Dark Cornish and Red Silkie chicks are doing great. I have been feeding them Corn mash mix, and two other starter mixes from the feed store screw ups. THey seem to like the mash the best because it is smaller and moist. The bigger birds (5 weeks old) prefer the other crumbles and leave the mash till last. So I am thinking it isn't the taste as much as size and texture.

I put the nine unhatched eggs from my broody in the dirty bator and took out the 4 eggs that had been in for 24 days. I'll give these a few days then candle and toss depending on the case.

I'm collecting more from my hens to put in the bator already.

Speaking of yucking up water. I try to keep the water at the level of the drinkers backs if possible. that way they cannot drink then turn around and poop into the water. Seen it happen several times. Yesterday in the brooder I had one of the 5 week olds dust bathing and kicking stuff up into the waterer. They start so early.
 
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folks!! I may have found a black OEGB roo!
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There was a guy looking at my birds yesterday, and asked me what kind I had at home. When I said I had OEGB, he asked what colors. When I told him I had a white roo, his jaw almost hit the floor! He said he has been looking for a white roo, and he has black roos!! I think we are gonna trade
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He is supposed to call me when he is going to Sano (lives in Williamsburg, too far for me to go!). Please, oh please, let me get a black roo!! He asked me if I had any blue, and I said no. I keep forgetting about Nugget, who is a blue pullet, and my splash hen, which is as blue as you can get!
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But I won't sell my girls anyway. If I get this roo, then I'll be taking my red pyle boy to the sale. I lost my hen it seems, so have no use for him now
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