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I've heard of people taking obviously "weaker" birds to use as a bait of sorts to train the bigger ones. I'm just paranoid. And it doesn't help matters that I really do get attached to my chickens.
 
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we are in central La - have some great folks here & lots of good advice & fun too!
 
Any of you Rooster haters ( LOL
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) have any RIR Roos anywhere between 6-month and a year your looking to re-home. I'm not quite ready for them today but by this time next week I should have my pens done!!!!!

I still have 9, 4 week old Buff Orpingtons to sell if anyone is looking for started chicks. I also have 3 BO's that are about 4 months old if anyone is interested in birds that are ready to be mixed in with their flock...make me an offer, I really need the room!

Thanks,
Chris
 
(12-20-2011) 18:21 PST DEQUINCY, La. (AP) --

An uncommon December tornado on Tuesday ripped off part of a hospital roof in a southwest Louisiana city, causing several patients to be evacuated, but no injuries.

The National Weather Service said the weak tornado touched down at 8:25 a.m., causing some property damage including at DeQuincy Memorial Hospital. Eight patients were transferred to hospitals in the nearby cities of Lake Charles and Kinder, but the emergency room remained open, administrative assistant Kashia Spears told the American Press (http://bit.ly/tDX2ws).

She said it's unclear when the hospital would be able to house people overnight again because the torn off portion of the roof covered a hallway of rooms for patients.

The weather service classified the storm as an EF-1 tornado, which can pack winds up to 110 mph, though an agency official said actual wind speeds were likely far lower. EF-1 tornadoes can have wind speeds as low as 86 mph.

The tornado was the first to strike anywhere in the U.S. this December, a month in which tornadoes are historically uncommon. Though last New Year's Eve, deadly twisters hit Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri. And wide swaths of Mississippi and Louisiana were under severe weather watches.

Weather service forecaster Todd Mogged said the DeQuincy tornado was likely on the ground for less than a minute. Though the weather service issued a tornado warning, Mogged said the fast-developing, short-lived twister probably touched down at about the same time as the alert.

Calcasieu Parish's emergency preparedness director Dick Gremillion said DeQuincy was fortunate.

"It's a miracle that there wasn't any more damage," Gremillion said. "It could have been a lot worse."

It was hospital nurse Alisha St. Germain's first encounter with a tornado. Her Chevrolet Tahoe sustained severe damage on its passenger side when roof fragments slammed into it.

"I just got out of my car about three minutes before it happened," said St. Germain, who bought the vehicle in September.

Beyond the hospital, damage was limited in the northern part of the city.

The tornado was part of a system bringing rain to several Southern states. Also, a different deadly storm that caused blizzard conditions in portions of the Great Plains weakened Tuesday as it headed east into Missouri and toward the Great Lakes.

In DeQuincy, Gremillion said recovery operations began minutes after the tornado passed, and by 1 p.m., workers at the hospital had begun installing a temporary roof in a bid to prevent further damage.

By nightfall, area utility companies said they had largely restored power after a day of widespread outages.​
 
I got my oldest to help me sort out the roosters I'm trying to get rid of so I could get some pics. I have someone coming to pick up the blue/grey one Friday, and I'm hoping she takes more, but here they are. I have two more, but I'm keeping them.

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And, here's the mean one:

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My splash silkie hen hatched 12 chicks today! Not bad for her first hatch
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They finally assembled my carport out at the property, so I plan to get started on my pens ASAP. I can't wait to get it finished. I just hope it turns out as I imagine it
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I have a solid gray Sebastopol gander that I am looking to get rid of. I have too many gander's and he has a bit of a twisted wing tip, so he is the one to go. I'll take $60 for him if anyone is interested.

I am starting to get eggs from the majority of my birds now. If I can get a couple of olive eggers, then I'd have one colorful Easter basket!
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That is SO nuts about the tornado!! -- because let me tell ya'll .. there is a little subdivision not far from us that went up after Katrina, it was a lease-to-buy thing & they have a nice little neighborhood there-- but this morning as I was going to work, I saw all kinds of material out in the fields across from it that my cousins farm-- well, it was siding! -- a bunch of siding off those houses on the outer edge was blown clean off!!! & one even had a hole in the upper roof part of it. There must have been straight line winds or something tornado type activity to do that, even though we didnt' have anything like that 5 miles up the road...


anyway, great looking eggs Gracie & nice looking chickens Tabitha

I got my new Brinsea today.




I think I need to try it out. What do ya'll think?
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