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[RBahmer]

I got the 4 most beautifuliest little partridge silkie chicks from RIRJen today. I am up to 14 Silkies now including my big Partridge rooster named Lance from her.

 

[b737drvr]

Taprock...good story. Seemed like something my five-yr-olds would enjoy. Is the purpose of the story just for the story's sake or are you going to have some follow up questions like:
Are there any things you are scared of?
What are some things you could do to overcome your fears like Peep?
How does it make you feel when you are brave?

I am not very good at those types of questions, but something along those lines would be good.

The only line in the story I didn't care for was, "After the boy had shut off the tv and gone into the house Peep crept out and got a drink from the cat's dish and snuck a bite to eat."
Is it OK to steal somebody else's stuff, even if it is only a drink and something to eat? I hate passing on criticism...please view it is constructive.
You wanted feedback, so there you have it.
Great story overall!

 

[NovaAman]

SILKIES!!! I understand that they are not real chickens. HEHEHE. I still get the giggles over that. LOL Sorry EMAW, you said it...

 

[NovaAman]

"After the boy had shut off the tv and gone into the house Peep crept out and got a drink from the cat's dish and snuck a bite to eat."

My chickens ALWAYS steal the cat food. Its like a new form of crack for them.

 

[RBahmer]

SILKIES!!! I understand that they are not real chickens. HEHEHE. I still get the giggles over that. LOL Sorry EMAW, you said it...

 

[NovaAman]

Hey York, How's it going over there in greater Dextor?

 

[vjwilmoth]

Hi there!

Boyne City is allowing 4 hens in a region in which city chicks have been hotly contested (see Petoskey). So, I'm excited, and have 2 buff orpingtons and 2 australorps hanging out in their brooder in my garage. They are only 2 weeks old, but so far so good. When do folks in the north usually let their chicks out into the coop? Is it like plants, and you don't put them out until after frost danger is over?

I just put mine out in the coop 2 nights ago and they are almost 6 weeks old. The 9 of them were seriously outgrowing the brooder. I have a red heat lamp out there with them though and they seem to be loving all their new found space. I got a wireless thermometer and it seems to be staying comfy enough out there for them. They don't roost yet so in the morning I find them all snuggled together in a big chicken pile. My mom on the other hand has ten 2 week old chicks and she put them in the coop with a heat lamp this week. They have also done just fine. I guess it's really your call.


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I got the 4 most beautifuliest little partridge silkie chicks from RIRJen today. I am up to 14 Silkies now including my big Partridge rooster named Lance from her.

AAAHHHH So envious! I think I've decided on partridge and splash silkies. My mom and I are supposed to go look at some tomorrow evening.

 

[RBahmer]

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AAAHHHH So envious! I think I've decided on partridge and splash silkies. My mom and I are supposed to go look at some tomorrow evening.

Ohhhhh I would love splash ones too. I will be looking for some.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Mom, sorry you had to do this. I hate to ask how you do it but I would like to know so if I have to I will know how.
Kimmie

x 2. Morbid as it may be, but I'd like to know also. Sorry about your baby.

I cant do it the way a farmer or I will even go as far as to say, a responsible chicken owner, would do. I took it/take them to work and euthanize them by lethal injection.

How many of you ever lived in a house with a milk chute? The summer I was twelve and worked for a Twin Pines Dairy milk truck driver.

My grammas house had a milk chute- and we kids always went in and out of it,,,and got in trouble for it. She also had a laundry chute- and my cousin would go down it..voluntarily.
My house growing up, we had a metal box and Twin pines delivered our milk. Set it in the box out on the porch. I used to put toads in it. lol
My house also had a coal chute- and i never tried to go out it, but as a teenager, I tried to open it in attempt to get the smoke from the cigarette I was sneaking to go OUT instead of UP through the vents where my mom could smell it.

We also had oil delivered. It was a hundred dollars back then and it would heat the house for a month. ..or maybe it was three..I remember when we got a REAL furnace...
ahhh, memories..

A rain garden is a garden made up of native plants and grasses that is designed in such a way that it uses rainfall and stormwater runoff to nourish the plants. In turn, the rain garden naturally filters the water, improving stormwater quality and reduce water run off. There are two different types of rain gardens; one type drains into a storm drain, and the other is self-contained and drains into the soil, but not into a storm drain or sewer system. Depending which drainage type is preffered, different plants would need to be planted, as a self contained rain garden will need to have plants that can sustain being more saturated in water than in one that drains into a storm drain or sewage system.

I've never used a rain garden personally, but I did a report on them earlier in the semester.

so, there IS hope for my backyard...there are plants that prefer being drowned besides algae....

Growing up we had a clothes chute and when we built our home that was a MUST HAVE. Have you ever gone down one??

Better yet what about a coal bin? The perfect esccape route when grandma specifically told you that YOU COULD NOT GO OUTSIDE! lol

oooh see my memories at the top of this treply...

I wish I had an attractive, shirtless farm hand who also cooked and cleaned and rubbed my feet.

Wait, what were we talking about?

with big brown eyes and dark hair...

I am sorry, but when I was a kid, I did the corn de-tassel job.

THERES A MACHINE FOR THIS???????????? AND you got PAID?????? I spent my summers shucking corn, and getting all the corn silk off...did it for hours and hours when all my friends were playing and getting in trouble/ I had to shuck corn. I hated corn. My gramps didnt care if I hated corn. Just do it- "why do I care if you hate it? It doesnt matter if you love it or hate it, you are still shucking it..." And he would sit on his porch swing and WATCH me shuck it. Stupid big ol pile of corn. And he would sit on his porch, drink his tea, smoke his cigarette and occaisonally yell out to tell me to be careful that I wasnt wrecking..nope, not wrecking..RUINING the kernels. He sold that corn, a dollar a dozen- shucked and de-silked. My labor. His dollar.

Man, I sure do miss that man. I would love to go shuck corn for him now. Just to see him sitting on that ol porch swing, smoking his cigarette again.

I haven't gotten so old that I have forgotten any of those skills and probably know some you have never heard of, however, not wanting to offend anyone's sensibilities I thought we shouldn't discuss them.

I got the 4 most beautifuliest little partridge silkie chicks from RIRJen today. I am up to 14 Silkies now including my big Partridge rooster named Lance from her.

I will be going to Chickenstock with blinders on...someone will have to tell me where Jen has set up and I will have to avoid whatever she brings. I have no self-control...

Speaking of no selfcontrol..my showgirls are two weeks old now..two and a half, and one of the black naked necks who may or may not be an Uggo..was kicking their butts today. It was grabbing the white ones and making them scream and chasing them all over the brooder, holding on to their heads/necks...jumping and kicking...I had a real little riot going on in the brooder...about the same time I figureed I was going to have to sacrifice it and give it to the banties, it stopped. It was terrible. All the others were crying and screeching.

 

[Elliemae 77]

No pips yet(sigh). Suppose to hatch tomorrow. Well, I'm headed to Baldwin area tomorrow. Gonna go pick up some silkie chicks from Tracey at Northwood Silkies. So excited!