Michigan

[NovaAman]

That's my prob too. That's why I asked. I would think nothing of it, and maybe that makes me naive. But my dad had lots of lady friends, and it was innocent, he never gave my ma a reason to be jealous, and she wasn't. So, I have to ask other women what they think.

 

[NovaAman]

good thing my kid doesn't know about egg paint... Or I wouldn't have eggs cuz he'd be trying to paint with them!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Btw, it's only a half dozen till i get my own velocoraptor breeding program underfoot, lol.

I have a chick that may be a baby "basketball hen"!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, she was an out of the shell rescue, so only time will tell whether she will live or not. Today was day 3, been on an every several hours feeding and today she is toddling around and cuddling her stuffie i gave her. I know, shouldn't have messed with nature. Didn't mean to, i was going to do an egg autopsy, and to my surprise i found one alive and with the air sac pipped. :O The hen had given up on setting, wanted to get out with her babies. Was playing football with the egg, when i candled there was no movement! I waited to post until i was a little more sure, she is beautiful!

Yes, mine are totally lap pets, named and cried over. We keep ours on DH's family property, where we do our "farm stuff" until we get a real home. He let me start with chickens because i have kept parakeets my whole life, but we can't have them in this apartment. So mine are as dear to me as a kid or a dog.

But i don't heat in the winter, just use a heated dog bowl for water when i can. Nothing will make you sick quicker than going from a super heated place to a super cold one, we don't even use a ton of heat in the house since we are outside a lot in the winter too. Same for them, too. Just keep a draft free place with up top ventillation, perhaps some nice windows for winter light, and morning sun rays.

 

[RaZ]

Women are pretty terrritorial. Even when everything is innocent and there is no threat to their relationship - most women will react to other women anywhere near their man. Pretty sure this is biological.

I surely don't understand this response, but I've seen it happen.
It makes me wonder if the issues with Crabby next door has something to do with that.

The girl I dated for some time was jealous of my neighbor even though we were nothing more than friends. Then my neighbor got wiggy about the girls from school who would some times come by to visit and study.

I surely don't understand any of that behaviour. It's not like I'm a handsome man worth getting excited about.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

Nova...For me... I would tell her he is all hers.

It would be cheapier for him to keep me than to loose me.
I would think it weird, for sure, if there was no reason behind the friendship. ie: work, old friend, neighbor...
It would be more suspicious if she stopped the conversation with you around... but wouldn't she know that.
It does not matter how she feels about him. It matters how he feels about her.

I would find it odd if they get on well in public, then seems like he doesn't like or could care less about her in private.

 

[NovaAman]

huh... Maybe I should just go look up female nature.... Lol

 

[swampducks]

deal.
Gracious... I got an out of the ballpark question for you married ladies out there. If a single lady kept talking to your hubby, but made no untoward remarks, or behaved in any way that you could honestly say was threatening, and when she speaks to you, she does it just the same as she does your old man, does not scamper off like she trying to be sneaky, would you still be inclined to give the cold shoulder? Why am I asking? Like to write, and want it to be believable.

Women are pretty terrritorial. Even when everything is innocent and there is no threat to their relationship - most women will react to other women anywhere near their man. Pretty sure this is biological.

I trust DH. He is too level headed to do anything stupid. If a single lady actually tried something he would tell her to look elsewhere. I've got male friends, I am sure there are people in this town who think I'm probably having an affair with one of them. Most of those people are known to have fooled around before, often with each other. It all depends on how confident your characters are. I would not give her the cold shoulder. Often that could lead to sneakiness as retribution.

Thanks for the birthday wishes Hillbilly Hen!

DH closed up all the coops for me tonight. I get to do the other 364 days.

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

Raz...First of all

Second...I have to stick up for you and say that you are a very nice man and I am not sure why you have had bad marriages... it must have been the ex's faults

Third... Take one for Team Uggo and kill her with kindness, if ya know what I mean

... Oh wait she is married...

 

[taprock]

We have found a few over the past few days. I had never seen one before.

Cool!

Did you look up how hideous the caterpillars are?


Juise - was that the blind chicken with your daughter?

Opa - I was thinking about how you said you never named a chicken. I had a 'discussion' with someone a while ago about not naming my chickens. I have a few that are not named yet. I do not name them until I can tell them apart on sight. Out of 70 birds only 5 are not named yet. Anyway this person had their chickens numbered and that was how they referred to them. I told them it still counted as a name. My thought was even it you called an specific animal Idiot or BBQ or any other thing on a routine basis it becomes it's name. They didn't agree. A name doesn't always mean it becomes a pet. I'm very pleased to say my son has learned this. Example: My son had two d'Uccle roos - quite attached to them. They are a year old and he used them for showmanship in 4-H last year. Boots and Socks. Boots, good rooster, Socks has gotten rather rough on the girls and likes to start rooster squabbles. On Saturday I sent three roos off with my brother to be butchered. My son came to me when I was caging them up. He told me Socks needed to go also. I asked him why. He said he was mean to the girls and should go. I asked if he was sure, he knows what will happen to them. He was sure. So off Socks went. I told my brother I don't think he was worth butchering - year old bantam roo. But we are now 4 less roosters.

 

[Olive Hill]

I don't think it has anything to do with trust with the actual partner. I've been with DH for 12 years, I trust him entirely. I still don't approve of women seeking out married men with ulterior motives in mind. In fact, I feel the same way about it if it's someone else's DH, I'd have no problem telling her she's barking up the wrong tree.