Minnesota!

[Minniechickmama]

Do you know how to get rid of the box elder bugs? Bring in Asian Lady Beetles. In our experience, they will not co-exist. I don't know which is the bullying species, but I know if there is one on the house, the other is not there. Usually the box elders take over the garage while the ALBs take the house. My husband was trying to paint our two-story garage one year during the ALB uprising. It was not a pretty sight. LOL!

 

[Minniechickmama]

Guineas on the peak of the house would make a good photo!

Peafowl do that too!

 

[Coffee 1st]

OK short story,,, I'm in the coop this morning and I hear MOM are you out there,,yeah i hear my sons voice... so i grabbed my poop bucket and my pitch fork and leave the coop.. super happy to see him. he says mom i think we should talk I'm like ahh ohh whats wrong... so i empty my poop bucket in compost put the pitch fork away and head for the house to wash my hands. so i sit down at the kitchen table with my son and daughter in law, and my son ask`s Mom are you OK? Yes why would you ask that? Because you are outside in your pajamas with a poop bucket in one hand and a pitchfork in the other there is a **** chicken in your bathroom,you don't go any place anymore, you have dishes in the sink no makeup and you chopped your hair off and alls you talk about is chickens you are almost 50 years old and should be traveling or enjoying a easy life not working harder,,and why is there a chicken in your bathroom??? If you need some help maybe we should move back in with you.

Wow..

OK so the chicken in the bathroom has in infection and I'm going to take a warm rag and soften it up so i can squeeze the puss out of it and i have to clean the poop out of the coop since chickens DO poop, the pitchfork is so i can turn the straw over in the run and fluff the pine shavings, I get out of the house i just went to fleet farm yesterday, I chopped my hair because I'm having hot flashes and I'm as you said I'm almost 50 i don't need hair down to my *ss I'm not out to get a boyfriend why should i wear makeup when its just me and if i don't want to do dishes today i don't have to.. If i want to raise chickens instead of traveling that's what is making me happy right now..

I'm FINE its OK

 

[duluthralphie]

Do you know how to get rid of the box elder bugs? Bring in Asian Lady Beetles. In our experience, they will not co-exist. I don't know which is the bullying species, but I know if there is one on the house, the other is not there. Usually the box elders take over the garage while the ALBs take the house. My husband was trying to paint our two-story garage one year during the ALB uprising. It was not a pretty sight. LOL!

I have had both here at the same time, but I live in the middle of a box elder grove!

If I had my choice I would take the box elder bugs.


Painted ALB on a flat surface are known as Texturing.

 

[duluthralphie]

OK short story,,, I'm in the coop this morning and I hear MOM are you out there,,yeah i hear my sons voice... so i grabbed my poop bucket and my pitch fork and leave the coop.. super happy to see him. he says mom i think we should talk I'm like ahh ohh whats wrong... so i empty my poop bucket in compost put the pitch fork away and head for the house to wash my hands. so i sit down at the kitchen table with my son and daughter in law, and my son ask`s Mom are you OK? Yes why would you ask that? Because you are outside in your pajamas with a poop bucket in one hand and a pitchfork in the other there is a **** chicken in your bathroom,you don't go any place anymore, you have dishes in the sink no makeup and you chopped your hair off and alls you talk about is chickens you are almost 50 years old and should be traveling or enjoying a easy life not working harder,,and why is there a chicken in your bathroom??? If you need some help maybe we should move back in with you.

Wow..

OK so the chicken in the bathroom has in infection and I'm going to take a warm rag and soften it up so i can squeeze the puss out of it and i have to clean the poop out of the coop since chickens DO poop, the pitchfork is so i can turn the straw over in the run and fluff the pine shavings, I get out of the house i just went to fleet farm yesterday, I chopped my hair because I'm having hot flashes and I'm as you said I'm almost 50 i don't need hair down to my ***** I'm not out to get a boyfriend why should i wear makeup when its just me and if i don't want to do dishes today i don't have to.. If i want to raise chickens instead of traveling that's what is making me happy right now..

I'm FINE its OK

Kids will never understand. My son was here not too long ago and one of my hens came into the shed where we were working.

I said "Hi, how you doing?" to the chicken.

My son said "is someone here?"

I said "Nope"


He say the hen and said " I forgot you talk to your chickens, you should really see someone about that"

 

[Bogtown Chick]

OK short story,,, I'm in the coop this morning and I hear MOM are you out there,,yeah i hear my sons voice... so i grabbed my poop bucket and my pitch fork and leave the coop.. super happy to see him. he says mom i think we should talk I'm like ahh ohh whats wrong... so i empty my poop bucket in compost put the pitch fork away and head for the house to wash my hands. so i sit down at the kitchen table with my son and daughter in law, and my son ask`s Mom are you OK? Yes why would you ask that? Because you are outside in your pajamas with a poop bucket in one hand and a pitchfork in the other there is a **** chicken in your bathroom,you don't go any place anymore, you have dishes in the sink no makeup and you chopped your hair off and alls you talk about is chickens you are almost 50 years old and should be traveling or enjoying a easy life not working harder,,and why is there a chicken in your bathroom??? If you need some help maybe we should move back in with you.

Wow..

OK so the chicken in the bathroom has in infection and I'm going to take a warm rag and soften it up so i can squeeze the puss out of it and i have to clean the poop out of the coop since chickens DO poop, the pitchfork is so i can turn the straw over in the run and fluff the pine shavings, I get out of the house i just went to fleet farm yesterday, I chopped my hair because I'm having hot flashes and I'm as you said I'm almost 50 i don't need hair down to my *ss I'm not out to get a boyfriend why should i wear makeup when its just me and if i don't want to do dishes today i don't have to.. If i want to raise chickens instead of traveling that's what is making me happy right now..

I'm FINE its OK

Coffee. this is fantastic. Sort of cracks me up. I love that you've taken on the project of chickening and I think it's okay not to want to travel and do as everybody else your age does. Follow your own calling. My parents don't travel either. They love gardening, fishing, cutting wood...etc... OH they take a trip once in a while...but they don't care to be constantly on the go. They like the comfort of their own home.

I went down to the coop today in my Black and Pink Polka-dotted pajamas. Pulled out the poop. Added some water to the fount. Got pounced on by Sadie Mae the "Tigger" of yellow labs. Bounce-y Bounce-y Bounce-y. Hope she didn't have poop on her paws. I didn't have make up on either. Pretty common when it comes to a run to let the girls and Tootsie out.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I talk to the girls and Roger all the time. I think they know their names actually. I'll call for a certain one or...Roger for sure and they come truckin'.

 

[KlopKlop]

A mixed bag for me today....

the chainsaw place told me the motor is 'blown up' (he wouldnt elaborate even though i would understand it) that is not what i wanted to hear considering i paid 600 bucks for it less than 6 months ago. they have to tear it apart to determine what happened to see if it is under waranty or not. it better bet. I have run less than 4 tanks of gas through it!

on the up side, i just finished trimming in my new garage door and building a new roosting system in my second coop. I took out the terrible poop hammock and replaced it with a nice poop board, swing up roosts and gutter trough for catching/removing poo should be all set for winter now! unfortunatly i could not use the tree branches again on the new roost because they were not long enough but the 2x4 roosts will be good for them going into the cool weather.

back on the down side... somehow while working on the roost i got a nasty runny chicken poo on my shirt under my arm. before i knew it i had it smeared up and down my arm, all over my shirt, and even down to my pants pocket. gross!

to to get to work on some shelving and getting cleaned up before DW gets home from her conference.

 

[duluthralphie]

A mixed bag for me today....

the chainsaw place told me the motor is 'blown up' (he wouldnt elaborate even though i would understand it) that is not what i wanted to hear considering i paid 600 bucks for it less than 6 months ago. they have to tear it apart to determine what happened to see if it is under waranty or not. it better bet. I have run less than 4 tanks of gas through it!

 

[Minniechickmama]

OK short story,,, I'm in the coop this morning and I hear MOM are you out there,,yeah i hear my sons voice... so i grabbed my poop bucket and my pitch fork and leave the coop.. super happy to see him. he says mom i think we should talk I'm like ahh ohh whats wrong... so i empty my poop bucket in compost put the pitch fork away and head for the house to wash my hands. so i sit down at the kitchen table with my son and daughter in law, and my son ask`s Mom are you OK? Yes why would you ask that? Because you are outside in your pajamas with a poop bucket in one hand and a pitchfork in the other there is a **** chicken in your bathroom,you don't go any place anymore, you have dishes in the sink no makeup and you chopped your hair off and alls you talk about is chickens you are almost 50 years old and should be traveling or enjoying a easy life not working harder,,and why is there a chicken in your bathroom??? If you need some help maybe we should move back in with you.

Wow..

OK so the chicken in the bathroom has in infection and I'm going to take a warm rag and soften it up so i can squeeze the puss out of it and i have to clean the poop out of the coop since chickens DO poop, the pitchfork is so i can turn the straw over in the run and fluff the pine shavings, I get out of the house i just went to fleet farm yesterday, I chopped my hair because I'm having hot flashes and I'm as you said I'm almost 50 i don't need hair down to my *ss I'm not out to get a boyfriend why should i wear makeup when its just me and if i don't want to do dishes today i don't have to.. If i want to raise chickens instead of traveling that's what is making me happy right now..

I'm FINE its OK

I went through the hot flash thing this summer when it was 85 out. I will be 50 in January, so I guess we are in the same boat.
With my family... they believe I like the chickens more than them, and some days I do. I realized I like animals more than most people a long time ago, so it only makes sense that I spend a lot of time with critters that are non-human. However, I must admit, I talk like I type... A LOT! So, if you get me going, you gotta hit my off switch. LOL And talking about chickens, I can do that all day long!
I don't bring birds in the house, it is one promise I made to my husband after the last of the brooders were removed from the garage.
I think if I stop being interested in the chickens, THEN my family will be concerned. Neither my husband nor I have great plans to travel, we would rather garden and putter around here. Although, I would like to go to the British Isles one day. I am not Brit at all, in fact, mostly German and a little Dutch, and wouldn't mind visiting those countries either. I think one trip would be enough. I traveled around the world while in the Navy and it satisfied the wanderer in me enough.