MJ's little flock

[RoyalChick]

For me, good means I'm learning new things, so yes it's good.

I almost always enjoy learning and a course on chickens is the bee's knees as far as I'm concerned.

I don't think there are any real-time lectures, although I haven't got to the end of the course yet, so I can't say that with any certainty. But I'd be surprised if there were any, because it's an asynchronous online course, so it proceeds at my pace not the teachers' pace. So far, it's been mostly reading, videos and discussion forums, with a few quizzes thrown in.

Like Shad said, it's aimed at vets so I often find myself looking up terminology, which is *awesome* because that gives me even more learning.

I am tempted to take it as well but am worried I am a bit over committed right now. Not sure how I let that happen!

 

[BY Bob]

I am tempted to take it as well but am worried I am a bit over committed right now. Not sure how I let that happen!

I thought you were retired?

 

[RoyalChick]

I thought you were retired?

Yes. That is why I am so puzzled about how I got into this situation!
I am still learning to say no.
It is all stuff I want to do, but that was mostly true when I was working.

 

[Sussex19]

I had thought one of my hens had stopped laying, and was threatening her with the stew pot (not that I would, she has even got a name 'Chicky-pie' she was the first pullet that I got which was still young enough to make cheepy noises)
but this morning I found a heap of eggs in the compost pile, which one of the other hens had laid there.
Poor old Chicky-pie had been laying an egg a day in the nesting box all along!

 

[BY Bob]

Yes. That is why I am so puzzled about how I got into this situation!
I am still learning to say no.
It is all stuff I want to do, but that was mostly true when I was working.

So you are another retired Ado Annie like Mrs BY Bob.

 

[MaryJanet]

Yes. That is why I am so puzzled about how I got into this situation!
I am still learning to say no.
It is all stuff I want to do, but that was mostly true when I was working.

I'm the same. I've spent most of my month off cleaning the house in one way or another. Now the Red Marauders are out of the laundry, I've been able to rehabilitate it a little. It still needs a thorough mopping, but otherwise it's looking good. I finished removing and sorting everything from the cellar, I've been cleaning it (just a little more to do), I put together a big IKEA shelving unit down there and have started putting things back again. The one job I really wanted to achieve, I haven't even started yet: the roost. But I think I can push through with that next week when the weather is a little less roasting. I've also been enjoying the time off by going out to lunch nearly every day and taking lots of rest.

 

[MaryJanet]

I had thought one of my hens had stopped laying, and was threatening her with the stew pot (not that I would, she has even got a name 'Chicky-pie' she was the first pullet that I got which was still young enough to make cheepy noises)
but this morning I found a heap of eggs in the compost pile, which one of the other hens had laid there.
Poor old Chicky-pie had been laying an egg a day in the nesting box all along!
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Awww she's cute!

 

[BY Bob]

I had thought one of my hens had stopped laying, and was threatening her with the stew pot (not that I would, she has even got a name 'Chicky-pie' she was the first pullet that I got which was still young enough to make cheepy noises)
but this morning I found a heap of eggs in the compost pile, which one of the other hens had laid there.
Poor old Chicky-pie had been laying an egg a day in the nesting box all along!
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She is a cutie-pie!

 

[ManueB]

For me, good means I'm learning new things, so yes it's good.

I almost always enjoy learning and a course on chickens is the bee's knees as far as I'm concerned.

I don't think there are any real-time lectures, although I haven't got to the end of the course yet, so I can't say that with any certainty. But I'd be surprised if there were any, because it's an asynchronous online course, so it proceeds at my pace not the teachers' pace. So far, it's been mostly reading, videos and discussion forums, with a few quizzes thrown in.

Like Shad said, it's aimed at vets so I often find myself looking up terminology, which is *awesome* because that gives me even more learning.

I began the two first weeks, but I find I would prefer a written course or a book. We don't have a printer and I would need to be able to look many times at the anatomy pictures for example to memorize them.
If you have book recs I would love to know, I will search a bit on BYC.

I'm on double-duty for a couple of weeks while the neighbours are in New Zealand. So there are two more chooks, two more cats and about 8 potted plants on my daily roster. It's working out quite well.

I pop to their place around 4pm and let the chooks and cats out, then go home until it's time to do my own chicken, cat and garden chores at sunset. By then it's around 8.30pm so I pop back to their place to water the plants, shut the chooks in for the night and feed the cats. Then I have my own dinner while watching telly with their cats before doing the litter trays and coming home again around 11. Every second evening, I give their oldest cat her special laxative medication.

I love these opportunities to provide a little pet care for them. It makes up for all those times they've done the same for me.

That sounds like a very good arrangement. Especially if they help you the other way round!
We used to catsit for my partner's neighbor in Nice, but her three elderly Burmese Persian cats were the stuff of nightmares .

I had thought one of my hens had stopped laying, and was threatening her with the stew pot (not that I would, she has even got a name 'Chicky-pie' she was the first pullet that I got which was still young enough to make cheepy noises)
but this morning I found a heap of eggs in the compost pile, which one of the other hens had laid there.
Poor old Chicky-pie had been laying an egg a day in the nesting box all along!
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Well maybe she can have a scrambled egg back for excuses. She's very pretty, is she Sussex ?

 

[ManueB]

Oh and I forgot to mention @MaryJanet we followed your idea and since we got the grinder out, we grinded the sunflowers stems and that went in the compost. I could probably have left them directly on the garden's ground.