NY chicken lover!!!!

[Lynzi777]

Man just had to go check all my girls and make sure none had a prolapsed vent. I just had a 5 ounce egg. 141 grams is what that would equal. Here are some pics. I was thinking a triple or quad yolk but was an egg within an egg. From looks of inner egg looks like the golden cuckoo maran laid it. Checked all reds and gcm I know my light Sussex don't lay that dark.

egg on left is my leg horn thing brown to right is a pullet the white in back is my daughters ancona pullet egg.



Egg within an egg.

That is crazy!! Poor hen!

 

[rancher hicks]

Anyone know how to delete old pictures? I've done it before but can remember how I did it.

 

[Lynzi777]

Anyone know how to delete old pictures? I've done it before but can remember how I did it.

My Profile
Scroll to the Bottom where your albums/pictures are located
Click on an Album
Edit Album or Edit Pictures (if you want to delete photos individually)
Delete Album or in the list of pictures check the ones you want deleted, click on Save at the bottom

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Man just had to go check all my girls and make sure none had a prolapsed vent. I just had a 5 ounce egg. 141 grams is what that would equal. Here are some pics. I was thinking a triple or quad yolk but was an egg within an egg. From looks of inner egg looks like the golden cuckoo maran laid it. Checked all reds and gcm I know my light Sussex don't lay that dark.

egg on left is my leg horn thing brown to right is a pullet the white in back is my daughters ancona pullet egg.


yes I haven't cleared my desk yet 12 ounce can to compare






should have taken more didn't notice flash was right at the marker for ounces


Egg within an egg.


Had to open second egg to make sure my hen didn't think she was Russian and making Matryoshka dolls lol.

I have never seen that before. It is very neat, but looks like it was very painful!

 

[JLaw]

I have never seen that before. It is very neat, but looks like it was very painful!

Yeah i was worried till i checked on them and they seemed ok.

 

[armorfirelady]

Lynzi your hens are beautiful but that was pretty cruel to show your grass. I haven't seen grass since last year

 

[Lynzi777]

Lynzi your hens are beautiful but that was pretty cruel to show your grass.   I haven't seen grass since last year 

Oh don't worry...that's the area I shoveled! We still have snow here too! ;-)

 

[Pyxis]

Well, I'm home sick today with a stomach bug so I'm watching Star Trek and checking my incubator. Tonight is first candle so we'll see what I've got going on in there! I also decided to integrate the five biggest EE chicks with the chicks in the pool brooder. I use the term pool brooder 'chicks' loosely because one of them is a California white that I brought in when she wasn't doing so well and I believe she's almost five months old. One other 'chick' is a duck that's four months old. So yeah, I was worried about those two harassing the chicks, which they did a little, but nothing serious. If it goes well overnight the other six EEs will join them tomorrow. They have way outgrown the brooder they're currently in.

 

[Cass]

If you can pay part of the heat and all of the mortgage, I suggest you do that. The mortgage comes first.

Can you or are you on a budget with the utility company? We are and it's a big help in following a budget.

Forget the past and move forward. You can't change what was.

If you decide to stay, tackle one project at a time. For us it meant buying a little of the materials as we could afford them. Our front porch had sheet rock and then the tub unit and then the cabinet and then the faucet til everything was bought and paid for. No credit.

Now in your case, you could buy insulation as you can afford the rolls. Measure each room to see how much you need of the materials.

Again check with the utility company and soc. serv. to see what options or programs are out there. Don't get discouraged by a no, just move on to the next option.

I GET VERY UPSET WITH FOLKS WHO THINK THEY KNOW WHAT'S WHAT. UNLESS YOUR A LAWYER OR REALTOR OR A BANKER YOU DON'T KNOW AS MUCH AS YOU THINK YOU DO.

This is why I read Edith Lanks column. Lord have mercy the crazy things people do just boggles my mind.

I'm not a young man and I've been around the block a few times. There are things I would have done differently had I asked for advice first. Like not buy the first house we owned.

J, if you need lawyer call the American Bar Association, If you need a Realtor call the Realtor Association. Tell them we need advice and what exactly it is you need help with. Call your bank and schedule an appointment for financial advice. Take everything you owe and just say I need help. Tell them what it is you're trying to do or want to do.

I'm not young either, Rancher. I think we figured out you are 6 years older than I am. And how do you know I am not a lawyer or a Realtor? Sheesh. Just because someone doesn't think YOU have all the answers or found something worked for them that didn't work for you your panties are all in a bunch. Chill. There ARE times when walking away IS the right thing to do, regardless of what you think...DIdn't someone else relate a story about how that was the case in their life?

 

[Lynzi777]

I'm not young either, Rancher. I think we figured out you are 6 years older than I am. And how do you know I am not a lawyer or a Realtor? Sheesh. Just because someone doesn't think YOU have all the answers or found something worked for them that didn't work for you your panties are all in a bunch. Chill. There ARE times when walking away IS the right thing to do, regardless of what you think...DIdn't someone else relate a story about how that was the case in their life?

I have to chime in here because Cass when you first posted your recommendation to JLAW, I agreed...
JLAW if you are going to walk away from that house then stop paying on it now and pocket/save any money you possibly can!!

I don't think I ever brought this up on here but coming from someone who went thru somewhat difficult times when it came to us having to move and relocate this is what happened to us:

We grew up in CT, bought our first house young I was only 20 and my husband 21. My husband got a job offer that we could not refuse. If we didn't take it we would have continued to drown in debt with the amount of fixing we were doing on that house that we bought that was built in 1912. We put the house on the market in March of '08. The worst possible time to sell a house. The market was just awful. I was living there myself with one child while my husband worked in Albany and lived out of a hotel. He drove home on weekends or I drove up there to see him spending all sorts of money in gas, trying to pay bills AND a mortgage back in CT while he was in NY. I finally decided it was time to leave and get a place in NY. My house was on the market from March of '08 to Sept/Oct of '08. My contract with my realtor was up. I had gotten 3, yes THREE showings in that entire time period. 1 of which was a no show and 2 gave no offers at all! I stopped paying the mortgage in April of '08 because I KNEW we were gonna struggle to find a place once it came time to moving to NY. We had to find a rent - which by the way is not because of the house ordeal. We chose to rent because we did not know where this job was going take us. We were not going to buy a house even if we HAD sold ours and to turn around and have to move a year or two later again. Anyway, we had to put double security down which was fine, with all the months I hadn't paid the mortgage, we had the money to do so. We move into a nice apartment complex in Latham, everything is dandy besides the calls coming from the mortgage company which again, who cares. I ignored them. And actually we didn't even have a house phone the 1st year we lived there. 2.5 years later my husband gets a promotion and we have to move to Syracuse. Here we are, STILL renting and STILL for the same reason - We don't know where this venture is going to take us. We got all of our $3500 deposit back from our old apartment, only had to place half of that down on this house and here we are. Oh the house? Guess what? It was short saled! I was contacted by a realtor in 2012 that wanted to short sale it. I signed some papers, we even got a "relocation rebate" of $3000. My house stood empty for over 5 years. They never got a dime from me. Yea my credit isn't perfect but it wasn't before I left that house so who cares. For the first time in YEARS we are debt free, Have no credit debt, Don't even have a car payments because I just paid those off! I have one credit card that was actually just increased to a couple grand that we hold onto for emergency situations only. I have a couple of store cards that I use but come home and pay them off right away to keep them from gaining interest. Moral to my story? Walking away from that house was the GREATEST decision we ever made! We are in better shape now financially than we ever were living in that house.

JLAW ~ Whatever your plan is, I hope you get things worked out. But to be honest, I hate to see you drown in that house by patching things up here and there just to be in more debt in the future. If you truly think that house is better off getting demolished and being built from the ground up, then maybe you guys would be better off looking into a rental until you can get back on your feet financially and buy something later on down the road. And in the meantime you could save money for a decent down payment on that future home. Just a suggestion because I don't know what your thought process is.

Cass - You are absolutely right - everyone's situations are different and walking away was the best thing we ever did!