Official Squatch Watchers

[21hens-incharge]

You win. I did gain 41 pounds (I'm very short) and after baby, I still had 25 extra I've never gotten rid of. My son is 33 now. I thought the lbs. would disappear after birth.

I still have mine too.
My youngest was born WAY back in 89.

 

[staceyj]

I still have mine too.
My youngest was born WAY back in 89.

Me three!

 

[drumstick diva]

I beat'cha my only was born in 1985

 

[Redhead Rae]

I beat'cha my only was born in 1985

Same year I was.

 

[Anansi]

@Suzi18 I'm glad that the cold gave Maude a second chance at leaving an extended legacy. Loosing her hurts, and not giving her a proper goodbye doesn't make it any easier. Knowing that she will continue to give joy and be productive is a good and hopefully makes her loss less painful.

 

[drumstick diva]

Redhead Rae you're just a young'un like my son.

 

[Suzi18]

@Suzi18 I'm glad that the cold gave Maude a second chance at leaving an extended legacy. Loosing her hurts, and not giving her a proper goodbye doesn't make it any easier. Knowing that she will continue to give joy and be productive is a good and hopefully makes her loss less painful.

Thank you. I'm glad she can serve a purpose

 

[apryl29]

Chicken dying not in vain

As Stacey and RJ know....I lost my beloved OE Maude last weekend. She was awesome. Top of the pecking order, loud and mouthy , beautiful eggs and a quite a character. She will be greatly missed. I was struggling as to what to do with her after she died. I buried the other 2 chickens I have lost but with the ground frozen solid this wasn't an option. Reluctantly I decided I would remove a couple of her feathers to bury later and wrap her up and put her in the trash. This wasn't sitting well with me but I felt I had no other option. No freezer big enough to store her for a burial later. 2 days ago my friend Doug called me (this is my friend who helped me build my coop ) and asked " hey, if you ever have a chicken that dies, would you mind if I take it" . He does a lot of fly fishing and recently had been reading about using chicken feathers for tying flies andhow you can take a dead chicken, skin it and dry it stretched on a board. (There is more to it but you get the gist). The feathers can then be used over time for tying flies . I told him I just lost a chicken but unfortunately Thursday was trash day and she was already gone. Well.....I didn't realize it at the time but because of the bitter cold our trash collectors didn't come this week. I called him and he came and picked her up this morning. Thankfully because of the cold she was perfectly preserved. You all may think I'm crazy but this has made me feel so much better. I feel like her death wasn't completely in vain. He will put her feathers to good use catching fish at our local trout club and because he was the one that made it possible for me to build my coop I just feel like it's a good thing. Makes me happy that it will make him happy and I will even get some trout in the end and DH and I will thank her when we eat it.

That's actually happened to me a couple of times with Serious Creatures. Normally I would put them in a box and then put the box in the shed or garage where it was cold until the ground was thawed enough to bury them. Just don't forget about it.

I’m really starting to look preggers now.

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[rjohns39]

Morning folks

 

[Redhead Rae]

Redhead Rae you're just a young'un like my son.

Yup, still young enough to have babies.