Official Squatch Watchers

[21hens-incharge]

You know if you just have hens for enjoyment mostly how many eggs do you really need anyway? I'd way rather have nice, happy, long living sparse layers than mean little egg machines that are going to peter out pretty fast and not be pleasant to keep.

Exactly! I love my sweet hens and consider soup for the mean ones.

Just one meanie right now. She is broody again and bites the tater out of my hand.

 

[Suzi18]

I am so pleased, looks like i have 3 more frizzled Tolbunt chicks in the latest hatch!

I can't wait to see pics. I love frizzles

 

[21hens-incharge]

Cinnamon rolls are in the oven. One pan with nuts one without.

Now then cookies..........oatmeal and some sandies. Might make peanut butter too.

It smells amazing here right now.

 

[apryl29]

Funny I did have a guy contact me nearly six months later wanting to know if my Dad still had an air compressor for sale. Guess he was realated to Apryl's rooster man. Thing was the air compressor was still here, once guy got here I just gave it to him. His truck was rust holding hands and he had two doughnut spares on it. He needed that thing way more than me. Also sold one of Hub's yard cars to him, pontiac sunfire. Cranked and ran but needed a new radiatior and was three or four colors. Never seen a dude so happy over a 100 car.

I was pretty happy to get my $1200 car, but it was from Alabama so no rust which was very exciting for those of us from Ohio.

F1 is first generation. French Black Copper Marans hen with Isbar roo.View attachment 1589878 Yes he came from a Marans egg.
The other is Americauna hen with Isbar roo.
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They are both good boys. It would be nice if they went to a home not a dinner plate but I can't keep them. Forage well and have good instincts. A little overly amorous right now but they are teenagers.
I've never had a problem with either of them. They even get along with each other.
I tried FB and listed them on the Ohio thread here too.
I'm willing to meet within reason if I need to.

I'll let him know and let you know what he says. He lives out here in Gville. He said he wasn't going to eat my boys, asked if I thought they'd get along w/ a male duck. Honestly, I had no clue.. my first though was would a male duck get along w/ them. I've heard stories of how male ducks can be.

I've had them before. It's miserable.

Note to all parents, if there is a photo op with hats, skip the hats. When I was 6ish, we went to Dover AFB in Delaware and got on a C-5 and they had crew helmets for us to put on for the picture. My brother and I both go lice. Lucky him, being a boy, my mom just shaved his head. I had to endure the nasty lice treatments. However, as a teen, I discovered a sovereign remedy for head lice. Spray oil and a hair straightener. I went through a phase in high school where I religiously flat ironed my hair. My sisters brought lice home from school. I had a few bites on my neck, but no nits or adults in my hair. I fried them out. My mom then did the same to my sisters, problem solved. No nasty chemicals (except the aerosol spray oil, but I call that a win over the pesticides).

Every time I see those giant heads at the store I think LICE!!! My kids have been warned never to try them on. They got lice after going to Chuckie Cheese w/ their dad's parents. SMH... Of course they insisted they couldn't have gotten it here. Well, they hadn't been w/ me the past 2 days. The little one got them from her locker mate in 1st grade... that was hell. They have a shampoo called Lice Shield. I started using that and they didn't get it after.
https://www.amazon.com/Lice-Shield-Conditioner-Repellent-Essential/dp/B003GTUXTU?th=1
They're older now so we use it intermittently... It's really good for school breaks when you have no idea where the kids have been & what they're dragging back from vacation/ visiting family.
We did the flat iron thing too.. And the mayo (which gave me a rash when I used it as a precaution the first time the girls had it). I didn't want to use chemicals, but after a relapse we did.

Morning all.......I'm back from my vacation and Ohio isn't disappointing me. Sleet this morning.....down to 21 last night. Combination rain and sleet all day today.

Welcome back.. misery loves company!

Clean little Beavis egg, almost the size of a small store egg. Laying those parakeet eggs just as expected.View attachment 1590393

Congrats! Hopefully it'll get bigger. I'm getting some tiny eggs, can't tell if it's from the bantam or a new layer.. I'm thinking new b/c it's tan and Ash's eggs are usually cream colored. Yesterday I got 0 eggs, but the day before we got 5... doesn't matter, can't eat them, still witholding, hoping we get the all clear next week.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Cinnamon rolls are in the oven. One pan with nuts one without.

Now then cookies..........oatmeal and some sandies. Might make peanut butter too.

It smells amazing here right now.

Ok, now you've gotten me in the mood to bake. I wish I had some chocolate chips so i could make chocolate chip cookies! I do have cocoa though. Maybe chocolate cookies with almonds. I just got a thing of peanut butter the other day so peanut butter cookies are a possibility..... Maybe snickerdoodles too? There's nothing better to do on a cold, snowed in kind of day than warm the house and fill it with yummy smells!

 

[Chickassan]

I fake baked this morning! That pink strawberry muffin mix so bad it is sorta good. Was out of bread butts and the derps fully expect a bite of something "bready" in the morning. I had a bunch of bogo muffin mixes so I got baking so I wouldn't get hurt.

 

[Suzi18]

Ok, now you've gotten me in the mood to bake. I wish I had some chocolate chips so i could make chocolate chip cookies! I do have cocoa though. Maybe chocolate cookies with almonds. I just got a thing of peanut butter the other day so peanut butter cookies are a possibility..... Maybe snickerdoodles too? There's nothing better to do on a cold, snowed in kind of day than warm the house and fill it with yummy smells!

I vote for Snickerdoodles!

 

[apryl29]

Ok, now you've gotten me in the mood to bake. I wish I had some chocolate chips so i could make chocolate chip cookies! I do have cocoa though. Maybe chocolate cookies with almonds. I just got a thing of peanut butter the other day so peanut butter cookies are a possibility..... Maybe snickerdoodles too? There's nothing better to do on a cold, snowed in kind of day than warm the house and fill it with yummy smells!

I've decided that the tradition of making xmas cookies was actually started as a way to heat up homes w/o 'wasting' the heat... so you made cookies/ biscuits/ cakes that lasted a long time (fruitcake) and the baking would warm the house in the cold nights.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

For those of us suffering in the cold.

 

[Chickassan]

I thought it was just another way to remind those of us that can't bake that we REALLY can't bake.

I've decided that the tradition of making xmas cookies was actually started as a way to heat up homes w/o 'wasting' the heat... so you made cookies/ biscuits/ cakes that lasted a long time (fruitcake) and the baking would warm the house in the cold nights.