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[Poco Pollo]

I have quite an intriguing mystery. This post is completely honest and serious, not a joke. There has been an interesting rock in my back yard path for some time. I knew it was some form of petrified wood from what I could see exposed and have been meaning to dig it the rest of the way out and check it out for some time, well I finally got around to it yesterday. It is rock, it is cool to the touch and feels like rock and is hard and heavy like rock. By it's shape we wer...e thinking it is petrified branch or root or bone or maybe even poop. Upon cleaning it up (washing the dirt off) we noticed the metallic looking areas w/ vigorous scratching it can be flaked off, but not easily. Does anyone have a clue????? Do not post ideas until you have looked at ALL THE PICTURES, seriously there is an even bigger mystery in the pics. Feel free to share this post especially if you have some rock hound friends, we are fascinated and would like to know a real answer.


This side was the most exposed has less metallic but the lighter areas are really metallic

This side really made us think bone

This was the most buried and has the most metallic


One end, no real tree rings are obvious


The other end, no rings here either, but definitely a bone look except .............................................

Look closely, do you see it

There are letters in the rock!!!!!!!!

This is just to show size.

Can you do a rubbing off the end that has the letters?

 

[Loriemarler]

After many many losses over these last two years. I have come to one conclusion. Always start off with way more than you think you want. Always set more eggs than you want because very rarely do you get a 100% hatch. Of the chicks that do hatch, statistically speaking 50% will be males. Of those female chicks you decide to keep something will inevitably happen to half of them too. So if you set 24 eggs, you may end up with 3 pullet chicks that make it to point of lay. Of course when I have tried this I may get 1 or 2. It is very heartbreaking.

I even bought 6 chicks and put them under a broody. They have been doing great for 3 weeks and then somehow poof 3 chicks disappeared yesterday. They are way to young to sex so I am really hoping I have a pullet or two but the odds are staked against me.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

It appears to me to have been a metal container of some sort. The contents solidified over time and the metal is the remains of the container.
Looks like it may have once said TINCTURE?

That's what I see, too. And a squashed metal container with solidified contents makes sense.

Can you do a rubbing off the end that has the letters?

Good thinking.

After many many losses over these last two years. I have come to one conclusion. Always start off with way more than you think you want. Always set more eggs than you want because very rarely do you get a 100% hatch. Of the chicks that do hatch, statistically speaking 50% will be males. Of those female chicks you decide to keep something will inevitably happen to half of them too. So if you set 24 eggs, you may end up with 3 pullet chicks that make it to point of lay. Of course when I have tried this I may get 1 or 2. It is very heartbreaking.

I even bought 6 chicks and put them under a broody. They have been doing great for 3 weeks and then somehow poof 3 chicks disappeared yesterday. They are way to young to sex so I am really hoping I have a pullet or two but the odds are staked against me.

Ugh that's so frustrating. I finally WAY overbanked this year on keepers in a few of my breeds I wanted to beef up the numbers on- even had a few excess to sell over the last month or two as they are nearly to point of lay!

I did keep about 4 more than I intend to have next spring for "just in case" losses.

 

[Matt in Okla]

The squeals of delight made me very happy with my nieces boys tonight.

 

[Kassaundra]

Yes that is where the letters are, they are "cture"

I think the mystery is solved, someone from TEG site suggested a fake log from a fireplace. The outbuildings that were on the property when we bought it had some old gas space heaters, so probably at some time they had fake log type space heater (fireplace insert)

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Yes that is where the letters are, they are "cture"

I think the mystery is solved, someone from TEG site suggested a fake log from a fireplace. The outbuildings that were on the property when we bought it had some old gas space heaters, so probably at some time they had fake log type space heater (fireplace insert)

AH that would fit even better. I think you're right, mystery solved!

 

[Kassaundra]

Working on a whole new design idea for the nakeds. So far I have been working on modifying already existing clothes (onesies and sweaters) but this design I'm starting from scratch w/ flat fabric. I'm needing to make a winter coat so that is why I'm trying this, but if it works the design can be made from mattress cover for cold and stretchy cotton for autumn wear and for under the coat.

 

[jrjoplin]

Working on a whole new design idea for the nakeds. So far I have been working on modifying already existing clothes (onesies and sweaters) but this design I'm starting from scratch w/ flat fabric. I'm needing to make a winter coat so that is why I'm trying this, but if it works the design can be made from mattress cover for cold and stretchy cotton for autumn wear and for under the coat.

I'm intrigued to see what you come up with. Long ago I supervised a costume shop and one of my specialties was pattern drafting and alteration. I have a jacket pattern that I use for our silky terriers that wraps around and uses velcro to fasten under the chest. I think for chickens you could use the same basic idea but flip it so they step through the leg holes, have wing openings on the sides and fasten across the back. Makes me wish I had chickens now so that I could draft up some functional patterns, spring can't get here soon enough.

 

[NanaKat]

Yes that is where the letters are, they are "cture"

I think the mystery is solved, someone from TEG site suggested a fake log from a fireplace. The outbuildings that were on the property when we bought it had some old gas space heaters, so probably at some time they had fake log type space heater (fireplace insert)

I was hoping you had a nice piece of petrified wood that had been a souvenir from a trip long ago!
We used to rock hunt with my mother when we took vacations. she was a science teacher rock hound extraordinaire. We donated many of her rock samples to the elementary school where she had taught.

 

[Kassaundra]

I was hoping you had a nice piece of petrified wood that had been a souvenir from a trip long ago!
We used to rock hunt with my mother when we took vacations. she was a science teacher rock hound extraordinaire. We donated many of her rock samples to the elementary school where she had taught.

I do have souvenir petrified wood from AZ. While there we found a book that showed exactly (I do mean exactly like measured by how many foot steps from which road and what direction) where public lands were and what minerals could be found there, so we found public land just across the hwy from the petrified forest where it is completely legal to search for your own. We didn't get any "logs" but found some nice small ones.