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Sally Sunshine said:
I shut down FB yet again.... sister and her dam drama!! cant frigen stand it!!  I think I should make a new one with some freako name so I at least have access to my groups and the people I actually like!! LOL
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Sooo Funny! I did just this (also because of family). I friended NO ONE with my alter ego, just use the account to be able to access the various threads that are agricultural.
 
That blood is probably not from fighting. Is the feeder metal? What is probably happening is that the combs are nice and warm. When they touch the frigid metal, they get stuck. Bird struggles and loses a bit of flesh. You can rub some olive oil or WD-40 on the metal feeder to prevent it from happening.
 
Sally Sunshine said:
oh chicky that sucks big time, I hope you can get that off your chest and VERY SOON! That stuff weighs so heavy : (.

You see I had gotten really sick about 10 or so years ago and its been a long downward fall since, I thought I had it all! I had a huge spankin new house and beautiful property and simply gorgous views of all the mnts. I had my health and strength, I was think and pretty, I was fun and happy, I was smart and quick... I had a wonderful job as Office Manager and Full Charge bookkeeper for an architectural firm and not only did it pay well, I got to do some design work and so much computer work, which is what I went to school for.... anyway...... things were getting really bad, I was on and off medications, I was depressed, I was pumped with so many kinds of steroids and meds, I got fat, adding to the depression, got even more unhealthy and could no longer work and needed family med leave.... I was forced to sell the house, sell all the new cars and all the extra toys we had accumlated, and all in the lower bowels of the economy.... I lost an awful lot of money, I was the moneymaker and everything else.... I even lost my chickens, as we had to move in january and couldnt get the coop up the hill with 2 foot of snow on it, so a late night call to a friend neighbor and farmer to come take the chickens was made.... I was sooooo upset with DH I so wanted to move the coop to the front of the property so we could get it out, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO who the heck cares about what my interests and loves are!!! ugggg PO'd!!!

So we now live close to my home woods, actually If I screamed loud enough mom and dad could hear me.... in a tiny TINY raised ranch that needs ALOT of work, but the mortgage is workable and I have the babysitting and kids to keep me smiling.... along with all my new chickens and peeps, oh and my wonderful dogs!! LOL Now the health is getting worse again and even lost most of my babysitting kids this past month so times will be extremely tough the next several months. but I will figure something out, either making stuff and selling it or something or other.... THIS IS WHY ITS SO IMPORTANT TO ME to figure out a chicken plan and I so wish I could sell eggs for just a little income to help. I dont have alot of room so what breed I have and keep is a biggun. We sooo need extra income and if I can do this here and that there, well I am praying it will add up to help with the food, gas and misc stuff bills....

So I know that weight and I pray it is relieved soon chicky I truely do
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Okay-so I texted Sally in a panic-because we just lost power (as expected) due to the winds. So as soon as the power went out I looked at the hunk and said-oh crap! The babies! He says "what about them?" I said their incubator is on power-they are gonna die! So I panicky texted Sally-and remembered that darn car generator I have. Hunk said "ill bring the car around so you can put them in there". So I am sitting in my husbands car regulating temp in the front seat. LOL! I was telling Sally I swear I hear Phantom Peeping. LOL! I will say-its hard to regulate temp in the car. Mother Nature keeps trying my abilities. :-/ **** her!
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..see-hunk loves my babies..:-) he just text me and said power should be restored by 4:30. Thankfully he has almost a full tank!
 
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Blarneyeggs said:
i was thinking about this and thought: 2 Poultry Loving people in a relationship could be disastrous. We really need that significant other to reign us in from time to time or it would be chaos. Having said that, my DH is slacking at his 'reigning in'. I asked once (earlier this year), why don't you ever complain about all the hatching? And he says, 'I figured when it got to be too much, you'd stop'. Uhhh, seriously? No wonder we are 'overrun with chickens'.
Wait till I start hatching these Goaties out! Hope he figures out how to stop me there or things could get really ugly. BTW my Lily (alpha goat) has a date this week, so YAY! Let it begin.
The sun is up, one minute earlier, Thank You Winter Solstice! Time to get on the chores.
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We don't need our DH's to like chickens Blarney, we enable each other enough!!
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Good luck with Lily and her 1st date.
And this is for everyone else on here...I think we make a great group of people, everyone included. All of our unique traits makes this group the fun that it is. I too have self-esteem problems and some social anxiety in large groups. I think I'd be perfectly comfortable at a function with this group though.
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RoPo, no metal feeders. It makes sense, though. I have ... Oh, good grief! The roost fell a week or so ago! I put it back up on cinder blocks, but there is a screw I couldn't get out!
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You helped me figure it out! I will work harder to get it out.
This is the season of miracles, right? Well, the Christmas tree is on a timer, and has not come on for over a week. As bummed as I am feeling, I didn't want it on anyway. Well, I am sitting there watching the end of a movie twenty minutes ago, and the tree came on! Weird, huh?
Does anyone have any ideas for me about keeping the coop in one piece? Sandy didn't do as much damage as the wind today! It broke a window off the coop, and almost broke the door off! No one was going outside anyway, so I shut and locked it. I am just hoping the wind doesn't manage to catch it, and tear it off after all!
Anyway, I can work with the door by leaning a piece of plywood against it. ... And I just answered my own question about the window too. A piece of plywood will help keep snow and strong winds from blowing in.
Well, what kind of weather does everyone else have?
 
A good trick to fix that ASAP is to nail or staple a sack of feed, a plastic trash bag, gunny sack...anything over the window. It will keep the wind from rushing in!
 
Thanks for the heart attack, Penta....I'm sitting here in NJ and read about all the wind and how your power is out....so I look over at Fiancee and go "oh crap!" He just called his daughter, and she says it's ok.

Off to visit my aunt before family dinner/presents....which is funny...we're not exchanging presents....but we're at least spending time as a family.
 
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