Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Wishing4Wings]

MC, thermal air really is a circulating air, but it moves in a column, as in "heat rises"

I have to page back... was that your egg with the patchwork? pretty cool... I wonder how many yolks are inside as well... I think the record is 9? google time!

OK ~ Roger was bereft of treats... her meter was dangerously low... I wouldn't dilly dally in the future... eventually CPR and raisins won't suffice, she'll be dining at your table and sleeping on the roost over your headboard... you'll need the wide brimmed tin foil hat to save you!


I found this picture in a random bunch... this is how people look when I am not wearing my glasses. at first, i didn't see anything wrong with it, wondered why it was there, then it hit me...


it gets weirder. when I look at her without my glasses? I see one pair of eyes, and one mouth.

Cheeka, that tractor sounds like a pretty good deal. Anything that makes life easier! How much property do you have? It's surprising how much time mowing takes up, at least in the spring. Grass gets crunchy brown by mid June for us, so no summer mowing. The chickens have been great at keeping the grass short in their yard. Almost looks like a golf course (with big chicken poops). Going to have to start watering out there soon, try to keep some green for them. Maybe next year I'll see about giving them the run of the entire back. Only requires dog training and fencing off the garden, but far less mowing!

When I look at that 4 eyed girl, it makes me a little dizzy. Your vision is offset vertically then? Do you have any trouble with 3-D movies? I don't like them. Makes my eyes really tired.

 

[cheeka]

I have 5.5 acres, 3.5 is "lawn" and 2 acres of woods. it takes me 3-4 hours with the JD, used to take me ~7 when I had the 30" Craftsman. but I like to mow the yard.

my vision is mostly vertically challenged, but on screen brings a whole different perspective. People on TV split sideways, I see 2 of everyone. or sometimes one pair of feet, and 2 torsos, 2 heads... can't really "watch", I mostly listen... don't drive at night often, even with my specs on I see one and a half cars coming toward me and I don't know which half is illusion and which is solid. my glasses have prism optics ground into the lenses. keeps my eyes lined up by somehow forcing my right eye down and my left eye up. that stops the vertical double vision, the side by side double vision is helped a little (seeing one and a half is better than seeing 2) thankfully, the driving thing only happens in the dark. or I'd be looking for a new line of work! the 3-D doesn't "work" for me, as I see all the double images that make them "pop" out for viewers that perceive it as 3 dimensional. it just looks like a mess to me. like quadrupled double vision.
it's quarter past midnight and I'm still awake! sure glad i can go back to bed after taking care of the clucks!

 

[BullChick]

The tinfoil hats reminded me of a truck stop I was at for a day or so in between loads. I was cooking in the truck, and was almost out of foil for the grill. So, I used it to make a tinfoil hat! I walked around, clinging to DH's arm, laughing like a crazy person, and screaming, "They're after me! They're gonna get me! Help!!"

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I have it on good authority that the foil keeps the satellites from spying on you.

 

[animallover505]

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I heard Roger say that she will gladly pay you Thursday for a hamburger today. (That's probably only amusing if you are really old like me

or if you've ever watched Wimpy on the old Popeye cartoons try to beg a burger.)

nah, I used to LOVE Popeye!! Watched it all the time!!

 

[animallover505]

a few of my golden comets were dustbathing. Then my Gracie (dog) started chasing them, and they chased her.

 

[okallthis4eggs]

Here we go again..SEVEN

SEVEN.....Today We Laid SEVEN Eggs


Four Nice Brown Eggs From The Comets, Two Nice Large Light Brown Eggs From The BO's and well........

.................One Of The BR's Laid A Egg. So Again Today..........One Short Of A Perfect Day.

Does anybody else believe this is .........possible?..... Possible reasons?......any suggestions? ......

 

[cheeka]

I must have missed one yesterday, one of the RIR's was in the nest, but I had checked late afternoonish... and there weren't any. this morning, there was one egg in the nest, nice and warm... because Si was sitting on it.

He made a lot of noise when I took it. There were six more eggs in the apple coop, and Si met me in there immediately. he hopped up on the roost and chattered away (we had one of "our moments"

)... so , 7 eggs = 5 for yesterday and a perfect 6 for today.

Peach is still resolutely sitting on her eggs. it's technically the day for the first to hatch, but it took her a couple of days to really start sitting, when I gave her the other 2, that's when she really got to work... so maybe a couple more days. I have resisted the urge to touch the eggs, I've seen them, when she feeds, and they look fine. but if nothing comes by say... Wednesday... I'll have to let her start over, if she wants to.

no snow at all here. hurray! we're supposed to get a little overnight, but we really dodged a bullet. chicks are in the portable run, making themselves right at home. they've been keeping up on the housekeeping, scratching around, fussing with the straw and the old leaves and the nice dirt... it's so nice to sit out there with them... they are such pretty birds. the gang are on the other side of their molt. new feathers are coming in, and they are looking good...

 

[BullChick]

Well, we had snow today, and temps in the teens. I got some stuff done in the house, and looked over the new coop. I thought I could have it livable in the morning, but telling someone what I have to do still made me think it will never be done! I am hoping it is like doing laundry or dishes. If you mention each item separately, you will faint from the thought alone, but the actual chore is fast.
I should have pictures on Tuesday. I JUST realized that it will be about nine before I get home tomorrow night. Ugh. Well, I better get to bed. I have to do my best to get this done!
Ten eggs again. Starting to wonder about the number of oddities. Looks like a lot when you are cleaning, drying, and putting 13 dozen in cartons. Only about a dozen are rejects. And all the girls have been laying 2-3 months. That is not that long to still be a beginner, right?

 

[showbarnmom]

Bubbles the pig. Because today I got zero eggs. Because I didn't have time to collect them