Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[chickwhispers]

Aww. Nobody puts Alaskan in the trash can!!!

 

[Bunnylady]

From "Lord of the Flies" to lord of the broodies? No, wait - that isn't a trash can on your head, is it?

 

[Alaskan]

From "Lord of the Flies" to lord of the broodies? No, wait - that isn't a trash can on your head, is it?

Nah... Just what always happens....

The nerds that get picked on become rulers and supreme overlords when they get out of the torture facility called school.

 

[Alaskan]

I showed some restraint.



(Some)


I asked for, and paid for two dozen.

I have been playing with the incubator, I think I can squeeze in an extra 30, on top of the 48.

WAHAHAHAHAHA I STILL HAVE ROOM!

Right? 24 + 24 + 12 bantams.

Hummmmmmm

I should have bought more!

 

[TeaChick]

Sourman is good.

Well, maybe not that good, but good nevertheless.

Glad to hear it!!! =)

I'm not as good as I once was either, but we get better as we age, right?

One of the guys I am ordering eggs from said that his chickens are laying very well right now, instead of the 18 I asked for, would I like SIXTY

He wants to sell them to me for only $10 a dozen, and they are very high quality rose comb dark brown and also white leghorns.

THERE IS NO WAY I CAN STUFF 100 EGGS INTO AN INCUBATOR DESIGNED FOR 48!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( actually, it would be 60 leghorn eggs, 24 Dominique eggs, and 12 bantam eggs....is is wrong to hope that some get broken in transit? ..... Something is deeply wrong with me..... But then we already knew that)

HOW DO I SAY NO??!??????

Say "yes" and send the rest to me!!!!

 

[TeaChick]

Alaskan, what do plan on doing with that many chickens? it's all fun and games until they hatch, and you have a trillion peeps emanating from your bath tub. You will go loony.

Spring is is tiring. I Needed 2 pots of coffee this morning.
We now have coyotes visiting our place. Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
They better eat their weight in rodents and leave my chickens alone.
I will put a sign up,"move along, these are not the chickens you are looking for."

And raccoons. They knew I planted corn some how. I never plant corn, but the seed catalog enticed me.

OH! On the orchard from, One peach tree has fuzzy little peaches on it.!!

and there are mulberries on the mulberry tree... and... I still haven't trimmed back the Grapes, so ... I guess I better get doing.

Plan your spring well. and hit the ground running, once that snow melts it will be summer.

Yay!!!

Yes, coyotes don't like when things change, like building new coops, putting up pens, etc. and they don't like human smell (like boys who mark your property), and dogs, but that's one of those things you either have or you don't and it's not like you'd go run out and buy a dog to get rid of coyotes.

Yeah, raccoons are smart.

How many voles does it take to keep one egg warm? Maybe a vole blanket?

That doesn't sound very pleasant for the voles.......

PRAYERS TO ALL IN THE SOUTH TODAY. PLEASE STAY SAFE.

Prayers? What? Why do we need prayers? I mean we always need prayers, but...... You know what I mean.
Oh, are you talking about the thing on Fort Hood?

Everybody else seems to know, but me. I soooo missed something.

 

[TeaChick]

indeed.

By the time the messy weather reaches us, most of the energy is expected to be spent, so all we're likely to get is a little bit of rain.

On my home front, I'm definitely experiencing one of the classic signs (for me) of spring:

POISON IVY.

Aww, sorry about the PI, Hon!!!
My g-father had no reaction to it at all, and it's worse for me to get bitten by fire ants than to rub poison ivy sap directly into my skin. (My brother and I tried it when we were kids; we wanted to know what poison ivy felt like.)

Yes prayers to all with nasty weather! And some for Bunnylady for short lived poison ivy rash.! That can be nasty stuff too!

Oh, we live somewhere like where BunnyLady described, not much energy left in those nasty spring storms most of the time by the time they get to us.
Yes, maybe coconut oil on the rash???

That 5 miles was up hill to school and back.

It's always up hill both ways.

Bunches of kids with only a few teachers is a situation only one hair away from "lord of the flies"

Yeah, that's how it is when a SAHM has "too many" kids. True story; I was there......

 

[TeaChick]

I showed some restraint.



(Some)


I asked for, and paid for two dozen.

I have been playing with the incubator, I think I can squeeze in an extra 30, on top of the 48.

WAHAHAHAHAHA I STILL HAVE ROOM!

Right? 24 + 24 + 12 bantams.

Hummmmmmm

I should have bought more!

Alaskan, I don't know who, but I'm sure somebody's gonna have your hide when they find out about all these eggs!!!!

 

[chickisoup]

Quote: I thought I did too, but couldn't remember who. I thought someone else might know. really hate "oldtimers".

TeaChick - we were all sending out prayers to those in the path of the nasty weather.

BTW- still snowing, hard. BUT, our power is still on! Went out this morning just in time. The ice load on the greenhouse had the roof bowing in so bad it was about to go. Got it off before too much damage was done. The weather switched to snow mid morning, the really wet, heavy stuff so I had to shovel some weight off the coop and breezeway roof (lost one cross support there but the rest held well). Now I have to get out of this chair and do one more shoveling before dark.
Later.

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan, what do plan on doing with that many chickens? it's all fun and games until they hatch, and you have a trillion peeps emanating from your bath tub. You will go loony.


Plan your spring well. and hit the ground running, once that snow melts it will be summer.

Isn't it better fun and games when they hatch? nothing better than a summer long coop building marathon!

Totally with you on the non stop mania that is summer.... Not sure what I was thinking in regards to plants........

But I am panicked that i didn't start enough plants.....

I was TRYING to show restraint when I was seeding. I was TRYING to remember how my tomatoes and peppers are always so crowded in my greenhouse that it turns into a mold fest.......

But now I am thinking, NOT ENOUGH! and why did I only seed Anchos, and not Jalapeños or the really long thin red ones?

Note to self:

1. it might be very bad to show restraint

2. Buy another 50 eggs, I am sure they will fit e