lol well i am going to skoo to be a vet tech! lol gotta learn this stuff sooner or later!I looked into caponizing. I don't think that's for me.
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Honestly I tune it out and the chickens for the most part are hatched here so they are used to it. I've had people over to look at chickens that look at me like I'm crazy for living here when they hear it. The switching yard just sounds like thunder, the horn test is crazy loud though. Roosters crowing is the last thing to worry about around here!
I'll bring mine to you!
Ya already taught me something! I dont' watch TV but now I know about munities!I looked into caponizing. I don't think that's for me.
lol well i am going to skoo to be a vet tech! lol gotta learn this stuff sooner or later!
Wow, yeah...lived close to tracks for a majority of my life; but, thankfully not near a switching yard. It's amazing the things you adjust to. While I'm not near a switching yard, I am near a quary. The first time they blew stone, I kinda freaked out. I spent too many years with bombs going off to be too comfortable with unexplained explosions. I hit the deck and Mike (my husband) started laughing at me. I chased him around the yard while he continued to laugh
I don't have an HOA, either - well, we "do"...but, it's a "voluntary HOA" that pretty much is $30/yr to pay for the annual neighborhood party. There are some deed restrictions - like one horse per two acres, etc. Goats and chickens (didn't specify "hens") can be kept as pets - not as a "business" - as long as they are kept in a humane and clean environment. Since I can claim my birds (and goats) are pets/hobby, I'm within the letter of the deed restrictions. Nothing in there about roosters **cheeky grin**.
Mike and I looked at caponizing, too. He says he's going to give the next rooster culled a going over immediately after culling to see how he thinks he could do. He used to work at a vets office years and years and years and eons ago ((he reads some of my posts, so I gotta pick on him when I can)) so he has some experience with cutting into and working on animals. He's just not sure how he feels about caponizing and definitely won't do it if he doesn't feel he can do it humanely. Dunno what we'll do with all the roosters that wind up being bred, since we don't eat THAT much meat. But, we'll figure something out either way
Lol.. i've lived near railroad tracks, or airports or quarries all of my life. When we moved here I was beginning to wonder where the "noise" would be coming from.. then late one night I heard a distant train (the wind was blowing just right) and the next morning they started blasting at the limestone quarry.. about a week after that the helicopters from Hood started a low fly over (we are in a flight path for when they head to Lampasas)...lol.. so this time we have all of them combined!
Honestly I tune it out and the chickens for the most part are hatched here so they are used to it. I've had people over to look at chickens that look at me like I'm crazy for living here when they hear it. The switching yard just sounds like thunder, the horn test is crazy loud though. Roosters crowing is the last thing to worry about around here!
LOL no doubt! If someone could even hear him crow after all that, I'd be impressed **grins**
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LOL - thankfully, I'm gone to work every day they are blasting and they don't blast at night. The times I've heard them blasting have been when I've been home for the odd reason here or there during "normal business hours". And, my husband is about as deaf as a post, so it doesn't matter to him
And....once I'm asleep, I'm asleep - unless you touch me or try to be quiet. There's something about the sound of someone trying to be stealthy that has me up and swinging. My husband learned the hard way to bang around the house like he would any other time of day and to throw something at me if he wanted to wake me up. Crazy, yes...it's become my middle name **Laughs**Lol.. i've lived near railroad tracks, or airports or quarries all of my life. When we moved here I was beginning to wonder where the "noise" would be coming from.. then late one night I heard a distant train (the wind was blowing just right) and the next morning they started blasting at the limestone quarry.. about a week after that the helicopters from Hood started a low fly over (we are in a flight path for when they head to Lampasas)...lol.. so this time we have all of them combined!
How many scalpels do ya need? I have around 100 #10 blades on hand!
**blinks** Buy 'em in bulk?
And - Interesting...I wonder if you aren't that far from me, then
We actually get the air noise from Georgetown airport and the other, private airports around - they like to go out and play around on the weekends, so I actually hear that. Not such a bad sound. Though, I'm not keen on hearing the copters go over, the prop planes are actually kind of pleasant to hear buzzing around. So far, I've not heard a train going by - I don't think there's one near us, now. Too funny that you get the full house on techno-industrial noises.
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Lol I completely understand the noise I live next to a live ammo military training base the weekends are crazy noisy around here. Let me know how that caponizing gos, I would be interested in learning more myself
I'm the same way.. my husband looks at me like I am insane when I get up in the middle of the night because I heard a fox or coyote out in the yard...
I can hear the chickens or geese at 2 AM even though they are on the North side of the barnyard and our bedroom is all the way on the other side facing South...
needless to say I don't sleep much.. and with a new puppy in the house I sleep even less
Yup.. i used to be a vet tech many many moons ago.. so I still stockpile surgical gloves, scalpels.. you name it .. (plus I use the some of the same stuff when I am cleaning up skeletons and skulls )
Depending on how many roosters I get this spring I may have to try my hand at caponizing too. I know how it's done.. just haven't bothered to do it yet
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