Texas

[TexasLisa]

GOOD MORNING FELLOW TEXANS!!

Where is everyone?? I am late in getting on this morning--rough night with my hand.

backyardklukker: I know you went through a lot of stress yesterday, but glad you found the problem. Thank goodness for neighbors!!

Ms. Jellybean: Can I be envious of you for a while?? I love the things you are making!! Maybe next year I will be able to do some things.

Hung: Are you alive??

Have a GREAT DAY!

Lisa

 

[jajeanpierre]

I love my MM chickens!! All but 8 of my birds are MM. Always very healthy and great customer service.

Coryza is one of those common illnesses. If you don't have the Chicken Health Handbook, I highly recommend it. You can look up the symptoms and figure that the most common problem is probably what your chickens have. Not always, of course, but it's just like going to your own doctor...they don't immediately decide you have cancer because you have a pain in your side...they assume it's something more common.

That was very nice of your neighbor to come look at your bird.

"Nice" is an understatement--to have a commercial chicken farmer come on the property to see a sick flock???? That's being a really, really good neighbor!

I have a bunch of MacMurray chickens as well. I thought they were great to deal with.

My only complaint--and I really have to write them about it--is that the frizzles I bought from them came from a frizzle bred to frizzle pen. (The frizzle gene is incompletely dominant--one copy gives you a frizzle, two copies give you a bird with weak, thin feathers that break and fall out. Often, the only thing left of a feather is the center shaft--the poor think is covered with curled wires!) Three of the four were double copy for the frizzle gene. I expected half would be smooth and half would be one copy of the frizzle gene. These double copy frizzles are a real feather mess. The pullet is in a big tupperware box in my kitchen happily laying almost every day. The cockerel was in the kitchen but he is just too loud, so he is in a small box (to keep warm) in my garage at night and a pen in the garage in the day or outside if it is warm enough.

 

[TammyTX]

Jajean -it sounds like they have someone breeding for them that doesn't understand the frizzle genetics.

Hung - I translated your phrase as "security knot open".

 

[TexasLisa]

Jajean -it sounds like they have someone breeding for them that doesn't understand the frizzle genetics.

Hung - I translated your phrase as "security knot open".

Naah, it's 'Good Morning' with an accent.

Lisa

 

[TammyTX]

I think Hung is being funny again....! ...or he is a secret agent man. ....or would that be a secret Asian man....?

 

[jajeanpierre]

I think Hung is being funny again....! ...or he is a secret agent man. ....or would that be a secret Asian man....?

TammyTX and Lisa, you two are too punny!

 

[Ms Jellybean]

It is so cold here (again)! Tomorrow things start to look up. I'm tired of being cold. These old houses aren't that great for keeping the cold out. :/

I found a lovely way to decorate a Christmas Tree that I would like to try some year.

Thank you Lisa for your compliment. Keep on top of that pain with your medicine.

If anyone is interested in my Scrabble chicken tiles let me know.

 

[hungnguyen]

Quote:
Actually one of my part-time job is a secret agen .. I'm a Spy. You can see me in the series Spy Kids where I appeared in all 4 of them. On SK1, I am a security guard at the airport (I walked across the path of Antonio Bandera when he came out of the airport, at about 3 mins into the movie). In SP2, I am an adult spy, and was poisoned in a spy party. In this scene the spy girl wrapped the fork/knife on the table to defend her; the hands next to the knife/fork are my lovely hands (I didn't know the director Robert Rodriguez noticed this during the selection). In SK3, I am a computer operator wearing white lab coat , and appeared mostly next to the beautiful Salma Hayek (you can see me any time the scene of the control room is on). In SK4, I was a scientist, again wearing white lab coat; I appeared for 1 second standing with a group of scientists reporting the problem with the atomic clock. You can best see me in Spy Kids 3D, where I involved from the beginning to the end. Lisa and Tammy, you can fall in sleep and when you wake up, I'm still there. Enjoy your day... and enjoy my movie.

 

[TammyTX]

Ms.jellyB - do you subscribed to the 100 days of Holidays by BHG? They have a lot of great ideas.

 

[bnjrob]

Quote: How cool is that? A Hollywood celebrity that keeps chickens and talks to us ordinary folks online.