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[RebelChief]

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So 11 days in and the Blue Sumatras have totally trashed my bath tub. My wife ensures that these messes are MY messes. I still am not willing to move this $90 dollars(Cackle man they nickle and dime you in fees) of a poop factory outside yet as I am unwilling to lose them. After my 5 Black Sumatra chicks were disappeared in one night. If Ideal offered Blue Sumatra it would have only cost around $30. Later tonight I am going to get my fingers all poopy cleaning up pasty butts as 50% have some mighty big accretions. Yes, I intentionally used the word for planetary formation there.

Ok, they were the first to be offered that prime soft cantaloupe slice 2 hours ago but it is still to scary to eat. My other hens have completely destroyed the rest of it.

LOL well that's creative. I just wish I had a bathtub to put chicks in....ONE day. Once upon a time, one bathroom was split into two and they shall be reunited to one...with a walk in shower and a soaker tub.

 

[RebelChief]

Nice day on the resaca today...Saw two ducks with 15 chicks between them. A mixture of solid yellow and multi yellow and black. The egret usually stays on the other side but paid us a visit today.

 

[RebelChief]

Busy day at the casa...built two more grazing platforms and set them up and seeded them and a brooder for my chicks coming in next week. Plan to keep it in the garage for a bit and then moving it out to the run. Added windows to make it easy for the chickens to see them and a small door that will allow them to escape to safety when I start letting them out.

 

[AllenK RGV]

So today I got stuck on this silly youtube video. It just reminds me of why my daughter is so awesome at being a manager because we gave her the house to run most weekends as a teen. Spoiler alert she is a cat herder. This is the most Texan commercial ever. My poor daughter living in Germany doesn't know she is Texan, but that little lady is a Texan and she will tell you whats what is in an instant.We Texans can shock the world with our brashness.

 

[RebelChief]

So today I got stuck on this silly youtube video. It just reminds me of why my daughter is so awesome at being a manager because we gave her the house to run most weekends as a teen. Spoiler alert she is a cat herder. This is the most Texan commercial ever. My poor daughter living in Germany doesn't know she is Texan, but that little lady is a Texan and she will tell you whats what is in an instant.We Texans can shock the world with our brashness.

Where in Germany Allen? I lived in Munich and Bad Aibling for 3 years. One of my favorite places in the world.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Where in Germany Allen? I lived in Munich and Bad Aibling for 3 years. One of my favorite places in the world.

She is kinda near Darmstadt, so still Frankfurtish area. I bet you could never pay her to live in Bayern.

I did love Munich as well, but hated it when in the burbs around Munich as they would write out their menu in Bavarian, ok plus their mustard sucked. The beer gardens were totally top notch in that city and best in class. I could never read that crud. I would see the chicken on the rotissary grill but could never find it on the menu. I think they called it Handl or something not Haenchen for chicken. Also, my girlfriends sister worked at a 5000 bed hospital there(Gross Hadern). I got a bit of culture shock with those gals one summer when we were walking the paths around some lake and the sun came out. Those ladies dropped it all right there and it all came out I had a hard time pretending I didn't notice.

For me personally, it was Hanau and Landstuhl the two towns I resided in over my 14 or so years there. I never had issues in Hanau, but Landstuhl was a backwater with its own dialect and people would try to correct my proper Hollywood German as if I really went to the butcher for language lessons. I had a three minute conversation with a butcher that my wife tersley ended over zwei and Tzwo. Kat is a native speaker since her folks moved her there at the age of 6. Also she has a horrible temper if I use any dialect. The Landstuhll dialect was the German I first learned and trust me it is so much easier to speak you don't need too much verb conjugation and there are other shortcuts.

 

[RebelChief]

She is kinda near Darmstadt, so still Frankfurtish area. I bet you could never pay her to live in Bayern.

I did love Munich as well, but hated it when in the burbs around Munich and they would write out their menues in Bavarian, ok plus their mustard sucked. The beer gardens were totally top notch in that city and best in class. I could never read that crud. I would see the chicken on the rotissary grill but could never find it on the menu. I think they called it Handl or something not Haenchen.

You aren't going to believe this but....I HATE beer. That chicken was life. And the Kasebrot...and the apfelstrudel....I gained 20 lbs living there LOL.

 

[AllenK RGV]

You aren't going to believe this but....I HATE beer. That chicken was life. And the Kasebrot...and the apfelstrudel....I gained 20 lbs living there LOL.

You never tried a Radler? Lemonaide mixed with beer? That stuff will change your tune. I do hate american beers there aren't enough disgusting adjectives to describe this stuff. Gimme Guiness or gimme death is pretty much how I feel about it.

 

[RebelChief]

You never tried a Radler? Lemonaide mixed with beer? That stuff will change your tune. I do hate american beers there aren't enough disgusting adjectives to describe this stuff. Gimme Guiness or gimme death is pretty much how I feel about it.

Tried it hated it. Tried beer in nearly every brewery there. Czech, Germany, etc. Now wine, I like.

 

[RebelChief]

I just put a bag (previously open) of scratch into a metal can for storage and it's full of little beetles. I'm assuming it's still ok because the chickens will eat the bugs ... extra protein? It doesn't smell bad...just lots of little beetles.