The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[speckledhen]

The showbird feed is 24%, so you're close enough with what you're already feeding them. Just make sure they get some animal protein too. I know the feed you were using was really good stuff, and had animal protein, not just vegetable protein. I like to use the showbird feed for chicks, but get them off of it when they begin to lay. I also like it during molt. Otherwise, I find the protein content to be just a tad too high, and keeping them on it, interferes with their laying.

Yes, my regular feed has porcine protein. If it didn't, I'd be supplementing them in winter, at least, when the bugs are scarce, with eggs and maybe the cheapest cut of ground hamburger and a tiny bit of liver occasionally. I don't think the co-op carries any show feed and the TSC here didn't have any when I was there that I could see. They were really limited at that time. I am very leery of TSC anyway. And the other feed store got infested with weevils from a bad shipment so they're out for awhile until they get their problem solved.

 

[speckledhen]

One of my hens molted late and hard last year, I found her almost frozen in a nest box just before she likely would have died. It took several weeks before she could go back to the coop, then would sleep only on the floor in a corner and frostbit her feet . Hope she does better this winter!

Poor thing. Zara has to have a heat lamp now that the cold nights are back, at least until she regrows her feathers. Bailey is thin, but fully feathered now, same with MaryJo. MaryJo literally has a sunken in keel on both sides, not an ounce of meat there. And it was just her first big molt. Crazy, but she refuses most food, maybe because she just feels so bad.

 

[1muttsfan]

Cyn have you tried giving her just a tiny dose of aspirin? I'm not sure I would give her very much or very often, but it might make her feel a little better

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, I've been watching my son's ex's public FB posts and still, not one photo of the guy or herself or herself with a guy, nothing. But this a.m., there was a post about a new raincoat that her new "Boo" bought for her. Now, what almost 52 yr old woman talks that way?? I positively loathe that slang term <<shudder>>.

The post says, with a photo of a coat hanging up,

My new Raincoat from my Boo! I LOVE IT!!!

Do you folks find that odd, too? No pictures of this guy, none. It's really weird. She's posting about her new life in public posts, but it's like someone on vacation would do, very upbeat and syrupy-perky-happy, almost too happy, but no people, not him or his family who is supposedly "taking great care of me". If you're that over the moon, and acting like a teenager in love, why no pics of this supposedly wonderful person you found? Seems like she's having to keep up the charade, bought that coat herself, all so she doesn't appear such a fool. I may be off base, but still....

Whatever, at least we're happy to be rid of her. Hope it's not short-lived.


I helped a company get someone for copyright infringement. I happened to be on Amazon and this item pops up in my search, an item whose ad photo on a model I recognized as belonging specifically to this company. Then, I checked the seller's storefront and they had stolen numerous photos from the company to represent their cheap products. The Amazon seller had a foreign sounding name and the item had a price far, far below what I know that item could ever sell for, as in the items on Amazon was $16.99 and around that price for several others, mostly all under $20, and the real item in the photo would truly sell for $250-450, so they were perpetrating fraud. I contacted the company, who thanked me and said they'd look into it. Then, I got an email from them last night saying they were going after the company for copyright infringement and thanked me again for the heads-up. I had already reported them to Amazon, but the company going after them holds a lot more weight, I'm sure. Amazon would not allow me to do a review of the product, saying it was misrepresented.

 

[speckledhen]

Cyn have you tried giving her just a tiny dose of aspirin? I'm not sure I would give her very much or very often, but it might make her feel a little better

Not yet, but I can do that, for both MaryJo and poor Zara.

 

[speckledhen]

Oh my, it's official. My former DIL's new boy-toy really is a boy! She still has not posted one single photo of him at all, but he posted a face-only photo of him and her together as his new profile picture. And it's the same boy whose mama was lamenting him turning 20 yrs old this past summer and starting his first job just about a week ago! Bahahahahahahaha! Guess she's been hoodwinked! Wonder how she feels about her 30 year old engineer now!

On a good note, now that she's gone, my son is debt-free! For the first time in many, many years, he only owes on his house...and it's his house, not theirs.
He got rid of a lot of baggage, in more ways than one. Now, hopefully, he will begin to see the good in this. I wish she'd proven my first impression of her all those years ago wrong, I really do. It was one time I didn't want to be right. It's just bad when your own father calls you a sociopath, right?


Well, back to chickens! Atlas gets picked up off the roost in the a.m. so he doesn't hurt his legs getting down. He will usually wait for us to get him and hold very still to be set onto the floor. Poor boy is entering the painful winter, too. Such a sweet boy.

 

[speckledhen]

Just got this message from my son:

I can’t do this to myself any longer. Need to forget she exists. I’ve blocked all of her accounts. Time to get to moving on.

Good for him. Guess he saw the new stuff on her pages, yikes.

My reply:

Now that she's gone, maybe you can come spend time with your family rather than hers. If you want to come over Thanksgiving holiday or whenever, let us know so we can cook a meal. We have some good healthy stuff from our own garden, don't cook desserts, generally.

And, surprise, surprise, I can't believe it....

Also, I’m gonna come have Thanksgiving dinner with you guys. Need some of Dad’s dressing this year.

He has not had a holiday anything with us since he married that wench, not in over 19 years.

 

[kitkat5505]

Just got this message from my son:



Good for him. Guess he saw the new stuff on her pages, yikes.

My reply:


And, surprise, surprise, I can't believe it....



He has not had a holiday anything with us since he married that wench, not in over 19 years.

That’s great!

 

[getaclue]

Cynthia, I'm so glad he's trying to move on. I'm especially glad he's reaching out. It will be a special Thanksgiving this year.

 

[robhuncor]

So happy for you Cyn and Tom!! The prodigal son is returning, pull out all the stops!