The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[DigMyChicks]

Good Morning Friends

[Checks watch, yes it is still morning but only just ]

103 help desk requests in the last 12 working hours

I am exhausted and drained .. is it bed time yet?

Just about for me...

 

[bruceha2000]

I have 2 more molting, a black sex link which is a spring hatch and a barred rock which is one of my older girls. She looks like she’s been through a blender...the poor girl.

Sounds like Echo's first adult moult ... when she was 1.5 years old, started the end of January. Makes as much sense there as it does here. She also looked horrible but handled the way sub 0°F temps just fine. Started back laying 2 months later.

 

[Teila]

Almost, it is 8:40 PM here

Too many helpless people, or too many code errors. I suggest better testing before release

Sadly, not sleep time here

This time, something broke! You would think after 18 years with the company, when I say that there is an issue, someone would pay attention but No, I have to jump up and down and mention multiple times that there is an issue before something gets done

"I can't see an issue on xxxx" Obviously means there is not an issue! [sarcasm intended]

The constant flow of HD's and my advisement that there is an issue must be incorrect [sarcasm also intended].

Plus, snarky help desk comments from the users with a nice topping of attitude do not make for a nice work environment. Oh how I wish the HD software had a 'block' option

 

[DigMyChicks]

It’s so stinking cold here. I feel bad for my fully feathered girls. Can’t wait for spring.

 

[drumstick diva]

Sometimes our spring is just as bad as winter and then just pops into full blown summer with heat & humidity issues - boo ugho!!

 

[JaeG]

I just bought our dog one of those looped shedding blade thingees. Wow - so much hair came off her it looked like it had snowed! It's amazing! My new favourite thing for sure - our dog seems to shed constantly and her fur is mostly white. It's short and coarse too and gets stuck in the foam filter of our stick vacuum that's supposed to be for pets. I have to pick most of it out to clean the filter (not my favourite job).

I now have 11 little baby quail with more on the way. Incubators are terrible things! All my eggs that have been fertile have hatched so far. Tomorrow we are selling 16 males and 8 female adult quails to the petshop, along with 8 young bourkes, so that will thin out the herd a bit.

Just wanted to share some photos of our beautiful Hawkmoth who I am now sure is a girl after I saw her squatting and cheeping at our male cockatiel. She's so big and puffy and sweet and cuddly.

 

[Teila]

I just bought our dog one of those looped shedding blade thingees. Wow - so much hair came off her it looked like it had snowed! It's amazing! My new favourite thing for sure - our dog seems to shed constantly and her fur is mostly white. It's short and coarse too and gets stuck in the foam filter of our stick vacuum that's supposed to be for pets. I have to pick most of it out to clean the filter (not my favourite job).

I now have 11 little baby quail with more on the way. Incubators are terrible things! All my eggs that have been fertile have hatched so far. Tomorrow we are selling 16 males and 8 female adult quails to the petshop, along with 8 young bourkes, so that will thin out the herd a bit.

Just wanted to share some photos of our beautiful Hawkmoth who I am now sure is a girl after I saw her squatting and cheeping at our male cockatiel. She's so big and puffy and sweet and cuddly.
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Oh my, she is beautiful!!! I love her colouring and patterns.

 

[JaeG]

Oh my, she is beautiful!!! I love her colouring and patterns.

I fell in love with her as soon as I saw her - funny looking chick that she was:

You know how you just get 'that feeling' about something?
She really has blossomed into an all round gorgeous, loveable bird.

 

[Teila]

I fell in love with her as soon as I saw her - funny looking chick that she was:
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You know how you just get 'that feeling' about something?
She really has blossomed into an all round gorgeous, loveable bird.

Hellloooo Muppet!!

 

[ronott1]

Sadly, not sleep time here

This time, something broke! You would think after 18 years with the company, when I say that there is an issue, someone would pay attention but No, I have to jump up and down and mention multiple times that there is an issue before something gets done

"I can't see an issue on xxxx" Obviously means there is not an issue! [sarcasm intended]

The constant flow of HD's and my advisement that there is an issue must be incorrect [sarcasm also intended].

Plus, snarky help desk comments from the users with a nice topping of attitude do not make for a nice work environment. Oh how I wish the HD software had a 'block' option

I get that here too!

The last one took two weeks to get approval from the change committee to fix what they broke