The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[ShrekDawg]

I do not travel too much either. I have been to the local States and Canada though

Yeah, i need to travel more but it can be expensive plus i just havent been able to yet hah

I want to go out west though.

Maybe this summer or spring. Idk when is a good time to go there.

I really want to go to like Idaho and Wyoming and stuff

 

[N F C]

I HATE asparagus, so gross lol

Love all melons and berries or most berries, blackberries it depends if they're good ones ha

There is a blueberry festival up in Maine that I have been meaning to go to. I only found out about it maybe last year or two years ago. I'm not sure how big it is but seems pretty decent sized and they have pies and all sorts of stuff.

It might be fun to go to. Maybe this year.

We used to go to a blueberry festival in north FL, they sold just about anything blueberry you can imagine. That's also where the "you pick" places are...DH and I would go and get buckets of them. Delicious!

 

[JaeG]

I'm a terrible traveller. After 6 days on the Gold Coast for our honeymoon I was home sick, well, pet sick more than anything. I missed my pets! We went for a bus tour to the rainforest and stopped at a little block of shops. One shop had a cat! You have no idea how happy I was to see that cat! I had to tough it out for 4 more days and we flew home with quite the tail wind which was great.

My two remaining Coturnix quail have hatched. Colossus doesn't seem overly impressed. They are all the same colour, yet they are from my dark group which should produce Rosetta and Tibetans, maybe some Tuxedos, but these guys will likely be gold. The last time I had chicks like them they turned out to be red flecked golds - very pretty, but both boys, and both got eaten by rats.

I've got one new Button chick that is looking quite lethargic. I gave it some Nutri-Drops last night (not even a drop, the tiniest sip) and I kind of expected to find a little body this morning, but it's still alive, but definitely not looking great. I've repeated the Nutri-Drops and I'll try and feed it some raw quail egg yolk and see if that helps. But that's the only one out of 40 chicks to look weak so I've been extremely lucky.

5 days to go before my unrelated Button eggs start hatching. Then I might get a clue as to what colour my boy is/will produce (or not if his Cinnamon female friend has more dominant genes).

We've had a southerly change here so our weather has cooled off very nicely. Some of the chickens are starting to moult too. And some are also broody so go figure! One of our Orpingtons is the worst - lays 10 eggs and she sits. I can't be bothered breaking her - that's way too much work as she'll only be back at it after another 10 eggs. My DD thinks she'd be great for hatching ducks. She doesn't try and peck us so I think she'd be a nice broody to use too, one day when we are no longer in suburbia.

 

[N F C]

@JaeG do ducks! Your BO can do all the work, you can just enjoy the ducklings (and share them with me ). I want ducks sooo badly. But we have to wait until we have our own place again.

I hope your little Button perks up. But just 1 out of 40 sounds very good to me!

Bet you're glad for the break in temps, enjoy!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Took my sweatshirt and uggs off cause it was like 70 degrees and sunny and I was sweating but of course now it is windy, cloudy, and coldish.

This has never been more accurate lol

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=799400420247118&id=1530751697147825

 

[ronott1]

I'm a terrible traveller. After 6 days on the Gold Coast for our honeymoon I was home sick, well, pet sick more than anything. I missed my pets! We went for a bus tour to the rainforest and stopped at a little block of shops. One shop had a cat! You have no idea how happy I was to see that cat! I had to tough it out for 4 more days and we flew home with quite the tail wind which was great.

My two remaining Coturnix quail have hatched. Colossus doesn't seem overly impressed. They are all the same colour, yet they are from my dark group which should produce Rosetta and Tibetans, maybe some Tuxedos, but these guys will likely be gold. The last time I had chicks like them they turned out to be red flecked golds - very pretty, but both boys, and both got eaten by rats.

I've got one new Button chick that is looking quite lethargic. I gave it some Nutri-Drops last night (not even a drop, the tiniest sip) and I kind of expected to find a little body this morning, but it's still alive, but definitely not looking great. I've repeated the Nutri-Drops and I'll try and feed it some raw quail egg yolk and see if that helps. But that's the only one out of 40 chicks to look weak so I've been extremely lucky.

5 days to go before my unrelated Button eggs start hatching. Then I might get a clue as to what colour my boy is/will produce (or not if his Cinnamon female friend has more dominant genes).

We've had a southerly change here so our weather has cooled off very nicely. Some of the chickens are starting to moult too. And some are also broody so go figure! One of our Orpingtons is the worst - lays 10 eggs and she sits. I can't be bothered breaking her - that's way too much work as she'll only be back at it after another 10 eggs. My DD thinks she'd be great for hatching ducks. She doesn't try and peck us so I think she'd be a nice broody to use too, one day when we are no longer in suburbia.

I hope they all make it!

I do not like to be away long either! Especially in the Summer when it gets over 100F here. I need to monitor the chickens to keep them alive LOL!

 

[ShrekDawg]

We used to go to a blueberry festival in north FL, they sold just about anything blueberry you can imagine. That's also where the "you pick" places are...DH and I would go and get buckets of them. Delicious!

That sounds awesome! We have a few places like that here but idk where exactly. But the ones up in Maine are the best. Maine blueberries are

 

[bruceha2000]

@JaeG do ducks! Your BO can do all the work, you can just enjoy the ducklings (and share them with me ). I want ducks sooo badly. But we have to wait until we have our own place again.

My guess is that the bureaucracy and cost would make that sharing thing untenable.

After 6 days on the Gold Coast for our honeymoon I was home sick, well, pet sick more than anything. I missed my pets! We went for a bus tour to the rainforest and stopped at a little block of shops. One shop had a cat! You have no idea how happy I was to see that cat! I had to tough it out for 4 more days and we flew home with quite the tail wind which was great.

Poor hubby!!!
DD2 is cat crazy as well. We went to Greece, with a day in Turkey, with her band and the chorus 6 years ago. 95% of the pictures she took were cats. 2 years ago she spent a semester in Japan, guess what most of the picture are of? She even went to a "Cat Cafe". Yep, pay money for something to drink and see cats.

 

[ronott1]

My guess is that the bureaucracy and cost would make that sharing thing untenable.


Poor hubby!!!
DD2 is cat crazy as well. We went to Greece, with a day in Turkey, with her band and the chorus 6 years ago. 95% of the pictures she took were cats. 2 years ago she spent a semester in Japan, guess what most of the picture are of? She even went to a "Cat Cafe". Yep, pay money for something to drink and see cats.

Around here, used bookstores often have a cat or two living in them

 

[ShrekDawg]

Those cat cafes are becoming pretty popular. Personally I find it somewhat gross. I know they are not near the food prep section and personally I LOVE cats, don't get me wrong, but I am also technically allergic so that many cats in one room I would probably have a coughing and/or sneezing fit or an asthma attack or something haha what the really need is a puppy cafe

That would probably never work though because dogs are much less well behaved and quiet like cats lol unless you only had older, well trained like therapy dogs, or kept the puppies in a pen... hmmmm... there's an idea.

I say a puppy cafe is a MUCH better idea lol

But also hipsters and Pinterest and Instagram people love the ~aesthetic~ of sitting in a cafe full of cats, sipping a coffee or latte or whatever and reading a book.

So a puppy cafe probably wouldn't work as well or be as popular. But idk, puppies are pretty dang cute and everyone loves puppies.