The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[sourland]

Good morning, all.

 

[007Sean]

Good morning, all.

 

[igorsMistress]

G'morning

 

[007Sean]

G'morning

 

[drumstick diva]

Who, who could that be Sean? You are usually up later than me, and still wake up sooner.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Um, somebody ordered chicks tonight for delivery next spring. Somebody slap me.... Oh, thanks. I feel better but I still have chicks coming AND an Irish Wolfhound.

Maybe next year will be less busy!

I was thinking of ordering spring chicks myself or quail but I havent yet.

Blooie it's okay - maybe you are hallucinating and just think you ordered chicks.

Morning everyone

I see the usual 'early risers' are here, with the exception of the one 'night owl'!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I wonder how many pounds a dog could pull? I haven’t really found anything. I did find one thing that mentioned I think like 2-3x or 3-4x their weight or something but I think that might be weight pull. Did also see a lot of little weight pull dogs, like 25 pounds or less, pull massive weights. So idk. I think pulling a person is a different point of attachment. I did find skijoring info that said the dog needs to be pretty energetic and at least like 30 or 35 pounds but besides that, nothing. And surely a 35 pound dog wouldn’t be able to pull 200 lb people lol but Libby is 75 pounds. Also see a lot of people/racers start running them at a year old but I’m still kinda stuck on the 18 month thing when their joints are closed cause that’s when you can jump for agility and do heavy mobility work for service dogs and stuff like that and it just makes more sense to me to start later. But then again most sled dogs are probably under 50 pounds, a lot within the 30 and 40 range, so not large breed dogs, so maybe they develop faster. Or maybe with other dogs, the load is less.

 

[bruceha2000]

Um, somebody ordered chicks tonight for delivery next spring. Somebody slap me.... Oh, thanks. I feel better but I still have chicks coming AND an Irish Wolfhound.

Congratulations on your return to chickens
Sooooo, what breeds this time?

 

[Blooie]

Good morning! Been up for a couple of hours, but curled up in the recliner with “Eleanor of Aquitaine” and finished it. What a woman!

May is our really empty month.....just one visit to Cheyenne mid- month. So Fee will be at Motel Fiona for a couple of days and the chicks will be by themselves, but they’ll do fine with Mama Heating Pad, a big full feeder and plenty of water. Seemed the best time to get them if we were going to, because they’ll only need heat for a couple of weeks.

June is a little busier with a trip to the Grand Lodge of Arizona early in the month, a 10 day trip to South Dakota to visit family and attend South Dakota’s Grand Lodge, then Grand Lodge of Montana the end of the month. The chicks will have been off all heat well before that. Fee will be boarded and Jen can check on chicks and top off their food and water when needed, so it shouldn’t be too bad. No eggs to worry about yet, and our setup is pretty doggone secure. Katie will be with us, because if she misses SD Grand Lodge we won’t hear the end of it - from the SD Masons and their ladies as well as from her.

July looks great, with a couple things but nothing extending over several days except one. We have the two day Rocky Mountain Conference in Denver then comes August and we turn it all over to Tom Hamm and his Lady at Grand Lodge of Wyoming, the big 4 day event Ken and I have to put on. Last big event is York Rite Sessions in September, but we always attend that anyway, since he’s Grand Recorder/Grand Secretary for two of the York Rite bodies.

As of the end of this month (after Tuesday’s visit to Gillette) we have visited 32 of the 42 Lodges in Wyoming, plus Sessions in Casper, plus Grand Lodge of Idaho. Ken was doing his mileage tracking for Grand Lodge, and since September we have put 16,000+ miles on the car, and only left the state once. He also made a trip to Boise and one to Kennewick, Washington, but I didn’t go on those and he didn’t drive...he went with a couple of other guys. I’ve only sat out 3 of these Wyoming jaunts. This Grand Lodge stuff ain’t for sissies......or homebodies! Oh, and we have Grand Lodge of Utah in January (flying to Salt Lake for that one) as well as the Grand Masters’ Winter Reunion in Riverton, Wy., and the Conference of Grand Masters in Rapid City in February in Rapid City coming up too.

There you have it.....now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be in the bedroom sucking on oxygen.

 

[igorsMistress]

Maybe next year will be less busy!

I was thinking of ordering spring chicks myself or quail but I havent yet.

That's quite the quandary...how about quail AND chicks