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[chickadoodles]

Quote: I love my SS-- though I was under the impression that the SS variety is smaller than the other sussex varieties . . . ?? Each developed separately is my understanding. I only have poor quality birds so that is no help-- my info is from reading an old book published in early 1900's by a top breeder and club prez in England. I keep my SS because I love them!!

Arielle, I looked up the SS on Wikipedia and it said they were suppose to be 9 lb for a cock bird and 7 lb for a hen. Is that wrong?

 

[chickadoodles]

I am from Coffee County. My brother lives in Elba.

I was just wondering if I knew you from any of the Facebook poultry pages.

 

[Highcotton]

I was just wondering if I knew you from any of the Facebook poultry pages.

I have seen you on the Alabama!! page and on Sitting for a cup of coffee. I am on a couple o f facebook chicken pages as Byron Cotton.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: I love my SS-- though I was under the impression that the SS variety is smaller than the other sussex varieties . . . ?? Each developed separately is my understanding. I only have poor quality birds so that is no help-- my info is from reading an old book published in early 1900's by a top breeder and club prez in England. I keep my SS because I love them!!

Arielle, I looked up the SS on Wikipedia and it said they were suppose to be 9 lb for a cock bird and 7 lb for a hen. Is that wrong?
I would ask Math Ace-- she tried many sources before going to one of the top breeders for SS Can't remember if OBerton ro Reich___. THe color and shape were the best but the size was lacking for a meat bird in her opinion. Tell her I sent you.

You can also ask Snowbird( aka Don)-- he helps as an advisor on the SS thread.

As you know for many heritage birds what they are supposed to be and what they are can be poles apart.

Mine have too much white on them but the personalities are tops and the speckles are delightful. Like a lady dressed for an evenng out IMO. Personality and foraging abilites is why I don't dump this line.

YOu maybe gtting a very good line-- so dont' cancel your order. You will love them no matter what.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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Ack-- tornadoes make me very nervous. THey are rare here, but have happened. Sure glad it missed you ROn.

We're in that tornado alley zone. We had one in the last storm a little over a week ago. I thought the whole place was going to blow away. No tornado close by but one hit about 30 miles across the river in Illinois.
3 years ago, the Good Friday EF4 tore through 22 miles of the St. Louis metro area and Lambert International Airport took a direct hit completely shutting it down for 24 hours and they're just getting all the repairs done now. Some of the neighborhoods near there are still half vacant.
They're usually in spring and some in the fall but 3 years ago we had one on New Years Eve that destroyed businesses in a 4 block area killing one. That was part of an outbreak that killed 9 in 4 states on NYD that included 36 separate tornados.
An EF 3 went through here last May. It's path was 32 miles long and a mile wide through a very densely populated area. The closest it got to me was about 4 miles away. Surprisingly only 2 injuries.

I know CO, TX, CA and other places get a lot of hail but this is hail central. The 2 most costly hail storms in US history hit here. The last one was 2 years ago with $1.6 billion in damage.
http://origin.ksdk.com/news/article/342810/22/April-28th-hail-storm-second-most-costly-in-US-history
My place took a direct hit from the #1 $2+ billion storm back in 2001. It totaled all the cars but this venerable old brick house didn't even get a broken window. As the storm was coming, news to take shelter. We all went into an office in the cellar with no windows and 2' thick stone walls. It was scary and loud. When the storm passed we expected to see big branches down. We had a lot of branches down but they then got pulverized. The lawn was completely covered with shredded wood.
My car was under the trees and only had 3 broken windows but the sheet metal was dimpled beyond belief. There were 5 fist sized dents along the roof line. My wife's car wasn't under the trees and every window was out of it.
When the insurance man came out he described what he saw at the previous house. A softball size stone went through a roof shingles and decking through the insulation, through the ceiling and broke the quarry tile on the woman's kitchen floor. She still had the stone in her freezer. She thought no one would believe it. He said in 30 years he never saw anything like it.
The hail supercell was 245 miles long, 22 miles wide with 80mph down blasts. Virtually every business and home in North St. Louis county was damaged including 24 commercial and military aircraft.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=04_10_2001

Interestingly, on the climate change front, 17 of the 20 deadliest/costliest hailstorms in North American history came since 1990.

Wisher, you should have seen the nursing pads I made out of the scraps of Diva's fabric for a friend of mine (her husband is a fireman). She just about died when they arrived in the mail.

Love that one.
That's thinking outside the box.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Love that one.
That's thinking outside the box.

Thanks. I spend a lot of my days outside that box.

 

[pickitfarm]

Ms Drumstick Diva sent me a lovely photo today of her wearing her personalized apron that I made for her around Christmas. She's graciously allowing me to share it with the Old Folks.



I will hopefully have a less risque quilt top finished tomorrow to share with the group so long as the snow tonight doesn't accumulate and cause me to have to shovel it tomorrow.

Saw a giant hawk today, I may need to put my fishing line "netting" back over the coop tomorrow, too.

I want to see what the one with the fire helmet and coat is doing. Nothing like a man in uniform or in this case partial uniform.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I want to see what the one with the fire helmet and coat is doing. Nothing like a man in uniform or in this case partial uniform.

Here you go. The back is denim for heavy duty activities!

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG I bet her fireman husband was mighty surprised when he saw those pads too.

If you could churn out those aprons, bra pads, tool belts, strait jackets I bet you could be rich enough to pay for all your critter bills at least. Bridget the bus driver was nuts over the apron. I don't think the nursing pads would sell here - not on the senior bus anyway.

I'm one of the younger ones, we have several in the 90's and had a few 100's as well. I have to say the older ones were mentally sharper than the younger. Maybe because they didn't have high fruitcose and trans fats and whatever in their formative years.

 

[pickitfarm]

Here you go. The back is denim for heavy duty activities!

Mustache man is definitely my favorite.