The Old Folks Home

[Highcotton]

Canuck, I appreciate your comment on accents being from the South. I don't know why the rest of the country talks so funny.I hate to see the old southern accents go. All of the kids seem to talk like Hollywood.

Hayt Axton is a great song writer. His biggest hit was "Joy to the World" which nobody connects with him. That is "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog" to most of us.

 

[scottcaddy]

Quote: agree with 1, 2 and, 3

#4 is a cream spoon
#5 a medicine bottle?

Scott (who learned early in life Don't shake up the milk before the coffee cream was skimmed)

 

[ronott1]

Wecome, Hellbender! Pull up a rocking chair and a cup of your favorite beverage and make yourself at home.

Sorry about the "side sprigs" comment. I wasn't thinking of other breeds, it is a DQ in my chosen breed.

I love Billy Joel................... and Phil Collins.

The Side Sprig comment was fine. It reminds us that what is good with one breed is bad with another.

One Breed has gray legs. Another has White. A different color leg can be an DQ.

Dorkings have 5 toes; bad for Marans.....It is quite odd in the Chicken world sometimes!

 

[Dragonfly216]

So I was hoping to get some help in sexing my Black Orpingtons if I could, especially from all the experienced Orp owners on here. Here are four of them, I'm sorry it's blurry, it's hard to get them all side by side! I feel like the second from the left is the only girl there, she doesn't have the redder wattles coming in like the other three and her comb isn't as big, am I right? They are just over seven weeks old. Thanks for any help you might can give me!

 

[ronott1]

So I was hoping to get some help in sexing my Black Orpingtons if I could, especially from all the experienced Orp owners on here. Here are four of them, I'm sorry it's blurry, it's hard to get them all side by side! I feel like the second from the left is the only girl there, she doesn't have the redder wattles coming in like the other three and her comb isn't as big, am I right? They are just over seven weeks old. Thanks for any help you might can give me!

The two on the ends are Roosters. The middle right is probably a Boy. The one on the middle left looks like a pullet.

Nice looking Orps!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

..., I really want a good team of broodies. I hope hatch a decent amount then build up to 24 girls.

I had given up on Silkies but a local supplier (She works in LA so I can get them locally!!!!) from high altitude should make hatching a zero feet above sea level and 50% humidity much easier.
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Sounds like a good plan for starters.

CC Are you implying whilst those of us from the Great White North are "polite," that maybe the ones from Down Under are not?

Absolutely not. The two are not mutually exclusive. The stereotype of Canadians is that they're polite. Not a bad thing. I trained a lot of them when they took over production of the Mercury Grand Marquis - they were all very nice.



Yeh, all the TV things mentioned apply (national anthem & TV test patterns - don't mind me but are TV test patterns now gone off the TV...I never pay much attention to that sort to thing? Now I feel dumb and un-observant!).

Weird as I may sound, when I woke up at about 5 or 6, I'd turn on the TV and watch the test pattern waiting for the flag, national anthem and farm news or cartoons.





8. Howdy Doody

Laugh...you know you are old when you make a joke and you get the dull stunned l00k of utter "HUH?" Rick use to play this game with a friend of his...his friend would see him and yell, "HOWDY!" and Rick would simply reply, "DOODY!" and it became SO conditioned in him. Anyone that would greet either of us with a friendly "Howdy!" instantly got the Doody treatment back only over the years, you get more often than not...this "HUH?" absolutely clueless look and blank confused response. Sucks getting old.

I still know the Howdy Doody song.

12. Blue flashbulb - Phht....way older than just those (had an Uncle that worked for Kodak)...

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We had a Kodak bellows camera when I was a kid. It was one where you aimed the bellows at the subject and looked down into the eyepiece. My dad didn't know how to work it. We got a lot of photos back of my dad's nostrils.

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15. Wash tub wringers

Aren't these usually referred to as "wringer washers" or is this to reference the "wringer attachment" on the top...the one that eats fingers, breaks arms, grabs dangly jewellery and tries to kill you and such?

We had the wringer attachment on top of a tub with a shaker and yes, my sister caught her arm in it.

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OK Wise OLD Persons...Saturday night, some fun...guessing game fer yah. Got you five questions to figure out...not too many, don't want us all napping cause we tired out...

Mystery items I own...I know what they are...but DO you's?

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Item No. 4:

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hat brain cells we have left after abusing ourselves all dees many odd years...

I thought # 4 was a gravy boat ladle.

First hike done today. It wasn't as exciting as we hoped but it was nice to get out of the car and hike for a while. More to follow tomorrow. Today was Water Canyon

Fabulous pictures.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Greater Canada goslings I hatched as promised. They're at MO wildlife rescue now to be grown out.

 

[Dragonfly216]

So I was hoping to get some help in sexing my Black Orpingtons if I could, especially from all the experienced Orp owners on here. Here are four of them, I'm sorry it's blurry, it's hard to get them all side by side! I feel like the second from the left is the only girl there, she doesn't have the redder wattles coming in like the other three and her comb isn't as big, am I right? They are just over seven weeks old. Thanks for any help you might can give me!

The two on the ends are Roosters. The middle right is probably a Boy. The one on the middle left looks like a pullet. Nice looking Orps!

Hooray! That's what I was thinking, from what I've been reading about them, but since this is my first ever batch, I wanted some second opinions. Thank you! I got them from Wisher, they're VERY healthy, for sure. Growing like crazy!

 

[ronott1]

Greater Canada goslings I hatched as promised. They're at MO wildlife rescue now to be grown out.

They are very sweet looking.

I hope they grow up ok!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

They are very sweet looking.

I hope they grow up ok!

They're healthy and in good hands now.
But wow, did they make a mess of my hatcher. The down is about a 1/4 inch thick in there.