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Perfect time of year...the roses are in full bloom...stinking up a storm!
The sun is shining...the weather is gorgeous...perfection for day old birds...so....
The theme of the day yester, was distraction...very...at end of day there were 70 chicks hatched yesterday outta Buster the Bator and my brain is an ooze of AHHHHHHHHHH!!! Utterly useless mop of "oh my eyes!" delight.
Start up of the procession of lil' day old chicken bugs on a carpet of greeness
Living the HAPPINESS DREAM,,,oh PINCH ME!
Out on the lawn, day old chooks...sleeping, eating, drinking...more napping...me brain (of what I have left) has gone to utter goo goo gaga ...
Eating, drinking, sleeping...investigating...socializing...exercising! Wonderbar!
EAT EAT EAT...oh my...FACE PLANT in the food!
Needless to say, so many things taken that are not poultry related and made to suit MY needs.
Food, water, shade...carpet of grass to investigate.
These are powder coated composting wire panels...were on sale a few years back and I c-clipped fine meshed hardware cloth cut to fit each panel and voila...I have about 12 panels and can make up all sorts of configurations for day olds (and older) to be out and about on the lawn...soaking up Vitamin D from the sun and learning to be chickens...REAL chickens out and about in the REAL world...but not too real...no running mad dashes from predators...not with the Guard Dog on Duty.
We went to three stores to find her a new bally with a better designed handle (chewy the handle off of is part of the game!).
I set and hatched out Chanteclers in Standard (Partridge, Buff and Reds), and project Bantams (F5's), Bantam Brahmas (Dark, Buff & Partridge), and Booted Bantams (White and MdF).
This is the first chick that hatched...a Booted Bantam and what a BOOGER!
Every time I l00ked...he was in my face. "HI!" Tis me...you waited 21 days and HERE I BE! Tis ME! I'm the baby, gotta love me!"
"Lookit ME...ten foot tall and bullet proof...is that water thar...maybe I should sidle over and have a PECK at it!"
I'd move him outta dangers way and ZIP...right back on the go to find more troubles again!
See him, bottom left...on the move, on the go...why do I like the ones with issues...waz the matter with ME???
Rotten problem child...always seems to be one in the flock. It is bitter sweet too...I don't like to get too close to chicks since we breed for natural disease resistance and by that, some will not have the genetic disposition to LIVE thru to adulthood. Needless to say this BOOGER has tugged a tad too much on my heart strings. Told Rick about him and he just laughed,,,says, "Must be a rooster!" and probably is...I hope so. Booger is not much of a name for a girl, now is it??
Pan fulla Booted Bantams in Mille de Fleur and White - Big Brazin' Booger on left in the middle
Red Standard Chanteclers - spiffy colour pattern, eh??
Partridge, Buff and Red standards and one F5 project bantam - Chanteclers
Kewlest thing...every single standard Chantecler exhibits a Cushion Comb...it blows my mind. Cushion comb is a genetic combination of Pea and Rose combs and to have every chick with a Cushion Comb...that means the Rooster I used should be PURE for Cushion Comb...as said, it jest blows my mind. I don't really care for purity in combs but heck, I won't shirk at it any either...doing the wahoo happy dance!
So as I have said, don't practice lock down...is a fool's folly I believe.
As each new bird hatches from their eggs, they are put in containers to dry off inside Buster the Bator...
Bantam Chantecler project F5's
Glass tea light holders make excellent dispensers for water (with marbles to prevent wetting the youngsters too much) and starter &/or boiled egg yolk (I have lots of duck eggs, so was duck yolk this time) with a marble to entice pecking at the "shiny!" Note that I have rubberized cupboard liner in the bottoms of the containers to ensure good footing.
Next batch of egg busters, dried off inside Buster and now ready to join the frolicking free for all on the lawn with the rest of the day olds outside.
So another thing I practise is double mating--I'm old and I am set in my ways, eh? I have cockerel and pullet breeders for many of my varieties. Partridge (royalty of the show pen!) is a tres difficult colour pattern to get right. Gorgeous and rightly difficult to get precisely proper!
Exhibition males are basically BLACK and the exhibition females are RED...thus you end up with one pen to make show females, and another pen to make show males. Single pen mate and you get birds that are not all that they could be!
Standard Partridge Chanteclers
Bottom left...cockerel breeder Partridge standard sized Chantecler ... NOTE the darkness. This is what gives the variety the clean beetle green black chests (not the messed up laced with red pigmented chests...those are often the pullet breeders!). These cockerel breeders are extinct according to Grant Brereton over in the UK. Exhibition Wyandottes in the Partridge variety have been lost because the strains of properly coloured MALE lines are gone. This knowledge of what makes up cockerel breeders seems to elude SO many people...so please, if you keep the Partridge variety, l00k at the cockerel breeder day old here! Use this knowledge and secure yourself a male exhibition line of show males!
For any of you's that have been following my escapades with the Booted Bantams on The Coop regarding Fm (Fibromelanosis) plus gender linked id"+" on rec whites (c/c) on duck wing (e"+"/e"+")... more interesting progressions! Of the ten Booted Bantams hatched yesterday; one Pinto skinned in the White variety (with one dark and two light skinned) and one Pinto in the Mille de Fleur variety (two dark and three light skinned).
So got two more Pinto skin patterned Booted Bantams to post about (kewl to be one White feathered and one MdF).
Sneak preview on photos of the day old Pinto darlings.
Because I KNOW the variations in skin colour are easiest to spot when the feathers are damp...this one is not even hatched outta the egg (likely a female...all the really darkest ones (with potential FM) have been of the gentler sex likely due to id"+" being gender linked but should we double up in the males--no telling how long dark pigmented skin = only the girls!) to show instantly the portion of the wing that is PINK and not DARK skinned.
This same chick dried off more...SEE what I mean, far more less prevalent...this PINTO pattern. Dark mulberry face with dark shanks but portions of the skin are not dark.
The one above has the fully dark skinned legs but hold on a second...there is another kewl one to see here...lookit this happening!
Yeh, kewl eh? This one is a Mille de Fleur feather pattern (not a White) and lookit the right foot! Major kewl. The outside of the foot is dark skinned. The left foot is totally not dark. Keep in mind that chickens have genetics that are not always where the left side of the body mimics the right--a chicken can have one dark leg, one light (as you can SEE above in living colour!).
Suffice to say that when some of the Europeans historically bred up the Booted Bantams, they treated EACH colour variety as in the Whites and the Mille de Fleurs like they were two separate BREEDS not just colour patterns (VARIETIES within a BREED).
I'll have to post to Dr. Roy Crawford too and advise of the new crop of dark skinned variations; he figures this is just id"+" and not Fm at all. This spring I did an autopsy on a White Booted with dark skin/shanks and posted pics on The Coop...kinda graphic but shows the dark pigments are more than just skin deep...goes into the very bones and organs...this SCREAMS Fm but well, you know...I just breed them anomalies up, eh? Rainbow Chooks INC.
Colours can be so fascinating...
Guns & ammo...ha ha ha...man alive, don't move to the Great White North...I do believe you need a PAL (Possession and Acquisition Licence) just to purchase ammunition, never mind all the hurdles to possessing a firearm!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_and_Acquisition_Licence:
Then the company goes on to say liability is limited to no more than "the retail purchase price of the item"...blah blah blah.
So...I am thinking...someone here wanna try and GUESS what we bought, installed, and then I read the warning label about...it came with a warning label...that fact alone makes it comical...a warning label--really?
How demented are people nowadays that this product required a warning label...anyway, before I let the c@t outta the bag...wanna guess what I bought that justified such a warning label??
And on that "what is it" mystery theme....
Ending this post with another mystery but this one more a "who dunnit...in the library with a??"
Doggone & Chicken UP (and keep on the up and up and FEAR THE DUCK)!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
Edit - missed a pic
BEAUTY!
Perfect time of year...the roses are in full bloom...stinking up a storm!
The sun is shining...the weather is gorgeous...perfection for day old birds...so....
The theme of the day yester, was distraction...very...at end of day there were 70 chicks hatched yesterday outta Buster the Bator and my brain is an ooze of AHHHHHHHHHH!!! Utterly useless mop of "oh my eyes!" delight.
Start up of the procession of lil' day old chicken bugs on a carpet of greeness
Out on the lawn, day old chooks...sleeping, eating, drinking...more napping...me brain (of what I have left) has gone to utter goo goo gaga ...
Eating, drinking, sleeping...investigating...socializing...exercising! Wonderbar!
EAT EAT EAT...oh my...FACE PLANT in the food!
Needless to say, so many things taken that are not poultry related and made to suit MY needs.
Food, water, shade...carpet of grass to investigate.
These are powder coated composting wire panels...were on sale a few years back and I c-clipped fine meshed hardware cloth cut to fit each panel and voila...I have about 12 panels and can make up all sorts of configurations for day olds (and older) to be out and about on the lawn...soaking up Vitamin D from the sun and learning to be chickens...REAL chickens out and about in the REAL world...but not too real...no running mad dashes from predators...not with the Guard Dog on Duty.
Dearest Fixins...her B-day yesterday...13 years of fun!
The diligent watch doggie...every dog has their day and FruitCup had hers.
Evening of DOG TIME - Foamy and Fixins! Can you feel the intensity??
The diligent watch doggie...every dog has their day and FruitCup had hers.
Evening of DOG TIME - Foamy and Fixins! Can you feel the intensity??
We went to three stores to find her a new bally with a better designed handle (chewy the handle off of is part of the game!).
There is nothing that screams happy like a day with the birdles...brand new additions to the flocks!I set and hatched out Chanteclers in Standard (Partridge, Buff and Reds), and project Bantams (F5's), Bantam Brahmas (Dark, Buff & Partridge), and Booted Bantams (White and MdF).
This is the first chick that hatched...a Booted Bantam and what a BOOGER!
Every time I l00ked...he was in my face. "HI!" Tis me...you waited 21 days and HERE I BE! Tis ME! I'm the baby, gotta love me!"
"Lookit ME...ten foot tall and bullet proof...is that water thar...maybe I should sidle over and have a PECK at it!"
I'd move him outta dangers way and ZIP...right back on the go to find more troubles again!
See him, bottom left...on the move, on the go...why do I like the ones with issues...waz the matter with ME???
Rotten problem child...always seems to be one in the flock. It is bitter sweet too...I don't like to get too close to chicks since we breed for natural disease resistance and by that, some will not have the genetic disposition to LIVE thru to adulthood. Needless to say this BOOGER has tugged a tad too much on my heart strings. Told Rick about him and he just laughed,,,says, "Must be a rooster!" and probably is...I hope so. Booger is not much of a name for a girl, now is it??
Pan fulla Booted Bantams in Mille de Fleur and White - Big Brazin' Booger on left in the middle
Red Standard Chanteclers - spiffy colour pattern, eh??
Partridge, Buff and Red standards and one F5 project bantam - Chanteclers
Kewlest thing...every single standard Chantecler exhibits a Cushion Comb...it blows my mind. Cushion comb is a genetic combination of Pea and Rose combs and to have every chick with a Cushion Comb...that means the Rooster I used should be PURE for Cushion Comb...as said, it jest blows my mind. I don't really care for purity in combs but heck, I won't shirk at it any either...doing the wahoo happy dance!
So as I have said, don't practice lock down...is a fool's folly I believe.
As each new bird hatches from their eggs, they are put in containers to dry off inside Buster the Bator...
Bantam Chantecler project F5's
Next batch of egg busters, dried off inside Buster and now ready to join the frolicking free for all on the lawn with the rest of the day olds outside.
So another thing I practise is double mating--I'm old and I am set in my ways, eh? I have cockerel and pullet breeders for many of my varieties. Partridge (royalty of the show pen!) is a tres difficult colour pattern to get right. Gorgeous and rightly difficult to get precisely proper!
Exhibition males are basically BLACK and the exhibition females are RED...thus you end up with one pen to make show females, and another pen to make show males. Single pen mate and you get birds that are not all that they could be!
Standard Partridge Chanteclers
Bottom left...cockerel breeder Partridge standard sized Chantecler ... NOTE the darkness. This is what gives the variety the clean beetle green black chests (not the messed up laced with red pigmented chests...those are often the pullet breeders!). These cockerel breeders are extinct according to Grant Brereton over in the UK. Exhibition Wyandottes in the Partridge variety have been lost because the strains of properly coloured MALE lines are gone. This knowledge of what makes up cockerel breeders seems to elude SO many people...so please, if you keep the Partridge variety, l00k at the cockerel breeder day old here! Use this knowledge and secure yourself a male exhibition line of show males!
Partridge Variety - Double Mated
BLACK = BOYS
RED = GIRLS
BLACK = BOYS
RED = GIRLS
For any of you's that have been following my escapades with the Booted Bantams on The Coop regarding Fm (Fibromelanosis) plus gender linked id"+" on rec whites (c/c) on duck wing (e"+"/e"+")... more interesting progressions! Of the ten Booted Bantams hatched yesterday; one Pinto skinned in the White variety (with one dark and two light skinned) and one Pinto in the Mille de Fleur variety (two dark and three light skinned).
So got two more Pinto skin patterned Booted Bantams to post about (kewl to be one White feathered and one MdF).
Sneak preview on photos of the day old Pinto darlings.
Because I KNOW the variations in skin colour are easiest to spot when the feathers are damp...this one is not even hatched outta the egg (likely a female...all the really darkest ones (with potential FM) have been of the gentler sex likely due to id"+" being gender linked but should we double up in the males--no telling how long dark pigmented skin = only the girls!) to show instantly the portion of the wing that is PINK and not DARK skinned.
This same chick dried off more...SEE what I mean, far more less prevalent...this PINTO pattern. Dark mulberry face with dark shanks but portions of the skin are not dark.
The one above has the fully dark skinned legs but hold on a second...there is another kewl one to see here...lookit this happening!
Yeh, kewl eh? This one is a Mille de Fleur feather pattern (not a White) and lookit the right foot! Major kewl. The outside of the foot is dark skinned. The left foot is totally not dark. Keep in mind that chickens have genetics that are not always where the left side of the body mimics the right--a chicken can have one dark leg, one light (as you can SEE above in living colour!).
Suffice to say that when some of the Europeans historically bred up the Booted Bantams, they treated EACH colour variety as in the Whites and the Mille de Fleurs like they were two separate BREEDS not just colour patterns (VARIETIES within a BREED).
I'll have to post to Dr. Roy Crawford too and advise of the new crop of dark skinned variations; he figures this is just id"+" and not Fm at all. This spring I did an autopsy on a White Booted with dark skin/shanks and posted pics on The Coop...kinda graphic but shows the dark pigments are more than just skin deep...goes into the very bones and organs...this SCREAMS Fm but well, you know...I just breed them anomalies up, eh? Rainbow Chooks INC.
Colours can be so fascinating...
Guns & ammo...ha ha ha...man alive, don't move to the Great White North...I do believe you need a PAL (Possession and Acquisition Licence) just to purchase ammunition, never mind all the hurdles to possessing a firearm!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_and_Acquisition_Licence:
Next week, Buster busts out the turkeys and waterfowl...them ducklings...dangerous duck a lucks. I am expecting I shall need to don the Kevlar Bloomers...yes indeedy...will need to wear the tres sweaty, hot and stifling protective undies...but I shall be SAFE...yes, safe from the switchblade wielding baby ducks....
Had some items to pick up this weekend, more on that in a moment. Came home and temperature read on the thermometer read 39C/102F...running about 30C/86F a day in reality, so pretty much lots of water, watering and making sure everyone has shade and can rehydrate. Some of the beasties and birdies are enjoying the heat, others are avoiding it and thankfully have choices of cool places to reside.
Now on that purchase we made...
Did I ever have a gut buster...
Not going to say WHAT I bought, just that when I got home...I asked Rick to come out and give me a hand (actually two hands, needed an extra set to help me install this--not going to elaborate any further). So in about three minutes time, we get her done and I note there is a label on the product, so I snag it and go sit in the shade with a cold water and have a read.
Yeh...really...really...REALLY? Wanna guess what product I had bought and just installed.
Product label reads:
WARNING
Before using this product, contact relevant authorities for locations of water, gas, electric, telephone, sewer, or any utility or services lines. Do not overload this product. Ensure that this product is undamaged and the supporting structure to which this product will be anchored will safely support the weight of this product and its load. Wear protective attire and eyewear and practise safety measures at all times during installation. It is the responsibility of the installer to evaluate the conditions and determine the appropriate hardware and procedure. Failure to do so could result in personal injury, damage to the product, or other damage.
Then the company goes on to say liability is limited to no more than "the retail purchase price of the item"...blah blah blah.
So...I am thinking...someone here wanna try and GUESS what we bought, installed, and then I read the warning label about...it came with a warning label...that fact alone makes it comical...a warning label--really?
How demented are people nowadays that this product required a warning label...anyway, before I let the c@t outta the bag...wanna guess what I bought that justified such a warning label??
And on that "what is it" mystery theme....
Ending this post with another mystery but this one more a "who dunnit...in the library with a??"
Doggone & Chicken UP (and keep on the up and up and FEAR THE DUCK)!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
Edit - missed a pic
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@CanuckBock
After wearing out my fingerprint sliding your last post up and down so many times, I am still confused to what your point was when quoting me.
Are you saying it's hard to get a gun in Canada?
After wearing out my fingerprint sliding your last post up and down so many times, I am still confused to what your point was when quoting me.
Are you saying it's hard to get a gun in Canada?
Look up the thread "The Sound of Silence" about crowing roosters. Last few pages tell about 2" velcro working as good or better. Gonna do that.
Another thing, I was gripping about not getting rain yesterday (like they promised) and it came early this morning. A lot. Love it. Look at the forecast
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=weather+in+bossier+city+10+day+forecast
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BEAUTY!
Perfect time of year...the roses are in full bloom...stinking up a storm!
The sun is shining...the weather is gorgeous...perfection for day old birds...so....
The theme of the day yester, was distraction...very...at end of day there were 70 chicks hatched yesterday outta Buster the Bator and my brain is an ooze of AHHHHHHHHHH!!! Utterly useless mop of "oh my eyes!" delight.
Living the HAPPINESS DREAM,,,oh PINCH ME!
Start up of the procession of lil' day old chicken bugs on a carpet of greeness
Out on the lawn, day old chooks...sleeping, eating, drinking...more napping...me brain (of what I have left) has gone to utter goo goo gaga ...
Eating, drinking, sleeping...investigating...socializing...exercising! Wonderbar!
EAT EAT EAT...oh my...FACE PLANT in the food!
Needless to say, so many things taken that are not poultry related and made to suit MY needs.
Food, water, shade...carpet of grass to investigate.
These are powder coated composting wire panels...were on sale a few years back and I c-clipped fine meshed hardware cloth cut to fit each panel and voila...I have about 12 panels and can make up all sorts of configurations for day olds (and older) to be out and about on the lawn...soaking up Vitamin D from the sun and learning to be chickens...REAL chickens out and about in the REAL world...but not too real...no running mad dashes from predators...not with the Guard Dog on Duty.
Dearest Fixins...her B-day yesterday...13 years of fun!
The diligent watch doggie...every dog has their day and FruitCup had hers.
Evening of DOG TIME - Foamy and Fixins! Can you feel the intensity??
We went to three stores to find her a new bally with a better designed handle (chewy the handle off of is part of the game!).
There is nothing that screams happy like a day with the birdles...brand new additions to the flocks!
I set and hatched out Chanteclers in Standard (Partridge, Buff and Reds), and project Bantams (F5's), Bantam Brahmas (Dark, Buff & Partridge), and Booted Bantams (White and MdF).
This is the first chick that hatched...a Booted Bantam and what a BOOGER!
Every time I l00ked...he was in my face. "HI!" Tis me...you waited 21 days and HERE I BE! Tis ME! I'm the baby, gotta love me!"
"Lookit ME...ten foot tall and bullet proof...is that water thar...maybe I should sidle over and have a PECK at it!"
I'd move him outta dangers way and ZIP...right back on the go to find more troubles again!
See him, bottom left...on the move, on the go...why do I like the ones with issues...waz the matter with ME???
Rotten problem child...always seems to be one in the flock. It is bitter sweet too...I don't like to get too close to chicks since we breed for natural disease resistance and by that, some will not have the genetic disposition to LIVE thru to adulthood. Needless to say this BOOGER has tugged a tad too much on my heart strings. Told Rick about him and he just laughed,,,says, "Must be a rooster!" and probably is...I hope so. Booger is not much of a name for a girl, now is it??
Pan fulla Booted Bantams in Mille de Fleur and White - Big Brazin' Booger on left in the middle
Red Standard Chanteclers - spiffy colour pattern, eh??
Partridge, Buff and Red standards and one F5 project bantam - Chanteclers
Kewlest thing...every single standard Chantecler exhibits a Cushion Comb...it blows my mind. Cushion comb is a genetic combination of Pea and Rose combs and to have every chick with a Cushion Comb...that means the Rooster I used should be PURE for Cushion Comb...as said, it jest blows my mind. I don't really care for purity in combs but heck, I won't shirk at it any either...doing the wahoo happy dance!
So as I have said, don't practice lock down...is a fool's folly I believe.
As each new bird hatches from their eggs, they are put in containers to dry off inside Buster the Bator...
Glass tea light holders make excellent dispensers for water (with marbles to prevent wetting the youngsters too much) and starter &/or boiled egg yolk (I have lots of duck eggs, so was duck yolk this time) with a marble to entice pecking at the "shiny!" Note that I have rubberized cupboard liner in the bottoms of the containers to ensure good footing.
Bantam Chantecler project F5's
Next batch of egg busters, dried off inside Buster and now ready to join the frolicking free for all on the lawn with the rest of the day olds outside.
So another thing I practise is double mating--I'm old and I am set in my ways, eh? I have cockerel and pullet breeders for many of my varieties. Partridge (royalty of the show pen!) is a tres difficult colour pattern to get right. Gorgeous and rightly difficult to get precisely proper!
Exhibition males are basically BLACK and the exhibition females are RED...thus you end up with one pen to make show females, and another pen to make show males. Single pen mate and you get birds that are not all that they could be!
Standard Partridge Chanteclers
Bottom left...cockerel breeder Partridge standard sized Chantecler ... NOTE the darkness. This is what gives the variety the clean beetle green black chests (not the messed up laced with red pigmented chests...those are often the pullet breeders!). These cockerel breeders are extinct according to Grant Brereton over in the UK. Exhibition Wyandottes in the Partridge variety have been lost because the strains of properly coloured MALE lines are gone. This knowledge of what makes up cockerel breeders seems to elude SO many people...so please, if you keep the Partridge variety, l00k at the cockerel breeder day old here! Use this knowledge and secure yourself a male exhibition line of show males!
Partridge Variety - Double Mated
BLACK = BOYS
RED = GIRLS
For any of you's that have been following my escapades with the Booted Bantams on The Coop regarding Fm (Fibromelanosis) plus gender linked id"+" on rec whites (c/c) on duck wing (e"+"/e"+")... more interesting progressions! Of the ten Booted Bantams hatched yesterday; one Pinto skinned in the White variety (with one dark and two light skinned) and one Pinto in the Mille de Fleur variety (two dark and three light skinned).
So got two more Pinto skin patterned Booted Bantams to post about (kewl to be one White feathered and one MdF).
Sneak preview on photos of the day old Pinto darlings.
Because I KNOW the variations in skin colour are easiest to spot when the feathers are damp...this one is not even hatched outta the egg (likely a female...all the really darkest ones (with potential FM) have been of the gentler sex likely due to id"+" being gender linked but should we double up in the males--no telling how long dark pigmented skin = only the girls!) to show instantly the portion of the wing that is PINK and not DARK skinned.
This same chick dried off more...SEE what I mean, far more less prevalent...this PINTO pattern. Dark mulberry face with dark shanks but portions of the skin are not dark.
The one above has the fully dark skinned legs but hold on a second...there is another kewl one to see here...lookit this happening!
Yeh, kewl eh? This one is a Mille de Fleur feather pattern (not a White) and lookit the right foot! Major kewl. The outside of the foot is dark skinned. The left foot is totally not dark. Keep in mind that chickens have genetics that are not always where the left side of the body mimics the right--a chicken can have one dark leg, one light (as you can SEE above in living colour!).
Suffice to say that when some of the Europeans historically bred up the Booted Bantams, they treated EACH colour variety as in the Whites and the Mille de Fleurs like they were two separate BREEDS not just colour patterns (VARIETIES within a BREED).
I'll have to post to Dr. Roy Crawford too and advise of the new crop of dark skinned variations; he figures this is just id"+" and not Fm at all. This spring I did an autopsy on a White Booted with dark skin/shanks and posted pics on The Coop...kinda graphic but shows the dark pigments are more than just skin deep...goes into the very bones and organs...this SCREAMS Fm but well, you know...I just breed them anomalies up, eh? Rainbow Chooks INC.
Colours can be so fascinating...
Guns & ammo...ha ha ha...man alive, don't move to the Great White North...I do believe you need a PAL (Possession and Acquisition Licence) just to purchase ammunition, never mind all the hurdles to possessing a firearm!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_and_Acquisition_Licence:
All these statistics Oz--I'm a reTIRED accountant and you are even frightening me!
Oz...you really need to move to the Northern Place of Paradise. You are 99% sure to be hit in the head with a rotten tomato in the summer (snowball in the ten month long white season--burh) than shot with a bullet...maybe beaned in the head with a Tim's cup if you get too much like a Bludger.
Not sure what all the hoopla is over ammunition and guns...misinformed for sure...
Guns should not EVER scare you...no Sirree...it is the FTD (Fear The Duck) that is still a major FEARFUL force...always has been!
Next week, Buster busts out the turkeys and waterfowl...them ducklings...dangerous duck a lucks. I am expecting I shall need to don the Kevlar Bloomers...yes indeedy...will need to wear the tres sweaty, hot and stifling protective undies...but I shall be SAFE...yes, safe from the switchblade wielding baby ducks....
Had some items to pick up this weekend, more on that in a moment. Came home and temperature read on the thermometer read 39C/102F...running about 30C/86F a day in reality, so pretty much lots of water, watering and making sure everyone has shade and can rehydrate. Some of the beasties and birdies are enjoying the heat, others are avoiding it and thankfully have choices of cool places to reside.
Now on that purchase we made...
Did I ever have a gut buster...
Not going to say WHAT I bought, just that when I got home...I asked Rick to come out and give me a hand (actually two hands, needed an extra set to help me install this--not going to elaborate any further). So in about three minutes time, we get her done and I note there is a label on the product, so I snag it and go sit in the shade with a cold water and have a read.
Yeh...really...really...REALLY? Wanna guess what product I had bought and just installed.
Then the company goes on to say liability is limited to no more than "the retail purchase price of the item"...blah blah blah.
So...I am thinking...someone here wanna try and GUESS what we bought, installed, and then I read the warning label about...it came with a warning label...that fact alone makes it comical...a warning label--really?
How demented are people nowadays that this product required a warning label...anyway, before I let the c@t outta the bag...wanna guess what I bought that justified such a warning label??
And on that "what is it" mystery theme....
Ending this post with another mystery but this one more a "who dunnit...in the library with a??"
Doggone & Chicken UP (and keep on the up and up and FEAR THE DUCK)!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
Edit - missed a pic
A lightbulb.
A lightbulb.
Nope but close as it is about as insane...<<good one as your answer gave me a laugh too!!>>
But quick like...edit yer post to delete my photos cause Wisher will be a NOT so happy camper...scroll thru too many pics and yeh...she's tolerant but not that tolerant. Tee hee....
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Hee hee hee....no fingerprints...you might feel inclined to do some sort of crime if you keep that up.
Difficult to get legal guns up here...you betcha...and bullets--you need a PAL to buy the bullets to load up a gun. Far easier just to hit someone with a blunt instrument like a corn broom (corn = GMO??) or one of our snowballs! Set the mean dogs out on them...feed them too much food so they fall over in the feed pan. We have options to annihilate threats but not like many people do in other countries. LMBO
We have to take a special course, carry a card that is only valid for five years, and pay these extra fees to BUY BULLETS! It is way over board up here and yet...stolen guns still kill many persons! It is most frustrating for farmers with horses with broken legs than need to be put down humanely...for all the laws, I have heard of people having to call up friends to come do the deed because that trusty rifle over the mantle...is too much hassle to own legally!
Yes, Canucks, strong and free...sure, sure we are...civil liberties snatched away without even so much as a "Hey HOSER! I might need that right to bare arms some day!"
I used you Oz...I quoted you to be able to post silly jokes about "guns killing people!" or, ahem...getting to note that ducklings and candlesticks are much more dangerous so beware!
Now where did I stow that "armed for Grizzly Bears" pea shooter...uhmmm...now was it sparkly so I could find it faster...uhmmm
Tara
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You need to be a member of a target shooting gun club to qualify for a license to buy an air rifle in oz.
You need an application to buy bullets also.
All gun licenses require a medical psyche clearance.
In Los Angeles you need a gun license to buy ammo but in Culver city which is surrounded by LA you don't.
You need an application to buy bullets also.
All gun licenses require a medical psyche clearance.
In Los Angeles you need a gun license to buy ammo but in Culver city which is surrounded by LA you don't.
Quote: I will look up that thread, thanks! I am not looking forward to over 30 cockerels crowing every morning let alone our few neighbors behind us. lol
Our temps are going down into the mid to upper 80s all week also. Love it!
Your forecast looks just like ours and we did not get any rain yesterday or so far today. I feel cheated.
Canuckbok I suspect you bought a post hole digger.
Oh nooo! Now that's a bit too chilly for me at this time of year. Give me a good mid 80 degree temp and I'm ok. I should move to Hawaii.
Checked the 10 day out again..yaay, I kind of wondered if that was wrong!! It now says..97 degrees next Wed..not tomorrow, but I think it's also just over the mid range of 90's. Yep, it's July in Utah. So far, no 107 is predicted for this area. South of us..yes. :/
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