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[chickadoodles]

My birds are scared to try anything new. Usually I have to hold new food in my hand and coax them into eating it sometimes they will not try what ever it is for days or not at all.

 

[vehve]

Ours used to be a bit skeptic at first too, the first time you gave them something they took forever to try it, the second time they gobbled it down. Now they have become more culinary curious.

 

[chickadoodles]

Ours used to be a bit skeptic at first too, the first time you gave them something they took forever to try it, the second time they gobbled it down. Now they have become more culinary curious.

They are funny. My turkey will gobble pears up in about 2 seconds and look at you like where's the rest! hahhahha

 

[Teila]

With my girls it is cheese .. if I am out in the garden with them and ask hubby "when was the last time I gave them C-H-E-E-S-E", I have to spell out the word because they know what it means!

If they think it has been too long since they last had cheese, they remind me

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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Broodies - someone local to me just broke a broody using bags of frozen peas directly under the hen. I thought it rather clever. I have a Silkie who has been broody on and off for 2 months, but not serious enough to give her eggs. She stopped laying though, convinced her lady friends to all stop laying as well, and they would sometimes crowd 3 into one little area sitting on nothing for weeks at a time. Finally all but the one have returned to more normal behavior. I mean, as normal as Silkies can be, bless their fuzzy little hearts. I adore them. Nothing on this planet with a beak is more gentle, entertaining, or endearing than a Silkie hen.

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I have been asked to travel to AZ in September or October, and to MS, LA or FL in January or February, to assist with some training. I have had to tell the people asking me, that I need at least 3 weeks' notice. I said, "I know how stupid this sounds to anyone but me, but my life outside work revolves around hatching. Once the eggs are set there is no pause." I am amazed that both people were accomodating and said they would note that. I mean, it isn't required that I go, it's well outside my job description, but I enjoy it.
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That's the best description of a silkie I've ever read.

My chicken endeavor would never have found favor with my employers. Now that I'm retired, they seem mildly bemused.

Would you guys still love me if I said that this got me really excited and I want one just because that seems like fun?

The first thing I do on the computer when I wake is a hard Sudoku puzzle.

Brilliance is always sexy! Or at least, I find it highly erotic. Brains are good! (And not just scrambled up with some eggs and bacon!)

The only animal product I've ever been offered as food that I've turned down was brains.
Though, on a woman, they look good.

Its a country in Africa.

I guess I wasn't as discerning in my thirties when I married.

We were watching a game show and the question was, what is the largest country in Africa. My wife blurted out, Asia.

Update on Veera the Broody. Still broody. Only change is that she's started biting when I go near. Just a little nip, but still. I put her up on the roost for the night again, she probably stayed there for a whole minute again... And I have to remember to change the ice packs again in the morning. Oh, and I found two more in the freezer You'd think two people could survive with a few less ice packs.

Not if you have setting hens.

i miss ronald reagan

Don't we all
I mean
Don't you all.

I LOVE POLITICS LOL


I read some articles saying that because the whole country has swung so far to the conservative side Reagan was more within todays Liberal spectrum than Barak Obama.

I dont know much about Ronald Reagan but the articles said he:
-Gave Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants
-Negotiated with Terrorists (Traded Arms for Hostages with Iran)
-Raised Taxes on a Large Scale Four Times (After Initially Lowering Them)
-Negotiated with the "Evil Empire" without Pre-conditions
-Made a Decision to "Cut and Run" From Lebanon After Our Troops Were Attacked
It seems he is the exact opposite of what conservatives now claim they want. It looks like the caricature of what they think liberals do.
If you look at the wikipedia blurb on Ronal Reagan it starts with

The neutrality of this article is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (January 2013)

It reads like it was written by staff writers at Fox doing his obituary.. lol

Stephen Colbert had a segment where he aired a clip from the Fox news show 'The Five'.
Eric Bolling blurted an error-riddled tirade against the Obama administration’s remarks following the terrorist attack in Benghazi.
Another conservative on the show told him, on air, that it wasn't true. She then said, "it would be a good point, if it were true".
Stephen Colbert then came up with a new slogan for Fox.

"Fox News: Fair And Balanced. A Great Point If It Were True."

This is a quote from newscorpse

Bolling: There’s one more piece of this. Don’t forget this was prior, PRIOR, to Osama Bin Laden being taken down. And the thought was, is President Obama going into the election soft of terror or not? And a lot of people are saying [to Perino] It was after?
Perino: Much after. Yeah, a year.
Bolling: OK, I take it back.
Perino: A great point if it were true.​

Indeed. What a great point that would have been if hadn’t been made up by an imbecile who doesn’t even bother to check the most basic facts. This was not a careless mistake in the course of an unrehearsed discussion. Bolling was reading from a prepared text. And the casual dismissal of his flagrant blunder, that he would simply “take it back,” demonstrates the lack of seriousness he has for factual reporting. It’s that cavalier attitude that Stephen Colbert highlighted last night (video below) when addressing the same segment and Perino’s odd compliment that the point would be great, but for the triviality that it was false:

Colbert: That’s undeniable. A great point and a fantastic new motto: Fox News. Fair and balanced. A Great point if it were true. Still I’ve gotta give a wag of my finger to Dana Perino. Why did you correct him? Bolling was pulling a passionate heartfelt conspiracy theory straight out of his a**. You don’t interrupt a man in mid yank. That’s rude.​

The clip. including freemasons, insects and Benghazi
http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/vide...rald-embroidery--bug-scientists---dana-perino

I don't know what math blaster is but I do remember playing nerdy word games because they were fun.

And now I sew. I'm almost finished with my pumpkins. I've got 2 more to embroider and then I can put them together into a table runner.

Needle work is the finest form of 3D math.

And now for my Martha moment.....

When life gives you apples....


....make applesauce!

Very nice but my fondest memories are of applebutter.

Or... I could just cut two holes in the back and let him display his own pumpkins.

Don't get him started.

Mine don't but others do

Word of warning, I read somewhere (might even have been this thread) that someone cut up the apples for the chickens into bite-sized pieces and sadly one choked and died. So maybe do not cut them up too small and leave them at a nice size where they can just peck off a small amount.

They weren't small enough pieces. It's very labor intensive (since my wife threw away my slice-o-matic). But, if you cut any vegetable or fruit small enough, the chickens will enjoy.

I have found with my young chicks, I need to leave the new food in their run for a few days to a week, before they start to eat it. Once they try it tpugh, they quickly learn that it is wonderful!

Even the adults take a while to look at something new and walk away. Eventually one brave soul will start scarfing it down and then the rest are all about it.

I left the corn cob in the run for two days and they all veered around it like it was a chicken trap. I grabbed the cob, stripped the corn off it and they gobbled it out of my hand like they had not eaten for days!

I did persevere with watermelon and eventually, one adventurous one decided to take a taste and now they all love it!

The sad thing here, I am not talking about chicks, these are fully grown sooks!

Exactly
I think they're just chicken.

 

[vehve]

Quote:

We had Peking duck in Beijing, so I tried the duck brains. It was pretty delicious, a slightly weird texture, but tasty. Sort of like foie gras, but with less taste.

 

[drumstick diva]

duck brains

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Saltfish and Akee is the national dish of Jamaica. I made my family eat it for breakfast one morning. The staff was amused that we wanted to eat it.

Akee is a fruit that was imported from Africa in the 1700s (probably aboard a slave ship) When cooked, it has the consistency of scrambled eggs or brains.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I can understand vehve being up now but you're up early Diva.

 

[chickadoodles]

Good morning everyone!