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[subhanalah]

And the cloud I saw on the way home that reminded me of Subhanalah's description of the image used to represent God.

what description?

 

[Cynthia12]

Does she go in tomorrow then?

I will remember to pray for you.

Ok, I missed out on this one...what is up with our little Maddie??? Someone tell me. :/ Prayers for her starting anyway.

 

[ronott1]

Ok, I missed out on this one...what is up with our little Maddie??? Someone tell me. :/ Prayers for her starting anyway.

She is going in for fixing bone plates in the skull I think.

I am sure more details will be posted later.

 

[vehve]

@tnspursfan09 good luck with the surgery.

@dsqard yeah, poses are unnatural looking and boring. Sneaking the pictures when they're not aware is better.

@Wisher1000 nice pic of the cloud.

@beverly evans it's worth a try at least.

@Alaskan yup, never leave the car unloaded.

 

[Alaskan]

@vehve

Nope, we got the car unloaded, and I showed up with the blow torch.

It is over, and there was no dismemberment, so all is good.

 

[Cynthia12]

Thank you ron. I do believe I know what she is having done. I have a little cousin that has had this done..and know of a young man that had it done. They are doing well, and you would never know that anything had ever been done. It's great what they can do today. Prayers for Maddie.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

@Dragonfly216
 Thank you 

Yeah, that mating dance is a funny thing to watch.

We have been getting rooster sound complaints. Not in the way most people do though. Since we culled Topi a week and a half ago, there has been no more crowing. The neighbor told me yesterday, that other neighbors are complaining that it's too quiet. Looks like Eemeli (almost 20 weeks) better mature soon and start crowing to fill the void. He's not doing the dance, not trying to mate anyone, not sounding the treat sound, not crowing, not anything. Karin said she once saw him sound some pathetic attempt of an alarm when a seagull flew our our yard, but that's the only roosterlike behavior out of him so far. He's really clumsy too, and honestly, pretty boring. He's starting to grow a bit of a tail though, maybe he'll turn into a handsome boy. His sister is just as slow at developing, and is only now starting to get proper tail feathers.

Your getting rooster sound complaints? Gee, I guess my Phoenix, Phoenix Bantams and Ohiki would not do very well there. They are all long crowers with those long tails of theirs. They are easy going birds. The phoenix is dominate of the boys but with the phoenix bantams being half Ohiki it makes him more docile and the ohiki are just plain docile and sweethearts.

I am glad I can not see my neighbors. I did have a guy whom owns 9 dogs one time ask us if the neighbirs complain about our roos crowing and I said, no and we dont complain about their barking dogs standing in the lane as we try and go to our place down the road.
He laughs he has to work for his dogs.

Well I am scaling down. Not just for winter is a coming and it hits early and hard on the mountain tops. I am scaling down to just raising for our own use. What eggs do not sale I will incubate for Saturday morning chix sales at my mailbox Area. It is a nice tiny piece of flattened land that I can tow the chix trailer down to from 8-12 and then when it is over, I tow it back up our lane. Seriously considering to build a small stand there for my jams, pickles, honey and eggs.
I saw the small organix market 45 minutes away from our place is selling organix chicken breasts at $21. Apound! I thought I read wrong. Are they nuts? Will anyone buy it? It is also frozen with skin on and bone in with a wing attached. Who pays that kind of money for a raw frozen chicken breast. I was amazed to see tourist standing at their counter
Ordering to have it fed-exed to their home. Agh! What planet did they come from.

Yes, freezer camp the chicken quarters schlocket. But that kind of money and it was just plain old red sex link chicken. It was not like they were buying Bresse or Bielefelders. Tourist. To go touring and drop in to General stores and see this stuff and think farm fresh frozen chicken well I will just order several hundred dollars of frozen chix to be delivered in a fed-ex truck. I dont get it. When ever I was a tourist here or abroad, I had more sense than that I hope. They are buying low grade chicken meat that became chicken meat because they were not laying well anylonger. Nidgets!

 

[vehve]

@ApiaryandAviary Oh, the complaints aren't about the crowing, but the lack there of. People had learned to enjoy the crowing over the summer and think it's too quiet now that we processed the little guy.

The price of a product is right when supply and demand meet. If they've found it at that price, I say good for them. One thing I have a problem understanding the pricing with, is when the springs first domestic new potatoes hit the shelves of the stores. The first week they sell for up to 20 euros per kilo. And still people buy them.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

@ApiaryandAviary
 Oh, the complaints aren't about the crowing, but the lack there of. People had learned to enjoy the crowing over the summer and think it's too quiet now that we processed the little guy.

The price of a product is right when supply and demand meet. If they've found it at that price, I say good for them. One thing I have a problem understanding the pricing with, is when the springs first domestic new potatoes hit the shelves of the stores. The first week they sell for up to 20 euros per kilo. And still people buy them.

Hello, After the winter, people want fresh new potatoes. Not the shriveled up potatoes with eyes. Personally I would not pay that price and the farmer that raised them certainly does not get anywheres near that price.

Just like the farmer that raised those chickens for eggs an once they slowed down laying they went to freezer camp. Tough old birds need to be frozen to expand the moisture with in the muscles/meat of the bird causing fiber breakage and in the process it actually helps tenderize the meat of the bird. A little weird but true. When a farmer gets a couple of dollars per organic bird and off it goes to a processing plant and it is cleaned, quartered & packaged for $21. Per pound is way off.

Someone is making a killing there and it is not the farmer that raised the poultry. There are alot of hands that come into play and all need to make money off of it from the trucker that takes it to be processed to the fed/ex trucker delivering it to a home.

 

[dsqard]

Tomorrow is pre-op. Then no food after midnight so dinner tomorrow is Maddy's choice. Probably Chile's, she loves the table side guac. And we just watched the Lego movie so now "everything is awesome!"

Tell Maddy that movie is awesome! I couldn't help laughing the whole way through. Good luck today and tomorrow!