The Old Folks Home

[Teila]

G'Day

Yep, I am still lurking

Just wanted to shared this with you guys n' gals. I have shared on Facebook and donated. I am not asking you to donate as most of you do not live in Aus; just sharing because I thought it was a gorgeous advertisement .. let's hope they raise enough to get it on television.

Hi All chook lovers, Just wanted to share an ad made by Aussie kids urging Mcdonalds to stop using cage eggs.

Please watch and share. Who knows maybe a few Aussie kids will make a big difference;-)

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/appeal/mcdonalds-cage-eggs-tv-ad/

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG you read my mind - I always think I am "princess & the pea." The tiniest things aggravate me. I have very hyper sensitive skin, I can skin write. If I draw a finger across my throat within seconds a red line will appear in the same place. I bite my nails to the nub so that isn't the cause.

Once I showed the doctor and he was amazed - he ran and got another to show him. Well the second doctor wasn't amazed he just said " yah that's so and so "- whatever long word.
It still draws an appreciative audience at parties. In the olden days I suspect a lot of women were stoned as witches if they had it. And NO I won't broadcast where I live.

I can't wear a watch regardless of what the band is made of - I get spots like prickly heat and the itching drives me nuts. Can't wear bracelets, necklaces, rings, I have to use a clip on watch and attach to belt bag or belt loop. Maybe this all means I am of royal birth.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

We have the exact same issues! My employees are always laughing at the scratch marks on my face and neck. I tell them I just rubbed my hand across my face. Anything except platinum in my ears gives me pus in my earlobes. I'm allergic to most soaps and scents. I can feel a mosquito land on me.

Our ancestors were probably burned at the stake together.

 

[Cynthia12]

G'Day

Yep, I am still lurking

Just wanted to shared this with you guys n' gals. I have shared on Facebook and donated. I am not asking you to donate as most of you do not live in Aus; just sharing because I thought it was a gorgeous advertisement .. let's hope they raise enough to get it on television.

Hi All chook lovers, Just wanted to share an ad made by Aussie kids urging Mcdonalds to stop using cage eggs.

Please watch and share. Who knows maybe a few Aussie kids will make a big difference;-)

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/appeal/mcdonalds-cage-eggs-tv-ad/

Love it!

 

[bamadude]

I'm thinking we should get Wisher a bag for celebrating 25000 posts.

maybe 1/2 bag

 

[Alaskan]

@superchemicalgirl and @drumstick diva

That is actually pretty cool.

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG we must be psychic/ psycho twins or something. I'd afraid to find out what other oddities we share.

 

[Alaskan]

We got a junk coop set up in the vegetable garden, and we got the entire vegetable garden top netted. When we moved the three old hens over (that have been segregated in the green chicken tractor because they have feather picking issues), we noticed that two of them (the two leghorns) look TERRIBLE. I think that one has a prolapse and the other might be internally laying. Not kidding. Anyway, Child #2 washed their bottoms, and tried to stuff back that bloody nastiness that was trying to fall out of the one and washed off the super messy poopiness of the other.

I am not sure that the only poopy bottomed one is internally laying....but it is odd, the area way below her vent, right before it curves to her belly is super red and a bit warm to the touch. Her vent looks fine actually, except that everything was WAY messier than it should be.

And no, NO external parasites, I even had the kids look carefully, and nothing. Dunno.

We shall see how they are over the next few days.


Anyway, the three old hens got the vegetable garden, the last set of chicken chicks that were in the small white tractor, have been moved over to the larger green tractor, and all of the quail (the three week old youngest quail and our one 'old' quail but not the two teenager quail) were moved into the white tractor. So, they are out of the house. Which is very good, since I was starting to go "wow! That is a stench!" So, I am sure the spouse wasn't happy. The two teenager quail will be kicked out tomorrow, under supervision. Last time that we tried to integrate, those two didn't like the idea. However, everyone is older, and it will now be in a much larger space, so maybe it will work.

Pant, pant, pant.

I think I now have everything located and set up to make my bantam coop, a good enough coop to use all winter......... Except I am STILL unsure where to put it!!!!! I just can't decide how to balance unhappy spouse with ease of care and safety/monitoring of the coop!!! And no, I can't discuss things with the spouse, that would be bad. So....where, where, where, where?

 

[getaclue]

DH announced tonight that we could get a nicer, bigger, newer home, more easily if we bought in a subdivision, and the only reason we are going to all the extra expense, and effort is because of my chickens. I'm BUSTED! I commented that he couldn't garden like he wanted in a subdivision that the yard wouldn't be big enough. He just rolled his eyes at me. I reminded him that I want a calf, and a pig to raise too. It isn't just about the chickens. He's already checked out crime rates too. Darn it! I really hope the place we go to look at on Saturday is promising. It's not really that he doesn't want a nice place further in the country. He does. It's just a lack of availability for what we are wanting, at this time. He's getting frustrated, and patience is not one of his virtues.

Something else we are both frustrated about is the realtor that the lady hired to sell the place we are renting now. Monday was my birthday. Tuesday the realtor was going to come by around noon to measure, and take pictures, as soon as he got through with his doctor's appointment. I spent all weekend, and Monday getting this place picture perfect. I didn't let my kids, and grandkids come over on Monday to celebrate my birthday, because I didn't want to have to clean up after them. The floors were stripped, freshly waxed, and buffed, not a speck of dust, garage and patio vacuumed, nothing out of place. Everything ready for the pictures.

At 2:15 I called the realtor. I asked how it went at the doctor's, and was he ok, and still going to make it to measure, and take pictures. Oh, he had forgotten. He forgot his doctor appointment, and all the people he had scheduled for Tuesday, because He had TOO MUCH FUN over the weekend. I was flabbergasted! He rescheduled for this Friday. He was not happy either when I said no to a lockbox on the door. If, and when the house is to be shown, it will be scheduled. Lockboxes are for unoccupied homes. As it stands now, he can kiss my grits!

 

[vehve]

Alaskan, go to a army surplus store and invest in a buttload of camo netting. "Yes dear, than humongous bush has always been there" "No dear, it's the evergreen variety, that's why it doesn't change colors in fall" (Unless you get some Swiss camo fabric to put on it for fall time).