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[Beer can]

I always say girls until they start crowing praying wishful thinking will help.Lol.

 

[ronott1]

Anyone here care to venture a guess on the genders? All boys in my opinion.

They do not all look like cockerels yet.

They are going to be very pretty adult birds!

 

[chickadoodles]

Anyone here care to venture a guess on the genders? All boys in my opinion.

Me just guessing but from the size of their legs and what combs I can see, I think you have two cockerels. But I cannot see all their combs. They are very cute though.

 

[hennible]

Now that does look good, Sam. How was it?

I just stole the picture off the Internet but I have thought about raising Guinea pigs for me before... Not exactly the right climate though... Maybe rabbit again one day.

I also do not own a slow cooker... But I think I might want one now since you can make soap in them...

 

[vehve]

On the yellow ones I'm thinking cockerels because the one that was suicidal was a lot darker yellow and somehow seemed to have more feminine features. And the black ones just seem like dudes somehow too. But I'm hoping you guys are right, maybe we'll get some egg layers out of these too.

 

[vehve]

Somehow the process of making soap doesn't seem too appealing to me. I'd rather keep some of the mystery alive regarding products I use to clean myself.

 

[casportpony]

@Bunnylady , how's your horse?

-Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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I have two flues and there's bat droppings only in the bottom of the one flue. My house is... complicated, I guess, but there's 3 levels: underground basement/garage, kitchen/living/dining and then bedrooms all the way upstairs. There's a wood stove and our oil burning furnace in the basement, hooked up to the chimney, not sure which flue(s). Then in the living room there's a wood stove and the kitchen has a pellet stove (again not sure which is on what flue). In those fireplace areas there's an ash pan thingie (I think) that goes all the way to the basement to collect ash (again I think that's what it's for). Last night we had fires going on the pellet and wood stoves on the first floor (this is usual for us in winter). Under the pellet stove in the ash thing is where the bats were last night. So they were below the level we were burning at. We only use the wood stove in the basement if we lose power (I think that's how we can get away with only 2 flues for the multitude of things hooked up to them) and again I'm unsure which flue it is hooked up to. I certainly don't want to kill the bats with smoke/heat but I suspect the bats are in only one flue because of the sporadic use of the stove in the basement.
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I have 2 flues too - one large, one small side by side.
The large one was for the gas boiler in the basement. The house was originally heated with radiators - one in each room and one in the cellar.
The small flue is for the coal burning fireplace that we tried for a few years to use as a wood burner but it never vented well enough. Thinking it needed cleaning, we hired a chimney sweep (I almost said swift). Turns out the problem was the liner. It wasn't attached to anything at the bottom so the smoke could go up on the outside of the liner. It ate up the mortar on the brick flue and bricks had started to fall. Needless to say he couldn't clean it and recommended the flue had to be rebuilt before the fireplace could be used again. Wife's not happy about having a fireplace she can't use.
The recommended method of rebuilding is to cut all the brick out on the outside wall and rebuild it. That's 30+ feet tall by a few feet wide and I didn't trust that they could make it look right afterwards and paying several thousand dollars to have a working coal fireplace didn't strike me as the right thing to do.
So I had a plan to do it myself but opening it up from the inside rather than the outside. Since I probably won't ever use the boiler again I was going to build a full size wood burning fireplace and use the larger flue for it. Then install a small gas fireplace in the bedroom upstairs using the smaller flue.
Instead of using a liner, use refractory mortar and fire brick rather than the plain wall brick that was originally used.
Major endeavor and I didn't want to start it till I had the time and money to finish it. I'd be opening a big section of the living room and bedroom walls, floor to ceiling.

Never had a hangover. ...

I used to but not since limiting intake to a single type of beverage.

i hate bidding on ebay. Usually at the last minute some1 swoops in. Good luck tho...what breeds are u getting?

I use eBay pretty often. I've bought 6 cars, a van, a bucket truck and a bobcat on e-bay.

Older?
Love bats. Never had them in the house.... I'm weird, think they have the cutest faces. Lol

MO is called the Cave State. More than 6,300 caves and caverns.
Lots of bats and some of the caves with endangered bats have had bars installed at the entrances of some of the smaller ones to keep people out. White Nose syndrome is killing lots of bats and spelunkers are believed to spreading the disease from cave to cave.
We even have a bat festival.
http://www.dnr.mo.gov/geology/docs/gcwinter8.pdf
My brother has a big cave under his farm. He didn't know it till DNR and conservation agents showed up to check his land use. There are endangered blind cavefish, blind crayfish and salamanders in the cave and they wanted to make sure the groundwater seeping into the cave wasn't polluted.
A population of cavefish is an indicator of clean groundwater.

...DH did awesome with the sewing station

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very nice

 

[hennible]

Somehow the process of making soap doesn't seem too appealing to me. I'd rather keep some of the mystery alive regarding products I use to clean myself.

Lol

 

[Bunnylady]

@Bunnylady , how's your horse?

-Kathy

Hungry, moving around freely and pooping up a storm - in other words, 100% back to normal. Thanks for asking!