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[Beer can]

Birds should have feathers, naked necks are cool, even those ugly showgirls, those are not right IMHO.

 

[Beer can]

The strawberries look delicious!
We went to our local pick your own strawberry place and they sell baskets or you bring your own, really good price and it is hard not to stuff your face with handfulls of the fat berries lol!.
We get there one year and the owner hands us some baskets and says " OK now we have to weigh your kids" What? He says "that way we can reweigh them when you leave and charge accordingly", and said it with a straight face! Then he laughs and says he's jokeing and "happy picking" Lol!

 

[perchie.girl]

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dang... I might have to try a cross.... of my own.

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Birds should have feathers, naked necks are cool, even those ugly showgirls, those are not right IMHO.

You need one in your flock to help change your mind.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

If you think those naked chickens look weird in a pic, you should see them in person. They look like science fiction creatures. Yes, they have to be kept in climate control environments. I believe Dr. Bramwell at the University of Arkansas was involved with their development. At the very least, he has a flock of them that they use at the school. I believe he explained they are a cross between a naked neck and a silkie that had a mutation that caused it to not produce feathers all over. At least thatwas the starting point. AApparently the white skinned ones are almost transparent and you can see some of their internal organs through the skin.

 

[vehve]

Well, that was interesting. I was sawing out the oak top for the coffee table I'm making, when my jigsaw got a bit stuck, and suddenly plunged free, resulting in an attempted defingeration. Now I got to see the inside of the local health centre. Luckily I had released the trigger by the time the blade hit my thumb, and the cut wasn't that deep. I went inside, grabbed something to stop the bleeding then walked to the neighbors (she's a nurse) and asked her to take a look at it. Then I started to almost pass out. She took me to the health centre, and an hour and three stitches later I now have a very numb thumb. The doc put 5ml of lidocaine into it, I don't know why they insist on using so much.

 

[chickadoodles]

Has anyone had success with a rooster bachelor pad? I have not, multiple times. The roosters turn really mean, turn against each other and try to mate the ones lower on the pecking order. That makes the lowest ones on the pecking order not eat. I've had to remove 2 roosters - one for turning into bones and the other for losing all his tail feathers and constantly getting ridden by the other roosters...

I guess this weekend I'll be processing naughty roosters. Not that they're completely ready weight wise, but I am ready for them to go.

I had the same problem when I had the roosters in a pen of their own. I had to take several out and put them in a separate pen till we got then sold.

 

[perchie.girl]

Well, that was interesting. I was sawing out the oak top for the coffee table I'm making, when my jigsaw got a bit stuck, and suddenly plunged free, resulting in an attempted defingeration. Now I got to see the inside of the local health centre. Luckily I had released the trigger by the time the blade hit my thumb, and the cut wasn't that deep. I went inside, grabbed something to stop the bleeding then walked to the neighbors (she's a nurse) and asked her to take a look at it. Then I started to almost pass out. She took me to the health centre, and an hour and three stitches later I now have a very numb thumb. The doc put 5ml of lidocaine into it, I don't know why they insist on using so much.

Ouch..... i feel your pain...

When I was about 25 I was cutting slits in some new latigo strings on my western saddle... did I use an exacto... um NO did I have the string laid flat on some wood Um NO... I was using a butcher knife and holding the string in my fingers. The knife popped through the leather and neatly cut through my finger just above the nail and below the joint. I too almost passed out but I had no one to look at it for me nor any one to take me to the Emergency Room. The shot of lidocane hurt as much as the stitches and didnt take effect till they were done sewing me up....

.It took about ten years before I got feeling back in the tip of my finger

so when I emphasize safety to others I speak from experience.... Sharp instruments have always scared me for good reason. I got a bit of meat on my thumb with the hedge clippers ... stabbed the same finger I cut years previous with a chisel..

 

[Bunnylady]

5ml of lidocaine, and I'd still have felt every stitch. I'm what the dentist calls "hard to numb." Fortunately, I'm also pretty good with pain.

But hey, vehve, at least you didn't try a second time. Critter did that with the mower once. The chute that takes the clippings from the deck to the hopper had gotten clogged, and he left the mower running while he cleared it. The blade switch was off, of course, but the belt that ran the impeller in the chute wasn't fully disengaged, or something. Anyway, the tip of one impeller blade hit a fingertip when he reached in one time, and his reaction was more or less, "huh, I wonder what that was." Then Mr. Brilliance reached in again. This time the blade hit him hard enough to give him a gash requiring 5 stitches to close, and break the bone. He's very, very lucky to still have all of his fingers; as the scars on his hands attest.

Odd thing is, I thought this man was intelligent when I married him . . . .

I hope your hand heals up quickly, Felix.

 

[vehve]

It should be fine, the wound was mainly superficial. I'm amazed of the shock though, I didn't think I would black out that easily. The neighbors said I was pretty pale...