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[Kusanar]

Quote: Lol, it's a mens tank top, kinda knit feeling with ribs, generally used as an undershirt. Often worn by "thug types" in movies which is where the name came from I believe

 

[Kusanar]

We ended up with about 6 inches of snow, which promptly turned into ice. Roanoke City has issued a warning that if you don't have to be out, please stay home because the roads are too icy and dangerous... I'm at work... They have closed for snow once that I know of, and that was nearly 2 feet over night...

It's 24 right now with a high of 26 today and it was 10 when I left the house...... but Thursday it's supposed to be 63... don't like the weather? Wait a bit, it'll change...

 

[bruceha2000]

Got a nice cot and food machines at work so you can wait until the ice melts? I don't imagine the Roanoke street dept has a whole lot of snow and ice clearing ability.

OK, if I ever need an undershirt like that, I'll be sure to tell the clerk I want to beat my wife so they will know where to direct me

 

[microchick]

We finally got a break in the cold, if you can call 28 degrees a break. It feels like a heat wave to me right now.

I decided to go out and separate the extra cockerels from the main flock again. The youngest boys are just over the top right now and driving the hens nutz even though the temperatures have been in the basement for the past week. I got the job done and was locking up when I heard a new crow in the coop. My OEG bantams are just 4 months old now and I thought I had one cockerel and 3 pullets until I opened the door again and witnessed one of the 'Pullets' crowing her/his brains out followed by the cockerel that I knew was a cockerel. My sweet little girl with feather stubble on her legs is a BOY!

Completely threw me a curve, he did. I knew he had a little cochin blood in him due to the feather stubble on the legs but that boy is hen tailed making me wonder if there isn't a little Sebright thrown into the mix. The other male is growing sickle feathers.

Now I have two little boys and only two little girls. I came inside and told my husband, that the birds just settled how many more bantams I need to hatch.....a bunch.

 

[chickadoodles]

We finally got a break in the cold, if you can call 28 degrees a break. It feels like a heat wave to me right now.

I decided to go out and separate the extra cockerels from the main flock again. The youngest boys are just over the top right now and driving the hens nutz even though the temperatures have been in the basement for the past week. I got the job done and was locking up when I heard a new crow in the coop. My OEG bantams are just 4 months old now and I thought I had one cockerel and 3 pullets until I opened the door again and witnessed one of the 'Pullets' crowing her/his brains out followed by the cockerel that I knew was a cockerel. My sweet little girl with feather stubble on her legs is a BOY!

Completely threw me a curve, he did. I knew he had a little cochin blood in him due to the feather stubble on the legs but that boy is hen tailed making me wonder if there isn't a little Sebright thrown into the mix. The other male is growing sickle feathers.

Now I have two little boys and only two little girls. I came inside and told my husband, that the birds just settled how many more bantams I need to hatch.....a bunch.

 

[microchick]

Yeah, chickadoodles, it is pretty funny at that! I was sure 'Pepper' was a girl. Oh well. As they say, you never know until they crow. I've got an email out to the breeder that I bought my original flock from to see what she is going to have available. If she doesn't have anything, I'll just have to take an empty egg carton and go visit my Amish neighbor again.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Doggone it now how can we be so..... microchick I am sorry last of my new year hatch
went to their home today in Olympia

 

[chickadoodles]

Yeah, chickadoodles, it is pretty funny at that! I was sure 'Pepper' was a girl. Oh well. As they say, you never know until they crow. I've got an email out to the breeder that I bought my original flock from to see what she is going to have available. If she doesn't have anything, I'll just have to take an empty egg carton and go visit my Amish neighbor again.

How nice that you have a neighbor that will let you bring your carton and fill it up.

 

[microchick]

Doggone it now how can we be so..... microchick I am sorry last of my new year hatch
went to their home today in Olympia

Thank you for thinking of me. Unfortunately shipping chicks cross country right now prolly isn't in the best interest of the chicks or eggs. The Amish guy I got these eggs from had somebody give him a OEGB rooster. I saw the little guy, dubbed, solid black, a real cutie. The guy who gave the rooster to him wanted him to breed fighting cockerels for him and the Amish guy refused, bless him. There is a little Cochin, a little of this and a little of that the the owner has even lost track of. One of the pullets is a little wheaten, the little boy that I knew was a boy is a black breast the other two are just multicolored and pretty little birds.I'd say their heritage is mostly OEGB.

Yes, Chickadoodles, they are a very nice family. I buy my scratch grain and sunflower seeds from him and my husband buys his chainsaw supplies from him. He told my husband that he got new chickens recently. I'm hoping that he hasn't gotten rid of his bantams.

 

[Kusanar]

Got a nice cot and food machines at work so you can wait until the ice melts? I don't imagine the Roanoke street dept has a whole lot of snow and ice clearing ability.

OK, if I ever need an undershirt like that, I'll be sure to tell the clerk I want to beat my wife so they will know where to direct me

Lol, we do have food kinda... it's funny, we actually have a little grocery store in the break room. Rather than food machines, we have big racks and coolers and a kiosk to pay for everything at, you load money onto a little keyring card with cash or credit card, and then pay with the card. All they really have is chips and sodas though, I really wanted a Danish and went looking for one and they didn't have any pastries at all (they usually do)

The undershirts are really comfie and I wear them under my work shirts or even by themselves in the summer time.

Yeah, Roanoke doesn't know what to do with snow... they wait until everyone has driven on it and packed it before they even try to clean it up, then they drive around with their blades in the air because "we can't plow ice"... then when they do "plow" they don't clean it, they only bring it down to about an inch of super packed snow/ice which is smooth on top, where they don't plow, it packs and freezes, but at least there are tread marks in the ice to give you a little grip. I pulled out of my parking space today onto solid shiny ice and parked on more of it at work this morning...