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[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Get well soon SCG!!

On another note...I have a "dumb" chicken question. Are the commercial "Cornish Hens" that cost so much money at the grocery store the same "Cornish X" that are now sold at "meaties"? Come to think of it, I hadn't seen Cornish Hens at a grocery in a long time. But then, I have moved around a bit also. It's all regional preference.

 

[ronott1]

Get well soon SCG!!

On another note...I have a "dumb" chicken question. Are the commercial "Cornish Hens" that cost so much money at the grocery store the same "Cornish X" that are now sold at "meaties"? Come to think of it, I hadn't seen Cornish Hens at a grocery in a long time. But then, I have moved around a bit also. It's all regional preference.

They are similar but not quite the same. Each place that raises them commercially keeps their own lines for crossing. The Cornish X in the supermarket is weeks younger--close to 6 weeks old. They are little babies--closer to Veal.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

ah ha...chicken veal!! Now see....I have been all confused all of these years..

I knew nothing about chickens till I ended up with some. Now, I know that I have much more to learn!

 

[tnspursfan09]

ah ha...chicken veal!! Now see....I have been all confused all of these years..

I knew nothing about chickens till I ended up with some. Now, I know that I have much more to learn!

I found out yesterday that if I rake a big pile of leaves and then go inside for a refreshing glass of sweet tea when I come back outside all the leaves are back where they started. What the...???

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

I found out yesterday that if I rake a big pile of leaves and then go inside for a refreshing glass of sweet tea when I come back outside all the leaves are back where they started. What the...???

Hahaha......good one. Chickens? I don't "do" leaves...well, DH just insists on using his mega leaf blower he has. (psst...I think it's a guy thing

)...so he either blows them all into a pile and we put them in the compost....or now, we put them in the chicken pen for the birds to play in.

 

[Wisher1000]

Hey Wisher...want some sedum in your flower care package?



Bees and flutterbyes love them.

Absolutely!!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Got the coop cleaned. It takes forever when I'm feeling well, and when I'm not, ughh. I thought I had northern fowl mite, which spends its entire life cycle on the chicken, but when I was cleaning some of the plastic nesting boxes I found a few mites in there, too, without a chicken host.

Meaning once I got all the shavings out of the coop I had to do some spraying. I set off a flea bomb first, but wasn't able to wait the 2 hours after it went off to settle, unfortunately. I had shooed all the chickens out of the coop and set up temporary nesting boxes outside but there were 3 birds that WOULD NOT use those, no matter what. My RIR was practically suicidal trying to get in the coop and ended up launching herself at the windows desperately trying to get in because the pop door was closed. I ended up deciding that letting them in early and airing it out was the best bet, although not a great choice.

But everything was sprayed after the flea bomb with permethrin and new shavings were put down.

Hopefully I dealt them a mighty blow (pun intended). Let's hope this is the end of it.

And if I see my neighbors chickens over here again

 

[gryeyes]

As the coop build progressed, and I blathered about it to other "regulars" at my fav hang-out, I got some eye-rolling responses and astonishment about using a "contractor to build a chicken coop?!?!?" I shared these reactions with John the Contractor. He'd got a kick out of them.

He always arrived around 9 a.m. - I usually got there any time between 10 and 11. (He unloaded his equipment, circular saw, ladders, supplies, etc. every day, reloading his work van every afternoon because it wouldn't be all that wise to leave tools there overnight.)

Anyway, one day he said "I got all the wire up," as soon as I got out of my car. "Uh huh, I see that."

"It looks better from the inside..." Okay, so I went into the coop to admire his work.

This was his surprise for me. He could hardly contain his glee.

..

Yup, he had replaced the ceramic light receptacle and CFL bulb with a pendant light! A sort of rustic chic "chandelier" for the coop!

"Better protection for the bulb against flying chickens" and "Less screwy surfaces to gather dust," said he. Riiiiight.

But isn't it wonderful?!? He obtained the pendant light from one of his other jobs, where the lights were removed for other fixtures.

And here are some of my favorite shots of a FEW of the rock out-croppings on the property.

 

[chickadoodles]

I found out yesterday that if I rake a big pile of leaves and then go inside for a refreshing glass of sweet tea when I come back outside all the leaves are back where they started. What the...???

 

[Wisher1000]

Linda, those rock formations need names.................just sayin'..................