The Old Folks Home

[Arielle]

It was a busy weekend at CocoBeach.

Mrs Oz and the kids went to a wedding and Toni has her first flower girl gig

SHe looks like a princess holding court!!

 

[scottcaddy]

It was a busy weekend at CocoBeach.

We had about 5 inches of rain from Friday to Sunday

The quail hatch started Saturday Morning. By Sunday afternoon there were 115 darting and jumping little tiny chicks.

I brought over a smallish room dehumidifier prteviously and ran it in the bator room at 45%. It seemed to drastically improve our pip to hatch numbers as we constantly battled with large soggy birds that could not manouver in their shell. I also fumigated the egg room, bator and eggs with formaldehyde gas - 40% formalin poured over potassium permagenate. I think this increased the number that got through day 15 - another problem time for our hatches

Chickens are due Wednesday

The welders finished the new delivery entrance gates. They should have the new main gates done by Tuesday afternoon.

The new coops got there netting pen cover and doors were hung on pens. Breeders move in on Monday. in 2 weeks I hope to be setting the eggs of purebred chickens

Mrs Oz and the kids went to a wedding and Toni has her first flower girl gig

Congrats to Toni!! did she like it or worried in that pic. it's hard to tell what she's thinking?

Scott

 

[scottcaddy]

Agree with oz, you'd only use cruise control in your last gear on highway situations. If you had to brake and/or potentially go down a gear on a big hill, you'd turn it off.

Oz, Toni looks like a little fairy. Too cute.

mine auto-offs if I tap the brake.

Scott

 

[pickitfarm]

OZ - This is a precious picture. You daughter is adorable.

SCG your duck video made a song come to mind....I can't get no.......waddle traction.......

Perfect video clip.

Rain in the South Carolina Midland/Piedmont line region was excessive. Our chickens officially turned in to ducks. These guys love the rain. They were running in knee deep...(where exactly is the knee of a chicken) water running around. Nothing keeps our birds in the coop. Even during the really cold weather this past week, they came bolting out of the coop to eat and graze.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I had one of the dark duck "moonwalking" but I didn't want to post it because I was laughing so hard and I'm sure someone would post that it was animal cruelty.

How much longer is it going to rain there?

 

[dsqard]

Linda congrats on the "new to you" vehicle. I agree with Arielle (and as SCG's pictures show) don't forget that 4WD can still slide. All four tires on ice can mean a slide. Something my "born and raised in Utah" neighbors seem to forget sometimes.
Oz your daughter is absolutely adorable!

 

[Highcotton]

OZ..love the coop and runs!   Wow.  

I have had three new layers start here this winter.  Love the eggs.  Sell the extras. Money there goes toward feed for my girls.

I do believe that I've only seen chicken feet to eat when I lived in the south, never ate any.  
  I did eat some frog leg though..change of subject here...but I didn't even eat those until I came to work at a place here in Utah.  Guess where the boss was from that had this real different buffet going on?  Georgia!   Do they eat frog there a lot I wonder?   Have to say, I really liked them.

Yes we eat them in Georgia and other states in the South. When I was a teen ager we went out and used a gig to catch them and skinned them and fried the legs. The Bull Frog is the only one that I know of that are large enough to eat. Now Bull frogs are raised for eating. They are a sweet white meat a little more delicate than chicken. According to Mark Twain there were Bull Frogs in Calaveras county California.

 

[Cynthia12]

Linda, congrats on your 4 wheel drive. We have all wheel drive in the cars..which only means they are newer than when they didn't make all wheel drive, which is when I can't remember.

Oz..what a doll, I mean, what a doll!

Yes sadly DiDi, we do have some that forget about slowing down when it's been snowing, and it's been windy. Or raining, cold, windy, or...to just slow down! We used to say..those People that have moved here from California sure don't know how to drive in the winter weather, or those California people that moved here sure do like to drive fast. We are now saying, these Utah people sure have picked up those California people's bad driving habits. lol..have to blame it some one....my DH and I drive pretty normal for old folks. Oh oh..did I just say something there? No really, knock on wood, so far so good here with our driving. We do have a 4 wheel dodge dakota that we take out if we venture out into a storm with thick snow on the roads.

 

[Highcotton]

e That is great!

No more sliding though....Well sliding may be ok, but no more crashes!

You set the cruise control and it maintains the speed changing gears as required. When you tap the brake to stop or slow down it disengages. Most of them have a resume button to set it back to the same speed you were going prior to tapplng the brakes. I you are driving at 35 and the cruise control wa s disengaged at 55 and press resume it may try to get you back to 55 quicker than you expected.

 

[Highcotton]

 Dang...why didn't I think of that then??!!   

Get him to pose. Put him on the Kubota in his pajamas, turn the hose on him and take some pictures. At least you won't be getting wet.