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[Hangtown Farms]

Oh and in case anyone is following my weather saga... this is tonight's joy:

* HAZARD TYPES... SNOW... SLEET... AND FREEZING RAIN.
* ACCUMULATIONS... SNOW ACCUMULATION OF UP TO 2 INCHES... ALONG WITH UP TO A TENTH OF AN INCH OF ICE.

well you do live in Maine don't you lol

 

[ronott1]

I'm already scheming about how to get these eggs back to the US to hatch.

Most work through Canada.

 

[chickisoup]

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Got ya beat this morning. Winter storm warning today, possible 8-12" with a chance of freezing rain just before dark then blizzard tomorrow. Oh, and then the

Polar Vortex returns!!!! Do I win????

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Animals follow streams and or green ways. There is a Green way in Davis, California that goes through the middle of down. Quite a while ago, a Mt. Lion was spotted in the middle of town. That part of Town also has a huge Raccoon problem. I sold some older hens to a couple that left the lid open on their coop on a very hot day. They next morning three of their 4 hens were dead.

Raccoons and hawks are the primary wild predators here. Somebody in one of the burbs captured a cougar on a game cam in their backyard last year and black bears are getting more common in across southern MO (luckily none spotted on my side of the city yet. I see fox and coyotes all the time.
Some in my chicken group have had weasel and skunk attacks. I've lost some to opossums as well.
~~Dogs (neighbors' and ferals) are a big problem too.

us aussies get up to speed pretty fast

"Men at Work"
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Daughter's quote of the day.
"~I am the only girl in an 8 bed dorm. Ugh. Man stench."

She said she's going to bed early to get up at 5AM for a flight to Pakse, Laos - rather than a 20 hour bus ride.
After a few days there, she's going to Don Det, among the 4000 islands of southern Laos with freshwater dolphins and waterfalls.
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I have a rant of the day if anyone wants to read. Today's topic is inconsiderate slobs called litterbugs.
My property is the shape of a long wedge with the narrowest part fronting a busy 2 lane blacktop. There's only about 100 foot of road frontage. I usually pick up trash every day. But with the snow, I hadn't been able to do so. This morning (trash day) I spent about 20 minutes in that small strip of land, picking up other people's c**p that they don't want to keep in their car long enough to throw into their own trashcan.
I've come to a conclusion that those who trash the environment and other people's property are the same ones that put trash into their own bodies. Predominant in the debris are cigarette butts, fast food bags, half sandwiches, french fries, ketchup packets, potato chip and skittle bags, soda cans, liquor bottles, beer cans, scratch off & lottery tickets and dirty Kleenexes. Luckily there hasn't been used condoms or hypodermic needles - yet.
When did we stop teaching people not to litter?
I've never been a smoker but have been tolerant of them most of my life. I've lost the ability to be tolerant. After all, when did you ever see a car that didn't have an ashtray? IT"S ON YOUR DASHBOARD, NOT IN MY FRONT YARD. (Don't get me started on my experiences with the cigarette butt thing. Story for another day.)
On 2 occasions, I've caught the perpetrators. Once I was standing in my driveway when out the window of a car came a McDonalds bag full of debris. I jumped in the car, grabbed the bag as I pulled onto the road and there's a red light about 1.5 miles away where the road tees. He was sitting at the light. I jumped out, knocked on his window and handed him the bag. I said, "what makes you think I want to throw your trash away? Keep this in your car and throw it into your own trashcan."

On another occasion, I lived at the top of a hill overlooking a winding road between two lakes. I was waiting for a salesperson to come sell me some new windows. I was standing on the deck, watched a car come down the road and to my surprise, just as she was passing behind my house, out the window came 2 fast food bags full of trash that went all over the pristine road.
I sat through an hour of her presentation, seething the entire time, not mentioning what I saw. When she asked for the sale, I said "I really can't bring myself to buy anything from such an inconsiderate person." She looked incredulous. I took her to the back door and showed her the trash all over the road. She denied that she did it. I said, "is that your blue Chevrolet out front?" She said, "yes". I said, I was standing on the deck when that car, with someone that looked just like you, drove past throwing those bags out.
Now get your a88 out of my house and you better stop on your way and pick up every last bit."

 

[Wisher1000]

Don't eat it before we see it

Oh, don't worry! This baby is going in the incubator on Saturday. My plan is to hatch every SC egg I get this year. If I can get 100 chicks, I will cull down to 10 breeders and be able to really make some progress next year. I am so excited!

who laid the tiny egg left side back

That is one of the Marans that laid the two mauve-ish eggs on the right in the basket pic. //she laid that one the same day I got the Campine egg. I put it there for the boys to see. They usually want to fry them!

 

[kingfrodo]

@Wisher1000 I know I should know this but can you tell me again when my fab 10 were born?

I have started a journal and I'm having to go back and put dates and such in it.

My DD who is 15 calls them her heifers.

They are getting so big. I'll try to go out and snap so pix.

 

[kingfrodo]

~~~~Here are the baby heifer's as my daughter calls them. Only two so far have names, Jackie O and Lucy.



This is Jackie O. They move so fast it's hard to get good shots.





The one with the white tip on her wing is Lucy.


here they are hiding b/c Duke sounded the alarm (there was a hawk flying above). They are in enclosed runs but Duke is such a good rooster.

here he is.

My hubby says he is my new boyfriend b/c I'm so in love with him.

and lastly here is the chicken jungle gym my hubby made. He is still working on our big new pen


the bottom legs were small trees he cut higher up and the horizontal curved part is the middle of one of the trees. he notched the legs and then bolted the middle on so it won't fall off. My hubby is so good to me. He says a happy chicken is a healthy chicken. I couldn't agree more. I hit the jackpot with that man!

 

[Pozees]

Wisher, I am ridiculously happy for you! I know how long and hard you have worked to reach this point, and look forward to seeing your SC chicks as they hatch this year

Kingfrodo, that jungle gym is awesome, I love it!

ChickenCanoe, perhap the local law enforcement folks would be interested in writing a whole bunch of litter tickets? Around here it's at least a $100 fine. Maybe they could watch the area for a while and write some tickets, or maybe the local roads/streets people would like to post a sign saying what the fine for littering is?

Oh - and cars no longer come with ashtrays unless you order the car with the "smoker package" - I am a smoker and always keep one of those ashtrays you buy at the parts store in a cup holder in my car. Around these parts, if law enforcement sees you toss a butt out of the car you get pulled over and fined BIG - huge fire hazard in a very dry area.

 

[ronott1]

Wisher, I am ridiculously happy for you! I know how long and hard you have worked to reach this point, and look forward to seeing your SC chicks as they hatch this year

Kingfrodo, that jungle gym is awesome, I love it!

ChickenCanoe, perhap the local law enforcement folks would be interested in writing a whole bunch of litter tickets? Around here it's at least a $100 fine. Maybe they could watch the area for a while and write some tickets, or maybe the local roads/streets people would like to post a sign saying what the fine for littering is?

Oh - and cars no longer come with ashtrays unless you order the car with the "smoker package" - I am a smoker and always keep one of those ashtrays you buy at the parts store in a cup holder in my car. Around these parts, if law enforcement sees you toss a butt out of the car you get pulled over and fined BIG - huge fire hazard in a very dry area.

And Cigarette lighters are called power ports--no lighter either....Our SUV has three of them. Gotta keep all those Smart devices powered up!

 

[Wisher1000]

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Most def going to try to hatch it and all the others laid this year! I can get the two halves of the first hatched egg bronzed, that would commemorate two things - first egg and first hatch! Great idea, Bunny!