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[chickadoodles]

Thanks Chickisoup and CC. They are turkey poults and I need to be able to handle them or they will not allow me to when they are older and that would mean problems. I don't want to get attacked by a turkey they are to big!

 

[ozexpat]

Corn is supposed to be "As High as an Elephants Eye"? 

But that looks like it's climbing right up to the sky!

Lol

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Maybe this is my 'Jack and the beanstalk' moment.

 

[Highcotton]

I read an article about wind chill last winter. Apparently, we have been calculating it all wrong for a long time--based on some studies in the arctic in the early 1900s. It has been recalculated and lowered as an effect.

This caused problems because People for many years, for some a lifetime, have been basing winter clothing on wind chill temps. Now what might have been -20 with wind chill is -5 with wind chill thus making people wear too thin of a coat.

The best thing to do is go by what the temperature is. Real feel and wind chill is actually dependent on the person somewhat. Some are sensitive to either or both extremes so a temperature of 80 can kill someone while others are fine up to 100. Same for cold temps.

Not to worry, if the windchill gets into the negative numbers I will be inside near some sort of warm appliance.

 

[ronott1]

Not to worry, if the windchill gets into the negative numbers I will be inside near some sort of warm appliance.

Me too!

The record low here is 17 above zero...

 

[ozexpat]

Not to worry, if the windchill gets into the negative numbers I will be inside near some sort of warm appliance.

If the wind chill gets to negative numbers (even celcius numbers) I will be a whole lot closer to the equator.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Me too!

The record low here is 17 above zero...

It hit 19 below at my house last winter. It trimmed some cocks combs. The rooster I have left was the only one not frostbitten. They seem much more resistant when young even though his comb was full size.
29 above is the average January temp here. Minus 40 was the record for Missouri set in 1905.
It was in the low 100s during the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. That's a 143 degree swing in 7 months.

If the wind chill gets to negative numbers (even celcius numbers) I will be a whole lot closer to the equator.

If it stays above 90 very long, I'll be close to the equator too, just at high elevation. Like on the slopes of a Costa Rican volcano.

 

[apteryx]

Sounds pretty complex.

This picture was from about a week or so ago. The corn still isn't fruiting.

It does look more like a forage corn, similar to those grown for silage, than one grown for the kernals.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Broodie pros HELP! Why won't the hen let me hold the poults they are a week old now. When I try to put my hand down near any of them or her she puffs up like an attack dog!
I want to hold them so they get used to me....

Like someone else suggested... sit in their pen. Also, something you can do is take in a treat that you know the mama really likes and making sure the pieces are small enough for the poults, feed it from your hand. You may not be able to hold them today but be patient and it should happen fairly soon.

How about just a gift certificate for a weekly massage, with aromatherapy.

She's doing her job. I don't mess with them but I don't have a breed that would like me holding them even if I held them every day.

I have a plan to install 4 extremely loud horns under my car pointing forward, backward and to both sides. When I'm in traffic at a stoplight adjacent to someone with such a loud radio that I can't hear my own, I'll have the opportunity to drown out their boom box.

Do I sound like a cranky old road Nazi?

I don't mean to sound judgmental even though I'm sure it does but I have a lot of Ukrainian and Russian friends. Most would agree that their countrymen do careless and stupid things even before this incident.

Yep, she's doing her job. I had a broody about 2 months ago or so that had never been broody before. She didn't give any sign of coming into broodiness like all my others do. No clucking, no puffing up and screeching at every bird that looks at her as well as myself. One day this bird was walking around with the others and eating and drinking just like normal and the next day she was on the nest and didn't get off. If I tried to collect eggs from her she would tear chunks out of my hand. I had to hold her up and then leave the coop quickly, as she would come after me. As if that wasn't bad enough, after the chicks hatched she earned the name "Ninja" on the first day! My gosh! What a whirlwind! Like a tasmanian devil she was! For the first couple of weeks, every time I came into her space to feed/water she was throwing shavings around and hitting the cage walls with her feet. She didn't even pay attention that she was throwing chicks with the shavings! Nut job! Anyway, her name is now Ninja.

Be thankful you can enter the pen!

I can't stand those boom boxes where you cannot even hear yourself think! So glad I left the "city" many years ago. You don't sound like a road nazi to me. It would be payback, or just desserts, whatever you want to call it. However, in the name of all fairness, maybe you could make your horn system so that you could select which horn to blow. It wouldn't be very nice to blow them anywhere other than directly at the instigators.

Absolutely.

Catastrophe, especially in the area of civilian aviation needs rapid unfettered access no matter where it is.

Unless one wants to declare themselves uncivilized.

I'm not defending them in the least but I wonder if part of the reason is that with that many dead all of a sudden, they had to arrange some facilities to take them to. Certainly the coroner's office couldn't handle that many all at once?

 

[LindaB220]

Grand prize for the most chatty should be a walker!!! A really COOL walker with racing stripes and streamers on the handlebars and a REALLY REALLY annoying horn!

Gotta love it. Back in the day. Late 60's my daddy put me a ahooga horn on my little white sports car. Not an expensive car but I felt like I owned the earth. I'd go by people I knew and ahooga at them.