The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

Dude, even a grumpy, chronically sleep-deprived nutcase like me can figure that one out!

I think most of the people on this thread also know that a lot of the teasing was not directed at Tara, too. This is a very busy thread; it has been one of the top 10 threads many times in the last few weeks. It nearly rivals the hatch-along threads, which frequently run several pages per day (especially when a contest is running). Ron is called the "Daily Digest Guru" because he has frequently done daily summations of the posts on hatch-alongs. We old folks are a yakky bunch!

Until someone brings some dry coffeecake to shut the oldtimers up

Or taffy, that stuff will mess up your dentures for sure.

 

[Wisher1000]

It warms my heart to log in and see that the Old Folks have racked up 50, 60, 75, posts since I was on just yesterday! I feel that my intention of this thread, as written on Post 1, has exceeded my greatest aspirations.

Post #1 - Made 2 years ago, yesterday!!!

7/28/12 at 11:51am
Thread Starter

• Wisher1000
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• Bama Biddy
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• Location: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
• Joined: 3/2010
• Posts: 5,165
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I was searching for a thread that I could relate to. I noticed that the really active threads were the kids' threads. That's fine, but I really enjoy chatting with people my age (old.) Then I noticed the active state threads, but MY state's thread is hit or miss. I love the hatch-alongs and the swaps but those can be sporadic.

I really wanted to find a thread where anything and everything (within BYC rules) can be thrown out and other middle aged folks could relax and enjoy each others company. I want to have a thread where we can keep up with old BYC friends, and make new ones.

If that appeals to you, regardless of your age, please subscribe!

I have really enjoyed this thread and the people on it. It has more than satisfied the need I was trying to fulfill, for me, and hopefully for y'all as well. Keep it up, Old Folks, we get better with age and familiarity. I send an affectionate

to all of you, and hope you know that I consider each of you a dear friend. Please feel free to invite anyone you feel would fit in here and whom you want the rest of us to meet. I may have started this thread, but it belongs to all of us.

Carry on.............

 

[drumstick diva]

Wisher I love this thread AND Tara's posts are my favorite. I hope both go on forever

 

[chickisoup]

Quote: Thanks Ron for the explain. Just finally able to get back on! Couldn't load this morning, kept getting redirect not allowed errors, etc. finally had to clear my cache, run a cleaner, yada yada, whew!!!!
Oh, and now the BYC emoticons won't work! (insert falling down face first emoticon here)

 

[chickisoup]

It warms my heart to log in and see that the Old Folks have racked up 50, 60, 75, posts since I was on just yesterday! I feel that my intention of this thread, as written on Post 1, has exceeded my greatest aspirations.

Post #1 - Made 2 years ago, yesterday!!!

7/28/12 at 11:51am
Thread Starter

• Wisher1000
• 
• Bama Biddy
• 

• Location: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
• Joined: 3/2010
• Posts: 5,165
• 
  
• online

I was searching for a thread that I could relate to. I noticed that the really active threads were the kids' threads. That's fine, but I really enjoy chatting with people my age (old.) Then I noticed the active state threads, but MY state's thread is hit or miss. I love the hatch-alongs and the swaps but those can be sporadic.

I really wanted to find a thread where anything and everything (within BYC rules) can be thrown out and other middle aged folks could relax and enjoy each others company. I want to have a thread where we can keep up with old BYC friends, and make new ones.

If that appeals to you, regardless of your age, please subscribe!

I have really enjoyed this thread and the people on it. It has more than satisfied the need I was trying to fulfill, for me, and hopefully for y'all as well. Keep it up, Old Folks, we get better with age and familiarity. I send an affectionate

to all of you, and hope you know that I consider each of you a dear friend. Please feel free to invite anyone you feel would fit in here and whom you want the rest of us to meet. I may have started this thread, but it belongs to all of us.

Carry on.............
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, I am really glad I stumbled across this thread. Thank you for creating it.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote:

• Wisher1000
• 
• Bama Biddy
• 

• Location: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
• Joined: 3/2010
• Posts: 5,165
• 
  
• online

I was searching for a thread that I could relate to. I noticed that the really active threads were the kids' threads. That's fine, but I really enjoy chatting with people my age (old.) Then I noticed the active state threads, but MY state's thread is hit or miss. I love the hatch-alongs and the swaps but those can be sporadic.

I really wanted to find a thread where anything and everything (within BYC rules) can be thrown out and other middle aged folks could relax and enjoy each others company. I want to have a thread where we can keep up with old BYC friends, and make new ones.

If that appeals to you, regardless of your age, please subscribe!

I have really enjoyed this thread and the people on it. It has more than satisfied the need I was trying to fulfill, for me, and hopefully for y'all as well. Keep it up, Old Folks, we get better with age and familiarity. I send an affectionate

to all of you, and hope you know that I consider each of you a dear friend. Please feel free to invite anyone you feel would fit in here and whom you want the rest of us to meet. I may have started this thread, but it belongs to all of us.

Carry on.............
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, I am really glad I stumbled across this thread. Thank you for creating it.
x2 I have enjoyed it so much even on my bipolar days when all I can do is read the posts, I enjoy them very much! Thank you Wisher

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Yeah, DH made certain I knew that I had to only consider women in my search for a roommate. Spouses can be such party poopers.

What doesn't he understand about us being from the 'Old Folks Home'?

Haha, well that would go along with their behavior now. The gamier built birds have a lot more character, though I like Wilma the Maran's personality.

Another bird you may be able to get that would do well in Finland is the Jaer from Norway. I've had quite a few and they're about the best bird I've found for both extreme cold and extreme heat.

Got 2 silkies and 2 polish today. Im not very excited but oh well. They are starting to grow on me a little tho

Now you'll have to be on constant hawk watch. They'll never see them coming. I used to have several varieties of polish. A lot of my friends have silkies.

I stopped at the garlic place on the way to get the chicks. A little old 200 yr old lady answered the door. I was hoping to learn more about growing garlic. I asked her how shes grows it. She said "in dirt". I asked her if it was better growing from seeds or cloves. She asked, "are u gonna buy something or not?" I asked how much does each bulb cost. She said "usually $3 but i will give u 3 for $12". I said ok because her weiner dog was trying to eat me and my chicks were chirping.

Love that story.

Even down here in zone 8B? Shreveport.

You should be able to grow a lot of those cool season crops through your winter.

How'd I do?

I even made the crust.

That's so pretty it could even turn me into a pie eater.

... This is an old farmers' way of saying "git serious or git off-a my porch; I got better things to do wit' my time than stand here jawin' wit' you." If he'd been dumb enough to stand there and keep talking, the price would have continued to rise . . . .

...

A lot of the old farmers in MO like to visit and jaw endlessly before they get around to business.
Maybe not the same with strangers though.

Just wanted to show off my nearly 6 month old Chanteclers they are so sweet I just love them. One pullet has faught with the hen in the next pen trying to steel her poults so she can be their momma. She keeps calling to the poults and sits by the fence. lol

Nice. A friend of mine in Wisconsin breeds some nice white Chanteclers at Black Horse Hill. Her original stock came from Canada.

https://www.facebook.com/BlackhorseHill
http://blackhorsehillfarm.blogspot.com/

I think she has a new website.

Really toilet? That makes your most important stuff list?

There is the great big outdoors!

Our house rule is, when you open the front door you need to aim to the left or the right, try your best to not hit the welcome mat.

No, don't turn the welcome mat into a sheet of ice. You'd be on your butt before you got out the door.

Oooooh!

squash seef!!!!!
How did you know our front door is on the North side of the house?

You're so far north the prevailing winds probably come out of the south.

A cat got into our brooder house last night and decimated the chicks that were hatched from the eggs I took over last trip. Just heads were eaten as the hole was not big enough to get chick through the hole.

These were my most precous birds. All but one Polish, five Legbars and all but 3 New Hampshires.

This is one of the few days since this adventure began that I ever felt like throwing in the towel.

Shooting is not an option and traps are not available
...

I know the' throw in the towel feeling'. Losing 3/4 of one of the biggest flocks in the US of an extremely rare breed was brutal

I'd figure out a way of trapping cats or anything else killing birds.

Can you use one of these?

http://www.fntpost.com/Categories/T...uding+Conibear)/Oneida+Victor+Conibear+Traps/

a # 160 or 220 would take a cat out

yeah. i guess I can try and get some legbar eggs by mid August for my trip. These Legbars were very special eggs from a very good byc friend and breeder. It has taken a year to coordinate it. I lost the previous legbars from her to coryza. I now vaccinate all birds and have not had a death from illness for a long while. I cant bring myself to tell her I lost her chicks.

The Polish will set me back a year.

Its not like I can just say oh well and throw a few more eggs in the bator.

what a bummer

getting started is such a long process

By the way, if you've built your coop and run 5 meters from your bedroom window and like to sleep with the window open, don't fall asleep on the couch and then crawl to bed without locking up the chickens into the insulated coop. I've been listening to that rooster crow since 4 in the morning.

I had to install a baby monitor so I could hear the roosters in the house.

that is just horrible and heart-breaking Oz

Not that long ago I had a "talk" with a "person" who had recently bought the place down the road about keeping her enormous "kitty" closer to home and tried to tell me cats don't bother chickens

. After a long, polite and fruitless attempt to convince her otherwise I finally gave up and just informed her that next time I hope kitty likes car rides and I will let them know at the "kitty jail" who they need to call to come bail out kitty (aka pay for license and hots) kitty was not seen again.

Cats don't get a pass here.

I had to tell her that about 4 of her cages were out of water. It was about 90 degrees f. She replied, "yeah there isnt an easy way to water chickens and chuckled". I gave the chicks a bath when we got em home

A friend/acquaintance of mine that I taught how to process chickens started a large scale operation raising broilers at a community farm. Another friend and I went to look at her setup. It was about 100 F out and most of the water founts were empty. We were told that she had just checked on them and filled then but she didn't have them level and all the water leaked out. We refilled them and fixed the problem but it was not a pretty picture.

Can any1 guess what these are? If u guess right, i will give u a free round trip to wherever u are...

I knew what they were but I haven't had time to post since Saturday.

msg is very effective

tylenol takes longer. 18-36 hrs. I would prefer shooting but its a long stretch in orange overalls for discharging a fire arm

Not my color.

...
My pekin duck has been laying on rotten eggs for a few weeks now. She won't let me near them to get them. When she gets off the nest and I go in to get them she comes racing back (in a cute, waddling kind of way) and tries to bite me (in a not cute kind of way). I thought broodies were smart enough to figure this out? All the eggs under her look pretty rotten to me, they're all dark and it smells godawful in that coop. Every few days one explodes. At least the rotten egg smell is masking the skunk smell.

I wonder what will be going through her head when they blow up on her butt.

Not having to deal with mud is a benefit of drought. Trying to maintain the 20% reduction in water use is very tough though.

It is now a $500.00 fine for watering more than two days a week. (I am sneaking in a third day though....)

I hope the weather pattern don't continue for your sake. I am however, enjoying one of the coolest summers I can remember.

Alright you guys!

Just cause it's written up for a long coffee break with a nice read

don't mean you have to partake in any of it...not if'n you don't wanna....don't hafta step in the doo doo poo, eh?




Maybe it IS time for pigs to fly off to paradise, eh?

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

We enjoy.

X2! I love ALL your posts BTW! Maybe it's just because I enjoy learning of your successes with living in the north since, although I am in the U.S., my latitude is very close to yours. I enjoy your stories and the pics of all your animals are wonderful. Plz keep posting just the way you are!!!

This forum is great to get a feel for all the climates.

You could have all the neighbors come over and do the deed after dark. It would stick around longer that way.

No, it's not time.

This is the first opportunity I've had all day today to get on here and I had six pages to catch up on!

Tara, your posts are very enjoyable and informative. I love all that you do up there. I love the pictures you share. Your place is so very beautiful and I can tell you put a lot of work into it and take a lot of pride in it... nothing wrong with that sort of pride.

Keep on postin' gal. You'd be missed terribly if you stopped.

I'm amazed how much Canuck has going on and still keeps it so clean.

However, it's probably easier to keep up with growth than it is down here.

 

[chickadoodles]

CC Thanks for the websites for your friend I will check it out as I may need another line to bring some yellow into their legs.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

If you PM me I can give you her phone #.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Joke of the day

EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD, I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEAR OF SOMEONE UNDER MY BED AT NIGHT. SO I WENT TO A SHRINK AND TOLD HIM: I've got problems. Every time I go to bed I think there's somebody under It. I'm scared. I think I'm going crazy.

Just put yourself in my hands for one year, said the shrink. Come talk to me three times a week and we should be able to get rid of those fears.
How much do you charge...
Eighty dollars per visit, replied the doctor.
I'll sleep on it, I said.
Six months later the doctor met me on the street. Why didn't you come to see me about those fears you were having? He asked.
Well, Eighty bucks a visit, three times a week for a year, is $12,480.00. A bartender cured me for $10.00. I was so happy to have saved all that money that I went and bought me a new pickup truck.
Is that so, he said, with a bit of an attitude, and how, may I ask, did a Bartender cure you?
He told me to cut the legs off the bed. Ain't nobody under there now.


FORGET THE SHRINKS..
HAVE A DRINK & TALK TO A BARTENDER!
IT'S ALWAYS BETTER TO GET A SECOND OPINION