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[Peep_Show]

My thought on egg shipment in bad weather is not to assume everything stays in a heated or non-freezing warehouse. I wouldn't want my eggs sitting on the tarmac, as it were, in the back east weather conditions freezing solid. Just IMHO.

 

[ronott1]

My thought on egg shipment in bad weather is not to assume everything stays in a heated or non-freezing warehouse. I wouldn't want my eggs sitting on the tarmac, as it were, in the back east weather conditions freezing solid. Just IMHO.

USPS has a place on their website that lists safe times and routes for shipping animals. It would be safe for most of the winter for hatching egg to be shipped from Florida to Woodland for example. Shippers should look that up to see if it is safe to ship the eggs.

I have never had a frozen egg here. It has not been cold enough for that to happen for a lot of years. I do not have to use heated water fountains either. If the water has some ice on the top, the chickens can peck trough it or wait until 9 or so for things to "warm up"

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I've never watched cricket, but I tried playing it a bit last summer at a company team building exercise. It was great fun. But baseball/cricket/pesäpallo as a spectator sport... it's a bit dry for my tastes. Basketball has too much back and forth action. American football I've finally started enjoying after making myself watch the superbowl the last 5 years. Soccer is fun during the European Championships or World Cup. And I like the World Cup in hockey too, but oddly enough, pretty much the only sport I really liked following on TV was track and field, when it was the Golden League. After they got rid of that and now have the Diamond League instead, I haven't watched anymore, since it's broadcast on channels you would need to pay for.

I like track and field on TV too, always have. Not a big fan of hockey on TV. I consider watching in person a must.
Never been a big fan of basketball, probably because I was terrible at it. I did love watching my son play though, he was fantastic even though he's even shorter than I.
This last soccer World Cup was my favorite. CR really surprised the world.
Baseball goes by much faster than cricket. Many true fans of the game of baseball appreciate a pitching duel which almost everyone else hates. Most people want home runs. I rather appreciate small ball. Base hits, walks, bunting the runners into scoring position, stolen bases, plays at the plate, etc.. That's action. There's not much action to home runs, they're just long fly balls.

 

[ozexpat]

Since you aren't from Mexico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Columbia, Japan, etc. or from a lonely part of the US outback with nothing but an AM radio for entertainment, I understand your disdain and I forgive you.

It's also the best logo in baseball

Now for some corrections..

Last season the average fast ball was 92mph
In 2013, just eight pitchers hit triple digits.
Aroldis Chapman holds the record for the fastest recorded pitch speed in MLB history, after throwing a 105.1mph fastball against the San Diego Padres in 2010.

The distance from a pitchers mound to home plate is 60'6" but the rear foot of the pitcher is on the mound so he is closer

Cricket
The distance between stumps is 66 feet
The front foot crease for the bowler is 62 feet.
The batter normally stands 4 feet in front of the stumps so 58 feet.
A typical fast delivery has a speed in the range of 137–153 km/h (85–95 mph) - the fastest on record is 100.2mph

A cricket ball, with one circumfrencial stitched seam travels through the air with swing and then normally bounces 2-4 feet in front of the batsmans stance.

I am not saying its a harder game - but its no mean feat to put a cricket ball between fieldsmen, let alone out of the park.




I love winding up fanatics - especially sports fanatics LOL (and paleos)

I actually played three seasons of baseball in my early teens in Sydney. I was shortstop and had the best ERA (see I can even speak the jargon) in the league.

Then I moved to a sheep farm....

 

[bamadude]

Off topic but any1 watch snl last night? There was a funny skit about incubating chicks

 

[bamadude]

Nest spresso is the title

 

[hennible]

Haha... I want one.

Link to the skit

 

[bamadude]

Would be cool

 

[hennible]

Just put it right way up... Unless you want to make some voodoo necklace

 

[ozexpat]

Off topic but any1 watch snl last night? There was a funny skit about incubating chicks

trust you to go off topic and talk about chickens


funny skit!!!!