The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

Around here the halogens are about $1.50 compared to 0.25 for a comparable plain incandescent. That's not likely to change even if they get more popular since it just costs more to make halogen.
I think LED is the way to go for light.
There are places that take CFLs for recycling here. Even with the price, money is saved with CFLs within a year.
LEDs last 15-20 years and even more efficient than CFL so over time save a ton of money on both energy and replacement cost. They're wonderful for fixtures that are difficult to get to. I have a few of those like way up over stairways. LEDs are a godsend for those places.



It's 5AM and the local news teams are currently filming looting at a Home Depot shopping center just down the street from me. I'm watching it live. I just saw a row of burning cars.

Did you see the protests in New York, Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC and Salt Lake City?

CC Stay SAFE!!!!!!! Sending prayers your way for you and your family!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Thanks all for the prayers. I'm pretty insulated here. Though mayhem is close, and mine is a well traveled thoroughfare, it's all residential on one side of the road and 1+ acre lots on my side. It's a long way between most houses and I sit well back from the road. Looters don't come here for the same reason that Trick or Treaters don't.

As the owner of the retirement home behind me once said. He had asked if I had chickens because a hawk had dropped one off in their courtyard. I asked how he knew I had chickens. He said, "I didn't, I just knew you had a lot of weird stuff up here so I figured you probably had chickens too."
Carriage house and cellar are always open. No one ever comes up here and thefts are unheard of.
From my area and farther north, many never lock their houses.
I had a nice compressor stolen off of my back patio once at noon while I was inside having lunch. There were a lot of other tools out where I was working. I was sure the thieves would be back so I laid in wait but they never did.
That's it in almost 20 years.

ETA
Living where I do is akin to walking down the street in a crime ridden neighborhood acting like a crazy person. No one messes with you. It's kind of an unknown danger awaiting those who venture.
Our farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere was frequently broken into and we lost some nice guns.

ETA X2
Speaking of being in danger. The coop fairy lives in the city 6 blocks from Grand Ave. where the other out of control demonstrations were. She's hunkered down in the house with pet carriers ready to load chickens and parrots and a dog leash by the front door in case she has to make a hasty retreat.
Her bank and a few adjacent businesses were broken into.
She cancelled a cat behavior appointment tonight. Her blessed clients offered to come in their pickup and get her and her animals so they could stay at their house.
How sweet.
The South Grand district has some of the most amazing ethnic restaurants that were damaged. My son cooks at two of them. They boarded up today and students came out to decorate the plywood.

 

[beverly evans]

Okay Vehve, so how do you use that thing? With skis or do you have to put a board across to stand on? Just curious. : )

 

[beverly evans]

Brahmas are adorable as "yard art", like Silkies. They are sweet and pretty but not great layers or meaties. So I only have bantam Brahmas. They don't eat much and are so cute you really don't care whether they lay or not. This is "Tubby Bubby", my favorite bantam.She spends a lot of time sitting on my shoulder.

 

[hennible]

That must be what my bantam is! Very cute Beverly

 

[superchemicalgirl]

It is a great time to test things out!

I will be testing fertility.

I will join if I can find some white leghorns or some nice meaty something or other (that is NOT crazy cornish) or something that lays amazingly beautiful really dark egg colors.

 

[tntchix]

oh kewl can I see pictures and can you tell me how they have been? production wise and all that?

Am, I almost missed this. I need to switch to my other computer but I will post some recent pics. So far only my Dominique, 2GLW, and 2 Barred Rocks as far as I can be sure. They are 25 weeks old. I get one of each almost every day now. I have 3 other layers too, but not from Privett.

Dom's are particular to me - cuz they wuv me
GLW's pick at my clothing constantly...boo
BR's like to squawk a lot at me. I just pretend it's the egg song sometimes. LOL
Check out my signature at the bottom to see the rest of them.

Did I forget anything?

 

[Wisher1000]

Wisher1000 Did you eat it? If it wasn't full of antibiotics : ) you'd given it for the respiratory infection it had, it would have been fine to eat. The hard part you did; plucking, gutting and cooking is the easy part.

I did not, although I didn't give them any meds at all. Truthfully, I don't think I would have been able to enjoy it after seeing it sick and killing it and then processing it (my first) anyway. I did note that it was quite heavy, though.

I called the man who buys my extra roosters and he came and got them this afternoon. Stupid me, I cried like a baby.

All my dark egg laying Marans, gone. All my lovely blue egg layers, gone. All three of my F1 Olive eggers, gone.

I kept Henrietta, the five year old hen that comes to the back door, alone, every morning. She is in the coop, in a show cage up off the floor. She will stay there for a week or so and if she doesn't get sick, I will keep her. I also have two splash Ameraucanas and a Campine rooster that I got in Ohio. They are in a couple of quarantine pens near where the others were, but I am hoping they are fine. I was planning to let them out this week, but that has changed. I will let the ground rest. My research says that the bacteria that causes Coryza, as well as several other URIs can only live three days, at the most, outside a birds body, so I will leave her off the ground for a couple of weeks, then she will have the whole coop to herself. She will not be able to free range alone, that would make her the only target. The Campines, and two Ameraucana pullets, are in a coop about 250 feet from the coop that had the sick birds.

I will treat all the remaining birds, as a precaution, with antibiotics and clean and sanitize the coops and the roosts, feeders, and waterers, as best I can.

I have in my incubator, 46 eggs, 15 of which I set for Tomtommom who has graciously agreed to let me keep them. I also have 11 eggs on the kitchen counter that will go in on Thursday. Coryza will not transmit through the eggs, so any chicks that hatch should be fine. I will see what hatches, but still may have to start over.

It's been a rough day.

 

[hennible]

Wisher
I'm so sorry... you're not a baby for crying it's sad it's a good thing to cry about... Sorry if that sentence is sort of contradictory...
Fingers crossed for Henrietta.

 

[tntchix]

ok here's a few pics @Amberjem they are kind of old.

The gang



Popccorn's first egg.

eggapalooza! I was so excited that day.