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[ChickenCanoe]

I got 4 new breeds of turkey eggs today! I am so eggcited!

Super.
Did I miss what breeds they are?

I would consider it an omen that the jar isn't meant to be opened. I couldn't stomach jalapenos anyway.

Jalapenos are pretty mild compared to some others I raise. I think serranos, cayennes and habaneros are hotter. Not to mention ghosts.

Thanks Cynthia.
It was a good day. Glad its over.

I swore off drinking the day after my birthday.

He says as he pops a beer.

In my four years of raising chickens I have never had one go broody. Now I have three. Tiana, Skye and Nugget. It's been two days and they haven't budged. Could the sight of all the chicks (who are loving their outdoor area) have set them off?

I once had 8 out of 10 pullets go broody together in a community nest. I usually get about 5 bouts of broodiness a year. None so far this year. I think it may be due to using plastic nest pads. I moved a broody once that was sitting on eggs on excelsior nest pads. I moved her and the eggs to another building with plastic pads and she wouldn't sit on them. I swapped the pad with excelsior and she started setting again.

I fed my wife quesadias with home made chili lime beef for brunch. For dinner she wanted hot wings.

A blissfull day

Sounds like my wife.
Gotta have that kick. Sometimes I light up eating some of her milder cuisine like vegetable angel hair pasta.

chickadoodles, yes mice are destructive, to say the least. When I first posted on here about having them, because the field across the road became an apartment complex, so the mice, and rats relocated onto all the surrounding properties, I was embarrassed. I had never had any problems with them, and thought others might think it was because I was not tending my coop properly. I tried several methods to get them under control, but failed. I ended up going to the Do-It-Yourself pest control place, and getting baits. Just so you know, the ones I chose do a very good job eliminating them, AND they are not a 3rd. party toxin, which means that anything that might eat one of the poisoned rodents will not itself be poisoned. I put them in a couple bait stations near the outside of the coop, then a few more further out to draw the rodents away from the coop. I've had a lot of success with these baits, and feel fairly comfortable using them, since they are not a 3rd. party toxin.

Mice have eaten up wires in the riding mower and several cars and trucks.

I tried one of those--the 5 gallon bucket did not work with the huge rats here.

Thank goodness I don't have rats. The bucket works wonders on mice. More effective than a barn cat and it doesn't kill songbirds or lizards.

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As usual, beautiful pictures dsqard.


SCG, congrats on the ducklings.

 

[drumstick diva]

DSGARD there is a major omission in your hiking trail narration, you didn't mention what flavors of ice cream you and SCG had. I read it through twice to see if I missed it but, duh, no. You just never told us.Oy!!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

DSGARD there is a major omission in your hiking trail narration, you didn't mention what flavors of ice cream you and SCG had. I read it through twice to see if I missed it but, duh, no. You just never told us.Oy!!

The day DiDi made me hike 14 miles in the heat we went down to the lodge and got soft serve. I got chocolate, she got chocolate and vanilla twist. It was the best thing I had ever tasted.

 

[chickadoodles]

I think I need an intervention. I had 48 eggs in the incubator and pulled one after candling this morning then I set another 85 for the Zodiac HAL to hatch under a waxing moon in Scorpio.
Only 45 of the latter are mine. At Saturday's poultry swap, an old farmer friend that has authored poultry and swine books had 40 eggs he asked me to incubate for him. His are full. They are from a Slow Food project of White Wyandottes and New Hampshires. I'll take the chicks back to him at the next swap so I'll probably have to brood them 2 weeks unless I want to take an extra trip up there.
I don't have enough turner space so I put mine in cartons and I'll turn them by hand every time I go into the cellar for a week till the first 48 come out.

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I am adding Silver Narragansett, Dark Narragansett, Narragansett, Standard Bronze.

 

[dsqard]

The day DiDi made me hike 14 miles in the heat we went down to the lodge and got soft serve. I got chocolate, she got chocolate and vanilla twist. It was the best thing I had ever tasted.

Diva don't let her lie to you, she drug me all over that park that day. I had no options.
She wasn't lying about the ice cream though. It was the best I have had in a long time. I am sure it was seasoned with ravenous hunger though.

 

[drumstick diva]

Okay, thank you now I can settle back. Chocolate soft serve is good, chocolate/vanilla twist is even better. I get that whenever we go to Jason's Deli. Now I can totally enjoy your hike. Beautiful scenery. I can walk a very long while/time but ONLY on flat ground - the slightest incline and the body won't go. Never could when I was much younger either.

I'd probably fall off the side of a speed bump and suffer irreparable damage. I'm not ready to chance that.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Okay, thank you now I can settle back. Chocolate soft serve is good, chocolate/vanilla twist is even better. I get that whenever we go to Jason's Deli. Now I can totally enjoy your hike. Beautiful scenery. I can walk a very long while/time but ONLY on flat ground - the slightest incline and the body won't go. Never could when I was much younger either.

I'd probably fall off the side of a speed bump and suffer irreparable damage. I'm not ready to chance that.

Diva I have to admit I am a total klutz and gravitate naturally towards just launching myself over the edge for no apparent reason. I think I made Dsqard a little nervous a few times, and myself nervous a few times, too. I'm not so good with up, it really makes me winded, but my body can take it. My body doesn't like down so much... bad on my knees.

 

[dsqard]

There were a couple of times I was a bit worried about miss Jody. I saw her stumble toward the edge at a particularly bad place to do that (not that there were many good places to stumble at) and once she looked like she was going to go right over the edge because it "sort of" looked like the path went that way. Most of the time she was pretty good about not scaring me. I also agree on the down part being hard on my knees. I would do it all over again (well maybe chose a better day to hike the narrows) though.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

sounds like you two had a fabulous time! The photos are beautiful!

 

[perchie.girl]

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Doesnt work for rats... they are too smart...

What I want is one or two of these:
warning video shows Dogs killing rats and ripping them up.

Rat Terriers....
Jack Russell


deb