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[Beer can]

I just tried it again...that's what it does...goes all digital blur.

I use this one on my phone. Pretty easy to use but I still can't get one to work for a avatar.

 

[Beer can]

Chicken butt.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Back from Walmart but did my birds cleaning this AM.. guess what you cannot buy a rain jacket in the women's department have to go into camping just the jacket is 28.95 jacket with pants 19.99 I bought both may want the pants for winter when rain goes sideways... gave up bought the medium to large so I may have a sweatshirt under it. still will not go out and add the new shipping crate to the new coop although we did buy bricks yesterday so we may level them do not want to play in the rain

 

[ronott1]

I'm slowly losing faith in the human race. I understand mistakes can be made but c'mon...how can so many mistakes be made all the time. Anyone who gets work done have such setbacks due to mistakes. It happens to us all the time.
If I was the boss, ok I am a boss...but of a company, I'd seriously have to maim someone.
Of course there are times the boss should be maimed as well for failing to ensure employees are trained properly.
Yes, I am being grumpy and judgmental.

As far as the gas...the nice thing with renos is everything that's faulty/worn (or almost) gets replaced and it's good as gold again. Or at least you hope.

Hoping everything goes better from here, Ron.

Me too!

We have not had a kitchen sink since Saturday and will not have one for the foreseeable future...

 

[ronott1]

Back from Walmart but did my birds cleaning this AM.. guess what you cannot buy a rain jacket in the women's department have to go into camping just the jacket is 28.95 jacket with pants 19.99 I bought both may want the pants for winter when rain goes sideways... gave up bought the medium to large so I may have a sweatshirt under it. still will not go out and add the new shipping crate to the new coop although we did buy bricks yesterday so we may level them do not want to play in the rain

You need to wait until it is late summer to get a coat in the women's section. Clothes are a season off which is weird!

 

[microchick]

@Wickedchicken6, my husband is definitely a keeper. Took me 52 years to find him, like the saying goes, before you find your handsome prince, you have to kiss a LOT of frogs. He's definitely my handsome prince.

I just came in from finally getting the main coop cleaned, moving the bantam hens in with the standard sized hens, pulling the three standard sized roosters from the main flock and swapping them out with bantam roosters. As per usual my 11 eggs that I hatched in Feb turned out out to be something like 7 cockerels and 4 pullets. Geesh talk about bad odds. The four that Maddy hatched out three weeks ago look to be maybe 3 pullets and one little cockerel who likes to bully the girls around. Then there is Lucky, Faith and Hope. which I think all three are pullets. Dolly is sitting on 7 eggs. Think pullets everyone. I was shocked to see that after my wildfire experience with Marek's which isn't finished yet, I am down to 22 standard sized birds having started at 32. Gads, that is painful. One of my big Welsummer Buff O cross roosters that I pulled from the hens today was developing a cyanotic comb after going a couple of rounds with the Bantam I had just transferred over. When I caught him and checked him over, I discovered his breast muscle is wasting and his comb was cold to the touch where it blue. Definitely circulatory, probably heart so I know which one will not be here by winter probably. He had recovered once he got settled down so maybe moving him out of the stress of breeding and being Alpha will lengthen his life a bit.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch house, Doc continues to crow non stop. Hope that is a good sign.

Hey, @penny1960! Que Pasa!?

 

[pennyJo1960]

had to grab peanut butter sandwich here so back at ya Que Pasa back

 

[perchie.girl]

What are Jack booters?

The orignal term was "Jack Booted Thug" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jack booted thug
""Jack booted thugs stormed in, broke my furniture, kicked my dog, and took my still.""

Watch them keets the way they run... If another keet is in the way he/she will get booted right over....

deb

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Well, off the current topic...I came in a few hours ago to check food and water in the brooder and found one of the 5 day old chicks nearly dead. The brooder is comfortable as the other chicks are spread out nicely chirping those sweet content chirps so not sure what happened. No pasty butts on the one or any of the others. So I held him a few mins to watch for any symptoms and he looked like he had a siezure then died. And of couse right at that moment the 7ry old and 3 yrold grands walked in. The oldest, girl, asked if he died, I told her the truth, and the younger one,a boy, said "I'm sorry nonni, that's sad". Then they both offered to help me burry him. It was sad and heartwarming at the same time. So we dug a little hole under a tree and they put some moss in and we laid him in and they said goodbye.
It was hard for me not to cry. But they handled it like such little champs, I had to hold it together and hug and thank them.
Just when you think they can be such little buggers, they pull on your heartstrings once again.

 

[pennyJo1960]

they are very talented that way