The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

Congrats on your bees Scg.

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG maybe introduce your turkey to thousands of bees. sorry my bad

 

[microchick]

We missed out on a air show when we went down to Virginia beach last year. Went to a airplane museum and they had a air show the weekend before. The museum was awesome anyway though, multiple hangers tons of old planes and they actually still fly all of them. Largest collection of old warbirds in the world they said. Pretty amazing the older ones that look like they are made out of metal are actually painted canvas over top of wood framework, with little bitty cables controlling the flaps. Those that flew those things in battle had some serious cajones. They also restore old planes there.
View attachment 1383640 View attachment 1383641 View attachment 1383642 View attachment 1383643 This one ^ they said was the actual plane that was involved in the worst naval disaster in history and worst shark attack in history. The Japanese sunk a battle ship and hundreds of people were stranded in the ocean being ate by sharks for days. The guy flying the plane spotted them and disobeyed orders, landed the plane in the ocean so they could climb on to it until help arrived. Guess they made a movie about it also. Just looked it up 'USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage' with Nicolas Cage. View attachment 1383644 View attachment 1383645 View attachment 1383647 View attachment 1383649 View attachment 1383668 View attachment 1383671

is all I can say. DH and I LOVE aircraft. We spent an afternoon in the Air museum in Ohio one summer years ago. Wish we could have spent longer.

I was out in the coop just now taking some pictures. Some things you just have to immortalize in photos.

This is my two year old OEGB hen named Sparkle. Sparkle got her name when she was about 6 weeks old and squeezed through the chain link, encountering the hot wire. It didn't seem to hurt her although I have to admit, I did smell some scorched feathers when I finally caught her, thus the name Sparkle. She is a sweet natured, very spoiled little girl. If I don't pay attention to her and she is on the roost, she will reach down and peck me on the head like she's saying 'Hey! Stupid! Look up!'

She gets like this every breeding season. No feather loss on her back. Just on her neck and head.

Looks like I'm starting my own new breed of birds. Naked Necked Amish Bantams.

Then there is Little S***. Yes, that is his name, all 2.5 pounds of him. He broke into the Buff O/Welsummer pen one day, beat up all the big roosters and claimed all the hens as his own. Mind you he's too small to get the job done but that doesn't stop him from trying.

The first time I saw him after the rooster coup, where all the 8 pounds roosters were huddled in a corner fearing for their lives, I looked at him, all raggedy like he looks now and said "you little ****!" and it stuck. DH asked me if I was really going to name him that and I assured him I was. The little guy earned the title!

This picture doesn't show all the damage. He has very few wing feathers left. I plan to put him in with my bantam hens eventually. He's very sweet natured with humans, tough as nails and very protective of the hens who are twice his size or more. When he is in full feather, he is black with brown and black barred hackle and saddle feathers. Very pretty.

 

[pennyJo1960]

@chickadoodles get thyself to the hospital please plurisy is nothing to mess with

 

[ronott1]

is all I can say. DH and I LOVE aircraft. We spent an afternoon in the Air museum in Ohio one summer years ago. Wish we could have spent longer.

I was out in the coop just now taking some pictures. Some things you just have to immortalize in photos.

This is my two year old OEGB hen named Sparkle. Sparkle got her name when she was about 6 weeks old and squeezed through the chain link, encountering the hot wire. It didn't seem to hurt her although I have to admit, I did smell some scorched feathers when I finally caught her, thus the name Sparkle. She is a sweet natured, very spoiled little girl. If I don't pay attention to her and she is on the roost, she will reach down and peck me on the head like she's saying 'Hey! Stupid! Look up!'
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She gets like this every breeding season. No feather loss on her back. Just on her neck and head.

Looks like I'm starting my own new breed of birds. Naked Necked Amish Bantams.

Then there is Little S***. Yes, that is his name, all 2.5 pounds of him. He broke into the Buff O/Welsummer pen one day, beat up all the big roosters and claimed all the hens as his own. Mind you he's too small to get the job done but that doesn't stop him from trying.

The first time I saw him after the rooster coup, where all the 8 pounds roosters were huddled in a corner fearing for their lives, I looked at him, all raggedy like he looks now and said "you little ****!" and it stuck. DH asked me if I was really going to name him that and I assured him I was. The little guy earned the title!View attachment 1383813

This picture doesn't show all the damage. He has very few wing feathers left. I plan to put him in with my bantam hens eventually. He's very sweet natured with humans, tough as nails and very protective of the hens who are twice his size or more. When he is in full feather, he is black with brown and black barred hackle and saddle feathers. Very pretty.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

 

[Alaskan]

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do you order fresh every spring? Or did you manage to overwinter?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

The first two years I overwintered and I got cocky and made the mistake of saying I didnt understand why people were losing hives left and right.

Now I lose 50 to 100% of my hives every winter.

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG are all the bees supposed to be sitting at the ready on top of the box? Makes me think of an aircraft carrier and they are ready to launch.

 

[bruceha2000]

@chickadoodles get thyself to the hospital please plurisy is nothing to mess with

Yeah, what Penny said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you think about it, aviation history in the first part of the 20th century was pretty amazing. The Wright brother's had the first successful heavier than air sustained and controlled flight in 1903. 13 years later biplanes were flying in WWI originally for recon. They figured out how to put guns on them synchronized with the prop (doesn't do to shoot your own propeller to bits) and yeah, painted canvas over wood frame. The first "bombers" were the guy in the back seat dropping a small bomb by hand.

War ends in 1918. A mere 21 years later WWII starts up and the difference in the planes is staggering. @Beer can had a P51-D Mustang pictured, I watched a documentary on them just last night. First long range fighter bomber, it made protecting the heavy bombers all the way to Berlin and back possible. Before the P51-D the bombers were at the mercy of the Luftwaffe and they knew exactly when the fighters would turn back. They "sat" just outside the fighter "there AND back" range and took on the bombers. The P51-Ds were delivered to England in the winter of '43-'44, war ended in Europe in May 1945. Both the British and Germans had early jet fighters starting mid '44, the German craft were countered by destroying them on the ground or on takeoff or landing. I'm sure the war would have gone differently had they been flying a couple of years earlier.

Can't have anything but real admiration for the guys who flew those planes.