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[superchemicalgirl]

Exactly, Bruce.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

you've got me smiling already Misty

Thanks it's really contagious just like's

 

[pennyJo1960]

eating cold pizza on a break crazy white dog showed us the weak spot on our fence from new improved coop my ameracauna is in brooding eggs she jumped on the nesting box bump out and went over bending chicken wire easy as could be so Hardware cloth is now
above but connected making a solid 8 ft wire there

 

[ronott1]

eating cold pizza on a break crazy white dog showed us the weak spot on our fence from new improved coop my ameracauna is in brooding eggs she jumped on the nesting box bump out and went over bending chicken wire easy as could be so Hardware cloth is now
above but connected making a solid 8 ft wire there

Oh no!

 

[MrsMistyReal]

eating cold pizza on a break crazy white dog showed us the weak spot on our fence from new improved coop my ameracauna is in brooding eggs she jumped on the nesting box bump out and went over bending chicken wire easy as could be so Hardware cloth is now
above but connected making a solid 8 ft wire there

Someone needs a

 

[pennyJo1960]

thanks think I will add tramadol and lidocane also

 

[Cynthia12]

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What a horrible packing job!

Shipper should be taken out and flogged.....

No. Actually he packed really really well! A box in a box..he used bubble wrap postal packages to cushion the sides, plus he had those big bubble wrap on the bottom. Postal handling did this. We just never know how the sorting facilities handle them. This box went through 2 of them. They will use big trucks to dump loads of boxes on top of each other at times. Pretty sad.

 

[ronott1]

No. Actually he packed really really well! A box in a box..he used bubble wrap postal packages to cushion the sides, plus he had those big bubble wrap on the bottom. Postal handling did this. We just never know how the sorting facilities handle them. This box went through 2 of them. They will use big trucks to dump loads of boxes on top of each other at times. Pretty sad.

We posted about this before?

the bubbles around the eggs Putting them into an egg carton puts them too close to each other with too much pressure on them.

Part of it is correct - the double boxing. But not the egg carton part

 

[microchick]

I have yet to try to hatch shipped eggs.

Reading nightmares about hatching failures sometimes from really expensive shipped eggs here on BYC is primarily why.

Miserable hot day here today 94 degrees with heat indexes in the 101+ degree range. We are still trying to finish up our wood for this winter. Today the chain saw decided it wanted the day off and we decided that if we had to work, so did it. It took the combined efforts of both DH and myself to get that beast roaring to life. We have a big Echo 590 that hasn't caused us a bit of trouble until it decided it didn't want to start today. DH finally changed the sparkplug in it, I pulled the starter while he gave the trigger a tug and it roared into life. I could have kissed it. Sounds like it's heading for a tune up once the harvest is over.

In the mean time, it's dry. Dry Drier Driest. Ground is cracking. Grass is brown. Garden is drying up. My tomato plants are starting to bear fruit but the tomatoes look stunted in spite of me watering them. I just told DH that the chickens love them. They aren't even decent Roma size.I told my husband that this spring and summer have been a cluster....ummmmm dysfunction. I'm going to get my coop cleaning done in time to do fall cleaning. Blackberry crop is nill this year, Fruit trees are looking good but with the dry weather the fruit once again looks small.

Can we just get a do over starting about April?

On a brighter note, my broody is on lock down...still in the feed room with a fan turned on her. She's a trooper. I hope her 5 eggs hatch without problems.

 

[getaclue]

micro, you are talking about how your tomatoes are too dry, and our tomatoes, on the other hand, are suffering from too much rain. In the past 2 months, we've only had 2 days that it didn't rain. The vegetables get mushy, rotten spots before they get ripe when they're too wet. Mosquitoes here have been horrid too.