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[CarolynF]

I'm having a hoot with the Fermented Feed mentioned a few days ago. You'd think it was meal worms the way my girls go after it! I don't know if they eat any less of their pellets, but they sure gobble down the fermented version. Some time I should weigh their feed morning and night just to find out how much they actually eat. But I'm too busy right now.

Work continues on enlarging their pen, especially this weekend when we might be having some dry days. We got a pickup load of sand today.... $7.50 for a half yard at Hard Rock Inc in Poulsbo. I like that! Tomorrow we'll be working to get the wire up, then the doors moved. The girls have been very curious about what's happening and take every possible chance to help move dirt! It's pretty funny to watch their reaction when the landscape of their pen and run changes. Silly girls.

Nighty Nite All. Hope your weekend is good!

 

[LaughingFeather]

I'm having a hoot with the Fermented Feed mentioned a few days ago. You'd think it was meal worms the way my girls go after it! I don't know if they eat any less of their pellets, but they sure gobble down the fermented version. Some time I should weigh their feed morning and night just to find out how much they actually eat. But I'm too busy right now.

Work continues on enlarging their pen, especially this weekend when we might be having some dry days. We got a pickup load of sand today.... $7.50 for a half yard at Hard Rock Inc in Poulsbo. I like that! Tomorrow we'll be working to get the wire up, then the doors moved. The girls have been very curious about what's happening and take every possible chance to help move dirt! It's pretty funny to watch their reaction when the landscape of their pen and run changes. Silly girls.

Nighty Nite All. Hope your weekend is good!

yes, it was funny to watch my girls reaction to outside frozen water today. I live on a hill and I swear it is going to be flat one of these days the way the girls move earth.

 

[mikeyb]

Time to go. Hope everybody has a sunny weekend.

 

[Ogress]

JAVA Security Issues!!!



If you haven't already heard the warnings, there is a REALLY SERIOUS security issue for anyone running JAVA, which is most of us. If you get hit the consequences can be huge. DH and I have spent the evening researching this and feel it is not a scam/scare. There are many reputable agencies issuing warnings. You really need to disable JAVA right away!



Here is a link that will give you more information on how to deal with it.



Here is a different link that tells some of the consequences if you get hit.



Google "JAVA Vulnerability" and you'll see a lot more.



Don't put this off!!

I was hit by it abbout 2 years ago - left my computer on when I went to pick the kids up from school, and when I got home there were literally thousands of porn sites open on my computer, and I had never in my life even visited such a site. I shut the computer down re booted and it would automatically go back on the web and open those sites again without me even touching anything and again thousands of sites would open and ransomware demanding money to fix the problem. We bought new copies of 7 different antivirus software (all the major ones and a few others), nothing could find the thing. Norton, which I had installed 360 just days before being hit, charged $100 per hour to remotely control the computer, and they could not clean it. I took it to 2 other people and finally someone was able to clean up most of it. He said it had so infiltrated everything on my computer that he thought there were traces left in seldom used documents of mine and was afraid it could pop up again. Computer was most of the way cleaned but never worked well again. No more porn pops up but other random annoying stuff happens, like often everything my mouse passes over opens up even though I click on nothing. It became so frustrating that DH bought me a new computer and we tried to clean my personal files and thought we had checked them all before I moved them over, but still, a few months ago, I started having similar mouse control problems on this computer. My screen view shrinks to 12% at random times a dozen or more times a day. Sometimes I can get it back to normal in a minute, sometimes it takes hours. Makes my computer very annoying to use, so I seldom post anymore because I know I can't get through even this post without it happening. I'm good about updating my antivirus software (we found free versions generally work better and are more up-to-date than the expensive ones). I do full scans several times per week. DH will not let me put JAVA on the computer, he thinks I will again have issues much larger than the shrinking screen and mouse control issues if I do. I could have bought a nice computer with all the $ I spent trying to fix my old laptop (which was only a few months old when I was hit), but I needed all my photo files as I had no back-up, so I am afraid I contaminated this machine.

 

[Ogress]

Why is it that onlly my Barnevelders will step on snow? All the other chickens treat it like hot lava.

 

[justbugged]

Quote: When I read what justbugged said, I thought she meant it was hard for him to kill the bunny mentally, emotionally, whatever. Not necessarily technically difficult.
Yep that's what I was trying to say. The rabbit carcass looks too much like a nasty little dog, for the guys comfort. I had to find a friend that liked rabbit, because DH refuses to eat rabbit. Someday I just want to try rabbit, that has been cook correctly. So far I have eaten it burned to charcoal, and covered in a bad cheese sauce.

 

[Hinotori]

[COLOR=FF0000]JAVA Security Issues!!![/COLOR]



If you haven't already heard the warnings, there is a REALLY SERIOUS security issue for anyone running JAVA, which is most of us. If you get hit the consequences can be huge. DH and I have spent the evening researching this and feel it is not a scam/scare. There are many reputable agencies issuing warnings. You really need to disable JAVA right away!



Here is a link that will give you more information on how to deal with it.



Here is a different link that tells some of the consequences if you get hit.



Google "JAVA Vulnerability" and you'll see a lot more.



[COLOR=FF0000]Don't put this off!![/COLOR]

Yes, Hubby already went into mine and turned it off. This is a serious one.

We didn't even install Java when we got the new comp up and running at the beginning of December. I did double check both Internet Explorer and Chrome. Apparently they've known about this since last summer.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote:
We didn't even install Java when we got the new comp up and running at the beginning of December. I did double check both Internet Explorer and Chrome.

Apparently they've known about this since last summer.
My son installed Linux and Ubuntu. Do I even have Java? I don't know.

 

[Totalcolour]

Yep that's what I was trying to say. The rabbit carcass looks too much like a nasty little dog, for the guys comfort. I had to find a friend that liked rabbit, because DH refuses to eat rabbit. Someday I just want to try rabbit, that has been cook correctly. So far I have eaten it burned to charcoal, and covered in a bad cheese sauce.

Properly cooked, Rabbit is simply divine. Anything one can do with chicken, one can do with rabbit (minus crispy skin!). My favourite is to coat it with flour and brown it in hot oil, then let it slow cook with wine and leeks and mushrooms in a dutch oven. It is crispy on the outside, and juicy and tender. That's on Monday night! Can't imagine putting cheese sauce on it though

 

[TerrorBird]

Why is it that onlly my Barnevelders will step on snow? All the other chickens treat it like hot lava.

My Mary must have Barnevelder in her background, because last winter she wandered around in the snow!

I'm just kidding about that. I have no idea what her background is like. I got her from the Unwanted sector at Del's eight years ago. She's a sweetheart, very chatty and likes to be hugged. She's got random tiny flecks of black in her tail that have no particular shape or pattern. She's medium sized and lays a cream-colored egg that is almost as big as my BR and BSL eggs. When she was laying (stopped just last year!) she'd have a tendency to get eggbound every now and then, so we'd bring her in the house and submerge her bottom in a pan of very warm water for twenty minutes. It worked every time. She'd often just lay her egg in the yard because she didn't want to bother sitting in a nest box. Here's a picture from about eight years ago.