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[TerrorBird]

Quote: I have NO idea! Wouldn't mind if the crows had been better controlled as well... Nasty buggers!
Crows are very smart, lovely birds. They just take advantage of situations that a lot of people don't want them in and so they get a bad rap. When I was going to UW, I gave the crows in a specific area handfuls of peanuts. Whenever they'd see me, the call would go out and there would be ten crows running after me down the sidewalk.

Out here in the country, they make great hawk alarms. We always listen for the crows when they're caring for their young. We'd actually like to draw them in more (they're shy), but we don't want the squirrels eating all of the peanuts.

 

[mikeyb]

May I offer some advice?

No glass is "half full" or "half empty". The real problem is "too much glass"
I am the last of the family I was born into. No siblings, no parents, no aunts or uncles from either side and no known cousins are left.
That "old gang of mine" is no longer alive either, all are gone.
Life is either too short or in some cases too long depending only on your perspective.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

May I offer some advice?

No glass is "half full" or "half empty". The real problem is "too much glass"
I am the last of the family I was born into. No siblings, no parents, no aunts or uncles from either side and no known cousins are left.
That "old gang of mine" is no longer alive either, all are gone.
Life is either too short or in some cases too long depending only on your perspective.

 

[hennotrooster]

Crows are very smart, lovely birds. They just take advantage of situations that a lot of people don't want them in and so they get a bad rap. When I was going to UW, I gave the crows in a specific area handfuls of peanuts. Whenever they'd see me, the call would go out and there would be ten crows running after me down the sidewalk.

Out here in the country, they make great hawk alarms. We always listen for the crows when they're caring for their young. We'd actually like to draw them in more (they're shy), but we don't want the squirrels eating all of the peanuts.

I live in the High Desert in CA and where I am we have Ravens twice the size of Crows....I toss out all the meat cuttings and bones, none of it goes into the trash to rot. I make a clicking sound and they come and sit on the phone lines and in the trees until they are ready to inspect. I love to watch them inspect the meat, poke at it and then pick pieces up and drop them as if they are making sure it is not alive. When I lived in the city I would put set it in the street ( lived in a double cull-de-sac no traffic) early in the morning and they would come and get breakfast, there we had crows. The only parts they would not take were the innards of the chicken. They are fun to watch especially when they have their young with them. Sorry for intruding on your site.

 

[VelvettFog]

I have a 22 yr old daughter who will not speak with me.

I wish, more than anything, to be told why I am being punished.

 

[ChickAudie]

Crows are very smart, lovely birds. They just take advantage of situations that a lot of people don't want them in and so they get a bad rap. When I was going to UW, I gave the crows in a specific area handfuls of peanuts. Whenever they'd see me, the call would go out and there would be ten crows running after me down the sidewalk.

Out here in the country, they make great hawk alarms. We always listen for the crows when they're caring for their young. We'd actually like to draw them in more (they're shy), but we don't want the squirrels eating all of the peanuts.

That sounds like a horror movie TerrorBird!!!! A bunch of crows flying towards you???

 

[Chickielady]

I have a 22 yr old daughter who will not speak with me.

I wish, more than anything, to be told why I am being punished.

 

[TerrorBird]

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Flying toward me and cawing loudly. I'd have crow-clouds sometimes. It was cool.

 

[ChickAudie]

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That's the thing about family, when they're no longer with us, there is so much we wish we would have said, and plenty we wish we didn't.

I have a 22 yr old daughter who will not speak with me.

I wish, more than anything, to be told why I am being punished.

IMHO - Girls get a notion that everything that could go wrong in a family is always the dad's fault. Sometimes, daddy's girls will be so blinded by their dad, and look at him through eyes that he could never do any wrong. When they get older, and the goggles wear off a bit, and maybe something didn't work out with their mom, that's when it becomes dad's fault....even when it isn't. Dad's are our hero's and when they make mistakes (like we all do) it's harder for us to swallow, because fo so long, they could do no wrong....

if that makes any sense....?

 

[Chickielady]

We had so much fun Saturday seeing everyone again & meeting new folks !
And missed Mikey~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have safely tucked away a jar of pickled jalup-penos and yellow B&B squash that I will delight with next batch of Nachos !!!!!!!

Missed not seeing Cloverleaf & pettec63 this show...not the same without them !!!

DH and I are in a whirlwind of activity with the building inspector (final framing inspection) and moving on to finsih the elctrical and get the peck system started (Plumbing) and insulation in the trusses (it is COLD in there!) and later this week.

Einstein goes to CA again for a few days, so I gotta get groceries & feed stocked up.....
I'll try to get on here every evening though !!!!!!!!!!!

I got so many cool presents at the show !!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to Dawn & Linda !!!

Great to see Toni & Kayla !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honeysuckle & Hallerlake !!!!!!!!
And all the hugs we got !!
Get more hugs at a chicken show than I do for the rest of the year !!!