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[mikeyb]

Spagetti was good, the coffee hot, my belly is full, my feet are warm. Time to take a nap.

My dinner prayer.

with my belly to the table
and my back to the wall
I bet by golly I can eat it all.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Newbie question! What does the golden and platinum feather mean under people's username?

It means we are special. Not really, we just paid for them. It allows us to remove the ads on the site and allows for the extra name/phrase just above our avatar pic. Platinum has added benefit of linking your business website in the signature.

 

[RedReiner]

We are on our way home from Olympia with honeysuckle hills, sudsy chick and terror bird. We saw Sadie sue's play, based upon the movie resevoir dogs. She was wonderful! We went out for a nice meal with her sister and mother as well, and I even got a nice hug and kiss from her mother . She was very sweet.

I also received the email about advertising in my posts, which I dont think I've ever done. This is the only thread that I ever post on at BYC, someone here must be complaining . Slinglings is my user name everywhere and always has been, even before my business, so it's not like I'm going to change it now.

I havent been around a whole bunch, whats the deal with advertising in your posts? your forbidden to mention you sell chickens or eggs or something?? someone explain to me please

 

[KMoran]

HELP!!! OK I been gone most of yesterday and most of today... Came home and feed n watered the chicks n noticed two Brabanter chicks bums looked funny... It doesnt look like pasty but but im not sure what it could be... They are both eating, drink and pooping... They are suppose to go to rainmom tomorrow but I dont wanna give her sick babies.. HELP PLEASE...

 

[Slinglings]

We are on our way home from Olympia with honeysuckle hills, sudsy chick and terror bird. We saw Sadie sue's play, based upon the movie resevoir dogs. She was wonderful! We went out for a nice meal with her sister and mother as well, and I even got a nice hug and kiss from her mother . She was very sweet.

I also received the email about advertising in my posts, which I dont think I've ever done. This is the only thread that I ever post on at BYC, someone here must be complaining . Slinglings is my user name everywhere and always has been, even before my business, so it's not like I'm going to change it now.

I havent been around a whole bunch, whats the deal with advertising in your posts? your forbidden to mention you sell chickens or eggs or something?? someone explain to me please

I manufacture and sell babyslings, baby carriers, which can be used also for chickens lol, see my avatar, so I guess they think I'm trying to sell something. It's just part of my identity, who I am since 2001, my whole life right now, so it's natural for me to use that to identify myself. I swear when I joined BYC it was allowed to include links in signatures. Other forums that I belong to that don't allow links in sigs make it impossible to include a link. If you type a URL, it is plain text.

I do sell eggs, and I can understand why linking to that would be a problem, and it would be dumb to advertise here anyway (duh..we all have eggs!) . Demand always is higher than my supply so there is no need to advertise.

 

[mikeyb]

Quote: I manufacture and sell babyslings, baby carriers, which can be used also for chickens lol, see my avatar, so I guess they think I'm trying to sell something. It's just part of my identity, who I am since 2001, my whole life right now, so it's natural for me to use that to identify myself. I swear when I joined BYC it was allowed to include links in signatures. Other forums that I belong to that don't allow links in sigs make it impossible to include a link. If you type a URL, it is plain text.

I do sell eggs, and I can understand why linking to that would be a problem, and it would be dumb to advertise here anyway (duh..we all have eggs!)

. Demand always is higher than my supply so there is no need to advertise.
I don't know what is going on. Maybe it is a new peep who is misguided, perhaps a new moderator. I don't recall anyone advertising their wares on this forum and I'm on this forum daily, all day except when the weather is good, then only in the morning and then in the late afternoon and into the night.
Heck, everybody sells eggs, everybody has eggs. Most of mine go to neighbors as a gift or I barter for a service and like you I don't have enought eggs to really sell. The demand would soon outstrip any production I could manage.
As for peeps that do crafts I really don't care, I love hand made things. Stuff hand made is much more personal then production stuff.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Note: tired people make bad decisions. I've averaged under six hours of sleep a night for the past week, and have been going flat out on projects for two.


I was out finishing up chores and had just put the sheep's oatmeal and apple in his feed pen and then put the eggs (nine, out of eight chickens. Malvina laid two eggs between 7pm last night and 5pm today, and one a day yesterday, Friday, and Thursday) into the oatmeal scoop to take them in the house. The sheep walked calmly up to me so I just let him loose, with a plastic scoop full of eggs in one hand and no crook to enforce my authority in the other.


I'm sure the crescent shapped horn bruises on my right shin will heal by the wedding, right? And I'm sure my right arm will be fine by Thursday, after using it to power him away from me and stay upright while I did so. I outweigh him by a LOT (Jacobs are not big sheep!) but he's got the four wheel drive thing going for him.


I wasn't thinking. He was pissy when I pegged him out, and more pissy when I moved him with his chain exactly long enough not to be able to reach any of the roses, and I had no business letting him loose when I had my left hand full of eggs and my right hand empty of the crook. STUPID. If he had wanted to break my leg instead of just express his displeasure, he could have done so.

O Boy you just squeaked by on that one!

Nah, he doesn't actually hate me or want to do me damage, he just has a bad habit of making his points with his points. Jacobs are used as livestock protection animals, and are pretty dangerous when they're not using their social settings. But I was really, really stupid and doing things really, really wrong- the kind of stupid and wrong which comes from letting fatigue take charge.

 

[robj]

Bjorn was two- did you meet him, I can't remember if you were here before or after I gave him to Christie? Elvis is rising two, and anything but agressive to people; he doesn't like chickens bigger than he is, though. The boy I got from you (who is Prince because "purple rain") is much mellower than Ian ever was. It was funny when I picked him up last night; I had the flashlight hanging around my neck and he turned around and gave me a "oh, you" look and then settled down as if it was his favorite thing to be picked up.

Yesterday when we were transferring Diamond Dave (for his pattern and his proclivity to Jump) from Amanda's box to mine, her younger daughter walked right in front of his beak with her soft little face, and he didn't even look at her.

These things make me happy. I prefer my herd sires to have calm and philosophical temprements and an appreciation for treat foods.

Bjorn was there when Mikayla and I came by he was a neat looking Roo. Prince and the gang over here are pretty easy to handle.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Note: tired people make bad decisions. I've averaged under six hours of sleep a night for the past week, and have been going flat out on projects for two.


I was out finishing up chores and had just put the sheep's oatmeal and apple in his feed pen and then put the eggs (nine, out of eight chickens. Malvina laid two eggs between 7pm last night and 5pm today, and one a day yesterday, Friday, and Thursday) into the oatmeal scoop to take them in the house. The sheep walked calmly up to me so I just let him loose, with a plastic scoop full of eggs in one hand and no crook to enforce my authority in the other.


I'm sure the crescent shapped horn bruises on my right shin will heal by the wedding, right? And I'm sure my right arm will be fine by Thursday, after using it to power him away from me and stay upright while I did so. I outweigh him by a LOT (Jacobs are not big sheep!) but he's got the four wheel drive thing going for him.


I wasn't thinking. He was pissy when I pegged him out, and more pissy when I moved him with his chain exactly long enough not to be able to reach any of the roses, and I had no business letting him loose when I had my left hand full of eggs and my right hand empty of the crook. STUPID. If he had wanted to break my leg instead of just express his displeasure, he could have done so.

O Boy you just squeaked by on that one!

Don't be so hard on yourself, everybody (but me that is) makes mistakes. Thankfully you only have a bruised ego and bruised shin. Excellent excuse for a hot cup of coffee loaded with Swiss Miss mix.

Yeah, but I only got out of that without breaking all the eggs, or worse, because my husband was home, and I don't have that fall back very often. I absolutely have to remain mindful of my own mental and physical limits or I can get myself in deep, deep trouble (insulin dependant diabetic so that trouble can lead to unconsciousness if I'm not aware of that whole set of food/medication/activity/sleep parameters) because there's nobody to notice and pull me up before I'm in trouble.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Mikeyb....DH and I just had excellent cups of coffee and Swiss miss. Yum! We'll be up until the kids wake up but that's ok it was worth it!!