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[Chickielady]

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OK, I just candled your DUCKLE eggs just now...
and every egg has duckles swimminhg inside !!!

I cannot tell you how much action is going on in each egg !!!!!!!
The duckles are due to pip on the 28th, today is day 16 as we set them on New Years Day...

I have a small doubt about 1 egg, but all the rest are full of swimming duckle babies...hope I do it all correct, I have had various input that waterfowl need more humidity than chickens...etc, and no one can tell me if that is true and I have gone on every site looking....so, mzzzzzT-Hi...you have alot of baby duckles coming on February 1st!!!

I'd love to know their color, ask Illia, but my guess is the black will be dominent, BUT I also have heard the hen determines the color of the baby, and type (condornation), and the Dad duck will determine the sex, and the size and color of the egg in his daughters...so we may have all blacks and may not, ask Illia she knows more about it than I.

 

[Chickielady]

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Not always a fluke...as we reach that age alot of systems let go, like the immunal system, and so cancers can take hold.
This is seen most obviously in people with HIV...one of the things they get is called Karpesci's sarcoma (sp?) I cannot remember the spelling, but anyway it appears in people with HIV as deep purple bruise-like growths of skinn cancser as there is no immunal system to fight the disease off.
We are surrounded by cancer, virus and disease, moulds and bacteria 24/7.
Our immunal systems are on task 24/7 fighting all the crud all around and inside of us.
There is also the fact that elderly folks grew up in a much different world.
They did not wear ear and eye protection and exposed themsolves to many horrible chemicals we know know as carcinogenic.
Even in my lifetime we were subjected to chemicals in the workplace and breathing that has caused many many deaths, mesothelioma by ship builders, welder's lung, coal miners, old people lived damgerously !
And at 80, he has lived a good long life !
Oddly enough, I think, not sure, but more cigarette smokers die or get, bladder and kidney cancer first, quite a big %...not all smokers die of lung cancer, the carcinogenic items in cigarette smoke run through the whole body, and attack what they think is the weakest area in the person.
Weaknessess can be genetic also, a lovely gift passed down in families.
So no it is not too strange for an 80 year old non smoker to have lung cancer.


even considering his life's occupation ?

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Howdy folks! Hope everyone is high and dry! Luckily we are up on a ridge looking down at Snoqualmie Valley and not down in it. Lots of road closures here as the valley turns into a lake. Kids are hoping for a flood day Tuesday.

I think a 3 day weekend is plenty!

We had a productive day moving all the teenager birdies outside into a grow-out coop until they are off of the chick feed and they are all doing well together. Also paired up my lavender/Self-blue cochin rooster with our new black cochin pullet so we can get some split lav babies when she starts laying. We left our new black cochin cockerel in with our blue cochin pullet to get more solid black/blue babies. The only birds I haven't moved around that still need moving are my Orps/Ameraucana's that chickielady brought up in August. I want to seperate out the Blue Orp pullet and pair her with the Black Orp cockerel, and leave the two Lav Orp cockerels with my two black pullets and my one Lav pullet. And I might be getting another Lav pullet from Mark/Whidbey next month which would be awesome. Then I can have one trio hatching out lavender babies and one trio hatching out split black and then a pair together for solid black & blue baby Orps. All very exciting stuff! Although I don't expect the Orp's to be ready to lay for several more months yet, so no big hurry to move them around.

 

[cackleberrylinda]

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Yes, up on top of the roof get someone you can trust who is licensed, insured to go finish the job if you bought it this way.
If you had your roof done call the people up you paid and remind them you paid them to do a complete job.
Get their butt back out there and finish the job.

Yes, I bought it this way. sigh... well, when the market turns around, heh, i will for sure get it done. Promise I will not do it myself. I am working on getting my cobwebs down. That's enough for me.

 

[justbugged]

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My son and nephew got a firewood permit for the Wenatchee National Forest. There is access off of Hwy 410, just before Greenwater. I believe that you can get the permit here in Enumclaw. The office is just east of Safeway and McDonalds.

The problem with getting firewood on this side of the hills is that it is almost always very wet. The Wenatchee NF is a massive area of public lands. With a permit you could access forest in Eastern Washington. That would give you much dryer wood. I don't know of anything closer to Bonney Lake, where you could harvest wood.

 

[cheryl98117]

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My son and nephew got a firewood permit for the Wenatchee National Forest. There is access off of Hwy 410, just before Greenwater. I believe that you can get the permit here in Enumclaw. The office is just east of Safeway and McDonalds.

The problem with getting firewood on this side of the hills is that it is almost always very wet. The Wenatchee NF is a massive area of public lands. With a permit you could access forest in Eastern Washington. That would give you much dryer wood. I don't know of anything closer to Bonney Lake, where you could harvest wood.

Was informed by a state patrol officer, that any wood that is 5 feet or less away from the edge of the road is fair game. Just don't trespass past the 5 foot invisable line. I'm not sure how acurate that is for your area, but thats how it is here in Kitsap county.

 

[Ogress]

We're on generator power up here, and it sounds like the roof is gonna blow off, but at least the rain has stopped for the moment. Half an hour ago, it was pouring and windy.

 

[cackleberrylinda]

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Note to self - You know you're addicted when you can actually name all the beans there.

Anyone else get some crazy thunder last night? I had to shut off everything in a jiffy due to some loud thunder, following 3 seconds behind by some blindingly bright lightning.

I thought I saw lightning when I was laying in bed, but didn't hear thunder so thought perhaps I was having flashbacks... Heh Heh

 

[Ogress]

I just read that the Snoqualmie River has crested above Snoqualmie Falls in Snoqualmie so that is good news for us up here, maybe the streets will start draining. For those of you below the falls, it won't crest until 10 a.m. Monday, stage III floods, far less water than the January 09 floods (38,890 cfs now vs 82,900 cfs). My kids will be disappointed. I doubt schools will be closed Tuesday. Carnation and Duvall might be closed because below the falls currently route 202 is closed between Snoqualmie and Fall City, and the traffic circle at the intersection of 202 and 203 is flooded. The river was up to the banks there when we had dinner at the Roadhouse on Friday. Since Fall City Elementary is in our district, I guess there is a chance we can be closed. I hope not. I want to get the little boogers out of the house before they kill each other.

 

[Ogress]

.... and the rain is back with a vengence.