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[broodytood]

OK...I did it! I just bought my first eggs!

Is it normal to have these butterflies in my stomach? I feel like I'm at the top of a roller-coaster that is getting ready to make that first big dive down 3 stories! I'm sooo excited yet scared. Just want to do every thing right. They are local so hopefully they won't get too cold before they get here.

Hope the snow doesn't cause a problem for the PO.

 

[blueducklings]

OK this is the cue for me to book a flight & leave town...to an island on the equator!
BALI sounds pretty good.
I'll kidnap a few ducks while I'm there. Just stuff my bags with a few indian runners. New blood line.

I'll even settle for eggs.
Yes. I'll bring a "lunch box" so it will look like my lunch for the flight.

And I can put them in my bra later!

Ok do we have a BYC attorney ready to post bail for me??
I'll maks a run through the TSA lines.

 

[Ogress]

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We have about a foot and a half on the ground here now,but it is difficult to tell because we are getting some crazy wind gusts that blow the snow from the roofs and the trees, and pile it in big drifts elsewhere.

The chickens are confused by their new house. They slept in the nest boxes and laid their eggs on the floor!

Our cat is wandering from door to door demanding they each be opened to check the weather. It's too cold on this side of the house, but maybe the other side will be warmer!

 

[broodytood]

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I think snow sickness is setting in!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK people please forgive me for this BUT it is always worth saying. IF you are going to use a portable generator. DO NOT RUN IT IN THE HOUSE, GARAGE, OR BUILDING where your animals live. Set the generator OUTSIDE !!! Most are made in such a way that some rain won't bother them. You can always put a piece of tin over the top to keep rain / snow off. Do not put a box around / over the gen. It requires lots of fresh air for cooling.
Also Just another heads up. With the snow keep an eye on your runs if you have anything like netting, chicken wire etc. The weight of the snow can tear it down. Now I know these will take quite a bit of weight. But you never know how much snow may fall overnight. This is why I keep my runs cleaned off during the day and make sure to do it at last egg check. Then If we have gotten a lot of snow during the eve I will go clean before bed. I find it very easy to clean them by just shaking the covering and the snow will fall off but if you let it build up it's not so easy.

 

[broodytood]

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Can't call ya mother hen... So thanks for the advice Papa Roo!

 

[Breshcandra]

5 to 6 inches of snow here and its still comming down

 

[pongoid]

An interesting article for those of you who like domestication genetics.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2...als/ratliff-text?source=link_fb20110223taming

The exercise of dominion over plants and animals is arguably the most consequential event in human history. Along with cultivated agriculture, the ability to raise and manage domesticated fauna—of which wolves were likely the first, but chickens, cattle, and other food species the most important—altered the human diet, paving the way for settlements and eventually nation-states to flourish. By putting humans in close contact with animals, domestication also created vectors for the diseases that shaped society.

Yet the process by which it all happened has remained stubbornly impenetrable. Animal bones and stone carvings can sometimes shed light on the when and where each species came to live side by side with humans. More difficult to untangle is the how. Did a few curious boar creep closer to human populations, feeding off their garbage and with each successive generation becoming a little more a part of our diet? Did humans capture red jungle fowl, the ancestor of the modern chicken, straight from the wild—or did the fowl make the first approach? Out of 148 large mammal species on Earth, why have no more than 15 ever been domesticated? Why have we been able to tame and breed horses for thousands of years, but never their close relative the zebra, despite numerous attempts?

 

[SadieSue]

Grrr... Just started snowing big, fat, fluffy flakes here in University Place. I did NOT ask for this. Who is responsible for this mess?

 

[SadieSue]

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That's exciting! Let me say I'm grateful to all of you for hatching eggs so that I can live vicariously through you without the worry.

So what kind of eggs did you buy and where did you buy them from?