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[hallerlake]

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Their frontal cortex, which controls impulse control isn't hardwired until their early twenties. Could some of this be because of his father's rejection? How is that going?

 

[Chickielady]

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Last time I had one of those, the group of chickens stand on it, it opens, and they proceed to "beak" out all the feed all around on the ground anyways.
The lid is open when they are eating, and so it was as if I had a shoe box of feed on the ground for them, and they kicked it out all over with their beaks.
Back to square one.

I don't have that problem, it has the lip all around it, and so they eat and move the food around but I don't lose any...maybe you had a different design then I do. I know mine is much different then if they were standing and eating out of a shoe box...

Must be, I had a metal one..and was like a shoe box with a lid that opened....the birds made a heck of a mess out of it, and it was outrageously expensive.
Even a lip...if it has a hole bigger than their heads, they sweep feed out, messy birds.
I think the young ones are the messiest.

 

[hallerlake]

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Starting with miscellaneous chicks is a good way to go. There are simply too many breeds to narrow down too soon.

 

[jbear]

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you WANT DUCKS YOU WANT DUCKS YOU WANT DUCKS...

They fly, you either have to clip some flights, or enclose them. They require patient neighbors.. they love to 'call' to you whenever they see you.. the girls are especially .. umm.. loud. mine have a 'pond' that is actually one of those plastic toboggan sleds? they can't get in and out of a kiddie pool unless you use some sort of steps/ramp for them. And because they quickly make a mud pie out of their water anyway, it is just the right amount to dump and refill daily.

And they do require you to admire them and tell them how cute their widdle fat cheeks are.

They also require slugs. hahahah!

 

[hallerlake]

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I've got bunches of it as well, and my arms and legs always have cuts, especially when I take the riding mower through the orchard and don't notice the shorter vines that get around my ankles until I've driven through them and they tighten up and rip my legs open! I now wear gaitors when I mow! The hens LOVE the berries on them, so I am leaving up the vines that grow along the fence-line to feed the hens and hopefully deter the unwelcome dogs and wildlife. My dogs now do great with the chickens! I left them all out free-ranging from dawn to whenever the hens decided to head back home ... sometime between 5&6. I'm feeling better about the wildlife situation. Shasta is getting HUGE, I don't think there's much that will tangle with her.

Oow! I wear my knee high gum boots to mow...and usually shorts.
But always watching for rocks & logs in the grass, I often get a long string of blackberries snag my arms or right across the top of the head....I hate them!
Goats will not eat the big berry canes, but if they can, they nibble off the leaves.
Then the canes on the outside where the goats eat, will die off..and get rock hard.
You still have to cut the canes back.
Mine are growing on a steep slop too...very hard to get at them with any machinery..spray has killed them pretty good but I think they will win the war.

Parts of our yard had eight foot tall blackberries. I hired a crew to get them out. I knew I wasn't up to it. I'm still mowing down sprouts after three growing seasons. Come August, I may break down and use herbicide on what's still coming up.

 

[ultasol]

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I am going next time for sure, but with the unexpected death in the family & then dad drove up here (he did not like being alone in the house) it has been very hecktic & distracting to say the least...

i was surprised there were like on only 4 call ducks...

They OBVIOUSLY needed my crew of butterscotches to liven up Call Duck Alley.. aw well, they will be there in October.. loud and in charge. heehee!

Yeah no kidding about the call ducks! And with the waterfowl judges there! What was the beef? And where were Rick and Donna?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Well so much for the duckies. DW informed me NO DUCKS!!

She informed me that the coop I got from Craigs list and I am setting up and that I am making an enclosed run using the netting I got from Craigs. Will be for HER RIR Bantams !!!

 

[hallerlake]

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My older son was a handful as a teenager; bipolar, ADHD, and peanut allergies that sent him home after lunch a couple of times a month. He dropped out of several high schools. Eventually, one of his slacker friends convinced him he was too smart to not get his GED and go to college, for which I will always be grateful. At twenty eight, he's a sweet, considerate kid with a steady job, who visits his grandparents regularly. My younger son was actually expelled from his middle school. Now he's working on a masters in computer science. They do grow out of it.

 

[ultasol]

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Nope, don't think she even came. I'm beginning to wonder if she's scared of the competition

Believe me, it's fun even if you don't win. I don't always place, but I always learn. I'm hauling my wyandottes to MT in hopes of getting some guidance from Gary Overton re: how to improve from where I'm at. You get to meet such cool people who have raised breeds you love for a long time, in my case sometimes longer than I've been alive. The youth are a lot of fun too... I sold a bird and gave a bird to a girl who I remember bought birds from me last Spring at Stevenson, she's grown a lot!

...and if you're the crazy type, there's always a bit of crazy in the evenings! Even though I went a week on very little sleep in order to get all my schoolwork done AND bathe/blowdry 27 birds (which wouldn't have happened without my lovely Mr. Sol), I had so much fun with the fellow exhibitors that I slept very little while there and still felt full of warm and fuzzies at the end of the weekend.

I shared a room with a bunch of gals, and it was like a big sleepover. I *loved* it. Seriously,.. you gotta make it next time chickie. I know you had your hands overfull this time, but wow.... I hope you come to the fall show. They're trying to get me to be building superintendent, but I don't think it's gonna work with my school schedule.

There were some cool people up from CA that I hadn't met before, and Lewis Farms was up from NV..

 

[KMHunter]

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Their frontal cortex, which controls impulse control isn't hardwired until their early twenties. Could some of this be because of his father's rejection? How is that going?

Sneaking on while the boss is busy, Shhhhhh! My DS is having a really hard time because of his father and he is in couseling but that just started last week. I don't think he has talked to his dad since he found out that his dad changed the locks at their house and DS's key wouldn't work anymore. I noticed that the biggest behavior change started after that. But he is an impulsive kid to begin with. He knows what he did was wrong, and is grounded at home too, through the weekend. But I did tell him that if he gets in trouble again he will be grounded for a month! Although I think that might be hardest on me!