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[Chickielady]

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I'll pay a little more at Walgreen's to avoid having to go to Walmart!
You should have seen the looks on the faces of the young, cute, skinny girls at Del's when I wore my woven straw gardening hat in there!(the one I have to wear in the sun now cause I have cancer brewing on my ears from too many years of ball caps and no sun block) I forgot that I was embarrassed cause the reaction I got out of them was so funny. They were visibly mortified for me because of the hat! It was hilarious!
People need to learn to lighten up about fashion! The person inside the clothes(as long as they ARE inside their clothes) is more important than what is on the outside!

It's not the hat. It's the angle. I have gotten compliments on Mr. H's bucket hat he got for hiking because I wear it at a rakish angle. My sister is a milliner. it's my duty to encourage the wearing of hats. I have a wardrobe of them.

Oh I LOVE hats!
What else can 'set' off an outfit but a hat, and yes the angle is all important, except in the case of my Grunden, which, at an angle looks perfectly idiotic, and worse, it will not shed water as it is designed to do, and I look ridiculous in it, and the bib fisherman's pants that go with it.
But they do the job!!

 

[Chickielady]

Off to make breakfast & then work..bye!!

 

[hallerlake]

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I watched the video 3X and tried 3X to sex the runner ducklings...and I COULD NOT "spread" or "pull downward" the vent..It was hard to even FIND the vent on most.
DH says "it is true!
A ducks a** is watertight after all!!!"

Maybe you will have better luck with the goslings!
They are beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It takes lots of practice, apparently. I tried last night and couldn't really tell.

I'm going to try again tonight and then they'll probably be too old and I'll have to wait until their personalities come out to give a best guess. I am guessing just based on how they have been that I have two boys and one girl....but we'll see.

I'm going back and forth on my Brabanters and Spitz. According to the old hands they are notoriously difficult to sex. I know I have one Brabanter cockerel, and I'm pretty sure two Brabanters are hens, but the other two......I don't know. On the Spitz, I kind of think I have at least two cockerels, and two pullets, and one to be determined.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Available at most feed, and garden stores:
Flip the birds over & powder their behinds, between legs and not directly IN the vent. flush so the powder gets down in there.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_poultry_dust.jpg

Thanks for answering. It makes sense that they would use permethrin. Do I need to toss the eggs the hens lay for 2 weeks afterward, then?

 

[Ogress]

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Just make sure you dress nice, you don't want to find a photo of you on people of walmart (http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/)

OMG....I have worn some of my scuzzies before and have looked far from my best....holy cow. These are awful. I am just speechless.

I have not looked at the site in quite a while - but the folks from Florida always seemed the most outlandish! Some of the clothes people dare wear in public, or anywhere for that matter! I think some of the people are trying to get their photos taken.

 

[BarnChick]

Those photos of walmart people are somewhat disturbing, somewhat funny, and all make me wonder, "what are people thinking"??

 

[hallerlake]

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They're not.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I broke down yesterday and bought a plug-in drill for the heavy stuff, in this case drilling sockets in pressure treated 4X4 for 3/4" pvc pipe to slot into (this is a wood-based version of the foundation Dad welded for the greenhouse in the herb garden at my sister's house: that one is recycled iron water pipe with railroad spikes welded on, to socket into plastic pipe). There are times I really wish I'd learned to weld; this is one of them! CR is right about the limitations of wood as a medium; when added to my limitations as a woodworker and multiplied by the infirmaties of age (or at least mileage: parts of my body are much older than the numbers on my birth certificate would suggest) the answer is a very slow rate of progress indeed; the fact I can't lift for use battery-powered tools larger than 9.6v is a serious bar to progress. Thus, plug in drill to run bigger drill bits and hole saws.

Today starts a new regime, of sorts: The Nephew, who is thirteen, will be walking here after school to do some of the heavy lifting, since it's June, his parents are up to their noses in hay making and my sister is cautious of leaving him home alone for an unknown long period of hours every evening, not to mention that there are things here that need done for the good of the farm (watering trough reset, livestock panels juggled to free up a 16 foot steel gate for use in their corral) that I am unable to do by myself, see above. However, the first thing is to get the coop and the hoop house done: the watering trough project is waiting on pavers, mortar, and another set of pressure-treated 4X4s because Rubbermaid did not account for bulls when designing their oval tanks.

 

[pettec63]

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I watched the video 3X and tried 3X to sex the runner ducklings...and I COULD NOT "spread" or "pull downward" the vent..It was hard to even FIND the vent on most.
DH says "it is true!
A ducks a** is watertight after all!!!"

Maybe you will have better luck with the goslings!
They are beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!! thats funny!!

 

[pettec63]

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It's not the hat. It's the angle. I have gotten compliments on Mr. H's bucket hat he got for hiking because I wear it at a rakish angle. My sister is a milliner. it's my duty to encourage the wearing of hats. I have a wardrobe of them.

Oh I LOVE hats!
What else can 'set' off an outfit but a hat, and yes the angle is all important, except in the case of my Grunden, which, at an angle looks perfectly idiotic, and worse, it will not shed water as it is designed to do, and I look ridiculous in it, and the bib fisherman's pants that go with it.
But they do the job!!

hmm so I take it no one here watches "what not to wear" !!! I take it most people that frequent Walmart don't either!!! LOL

I do, but only use it for business!! I'm the Ball Cap wearing queen!!! And I have a HUGE collection!!! LOL!! my hair is long enough tho and I can tuck my ears in!! LOL

I'm so sorry about your ears tho, really !!

Let them skinny girls be mortified, at least your not worrying your life away wondering what to wear and if you A** looks good in your jeans!!!!