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[Chickielady]

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If it gets to 20, limit their time outdoors to just a half hour or keep them cooped with a heat lamp on...hopefully you have insulated your coops, or condensation will breed moulds like crazy...bird's breath & moisture from poop & water fonts can make condensation in a small place awful.
Hard to heat as well, unless a bird is directly under a heat lamp..the heat is sucked away and gone.
The cold wins the contest.
Over there, I'd stick to pea comb breeds...

So what are some pea-comb examples?

Wyandottes would qualify, although they have a big walnutty comb..and can get big wattels, too.
Pea comb breeds off the top of my pea-brain:

Buckeyes, Ameraucana, AND Brahmas...you can get RIR in pea comb form, and there is a few more.

 

[VelvettFog]

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I am careful, and I have all 10 fingers to show it. That's why I hate it. Every time, right before you pull the trigger, I mean *right* before, your mind goes *click*. It is not until after you've pulled the trigger that you understand. "OH, that is going to hurt". Kinda late ... lol It is only bad when you need pliers to get it out.

 

[cheryl98117]

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lol No kidding!!! Buff hatchery silky crossed with a nice wheaton roo. lmao might be cute, might be not so cute. lol And yes. Even the silky eggs have been fertile!

Nah! She's definately a hen. An evil fuzzy little screaming hen!

Maybe you are seeing a nice big fat target, and there is no circle around it?
Better look again, a seperate circle around the dot~~

The next egg I crack open I will try to get a pic of. There is a ring around a small white dot. Its a faint ring, but it is there.

 

[cheryl98117]

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Come to think of it! herbandtes, your boy looks allot like my Olive egger cockerals!

now that I am thinking of it I think Debbie told me they were olive eggers If so I would be happy for any color they are. So does olive eggers mean not amerucana ?

That would mae him an easter egger, or Olive egger. lol Mixed breed, but still very handsom none the less! My Olive egger cockerals are very pretty and so friendly, they are a pain because they are always underfoot!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

OK, here are Wyatt's and Wynona's pics because CL is pestering me to show them off via PM's!!! I'm trying to update some of my BYC pages and NEED to go make dinner.

 

[Chickielady]

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I am careful, and I have all 10 fingers to show it. That's why I hate it. Every time, right before you pull the trigger, I mean *right* before, your mind goes *click*. It is not until after you've pulled the trigger that you understand. "OH, that is going to hurt". Kinda late ... lol It is only bad when you need pliers to get it out.

Nah, the bad part is when it goes through a fingernail.
I have used all sizes of nail guns forever...used to work in a mini barn factory in N. Idaho,,,nail fast!!
Could chop saw fast too!!
Worked in alot of lumber mills, ran 3-8 in-line rips and chops...alone.
Just don't nail the nail!!
I screwed my thumbnail a few months ago (so did Tamara) and it went through lickety split, phillips drive on, all the way through..while I was hanging over a roof screwing on flashing....almost puked, bleeding all over, had to get down the ladder, and I AM AN OLD WOMAN!!!
Healed up in a few days & was fine.
Bad is when all your fingers get cut off..worse is when they surgically LOOK for the retracted tendons & sew the fingers back on...

That is where Demerol helps!!!
But the guy that treid to stab me did not get me!!
Seems like another lifetime now!!

 

[Chickielady]

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These are chickens to DROOL FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cheryl98117]

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My gosh - so sorry to hear. Hope he can pull through - that's a lot to handle all at once for your family.

I still havnt gotten an update on him yet. My Aunt still does not know. Thats really the thing that bothers me the most, she doesn't know. I know I would be very upset if my family didn't tell me my husband had a heart attac and is in a coma... Im staying busy, playing mind numbing video games, looing areound online, playing with DD, doing laundry, feeding horses, dogs, chickens, DD, ect... Anything and everything.

 

[Chickielady]

I am going to go make dinner too.

Got our material bid from Home Depot for the sub floor & floor....$2103.56.
Gotta have the 56 cents!!

OK bye all!!

Got a date with a London Broil!!

 

[cheryl98117]

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I get tired of being "the rock." Ive held this family together for a LONG time. Im the one everyone runs too when there is a family issue. and there I go being cranky about something that I have and always will do...