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[TheReidHomestead]

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Speaking of veggies, this is what I found in a mushroom stem
Yup, it really is a tooth! And you can see in the bottom of the stem where it was lodged.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76434_tooth_mushroom.jpg

So, I'm thinking someone tossed a body into the compost and the mushroom farm was growing mushrooms on it. Anyway, I called the police, figuring they would want to know if a missing body was in a compost heap, and the person (dispatcher) told me it wasn't police business and I should just go to the store and complain

I finally convinced her to send out a deputy. He came, and even he wouldn't touch it with his bare hands. He put on gloves, bagged it and took it away. He called a few days later to let me know what forensics had turned up.

Seems it was a prosthetic that is used in heads in dentistry schools for training dentists.

I still want to know how it got into the mushroom stem

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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So sorry CR that they haven't found him yet. Continued prayers and positive thoughts!!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Speaking of veggies, this is what I found in a mushroom stem
Yup, it really is a tooth! And you can see in the bottom of the stem where it was lodged.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76434_tooth_mushroom.jpg

So, I'm thinking someone tossed a body into the compost and the mushroom farm was growing mushrooms on it. Anyway, I called the police, figuring they would want to know if a missing body was in a compost heap, and the person (dispatcher) told me it wasn't police business and I should just go to the store and complain

I finally convinced her to send out a deputy. He came, and even he wouldn't touch it with his bare hands. He put on gloves, bagged it and took it away. He called a few days later to let me know what forensics had turned up.

Seems it was a prosthetic that is used in heads in dentistry schools for training dentists.

I still want to know how it got into the mushroom stem

Especially since Ostroms still uses horse and cow manure only and composts onsite (which, like the artillary noise, I'm more or less used to).

Oh, well: one thing archaeology has taught me is that things get dropped, picked up in shoes or hooves, dropped again, washed in water, found in a stream, put in pockets, and otherwise moved around, and one small item is never absolutely significant.

(And I am 14 feet of edge attached to frame closer to being done on the Wyandotte run, and added an 1 1/4 woodscrew and one fender washer to the family midden; not likely to be able to find them with the magnetic broom as they were dropped in a pile that included two very old truck wheels and the siphon from an old irrigation machine).

 

[Greg Richardson]

As soon as you get chicks or older hold them on top of your dogs head stating mine, leave alone. Say this several times.
Place them on the dogs back next.

Not all dogs but the majority will then understand they dominate them no matter the size and they are important to you.

If the dog doesn't realize the food chain, the power roll, you can't blame the dog for taking advantage of an opportunity for either fun kill or instinct kill, or just what it considers playing.
Not saying this is 100% going to work but you need to understand dogs have a huge built in roll in them like a wolf pack of who is where in power.
By placing the chicken on the head you are implying the dog comes after the chicken.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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For fear of running this into the ground, I second the use of zip ties and clips. You can get the clips at any hardware store and I've rarely had a zip tie break.

That said, I appreciate how you can find an alternative solution. Everyones brains work differently. I think people just wanted to try and help make things easier for you but even though your solution seems more difficult or complicated to most it wasn't to you. If you are stuck in the middle of nowhere and have to come up with solutions using only the materials currently available I know you will be just fine. A female McGuyver!

[rant] I think the people on this board have a hard time with the concept of what it is like to live without a vehicle. I am sure most of you have been without a vehicle for days, possibly a week, but it is different when it is all the time. How many of y'all want to walk a mile and a half (at least) each way for zip-ties (which may or may not work) in this weather? How many of y'all think their DSpouse would be willing to drive you the mile and a half, just for zip-ties, after a long day at work? That is not taking into consideration the physical limitations of either person.[/rant]

Bless you, my dear, and precisely.

I would rejoice in being able to have done today's bit of work with zipties instead of screws and fender-washers; a single black 14" zip tie costs about half the price of a fender washer from Home Depot (Harbor Freight doesn't stock them, Tacoma Screw is even harder to get to than Home Depot), and then there's the whole thing where Zipties are like little wire-stretchers in and of themselves.

Oh, well, The Mountain was clear as a bell tonight, so tomorrow may be better weather than the Weather Service was saying the last time I checked, and if the plumbing doesn't blow up again and the cats don't find new ways to make trouble (ha, yeah, right) I may actually have a run which will keep chickens IN and owls OUT by tomorrow at this time; I've moved Ian and Sylvia up close to the new run, and the only thing which would hold me back from putting them in their new abode then is the fact that the sand for bedding is currently at the other end of the house and I may have to wait for the hired help. Then I get to make the hoop house for the littles, the Hamburg Extension University (both of which have several steps finished already).

 

[Chickielady]

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Zip ties -- and you don't have to leave your chair.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=zip+tie&x=0&y=0


No need to rant now

X2
And I can spend ALOT of $$$ in a short amount of time without ever leaving this chair right here where I am sitting now.
Last year I ordered a big generator, and recently had 2 30 foot x 40 foot tarpes delivered, diesel stove & stove pipe among many more.
All from this chair.
UPS (and Fed Ex) are my friends!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Zip ties -- and you don't have to leave your chair.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=zip+tie&x=0&y=0


No need to rant now

Yeah, but they wouldn't get here until Thursday, earliest, and I'm not betting on the weather holding past noon tomorrow.

 

[Chickielady]

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Speaking of veggies, this is what I found in a mushroom stem
Yup, it really is a tooth! And you can see in the bottom of the stem where it was lodged.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76434_tooth_mushroom.jpg

So, I'm thinking someone tossed a body into the compost and the mushroom farm was growing mushrooms on it. Anyway, I called the police, figuring they would want to know if a missing body was in a compost heap, and the person (dispatcher) told me it wasn't police business and I should just go to the store and complain

I finally convinced her to send out a deputy. He came, and even he wouldn't touch it with his bare hands. He put on gloves, bagged it and took it away. He called a few days later to let me know what forensics had turned up.

Seems it was a prosthetic that is used in heads in dentistry schools for training dentists.

I still want to know how it got into the mushroom stem

Especially since Ostroms still uses horse and cow manure only and composts onsite (which, like the artillary noise, I'm more or less used to).

Oh, well: one thing archaeology has taught me is that things get dropped, picked up in shoes or hooves, dropped again, washed in water, found in a stream, put in pockets, and otherwise moved around, and one small item is never absolutely significant.

(And I am 14 feet of edge attached to frame closer to being done on the Wyandotte run, and added an 1 1/4 woodscrew and one fender washer to the family midden; not likely to be able to find them with the magnetic broom as they were dropped in a pile that included two very old truck wheels and the siphon from an old irrigation machine).

So maybe the fake tooth was tossed in the sewer somehow, and someone used the dredgings for fertilizing his fields, and a cow ate it (like they pick up metal) and this tooth is acrylic and will not stick to the magnet, but is poo'd out & made into steer manure compost & then goes to Ostrum's and they grow shrooms in it..Even still, a mushroom would not grow a tooth in it, it would grow around the tooth.
Someone planted that tooth there.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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I'm so sorry

I hope your Dominique shows up. You might want to post “lost” posters with pictures...I might not have known what a Dominique pullet from any other bird a few years ago! If she was frightened she might have flown quite a ways.

I am far too familiar with migraines, and hope you don't get anymore.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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So sorry CR that they haven't found him yet. Continued prayers and positive thoughts!!!!

According to the Columbia paper online, sadly they found his body today. Keeping his family and friends in thoughts and prayers.