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[Greg Richardson]

and he is pulling it with the 1972 Impala Coupe, Hardtop.

If he is like you said taking great care of that car then I'd be more worried if he was hauling it home with a newer car. They made them better and eaiser to work on back then imo.​

 

[TurtleChick]

TurtleChick wrote:

so i've been running around trying to find day old baby peeps for my broodies - make sure i have plenty of babies to go around, get to watch moms raise babies, have happy not broody peeps.

today i went out to check on my broodies (day 19 of sitting on these eggs) and found a dead chick. i posted about it in "incubating and hatching".





it's days like this, when i want to yell: "SERIOUSLY? can one thing not just go the way it's SUPPOSED to???????" that i want to throw myself on the floor and have a good old fashioned tantrum.

i'm so bummed.

Ahhhhhh so sad !!!! Don't give up though !!!

lost another one this morning - i thought it was pipped last night, checked this morning and half the eggshell was missing, broken off - but chick still wrapped in the membrane. it was dried out but peep was still moving, so i brought it in to see if i could help it, but it died.... the only good thing is, maybe she just accidentally broke the shell on the other one - that would be slightly preferable to it hatching early and her killing it.

::sigh::

such a bummer to have them make it this far and then die. i cried this morning and my husband says i'm not allowed to play with peeps anymore if i'm going to take each loss this hard, that it wasn't my "fault" that they died. i know he's right, and truly, the world would be overrun with chickens if every egg hatched and made it... i know it, but doesn't make me WISH it was different with MY peeps! especially as a first timer........ i thought it would be a lovely thing - curative of broodiness and fun to watch. not so much fun right now.

 

[LaSombra]

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That's a great pic! He's such a part of the family

Love the tie... and your daughter is gorgeous!!

 

[LaSombra]

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That's a great pic! He's such a part of the family

Love the tie... and your daughter is gorgeous!!

 

[Chickielady]

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If he is like you said taking great care of that car then I'd be more worried if he was hauling it home with a newer car. They made them better and eaiser to work on back then imo.

True.
He called from I-5 in NCal a little while ago and said all was well, hot there, and the car is a little loose, maybe going to need some upper ball joints.
You think ?
It is an awesome car.
He has put a heavy duty Buick rear end it, cadillac axles or somesuch...a monster 400ci Chevy...the car is an aircraft carrier with a 3 bedroom 2 bath trunk and a 5 acre hood.
It turns do nuts INSIDE of the track our minivan leaves, and steers with 1 finger.
I cannot believe this poop in Salem about the backyard chickens...noise and smell ?
My chickens, all of them, have no smell !
I clean up after everyone of them at least every other day.
Horses, cattle can stink.
And we all know what 3 dogs can do in a neighborhood backyard, P-U
and the non stop barking.
Oh well, let's all be glad we can have them, and that we have land.
Without land, you have nothing.
With land, you can do whatever you want !
I will look for a pic of the Impala~

 

[Chickielady]

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I will be sending warm fuzz that way. My DH has taught me to worry about hauling things. We have always made it, but he always over engineers things too. I am jealous of your apricots. I had thoughts about popping over Chinook Pass and picking up a few boxes of apricots and some peaches. Then I have stop and realize that it isn't going to happen this week for me. There is no way I am up to canning fruit this week. I didn't even get the eggs out of the coop today. I am a bad chicken mother. I did feed them.

Rest up !
I went out yesterday and opened the coop doors and went back to bed !

 

[Chickielady]

The aircraft carrier:

the lovely dash board:

and this is what a dread lock Komondor looks like and no it is not mine but I wish:

Can you imagine this happy guy (girl?) all wet from our non stop rain ?
Yowsers!!!
The Apricots are actually several weeks late.
Usually I am canning in June, with the heat at 110+ degrees.
No more.
I freeze them now.
I like to pack them with Fruit Fresh or lemon juice and sugar, in half in 1 gallon ziplocks and then when I need some, like for home made apricot ice cream, I just go get some out of the freezer.
Last year I did 3 cases of jam, and 4 cases quarts halves in light syrup and we still have some.
So I only "ordered "a 5 gal bucket this year, to eat.

 

[Chickielady]

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Eat what is in season, not alot of mixed up stuff..theory is that bacteria used to digest fruits takes several days for your body to produce the enzymes and 'grow' the bacteria to digest the fruit (fruit season) and so then you eat alot of fruit and all is well.
In winter we can eat root and cruciferous vegs.
Getting all this stuff from all over the world and eating it year round is not right.
I do not think you should eat alot of everything all year round.
I do not think anyone should eat alot of processed starches either, like pasta.
And I have a very intelligent friend who has told me for years about the insecticide thing:::
We cannot use agent orange and DDT and other chemicals here in the US as they were outlawed.
But apparently Dow and other companies had hordes of it and so sold it to developing countries and they sparay it on the jumgles and use the insecticides on their crops even today.
Ever notice how many 3rd world countries have so many off the wall birth defects and clift palates ????
Children born with 6 legs and so on ?
India...Sri Lanka...Mexico, South America ????
Well, according to my well informed friend, that it is due to them using the nasty chemicals banned here in the states.
Because they use the chemicals and have no idea why they have these misshapened babies

so sad !
Anyway, they then ship their perfect fruit to the USA for us to eat out of season: watermelon in December yum!!!!!
I will not eat any fruit out of season nor will I eat it if it comes from a 3rd world country.
It is not right !!!
**************************Hello To Tail Feathers************************ Why won't he come on and talk ?????*********
Someone was just looking for quail, didn't tailfeathers have quail ??
Well, later guys.

 

[Chickielady]

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lost another one this morning - i thought it was pipped last night, checked this morning and half the eggshell was missing, broken off - but chick still wrapped in the membrane. it was dried out but peep was still moving, so i brought it in to see if i could help it, but it died.... the only good thing is, maybe she just accidentally broke the shell on the other one - that would be slightly preferable to it hatching early and her killing it.

::sigh::

such a bummer to have them make it this far and then die. i cried this morning and my husband says i'm not allowed to play with peeps anymore if i'm going to take each loss this hard, that it wasn't my "fault" that they died. i know he's right, and truly, the world would be overrun with chickens if every egg hatched and made it... i know it, but doesn't make me WISH it was different with MY peeps! especially as a first timer........ i thought it would be a lovely thing - curative of broodiness and fun to watch. not so much fun right now.

When the day came (actually lock down day like the 18th day of incubation, I go out and steal all but 2 or 3 eggs from my broodies.
I candle them and put them in the incubator.
After the hatch, and all are up and running, I rejoin them out with the broody hen and the rest of the babies, if any.
I had too many fall out from under the hen and freeze, or they can get trampled by mama...and if they are expensive hatching eggs, I want to make sure they hatch OK and the hen is up to their care.
Alot of hens will take off with the first couple of chicks that hatch and leave the rest of the pipping eggs to chill in the nest and die just as they are emerging...mean while broody mama has her 2 born chicks out and about...that is so sad

Try that next time.
Do not waite too long to reintroduce the incubator babies..or she will know they are not hers and may kill them.
I never let the mama see them, I load them under her in the dark by flashlight, and in the morning her 2 babies miraculously grew to 21 babies !!!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Okay, I have not read all of the pages....I got too far behind.

the chicken/horse and catepillar/dog are just creepy as heck. wowsie.

We were gone for 4 days and the chickiepoos managed just fine without us. My mom did come over and let them out one day to range. She told that they all ignored her until she say down to just watch them (mine know that if a person sits down there are treats to be had)....next thing she knew they were all around her wanting something (my mother didn't know about the treat-seat). LOL.

But on a sad note, when we returned home my 9 yo dd found her bunny dead. The bunny had got out, had been attacked by something in the middle of the night, my mother found her loose the next morning, put bunny back in the cage....but bunny died either from heat or stress. Bunnies can die from just being too stressed. Something had beat up bunny some - not a dog....either a owl or possibly one of my cats or one of the local ferals. But bunny had a bunch of hair missing. Just don't know....but Easter Bunny is gone. So now DD wants a new pet bunny, which will be okay, because I consider her pet bunny my garden fertilizer maker.

Well, I will now go back and continue to read on and try to get caught up on any news.