Washingtonians

[jbear]

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heehee... i am the stealthy one.. who avoids the camera.

And you are so cute and were working so hard !!

you'll have to go to my blog..

**edited to say --- if you go to my blog you will find all SORTS of snoop stuff

hahhaha!** (my facebook page, my family blog, my farm blog.. and blah blah blah... pictures of my BEAUTIFUL peeps and quacks and goaties etc and most importantly if you look hard enough --ChickenRustler---pictures of Saint Anthony and lots of SAND and SAND TOYS!!! lol!** )

and chickielady..

*more blushes..but thank you.. I was busy 'visiting' heehee!*

 

[SadieSue]

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Oops - congratulations! I can only imagine how exciting that must have been!

 

[Ogress]

jbear -

I like your blog and am watching the link you have for "The Future of Food." Pretty disgusting, and I used to be one of those scientists (not the ones making the big $, but the researcher doing the genetic research to develop the genetically modified crops/organisms.

In the early 90's I worked for Sandoz Agro. At the time we were trying to beat Monsanto to the Bt Patent. It was granted to Monsanto, and half our company was laid off. I was working on a couple of other similar products. At the time, a new college grad, I thought it was pretty cool. We believed that what we were doing was making safer pesticides, targeted to specific weeds and organisms, and crops resistant to freezing. Just a few years earlier, the mode of action of most pesticides/herbicieds was not known, so we thought we were making stuff with fewer side effects.
We did not look at the whole picture ... the greed of corporations, dangers of monoculture, loss of diversity...

A few years later I moved to human pharmaceuticals. I started thinking a lot more of what I was doing and reading. The patenting of genes really bothers me. Some say it is necessary to be able to pay for research, but I think it stops a lot of great research from ever being done. I was also very upset that most research $ is spent not on third-world diseases, but on diseases and conditions that Pharma companies can make big profits on. Conditions that affect people with $, like depression, addiction, a few common cancers...

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

Happy Happy Day to Ogress (for the egg)!!!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Ogress Sorry some how I also totally missed that you got yer first hens fruit.

I know how eggsciting that is. We are impatiently waiting for the first from our 2 new OE's from Chickielady and the 3 new RIR bantam and .

BTW I went back and looked and did not find a pic.

 

[Ogress]

PitterPatterPalace
Today 8:52 pmHappy Happy Day to Ogress (for the egg)!!!!

I'm just thrilled! My daughter is going to have it for breakfast. It's a NORMAL sized egg! I guess that NH is going to be laying some BIG eggs someday.​

 

[Ogress]

Chicken Rustler -

You need to look at My BYC Page - but thanks!

 

[hallerlake]

What is crele? Beautiful bird.


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Yes he is, and he lives at my house now!!!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15879_phoenix.jpg

Sorry, I know I'm not a Washingtonian, but had to post! Cuz he's awesome!! My son named him "Phoenix", getting white Chantecler eggs in the spring from Tony Albritton to try to breed the Crele variety, I guess all the Chantecler guys were talking about him, and nobody has ever seen one...maybe he's one of a kind!??

Oh, and 5 of the 6 black bantam Ameraucanas that were there were mine.

My black cock bird won Ch. Ameraucana. Gosh, I feel like I'm gloating now, I'm going to shut up...

 

[Illia]

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Crele is barred Duckwing, basically. (males are red, gold, black, and "green" barred, females are gold, black, and silver barred)

 

[hallerlake]

Some of a us live in cities or suburbs. Shooting is generally frowned upon.


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The Law in Kansas is if a dog is harming/killing your livestock you can shoot to kill. I know people who done it.