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[Zgoatlady]

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Thank you for that!

I do show and I do cull for temperament, too. My rooster comes up and eats from my hand and will let me pet him. He doesn't like being picked up, but most of the girls will let me.

Speckled, silver and now lavender Sussex as well....

Okay what is "light" considered. I see white....but what is lighter than white? I think it is time for me to do some research on the Sussex. RFF keep me in mind.

Light Sussex have the black around the neck

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Oh that was me I like them a lot !!

Thanks! I am still learning...how to bead and tie the little ends correctly...with my wrist being so screwed up it's kind of hard but I'm making progress!

 

[blueducklings]

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Jean was talking about maybe bringing some Sebastopol goslings, but I don't know for sure....

Yeah I PM'd her--I'd be more interested in sexed (female) goslings and I'm willing to pay the price for those....but my MIL is also searching. She doesn't want anything ridiculously expensive--but I told her she needs something sort of rare and not mean!

Did you look at www.holderreadfarm.com
They have the most beautiful birds I've seen.
I got my ducks from him.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Yeah I PM'd her--I'd be more interested in sexed (female) goslings and I'm willing to pay the price for those....but my MIL is also searching. She doesn't want anything ridiculously expensive--but I told her she needs something sort of rare and not mean!

Did you look at www.holderreadfarm.com
They have the most beautiful birds I've seen.
I got my ducks from him.

Yeah they have (or were supposed to have) sold out of all of their Sebbies this last fall. They don't sell them sexed, either. But that's where one of my females came from.

 

[Chickielady]

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my dogs all dig up truffles in my yard. did not train any of them to do it either. once one of them digs up something tasty the others catch right on. they dig up the Oregon truffles.

My little wiener dog digs up truffles and brings them to me! I keep the nice firm ones, and give the softer mushier ones back to the dogs. lol We propbably get 3-4 a week here.

See if you can find out what trees they are growing on & try to take a few pictures for me ?
I MUST have some here & would LOVE to dig some & try them.
Some go for hundreds & thousands of dollar a pound!
Have you eaten any ?
How did you prepare them ?

 

[blueducklings]

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Did you look at www.holderreadfarm.com
They have the most beautiful birds I've seen.
I got my ducks from him.

Yeah they have (or were supposed to have) sold out of all of their Sebbies this last fall. They don't sell them sexed, either. But that's where one of my females came from.

They are getting rid of all the sebbies and the adults are SQ.
3 different varieties. I wanted to get some, but was affraid they will attack me. LOL

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Yeah they have (or were supposed to have) sold out of all of their Sebbies this last fall. They don't sell them sexed, either. But that's where one of my females came from.

They are getting rid of all the sebbies and the adults are SQ.
3 different varieties. I wanted to get some, but was affraid they will attack me. LOL

Actually, they are very friendly! The female I bought is a lower SQ one ($250.00) and very nice as far as type. The only ones they had left the last time I checked were $500+ each!

 

[Chickielady]

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I worked in a hospital for a while.
I had to full drape & mask a few times and go in and feed sick patients.
One time as I was doing so, the old man hurled all over me...glad I was draped !
One thing I still do not understand is the implatation of anything into the body (most especially something so deep & close to the pericardium) with NO antibiotic sent home !
In surgery, we always prescribed a profilactic antibiotic with oral surgery especially as the very staph can enter the blood stream and guess where it goes ?
Straight to the pericardium & the heart is infected.
DH has a SS plate in his foot, for 10 years now, and still, he gets a profilactic antibiotic before dental work due to possible staph infections.
Antibiotics are sometimes misused and over prescribed, but in the case of implantation, and deep invasive surgery, I think the ounce of prevention is worth many millions of pounds of cure, and in this case, possible death.
How is your classes going ?

Was it a same-day surgery or was she at the hospital awhile? Could they have given her antibiotics via an IV or other route while she was in the hospital? They do have some antibiotics that stay in the body for awhile now. I am sorry your mother in law is having problems. Stable is a good thing. I'm assuming since she's still intubated and has an NG tube she is still in ICU? The nice thing is in ICU there is a much lower pt ratio- in the hospital I am doing clinical in each ICU nurse has one to two patients at any given time.

I love being a student nurse so far,.

I loved doing it when I did, but have retired.
I believe MiL Had a day surgery, recovery a few hours & sent home.
I am not sure.
Maybe an over night recovery for observation?
Everyone is at the hospital so no one to ask questions to~
I had a friend a few years back, RN who had anesthesia training & surgical, and she would travel with a company that had many many sites around the country needed stand in nurses.
She loved it!
Fantastic pay!
Outrageous benies!
They paid her hotel & meals & provided a car..and she would pick places where she wanted to work & then would stay home or go on vacation a few weeks.
She would work in New Orleans a few months, then fly home a week, then fly to New York and work a few months, then fly to Hawaii for a 2 week vacation...LOTS of frequent flyer miles!!!
Then off to Tuscon for a few months..and so on.
What a cool job!
Yes she was single, and had 2 grown children, she was having a blast and making way more than any hospital RN does, about 2X the pay.

 

[RedReiner]

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My little wiener dog digs up truffles and brings them to me! I keep the nice firm ones, and give the softer mushier ones back to the dogs. lol We propbably get 3-4 a week here.

See if you can find out what trees they are growing on & try to take a few pictures for me ?
I MUST have some here & would LOVE to dig some & try them.
Some go for hundreds & thousands of dollar a pound!
Have you eaten any ?
How did you prepare them ?

I let the dogs eat them, I am digestively compromised lol so I did not trust that I could eat them and not pay the price for it. mushrooms do me in and I LOVE them. better safe than sorry. They grow under a fir or hemlock tree in my back yard, will take a pic later, the tree has a bluish cast to it. it looks like a type of fir. these are oregon white truffles, they are used locally, not as exciting as the french truffles but would sell ok if you had enough of them. these are fresh and still wet.

 

[Chickielady]

If I stumbled onto those, I would think they were some kinda poo.
I always wondered why those expensive chocolate "truffles" are called the same thing as these shrooms...for a long time I thought "chocolate covered truffles" were actually chocolate covered shrooms..which never sounded right....