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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I have kids to chase around. teenage boys that do every sport under the sun, and chickens to chase around. But you are right.....the paintball was fun. I bruise so easy though that one time everyone was worried about me having a possible blood clot because I had such a big bruise from being hit so many times in a fairly close area on my leg. Freaked everyone out. I was actually asked once at Wal*Mart if my DH beat me...I told them that that would be the LAST thing he ever did in THIS life time...but that he did shoot me occasionally.

I never believed in giving up...so I got shot up quite a few times. It was good exercise. Very fun.

Worst hits for me were the ones that hit just above my mask and skipped off my bald head. Now that hurts like well anyway. "givig up" winners never quit and quitters never win !!!!

DH has a good one of these. Even has a photo of it. He lost vision for 1 week. It was actually kind of scary.

 

[RedReiner]

anyone in the puyallup area want to save a momma and her babies?

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/grd/2365055462.html

 

[Chicken Rustler]

ATTENTION !!!! Ok now we gotta keep this secret from broody!!! IF you do not have STOMACH RESCUE on the shelf at home. GET IT !!! It is awesome stuff to make grumbly tumbly happy! dont tell broody or she'll be whoppin me wiff the ole I told ya so stick !!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Boy it is so dead in here tonight.... I think everybody went to bed with thier chooks...

 

[jbear]

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o jeeze.
really, feed the mom food.

I wish I could take her.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I was watching the Mariners chop the Rangers into tiny little pieces, myself. I'm not so gauche and jejune to only be a fan when they win (else the 1977-1996 and the last five years or so would have been very different) but it makes me happy when they do.

 

[Kaneke]

yes, I wish I could take mama hen and the chicks myself

however, with some of those chicks dead, I'd be concerned about illness ... no way do I want to expose my beauties to something horrid

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in other news: my little roo (darn it !

) seems to be getting LOUDER

he's gone from squeaky-toy to medium-size-dog-bark to KHARRRRK !

DS says the crowing won't bother him (the coop and run are right under his bedroom windows; his suite is on the main floor)

I haven't heard the roo crow, while I've been in the house --- our balcony on the second floor, overhangs within fifteen feet or so of the coop, and I can definitely hear the wild birds chirping through the sliding glass door

I'll have to check with neighbor to the east ... neighbor to the west is OK with chickens as long as he doesn't have to tend them; besides, HIS neighbor further west has chickens too, including a rooster that we can hear at our place, and hens that sing the Egg Song in La Scala style

I'd really like to keep this roo, he doesn't belong in freezer camp --- but he may need a quick rehome

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DS has the PVC cut and the fittings laid out, for the chicken tractor --- but we had intermittent spitty rain today, he didn't want to work outside with solvents in that ... he also got me a couple more bags of sand for the coop ... I did a massive scoop out yesterday and the sand seemed a bit thin in places ... but that was a week's worth of seven chickens' output, including a couple of days where they had to stay in the coop all day --- RAIN .....

as soon as he finds the missing piece for the compost bin, I can start reloading that, incorporating the chicken guano as I layer the stuff back in (it's sitting in our garden cart at the moment --- the partly finished compost is, I mean)

 

[broodytood]

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I would never say I told you so about something like that!!!! I just know the stuff saved my bacon when I was ready for them to dig a hole for me! Cause when your urping you just want it to end. Don't know how it works but it does! ! Not the best tasting stuff but I've had much, much worse. Like I said, with 6 kids in the house, I can't afford to be w/o it! Glad it worked for ya!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I realized tonight that one thing I need to do- probably with the Hamburgs first until I set them up in a safe roomy run in one of the shrub beds, eventually with some sort of bantam, is to make a series of light interlocking panels (pvc pipe and 1 inch chickenwire/hardware cloth) to fence off stuff like the raspberry bed: chickens in, for clean-up and cultivation, wether out. It means a separate roost box so I can lock the chickens up at night and move the panels. Obviously a summer thing, although it should be possible to anchor it in place as a winter residence, too.

I suspect it's time for me to rest, so I can make fewer, better plans in the morning...

 

[broodytood]

HELP! While I was gone tonight, someone managed to turn the hatch box off!

It was off for 2 hours and got down to 93*. This is day 20. Are they done for?

I did have heat sink eggs in there so I have no clue how long it was that low. There are only 2 eggs in there but still. I don't know what to do now!

Anybody still awake??