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[Chickielady]

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I was trying to decide if my favorite dress was still a going-out0to0dinner dress or if it's ready to be demoted to "summer wear after taking an evening shower but not yet ready for nightclothes" dress.

I didn't want to wear my really nice dress because I'm betting we end up at a Mexican place and salsa's heck to get out of silk. That's what I get for buying a dry clean only dress just because it was, like, 85% off.

Ah heck!
You only live once, right ???
Do it wearing silk, it FEELS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!
With or without salsa!!!!!!!!!!!
Silk does wash BTW...the cheap water soluble glue that is used on dry clean only clothes is the culprit.
I will never buy anything I cannot toss in a washing machine, especially if I have to iron it too!!
Life is way too short to spend any more time ironing..I think I have already spent 3 or 4 years of my life JUST IRONING !!!!!!!
Had to do it as a teen, 10 cents a peice, to feed my horses, I took in baskets & baskets of ironing.....

Now I just plug in my iron when I patchwork..way mo'fun!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Barnchick, beautiful little Buff Orp Hen !!

Ok later guys............talk to ya tomorrow!!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Hello everyone! I moved the chicks I got at the show in April (Stevenson) to the horse trailer this evening with the goslings. I always try to raise geese with chickens & ducklings, if possible--it makes them nicer in the long run to other species.

I have two little BLRW bantams out!

And another that's pipped.

The little RIR RC chick is still tipped over & crooked. Once I prop him up in front of the waterer, he drinks and then tips over. I moved him in front of the feeder and he eats and then tips over.

I'll give him another day and then I'll have DH cull him.

After this weekend, I'll only have white call eggs left in the one bator--until my next (and LAST) shipment of eggs comes in sometime next week--more bantam favs and another batch of RIR RCS!

 

[Kaneke]

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I was trying to decide if my favorite dress was still a going-out0to0dinner dress or if it's ready to be demoted to "summer wear after taking an evening shower but not yet ready for nightclothes" dress.

I didn't want to wear my really nice dress because I'm betting we end up at a Mexican place and salsa's heck to get out of silk. That's what I get for buying a dry clean only dress just because it was, like, 85% off.

that's the time you accessorize the dainty dress with a scarf or vest or shawl -- a washable one to catch the drips ....

 

[Ogress]

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You have my sympathy. Migraines are no, especially when they last for days instead of hours.

You may find they will change with your pregnancies. Hopefully this will be your last one!

Before I had Alex, I'd get maybe 3 migranes a year. When I was pregnant with him they were intense and frequent (I tried tigan my last trimester, but I did not feel comfortable taking it while pregnant, especially since it offered little relief. After he was born, I had them monthly like clockwork and so intense that I'd be oblivious to everything around me. I was shopping at Top Foods one afternoon when Alex was about a year old and I started seeing those sparky things and swimmy brain feeling that I get just before a really bad migraine. I grabbed Alex out of the cart, left the cart full in the aisle and went out to my car to try and make it home before it hit, but I only made it less than half a mile before I had to pull over on the side of the road as the pain ad sparks became so intense that I could not see nor concentrate on anything but the pain. I sat there with my head on the steering wheel for 3 hours with Alex screaming in the back seat. I tried to call for help, but I could not even read the numbers on my cell phone, nor concentrate enough to figure it out by touch or use the speed dial.

The good news is that at the end of my first trimester, I got another really intense migraine (happened to be in the hospital at the time), and then no more. In the 10 years since, I have had maybe 1 or 2 a year at the most, many years none, and none anywhere near as debilatating as what I used to experience.

May this be your last migraine.

 

[pettec63]

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yea for the chickees!!!

 

[Kaneke]

I felt quite rotten today, nothing actually HURTS, I just feel overall "unwell" --

so DH did a "first solo" at getting the chickens from run to the chicken tractor, this morning

as usual, he reports, the five pullets (Anitra, Becky, Christina, Dierdre, and Ginger) went right along with him, while Phoebe-the-contrary, and the roo, stayed behind

(gotta rename that roo, no longer is he "just" black and white, now he has developed hackle and saddle feathers with golden edges and some of them, and his tail feathers, are now teal rather than black .... I can't wait to see what his full adult plumage will look like)

DH coaxed the roo out into the yard then had quite a time trying to shepherd him towards, and into, the tractor

Phoebe stayed in the run all day

EXCEPT ! when I went to bring the chickens back from tractor to run-and-coop (I was feeling a teensy bit better),

THEN Phoebe decided she wanted to go out into the yard, as the rest of them were running and flapping in through the run access, and towards the grain feeder I had scoops of feed for ....

DH ran out and herded her back towards me, and the silly pullet ran right into my legs in a panic, it seemed

I'm planning to wait to see who lays what color egg -- but Phoebe may be on the re-home list if she won't scurry along with the rest of the flock

 

[pettec63]

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about the vitamins, I know you all are trying to get vitman D because of the lack of sun, we have something called Rooster Booster here, it has complete vitamin supplement and good gut bacteria for their stomachs, I use it when I get new chicks and chickens in for maybe three or four days, it's good stuff and not that expensive, just thought I'd pass that on. Oh by the way speaking of vegtables and lack of vitamins, that is why the AMA recommends supplementation and that's why our Herbalife business is going gang busters!! everyone is figuring out they need better nutrition! I'm so sorry you have horse pills to take, that is definitely not any fun! I had a tough time in the beginning my self, I'm better now!! How are your little cornish doing??

 

[BarnChick]

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Yes and what is so great is that she was free. The lady bought her for bug control, but this year she found all the flowers the lady had planted and started eating them. She didn't like that and rather than pen the chicken, she put an ad on craigslist. LUCKY ME!!!

here's another pic, cause I just can't stop myself. This is cute, cause she wasn't sure about this meatie chick. She pecked at it once and then it tried to peck back at her. She left it alone after that and went back to foraging.

and one of all the babies in the grass.

 

[Ogress]

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Oh boy..............

...I can just see the girls telling their parents and the parents reporting you to the HOA and then you will get in big trouble!
Course, they probably have nothing written in the HOA by-laws about a boy and a paintball gun......

So sorry about your hen!!!!
Now you have lost 2 in the last 2 weeks ?
I owe you 2, would you like Javas ?

Yep, 2 in 2 weeks

. I feel so torn - let them free-range or not? They have such a good time scratching around the yard, and I don't think they are in much danger when my dogs are out in their run. I think I'm going to fence off the orcahrd from the rest of the backyard as that is where all the predators enter from. The chickens will get the acre closest to the house, and my dogs can patrol the back acre.

I looked up Javas and Buckeyes after you left here, they both sound like wonderful birds! If I decide not to let them free-range, then I shouldn't get any more, but if they hang out where they have been since the attack (under my office window!), then they are fine. Are they near POL? let me talk to Don, if they don't need heat and we divide the yard, then sure! (I don't know how he will feel about pounding in fence posts after Sunday's disaster!)

and poor Shasta, I totally knicked her twice while removing some matts. She did not even flinch! I'm taking her to a groomer next week as I can't finish the job. I now know why poodles often have lion cuts! We brush her often, but the brush was not making it all the way through so her long hair looked nice but her undercoat is totally matted against her skin on both hips where she lies down on them. I thought I should remove the matts before I bring her to the groomer so they won't see how neglectful I have been, but now she looks worse with the 2 big knicks! Then I tried using scissors, her haircut is awful! I did not cut her skin anymore, but the haircut reminds me of an episode of Leave It to Beaver!