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[SadieSue]

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I don't have any great suggestions. Gift certificates? Home canned goods? They could probably use a drink by the end of the school year, but I guess alcohol wouldn't be appropriate.

We didn't gift our teachers every year except for a few that Lily thought were really special. I remember one year at the end of 6th grade (I think) when she insisted on giving her teachers a pineapple and hand made a card for each of them that said "Golden fruit for a golden teacher". It was all her idea and it still makes me smile to think of it.

 

[Chickielady]

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I don't think either will take a live chicken. I know they will take small critters like mice. When brush hogging or mowing/raking hay there will be lots of them following ya.

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I have never seen that white triangle. I do know that one quick way to tell if hawk or eagle is that hawk is light on the under side eagle is all dark. Also buzzards will only take what is dead. So if ya have buzzards circling ya better check to see. We had 10 of em out in our field once so I went to see what it was and I found the remains of some body's cat.

Here's a little funny for ya. DW was setting in the yard last summer. I walked up and she points to the sky and says what are those. I look up and there are 6 buzzards circling. I said BUZZARDS ya might wanna get up and move around a bit! So now that is the thing around here when we see em.

LOL.

LOL I had the same thing happen in NorCal, Grandma, then 94 would come out & sit in an old office chair with wheels, and scoot around the sidewalk & patio on sunny days.
She sat out there one day for an hour or so, and I looked up and there must have been 20 buzzards circling..so I said "C'mon Gramma, time to go in" LOL'
My daughter was standing there and almost peed herself laughing so hard.
The entire thing escaped gramma.

 

[FuzzyHeartFarm]

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Welcome! Glad you found us here!
Your set up is very cute! You need the big Winlock egg to go with that big chicken!

I'm in Chehalis so I am very familiar w/ Winlock. Use to live in Napavine which was even closer.
Things can get very chatty at times so you may want to do some typing exercises to get prepared!

You know, now that you mention it....I think an egg on the right side of the picket fence would look great!
My dad and his family had a chicken farm in Winlock-love the area! I even like Napavine and Chehalis. (I love it when out of towners try to say Chehalis) Heck, I love it when they try and say Lebam!

 

[ReiMiraa]

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I feel bad for the chick if it turns out to be a hen with a name like that..... by 3 weeks of age if the crest is turning red then it is a roo.

one of these days i need to post pics of my rooster turken.

What color is the turken? one of the 2 chicks i had was an EE/turken and another was a Blue Andlusian/ Turken... i seem to have good luck in hatching the color blue here.... i thought everyone said it was hard?

 

[ReiMiraa]

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I would love to hear how the Icelandic hatch goes. I plan on eventually having a flock of my own.

Getting Icelandic eggs in the mail anyday now, from the Warden..awesome birds.
So will have eggs for sale in about 6 mo...I am counting my eggs before they hatch again.
And actually I am hatching them for Boldog...so WE will have awesome Icelandics here in Western WA...OK ???

I could never get anyone on that thread to respond to me to buy eggs from. So i googled alot. Mine came from Linda at Mack Hill Farms in NH. these were imported in 2007.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Came back briefly to clarify, If you hear on the news about a teacher getting run over it wasn't me. I was just joking.

I hear ya Chickie!
One thing I am thankful for is the last two years of my kids High School they were able to attend a technical school for High Schoolers. The school bused them over there. Both of them took welding. The instructor was awesome. Granted, the school was pretty much set up for the kids that it was apparent they were 'not college bound' and doing poorly in the traditional class setting but it's a great program and really helps kids be job ready. It's a step in the right direction for the schools to offer that. Shows they are thinking about all the kids needs and not just the special few.

 

[Chickielady]

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I don't have any great suggestions. Gift certificates? Home canned goods? They could probably use a drink by the end of the school year, but I guess alcohol wouldn't be appropriate.

We didn't gift our teachers every year except for a few that Lily thought were really special. I remember one year at the end of 6th grade (I think) when she insisted on giving her teachers a pineapple and hand made a card for each of them that said "Golden fruit for a golden teacher". It was all her idea and it still makes me smile to think of it.

Why on this Earth are you giving any teachers any gifts ??????????????????
It is their JOB to teach.
They get a PAYCHECK & great benefits and vacations and retirement.
No one else gets a """GIFT""" for doing their job.
Think about it, if you actually gave a gift to everyone who was just DOING THEIR JOB!!!
The meter reader, the garbage man (he needs a gift bad!!

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the poor soul running the 7-eleven
The gardeners, the power line guys...
What about the poor guy scrubbing the toilets ?!?!
The janitors..scraping the kids chewing gum off the floors...
The kitchen staff sweating in the HOT kitchen.
Think about that.
I would not give a second thought to giving a teacher a ""gift""" geeeze.........

Seriously!!!

 

[SadieSue]

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Splashes or not, they are still pretty cute - and big! The little serama are precious...

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Pretty much my feelings about anybody that is on strike! If the job is so bad and or you are so under paid and unhappy well don't let the door hitcha where the good lord splitcha !!! There are plenty of us out here who would like to have some of those jobs !!!!!!

 

[herbandteas]

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Welcome to backyard chickens! I just love your coup, brooder and the chicken on the fence. Where in wa state is lebam?