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[pettec63]

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OH my gosh!!red they are beautiful!!! VERY NICE !!

I love larry and Hoss!!

 

[Chickielady]

OK guys, are you ready for a tour ???
Here we go:

The duckles in da grasses...

POOF!!!
What duckles ?????

Center brooder full of BCMs, the Dominicker, Dark Cornish, and the ever popular "Bar-B-Que Special"

The Buckeyes:

Note: nest boxes are to the right, behind the board so they do not poop them up.
I will uncover them at POL

They come a running..

there is a white rock pullet in there too, same age.

this side of the duplex is not quite done yet...so it is boarded up.
OK, a rest for the fingers & then some more.

 

[pettec63]

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cute!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I take it that DH does not visit the bird area often. LOL....

I know the Brinsea is probably way too small for your production...but just in case of emergency. Right now it is full of approximately 14 fluff balls. Waiting for the last of them to dry out and wait for the cover of darkness to introduce them to their new momma. Wonder what Hannah is going to think when she wakes up with 14 babies under her. I looked under her today - I thought she had 1 egg...she actually has 3. Wonder if she can do multiplication.

They are over by the horses in the horse trailer and I decided to bring them out onto the lawn Sunday for "turn out" time. They LOVED running around and eating grass. He asked me what I was going to do with all of those geese? I told him the Buffs are going to his mom and the others I'll be keeping. LOL

Thanks again on the offer for the Brinsea borrowing.

Does it do duck eggs? I'm chomping on the bit to get these rare ducks...I left everything else in the hovabator (on lockdown) this morning. The remaining calls aren't moving.

They were without power, too...(when we lost power last week).

I think for duck eggs they suggest that you have the additional humidity pump thing. I don't have that. Sorry.

 

[pettec63]

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I agree that education is the parents #1 job and I agree that there are a lot of messed up parents, but I also think maybe I pay too much in taxes for the education system to just get a SKELETON. And when I entrust my child to those people for 6 hours I expect him to be treated right and respected. They need to stop giving teachers tenure so they can axe the ones that are doing permanent damage. We should get our tax money back so we can afford psycho therapy to right their wrongs and private tutors and lessons. I'm all for that.

And a side note, Red reiner, your situation is one of the reasons people should strike. Don't worry, I wouldn't run you over!
I think teachers get paid plenty, like $70,000 plus a year and they only work 9 months of it. If teachers weren't so hard to fire more would do the job they were hired for and you would be able to staff the schools with the best of them.

 

[Chickielady]

OK continuing on our tour...

the garden from up in front of the Cuckoos pen...

in the green house, you guys havn't been in here in a few weeks...

Toms, cucs & basil...

Candy Onions

greens

snow peas

pumpkins, zuchinni, sweet meats & spaghetti squash.
I have paddy pans & 8 more tomatoes and ancho chilis (for the bar be que) and watermelon (orangeglo & midget yellow) and cantalopes (fast break) in another green house behind the big green house...

GIANT strawberries up the kazoo thanks to WA-4-HPoultryMom!!!!!!!!!

I have 6 long boxes of strawberries as you see here...all are HUGE before the blossoms even fall off...do not know what kind they are, but they are mega happy!!!!!!

JC dancing for me....

He is such a good boy!!
OK enough here now..I will do one more post of pics...

 

[pettec63]

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I agree with the tenure thing, and I don't know what determines teacher pay, but some great teachers get a lot less than that! I co-worker of mine who was earning over $50,000 a year quit his job and went back to school to become a teacher whn his wife was accepted into medical school at Columbia. He figured she'd be making the big bucks so his income did not matter, and he could do what he loved. He got his Masters degree and then taught in NYC for a few years, doing outward bound programs in the summer. When his wife got an internship is Seattle, he got a job as a science teacher at Issaquah high. After just one year, he was voted Issaquah's teacher of the year. His salary? $27,000, and that is only because he had experience and a Masters degree. He quit after 2 years because he needed to make some more $ to pay down his wife's student loans, so he tutored for a few years. His wife landed a real job at a hospital in Bellingham, so he is again teaching HS up there. This is an article on him, he recently was awarded State Teacher of the Year:

http://www.washingtonea.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1828&catid=179&Itemid=91

He devotes so much of his free time to lesson planning and stuff to make his classes interesting that is has become a major issue in his marriage. When he is home on school holidays and his wife is working, they hire a sitter to watch their 2 boys because he is busy learning and planning new lessons. His wife told me that some years the sitter gets paid more than he makes!

I'm not saying that all teachers should work this hard, but certainly teachers this dedicated should be paid more than a tenured teacher with no passion ofr the job. Those teachers need to go!

Another thing that bugs me is the huge push our district is doing in science and math - we have some of the best scores in the state in our little school district in these subjects. Some kids, however, are not cut out for this, and there needs to be a wider variety of classes available to them, including more vocational training. I guess it is a drawback of living in a district with only one extrememly over-crowded high school. Geographically, we are the largest district in the state. Some of those poor kids have to sit in that schoolbus an awfully long time!

I remember reading John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" 20+ years ago. In it I was struck by a line. I no longer remember the story, but there was a farmer with 2 sons, one built big and strong, the other with hands like a lady, and rather weak and prone to daydreaming. The father lamented that they were going to have to send him to college because he just physically does not have what it takes to work on a farm. It was said in the same tone that people refer to vocational schools now, the fall back plan for kids who can't cut it. That was once how college was viewed. With the extremely high numbers of people attending college now, I think it will once again be viewed that way. Without a graduate degree, college no longer sets you apart from the crowd. Everybody goes! And for the most part, colleges teach no practical hands-on skills. In my opinion, this should give the advantage to the kids who went to vocational schools! There are some jobs that can NEVER be shipped overseas ... you aren't going to send your car to China to be repaired, nor your plumbing to India ..... My job, assay development (molecular biology/genetics) for a local pharmaceutical company is now done in Taiwan. My coworkers scattered all over the country looking for jobs, and some fantastic older scientists with PhD's and impressive credential remain unemployed after more than 2 years since their jobs went overseas. They spent 10 years in colleges earning advanced degrees and holding internships for itty bitty stipends, the next 15 paying off their student loans. The jobs limit you to working in only a few cities in the country, all with very high costs of living. Sure the mechanic may earn a bit less, but he can live ANYWHERE, and no student loans, at least not big ones! College is often highly over-rated.

He sounds like an awesome teacher wish there were more like him!! I spent money on college and paid off the loan, but, my body couldn't hack the punishment any more, it took me going to a oil field job to pay the loan off and I made 2 xs more then I ever did as a vet tech!!! I didn't need a degree for the oil field job, but, it does break my heart I don't or can't work that job any more!!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I made a 'Buddy list' note that denniselk from Bonney Lake, WA has midget white turkeys. I do not know if they still do or if they have any eggs or poults.

I thought some one else just mentioned them like yesterday of the day before. 4321 or REI?

Nope, not me...could it have been Jbear? I am just overrun with Orp chicks and Mutt chicks.

 

[pettec63]

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[Chickielady]

OK, some more birdie pics

B&W mottled Ameraucana pullet, so cute!!!!!!!

more of the Ams

Cuckoo Marans resting with Beta Cockeral

Alpha comes walking outta the coop..note his fantastic feathered shanks!!!

OK, that is it for now...............

I am gonna shower & get my jammies on now...course I have said that for 3 days now.
And I always end up working all day..no rest for the farmers.