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[Kaneke]

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yes but will it eat slugs ??

 

[Ogress]

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yes but will it eat slugs ??

Make it sit in your garden and fill its back with beer, and I bet it will!

 

[VelvettFog]

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The coop is the size of a softball!

Robin, why are all these people saying you have such a great setup?!

I can only assume, at this point, that the HUGE comment was about the melons.
I have not published any photos about any of my coops.
I have posted several pics of our house we are building.............

But yes, I DO have a great set up on chickens & turkeys.

Who's got huge melons?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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yes but will it eat slugs ??

Well of course but he is a "PAMPERED" duck and demands being hand fed.

 

[blueducklings]

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It has changed a lot in just that last few years with all the funding cuts to education. Each year they ask for more and more for their fundraising goals, plus we are asked to provide more and more of the supplies that the schools used to supply. Our schools even have school-grounds maintenance weekends where parents come in on the weekends and pull the weeds, trim the bushes, mow the lawns ... The school no longer has someone to do grounds maintenance; the parents do it and it is a public school (and it is horribly maintained - pretty much all weeds and almost no lawn). I'm just waiting for them to ask us to come in and scrub toilets. I know the janitor retired after they cut his hours to almost nothing.

They take up class time bribing the kids with prizes. The prizes they give out too are just ridiculous. At last years walk-a-thon, my daughter won a drawing for a VIDEO CAMERA!!!! What the heck does she need that for? I don't even have one! What the heck is that teaching our kids? Get us money and you can win prizes worth more than the stuff your parents carefully picked out for you for your birthday? I'd rather they kept the $ for the school.... and that was not even the GRAND PRIZE! It was one of several lesser ones. She would have been just as happy had the prize been a container of bubbles. I assume someone donated the prize items.

I wish instead of the fundraisers they would just give us the amount at the beginning of the year and let those who need to pay by installments do so. Hitting us all up at the beginning of the year when we just spent everything on the supplies they require is just too difficult.

I agree to that!

I agree. We can pay a set amount and cut out the magazines, cookies gift wrapping etc. and give all the proceeds to the school. I don't mind paying for the bus either, and the text books. Same for girl scout cookies & Boy scout pop corn. Why pay for junk food? and get only a small proceed?
I grew up in a "free" school system too. THe schooling was free, so all the parents paid for was the bus (public transport optional) the books and the uniform.
The tax payers paid for the schooling. Oh and we had to pay for janitorial scv as well...$5 or so a month.
It is just very hard to pull that away now.

 

[blueducklings]

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Sending prayers and good wishes to your special friend.

 

[blueducklings]

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My husband works for the PO and when any animal comes in they call the people or my hubby drives them out. That isnt his job but all the people know that he loves animals. So I'll have to say that some PO are great and some are not..

I must say my PO is great too. They are so excited about my ducklings they want me to open it so they could see.
They also called me at 7am but I did tell them 2 days ahead that I was expecting ducklings so they can look out for them.
I guess it is different if I was going to mail them out.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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Yeah, ours was fine. I called them the day after the chicks were sent (supposedly) to tell them that I was "expecting live birds", per the shipper's request. And not more than two hours later, I got a call back, telling me they'd received them.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

Morning, All.

So... Who's up for Thursday BYC Meetup for Northenders?

Thursday Sept 15th
~ 6:30pm
Third Place Books cafeteria
Kenmore

--PPP

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I agree to that!

I agree. We can pay a set amount and cut out the magazines, cookies gift wrapping etc. and give all the proceeds to the school. I don't mind paying for the bus either, and the text books. Same for girl scout cookies & Boy scout pop corn. Why pay for junk food? and get only a small proceed?
I grew up in a "free" school system too. THe schooling was free, so all the parents paid for was the bus (public transport optional) the books and the uniform.
The tax payers paid for the schooling. Oh and we had to pay for janitorial scv as well...$5 or so a month.
It is just very hard to pull that away now.

Girl Scout Cookies are a cultural institution, not "junk food."

I suspect there would be an uprising if GSUSA decided to deprive us of our thin mints.