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[Imp]

Quote: Yes, I'm sorry.
It's hard to lose those we know.

Russ

 

[hallerlake]

This was not my idea of a good weekend. Yesterday we went to a wedding for a friend we have not seen for a few years. It was good to see the 3 people we knew for a couple minutes but just felt kind of awkward being there. I ended up checking my phone, which was on silent, and had a jarring text from a friend I used to work with. Apparently, another friend I worked with had a heart attack and stroke on Tues and died Fri afternoon. She was 28y/o!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It crushed me pretty bad. Then, of course, it made me wish we had hung out far more often than we did since we always had fun. Since I stopped working May of last year, I have found myself introverting again and have a far more vague social life than I did before, if that's possible! I've always been a bit on the shy side but feeling crappy all the time makes it even harder to get out there.
So I ended up having a few drinks...well maybe more than that...and even with a full stomach and several glasses of water last night I felt very ill today. I don't get terrible hang-overs so I think it was more stress induced than anything. Certainly the tossing/turning, bad temperature regulation I suffered from last night didn't help. Today I felt like a had a strange flu and my skin felt inflammed rather than feverish. So I was pretty worthless today and didn't even go visit my chickens (DD was sent to do the chores).
Praying I have a better tomorrow!!!

So young! How very sad.

 

[itsren]

Well, as disappointed as I was to have to tractor my free-ranging chickens again, there's a good side to it. I just finished spending 45 minutes having a nice cup of coffee and watching chicken TV. It was just like the good 'ol days. Lately, they've been bee-lining to the compost bin behind my shed and playing in there, so I didn't see them a lot. Now, they have no choice but to be seen. Such a good morning!

Once a hawk discovers chickens, do you think he'll always remember they are there? Is it going to be safe for my girls to free-range w/o constant supervision again?

 

[itsren]

http://www.grit.com/fresh-eggs-daily/nesting-box-herbs-chicken-aromatherapy.aspx

I thought some of you might find this interesting.

Thanks!

Is this true? Oregano - combats coccidia, salmonella, infectious bronchitis, avian flu, blackhead and e-coli

If it is, I'm actually going to harvest and dry all the Oregano I have. I have a bunch of it. So much that I've gotten into the habit of cutting it and composting it. My chickens don't really eat it, though - is there a way I can get them to eat it?

 

[chickenjane82]

Once a hawk discovers chickens, do you think he'll always remember they are there? Is it going to be safe for my girls to free-range w/o constant supervision again?

YEP. You just have to make it harder to get them. I have string criss crossed along the whole yard. It doesnt look real attractive, but it makes it harder to swoop the chickens so we still have fly overs but no attempts at my birds since they went up.

 

[itsren]

YEP. You just have to make it harder to get them. I have string criss crossed along the whole yard. It doesnt look real attractive, but it makes it harder to swoop the chickens so we still have fly overs but no attempts at my birds since they went up.

 

[Imp]

Quote: I have lots of trees, shrubs, deck, overhang etc in my yard. I don't often see hawks, but eagles come by. The hens will disappear. I mean really disappear. (like they never existed) for a few minutes. It's kind of eerie.

Russ

 

[Nikki99]

Tonight I discovered a kid's light saber is a great light button pusher. No more chicken butt in the face as I struggle to reach over them to get to the light.

The force is finally with me!

Hahahahahaha, that's funny!!

Yup! She has a "girl" duck named Daffy. Who'd a thought a Daffy Duck would-a, could-a ever be a girl?

This is interesting, we (my family) were just having a discussion about the name Daffy...boy or girl? We have 3 ducks, 1 boy, 1 girl and 1 unknown. We've been calling the unknown "D" duck but we thought about Daffy b/c that one could go either way. Lol

And your six hens will love you for it! Especially if you somehow forget how to count... 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9... hey, that's only 6 numbers, right?

OK one more thing that I found SO AWESOME today. As we were leaving the sale DW ask T Hi to go down this road. she wanted to see if she could find the house she lived in as a kid. Then she says turn here and go up the hill. Then she says there it is and tells where her bedroom was etc. Now this may not sound like much. Keep in mind that it has been probably 40 + years since he lived there AND since she has had the stroke most of history is little more than a mystery.

OK good night

That's great to hear CR! Sometimes it's the things that may seem so little, that can have the biggest impact.

Holy crap - is it seriously past 1 in the morning and I'm on a CHICKEN FORUM? My husband is going to think I've gone crazy... Although he thinks that about me anyway, regardless of the topic LOL

Loooove this!! My husband thinks I'm crazy too, b/c I'm a member of a chicken forum!! Lol Silly guy, what does he even know anyway, right!?!
Oh and

OK so I know ya all have been told the fabricated story of me (supposedly) stealing the waitress's phone. That is not the way it went. Well OK so maybe her phone may have ended up in my pocket but.
Really it wasn't.





So here is what I think MAY have happened. While standing in the restaurant talking to T HI and itsren I think the phone may have "accidentally" jumped into my pocket because it thought it belonged to T HI and feared she was going to forget it on the counter. And then some ten or so minutes later when T Hi was seen talking on her own phone said supposedly rustled phone realized it didn't belong to T HI so it didn't need to depend on me for a ride home and that it should give it's self up to be reunited with it's proper owner! At which point the waitress happened to walk by and see the "supposedly stolen" phone in my hand.
Yeah that must have been the way it all went down. And see just how fast people were to try to blame me??? This is prezectally why peeps think me to be what they think me to be!!!

This is a funny version of the story CR!!! Tehehehehe

This was not my idea of a good weekend. Yesterday we went to a wedding for a friend we have not seen for a few years. It was good to see the 3 people we knew for a couple minutes but just felt kind of awkward being there. I ended up checking my phone, which was on silent, and had a jarring text from a friend I used to work with. Apparently, another friend I worked with had a heart attack and stroke on Tues and died Fri afternoon. She was 28y/o!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It crushed me pretty bad. Then, of course, it made me wish we had hung out far more often than we did since we always had fun. Since I stopped working May of last year, I have found myself introverting again and have a far more vague social life than I did before, if that's possible! I've always been a bit on the shy side but feeling crappy all the time makes it even harder to get out there.
So I ended up having a few drinks...well maybe more than that...and even with a full stomach and several glasses of water last night I felt very ill today. I don't get terrible hang-overs so I think it was more stress induced than anything. Certainly the tossing/turning, bad temperature regulation I suffered from last night didn't help. Today I felt like a had a strange flu and my skin felt inflammed rather than feverish. So I was pretty worthless today and didn't even go visit my chickens (DD was sent to do the chores).
Praying I have a better tomorrow!!!

I'm so sorry for your loss. Wow, that is really young. Very heartbreaking.
I hope your feeling somewhat better today. Something one of my friends always says to me when I'm down, "chin up buttercup".

http://www.grit.com/fresh-eggs-daily/nesting-box-herbs-chicken-aromatherapy.aspx

I thought some of you might find this interesting.

This sounds really neat! I'm definitely going to do this...guess I need to go get some herbs now too!! Dang spoiled chickens!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Contrary to what T Hi or itsren may try to convince ya of ........that is the true story I just made it up!!!

 

[TerrorBird]

Quote:
We're planting several ornamental cherry and fruiting peach trees in our yard proper to make that area (hopefully) completely safe for them. Our established cherry looks terribly nice and isn't very tall; hawks can't sit in there and wait undetected. Plus, the main branches are low enough that my young girls like to jump up in there and pretend that they're wild birds. I try very hard to keep them out of our large field and they don't go over there for the most part. Yesterday evening, Muffet and crew discovered that there are apple trees next to the driveway bordering the field. I couldn't chase them away from the tree effectively, so I took Pudge on the Walk of Shame back over to the pen (I was just fussing at her while hugging her) and mom herded the other three with a rake.