Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[room onthebroom]

Black eggs would frighten me

I get how the black ones seem a little weird. Some people at DH's work are creeped out by our CL's green/blue eggs. Those are my favorite.

Snowflakes ruin everything!
There was even a big ordeal about the Christmas song "baby it's cold outside" one of my favorites. They claimed it was insinuating date rape with the use of roofies because of the line "say whats in this drink?"

The whole POINT of the song is that she actually WANTED to stay.. . But is thinking about the moral or social consequences. Saying hey what's in this drink was her trying to figure out a way to give herself and excuse to stay.

Yeah people were getting stupid with that this year!
My favorite Christmas meme last month was; So people are freaking out about baby its cold outside, but grandma gets run over by a reindeer & nobody says anything

OK I have a question about LLamas. Does any one in this group raise or have LLamas?
Or know any one that has them on BYC?

I am beginning research for companion animals which I can trim their hooves my self .... There are several Llama breeders here in San Diego... I want one that can go with me on walks and possibly carry a back pack and harness to steady me if I have balance issues.

deb

An companion llama? Interesting idea. I'm not super familiar with them, but I remember them being pretty tall. Maybe if you got an alpaca instead you could have a companion animal plus make money making stuff out of the fur.

 

[perchie.girl]

An companion llama? Interesting idea. I'm not super familiar with them, but I remember them being pretty tall. Maybe if you got an alpaca instead you could have a companion animal plus make money making stuff out of the fur.

LLama fur can be woven... or felted... I may try felting. But the companion job would be to protect livestock. Alpacas are too small for that. from what I have read... Dogs and Coyotes are what I wan them for... And to take the place of my need for horses. I can trim a Llama hoof but Horses take more skill and alot more tools and about a years worth aof training before I could do it.

Ju8st a thought I was toying with...

 

[Shadrach]

I wanted to be a vet, but couldn't afford it.
Wanted to be a dairy farmer in Hawaii; couldn't afford that, either.
Wanted to raise beef cattle; guess what!

I don't think I would enjoy being a general vet. I would have to specialise in something...maybe chickens I like dogs but I'm not fond of cats and a general livestock vet for farms etc doesn't grab me either.
If I could do exactly what I wanted and had the money to do it of course, which I haven't and at my age never likely to have, I would set up a fowl rescue center and be very content.

 

[Shadrach]

There are many things I don’t understand about chickens. One kind of behavior that has had me wondering for a while is this.
When one of the junior hens in Tribe 1 lays an egg, Fat Bird the most senior and the only hen that hasn’t successfully sat and hatched (she’s a French Maran) goes to the nest site when the junior hen has finished laying and looks at the eggs. It’s almost like she’s counting them. She doesn’t disturb the eggs and doesn’t interfere while the junior hen is laying. I’ve been trying to watch to see if Blue Spot from Tribe 2 does the same with her junior hens but I haven’t seen enough of them laying to properly assess this. I have seen Gedit, the senior hen of Tribe 3 behave like this but she sometimes goes and sits on the eggs for a while. Gedit has never laid an egg of her own despite being nearly 7 years old now.

I have a list of such non random behaviors that I bear in mind while I watch the chickens. Every now and then I work out what the most likely explanation is and if possible put the theory to test.

 

[BuffOrpington567]

Talk with each other about various subjects.

 

[kwhites634]

Snowflakes ruin everything!
There was even a big ordeal about the Christmas song "baby it's cold outside" one of my favorites. They claimed it was insinuating date rape with the use of roofies because of the line "say whats in this drink?"

The whole POINT of the song is that she actually WANTED to stay.. . But is thinking about the moral or social consequences. Saying hey what's in this drink was her trying to figure out a way to give herself and excuse to stay.

All the same things were said, in the vernacular of the times, about rock 'n roll in the 50's. If people try hard enough, they can always find something to pick on in any musical genre. There will always be busy-bodies, trouble-makers, & goodie-two-shoes with too much time on their hands.

 

[kwhites634]

Snowflakes ruin everything!
There was even a big ordeal about the Christmas song "baby it's cold outside" one of my favorites. They claimed it was insinuating date rape with the use of roofies because of the line "say whats in this drink?"

The whole POINT of the song is that she actually WANTED to stay.. . But is thinking about the moral or social consequences. Saying hey what's in this drink was her trying to figure out a way to give herself and excuse to stay.

Next thing you know, someone will get all up-in-arms over the garden ornament depicting the lady in polka-dot dress & sunbonnet, bent over pulling weeds with her lace panties in full view, if they haven't already.

 

[kwhites634]

OK I have a question about LLamas. Does any one in this group raise or have LLamas?
Or know any one that has them on BYC?

I am beginning research for companion animals which I can trim their hooves my self .... There are several Llama breeders here in San Diego... I want one that can go with me on walks and possibly carry a back pack and harness to steady me if I have balance issues.

deb

The problem with llamas, as I understand it, not being an owner, is the nasty dispositions of some who don't play well with others, including "their" people.

 

[kwhites634]

Hope he didn't break nothin' when he fell

 

[Shadrach]

Can I stand on my soapbox a minute?

I've been on a mission to buy my great-nieces/nephews little kid books after visiting them a few months ago & realizing they have none. They live out of state & so once a month I pick a new one from Amazon to be shipped out. The books I pick are all well read favorites of mine, but I still read the negative reviews because some of them are badly printed, damaged or edited, etc...

I am BLOWN AWAY at how badly the Snowflakes have victimized all of my most cherished reading material. Get this; My all time fav kids book 'A Fly Went By' has been totally demonized because (1.) There is a man with a gun (2.) The fox thinks the man wants to kill him. (3.) The fox actually uses the word 'KILL' & (4.) The boy threatens to 'whip' an animal for chasing a baby calf. I can not freaking believe this! Multiple reviews said that there were messages of violence throughout the whole book, that they parents were mortified, it disgusted them, ruined their whole day, they were traumatized & even that its racist.... WTH???

Would you believe that Hop on Pop "encourages bad behavior". One Fish, Two Fish & Go Dog Go are "random jibber jabber." Green Eggs & Ham "Encourages children to say I don't like things" & is "creepy" because it "exhibits extreme lack of respect for individual boundaries & a persons ability to say no." Sam was also referred to as "a dealer pushing something on someone for free to get them addicted to it." Are You My Mother is a "terrible child abandonment story" & has "no respect for foster, adopted, or interracial families where parents don't always look like their children." I can only assume that Put Me In The Zoo is encouraging caged animals preform in captivity & Fish Out of Water is a fat shamming book.

I could go on all night, but dinner just walked thru the door. Suffice it to say, I'm frustrated!!! I was raised on these books, raised a generation of nieces & nephews on these books & even raised my own kids on them. Whats next? Burning AA Milne books?

You will have to enlighten me, what is snowflake?