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[pertnear09]

Someone what to do these injectors for me?
I hate working on Vans....View attachment 1634726

No thanks. I've finally gotten to where I even have someone do my own work. Had someone put a starter on my 09 Hyundai last month. Had to pull the intake off to get to it.

 

[room onthebroom]

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...

I think its a very interesting idea & will make a great chapter in your biography!

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.

I have a running theory that its a survival defense mechanism. I think the hens who dont lay are trying to fool you into thinking that they are productive to avoid going into the soup. We had a hen that wouldn't lay, but would make a huge production about sitting on the others eggs when we were outside & then displaying them to us. The other hens would be screaming at her & you could practically hear them yelling, "THATS MY EGG!!!" It was hysterical! I told her repeatedly that she wouldnt be going into the soup, but I believe its just a deeply ingrained instinct.

OMG!
While I find it maddening, I also laugh at the silliness of it. I can’t believe some people have so much time on their hands as to sit and write reviews like that on old classics. And if idiots don’t buy the books because of such stupidity, then they probably don’t deserve to read it anyway.

I’d love to see their reviews of Fox and the Hound, and Lady and the Tramp

Ahem.... Didnt you hear? They have renamed Lady & the Tramp to "Dog of Unspecified Gender or Breed & the Domestically Challenged Companion."

"BABY ITS COLD OUTSIDE....."

 

[WVduckchick]

You're not thinking of Daxigait? She has one to protect her goats.

Nah, I didn’t know she had any. I never interacted much with her. Is she still around?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

aren't they coot

 

[WVduckchick]

View attachment 1634917 aren't they coot

What’s the little frisbee looking thing?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

What’s the little frisbee looking thing?

The best dog toy I've ever bought. Got it on Amazon she has had it for over a year and hasn't torn it up!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

6.99 and worth every cent.

 

[room onthebroom]

View attachment 1634917 aren't they coot

I love them! I would hug them & kiss them & squeeze them & love them. I would name them George. (no relation to our magician, of course.)

 

[Shadrach]

I have a running theory that its a survival defense mechanism. I think the hens who dont lay are trying to fool you into thinking that they are productive to avoid going into the soup. We had a hen that wouldn't lay, but would make a huge production about sitting on the others eggs when we were outside & then displaying them to us. The other hens would be screaming at her & you could practically hear them yelling, "THATS MY EGG!!!" It was hysterical! I told her repeatedly that she wouldnt be going into the soup, but I believe its just a deeply ingrained instinct.

Smart hen; not because of her survival strategy but because she knew what soup was.

 

[WVduckchick]

View attachment 1634933 6.99 and worth every cent.

I need one. Dudley can tear up a rock!

(Hubby has video of Dudley chewing on a rock. I’ll have to get it from him)