Poultry and Livestock: The Crazy Chicken Crew and Their Titles

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Author Content CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 10:47 AM Post #5683098 OK, some of us on the poultry and livestock forum can be a bit odd sometimes. We all got started on some hatching missions with giving silly titles, and it stuck. Now we keep forgetting our titles. Here is the list, to the best of Commander Moxon's ability. It is in no particular order, and I will edit it to keep it up to date. Please tell me if I forget anybody. It's not supposed to be military. It's just fun. And besides, the military doesn't have titles like Kitchen Protocol Officer and Mother Bird. Some people are still choosing their titles... Commander Moxon when she's hatching Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Moxon when she's not. Because she is a picky speller, which is petty. Commander Catscan when she's hatching. Captain Catscan when she's not. Lieutenant Major Harmony. General Dusty (she's just the boss of us all!) Commander Williams when she's hatching. Major Williams when she's not. Commander ZZ when she's hatching. Mother Bird ZZ when she's not. Commander Josh when he's hatching. Captain Josh when he's not. Samurai Warrior Luvs Freezer Camp Captain Debilu Kitchen Protocol Officer Jan Ninja Dahlianut Queen Mother Fran Chief Food Taster to the Queen Mother, BJ. Commander Jordan when she's hatching. Captain Jordan when she's not. Minister of Pastries Brigidlily (or maybe Senior Chef Pastrypuff...she is in 2 minds) Chief of Covert Operations (CCO) Grownut (usually found under her rock) Lieutenant Lazy Ladies. Master Technical Officer (MTO) Musicnotes. Chief Between (is InnBetween), but we can't call her Chief Between InnBetween because that is way too confusing even for those of us who are admittedly brilliant. Like Catscan. SilkieChick = Queen of the Fluffed and Furléd Fowl (QFFF) Chicken Coordinating Officer (CCO) MaypopLaurel Coordinator of Missing Chickens (CMC) LadybugsAbound Chief of Wild Bird Operations (CWBO) Wren. Chief Genetics Officer (CGO) Jenks Chief Manure Disturbance Monitor (CMDM) Fla_Chick Special Agent, Chick Inspection Division (SACID) Sewincircle Chief Poultry Protest Protocol and Secret Experience Officer (CPPPSEO) Patchouli78 (say that one ten times fast and you get a free egg.) This message was edited Jan 1, 2009 5:33 PM grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 11:02 AM Post #5683183 Ok, I'll bite. May I (grammatically correct!!) be CCO Grow? [Chief of Covert Operations] From under my rock? actually just CO, don't need the Chief really. This message was edited Oct 17, 2008 9:02 AM dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 11:19 AM Post #5683256 ooooo grownut cool handle. Let me need if you're in need of my ninja skills in an operation. ps. I live under my garden gate sometimes so I totally understand the rock thing. Lazy_Ladies Vancouver, WA (Zone 8a) October 17, 2008 11:19 AM Post #5683259 You all referred to me as something in one of these operations... what was it? You can assign me a title... Lazy_Ladies Vancouver, WA (Zone 8a) October 17, 2008 11:24 AM Post #5683272 I can be a civilian or a lieutenant or just plain ol' Lazy. hmmmmm... Maybe Lietenant LL? brigidlily Lumberton, TX (Zone 8b) October 17, 2008 11:26 AM Post #5683278 Can I be Minister of Pastries? knslwilliams Clarksburg, MO October 17, 2008 11:31 AM Post #5683308 Note to self... Make good friends with the Minister of Pastries. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 11:33 AM Post #5683316 NO kiddin!!! Is chocolate involved? Does the Minister of Patries need a ninja body guard. I'm a mercenary. I hire out for chocolate. brigidlily Lumberton, TX (Zone 8b) October 17, 2008 11:51 AM Post #5683364 (ssshhhhhhhhhhhh... we'll talk about the takeover later...) grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 11:52 AM Post #5683374 Nice to meetcha Dahls, I'm just mercenary... dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 11:57 AM Post #5683391 LOL I seem to be typo challenged today brph. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 12:10 PM Post #5683434 All added and accounted for! Where is InnBetween with her desired title? And Luvs? Catscan Lodi, United States October 17, 2008 12:12 PM Post #5683446 It should be noted that Captain Catscan is also head of the NPGC (Northern Pacific Ground Control) in charge of picky challenges to Commander Moxon's erratic Great White Northern Operations. ZZsBabiez Lodi, CA (Zone 9b) October 17, 2008 12:14 PM Post #5683459 What about TF? dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 12:14 PM Post #5683460 Thanks for the clarification Captian. I was close. I thought it was Northern Pacific Great Chickens Lazy_Ladies Vancouver, WA (Zone 8a) October 17, 2008 12:20 PM Post #5683475 Unfortunately our beloved TF has gone MIA. Maybe our next mission should be a rescue mission to find the location of and rescue TF. ZZsBabiez Lodi, CA (Zone 9b) October 17, 2008 12:20 PM Post #5683477 Hello? I know TF is MIA but we need to put her in. ZZsBabiez Lodi, CA (Zone 9b) October 17, 2008 12:20 PM Post #5683479 ooops! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 12:23 PM Post #5683491 LT.Major Harmony of SRGC Reporting for Duty and might i say this crew is shapeing up just fine. We need names for i interlopers from the NEGP no one is allowed to attend these mission without a name, rank , and serial number my number is 12360 and i will need the numbers here of all crew for logging. Please identify yourselves in the appropriate manner on these mission here is an example>>>>> LT. Major Harmony SRGC 12360 Reporting for duty and waiting for instruction. "SALUTE" PLease see to these measures at once LT. MAJOR HARMONY "SALUTE" grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 12:25 PM Post #5683501 Aaack?! I'm not sure I can remember name, rank, and serial number!! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 12:28 PM Post #5683513 Grow i have yet to recieve conformation of name, rank and serial number please see to this we need you on these mission's. LT. Major Harmony 12360 "SALUTE" {ssshhh used my birthday} frans530 Rankin, IL (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 12:29 PM Post #5683516 co-grow wtch 4 ninja attack eye out 4 cmdrs flfee bts c blbre mfns YUM dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 12:31 PM Post #5683523 What if you're chickenless? Do you still have to report for duty? I still haven't got my chick-a-poo yet. Just requesting a little clarification sir yes sir. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 12:32 PM Post #5683529 One of my many ninja skills is deciphering code. BEWARE! grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 12:35 PM Post #5683536 Us Covert Ops are more reticent... If I use Code name "Pecahn" ya think Claire'll boot me off for good? Think I'm already in the outhouse for that anyway...maybe I'm a double agent...Naah, surely I'd remember!lol! Lazy_Ladies Vancouver, WA (Zone 8a) October 17, 2008 12:35 PM Post #5683537 well in that case I believe she was a commander - or whatever the higher ranks are... Lieutenant LL 02179 reporting for duty grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 12:38 PM Post #5683550 Dahl's you might find yourself a niche in R&D -Utilitarian Chicken Yard Art. Feeding our fluffy habits... (CO's do not respond openly to code unless it's in einschway atinlay!!) Catscan Lodi, United States October 17, 2008 12:47 PM Post #5683584 I think Harmony is attempting a counter-intelligence maneuver. If any of us can remember that many pieces of identification, they are certainly spies sent over from some other more orderly forum. One that never has to worry about breaking up cupcake fights and preventing the pouring of maple syrup on new hatched chicks. Clever, Harmony. I foresee a promotion from this. Dahianut--you are entitled to one "virtual chick"...that allows you access to all the P&L forum membership benefits. After the expiration of the "virtual chick"--usually after 6 months--you are required to re-up with a real chick. Ninja decoding skills are badly needed--and being a Canadian you will be required to translate Moxon's peculiar idioms into a more understandable form for those of us down under. Of course, Josh, being even more down under, may require a separate translator. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 12:51 PM Post #5683594 Thanks Captain. I did note that there was an upside down member in the troops. Will make things interesting. I can translate upside down speak. It was part of my training. brigidlily Lumberton, TX (Zone 8b) October 17, 2008 12:51 PM Post #5683595 Senior Chief Pastrypuff reporting for duty, SIR YES SIR. Number 1952. (It seems to have been a very good year though I recall little of it sir yes sir.) Since no chickens YET all present and accounted for here sir yes sir. grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 12:53 PM Post #5683607 oh, MY! Priceless. Anyone else remember Mr. Puff-n-stuff from the old cartoon? DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 12:59 PM Post #5683641 TF just Happens to be a Brigadier General, second to me...LOL... grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 01:04 PM Post #5683653 Duuustyyyy!! How's goes all things? The move? Low ranking CO like myself seconds the ranking for TF, if I may... knslwilliams Clarksburg, MO October 17, 2008 01:09 PM Post #5683671 Major Williams 62671 reporting from the Panther Creek Outpost. All chickies present and accounted for. Salute! over... Catscan Lodi, United States October 17, 2008 01:10 PM Post #5683675 TF is, of course, second only to General Dusty. And I miss her. But glad the General is back. We need pictures of the new quarters. DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 01:11 PM Post #5683681 Second is accepted... TF will be *Home* soon.. I'm sure of it... I am busy sifting and sorting and getting rid of...No move date yet, but I want to get things gone so I am not tempted to pack them...LOL Having to work 50+ hrs a week and pack to move too is a real bear...I am just far tooooo old for this.. LOL No Pics yet Cat...I have a maybe one coming... This message was edited Oct 17, 2008 1:14 PM Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 01:12 PM Post #5683683 Man i had a whole bunch of smart ass stuff all typed out and my computer ate it so yall are safe for a while. grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 01:15 PM Post #5683687 Surely that will make it easier when it comes. I HATE the moving thing... And TF... sure hope she gets back soon. It's been a loong, looong tiiime... so who can guess that song? DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 01:18 PM Post #5683694 Me... Unfortunately... ;-P Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 01:19 PM Post #5683698 I don't know what the XX#@@#X is going on with my computer but i'm going to throw it out the window if it keeps eatin my post!!!!!!!!!!!! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 01:20 PM Post #5683702 Sir perhaps it has been infiltrated. Do we have a Techie Officer? Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 01:22 PM Post #5683706 Now i got that threw. Grow were you refering to H.R Puff&Stuff the one with Witchi poo? Catscan Lodi, United States October 17, 2008 01:23 PM Post #5683713 Well--it is almost "September Song" by Kurt Weil and Bertolt Brecht as sung by Lou Reed...but no, not the way you wrote it. Oh it's a long, long time from May to December, And the days grow short, as you reach September... And I've lost a tooth and I walk a little lame, And I don't have time, for the waiting game. So sad and beautiful...I need a moment. grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 01:25 PM Post #5683719 Yes!!! We barely got that show through the fuzz!! (Gen'rul, I was hopin' you'd say sumpin' 'bout kisses...);-P yerself, Ma'am. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 01:25 PM Post #5683720 ok now I'm misty. grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 01:27 PM Post #5683727 Kiss me once And kiss me twice And kiss me once again It's been a long, long time Afore your time Cats-y-poo!! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 01:28 PM Post #5683732 No tech officer at present. Volunteers? Commander Moxon number 41269 reporting. And I do NOT have peculiar idioms, thank you very much Captain Catscan. :-P I am also Commander of Midwest Ground Control (MGC). And I don't know what TF's title is. AND, for goodness sake Brigidlily...are you Minister of Pastries or Senior Chef Pastrypuff? How on earth am I expected to keep up with this changing of titles!! ;-) grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 01:28 PM Post #5683733 Your startin' to fit in misty to fuzzy to THERE!!lol Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 01:29 PM Post #5683741 I had a huge crush on Jack Wild the guy that was on there. SO sad i googled him one day and he died of cancer and i wanted to marry him. grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 01:30 PM Post #5683745 It was never meant to be... Catscan Lodi, United States October 17, 2008 01:31 PM Post #5683750 No, I know it--Brecht was before my time too. I know a terrible number of lyrics. I am technically tone-dumb--but I always learn the lyrics. Would you like the entire libretto of Gilbert and Sullivan? The correct answer is, of course, NO! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 01:33 PM Post #5683754 I have absolutely no idea what and who any of you all are talkin' about. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 01:33 PM Post #5683757 I hate to see people my age die it makes me think of my inmortality. This message was edited Oct 17, 2008 4:56 PM DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 01:35 PM Post #5683760 Not to worry Moxon... It ain't a Cannuck thang... LOL CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 01:35 PM Post #5683762 Glad to hear you are immortal Harmony. I wish I was. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 01:36 PM Post #5683764 Oh! General Ma'am! Did you read about my goat with meningeal deer worm, ma'am? Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 01:41 PM Post #5683782 Claire Jack wild was this totaly cute guy who was on the show H.R. Puff & Stuff a early 70s show i believe . It was a silly kids show i only watched it to drool over him. Had posters of him all over my room i wanted to Mrs. Wild (sigh) I wanted to see what he was doing today and just like all us stupid 70s teens he smoked and died of throat cancer. I'm and x smoker been 10 years now. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 01:48 PM Post #5683818 Good for you for quitting Harmony. I have never tried it or had the inclination. I think you need to give some quitting smoking counseling to a few members of the crazy chicken crew though! My mom only let me watch 2 hours television per WEEK. Therefore I didn't watch much. I preferred books anyway. When I did watch, it was usually kids science shows. Uh oh, my nerd is showing. DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 01:49 PM Post #5683820 Yes I did Moxon...I was going to suggest a regimen of Ivermectin, which is by the way, what I use to both worm my dogs and prevent and cure Heartworms...I have used it for nearly 20 years with perfect results... CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 01:53 PM Post #5683832 She's on Ivomec, panacur, and dex-something. The Dex is a steroid. The ivomec and panacur are both dewormers and they doubled up because it's in the spinal cord and the meds need to pass the blood brain barrier and nobody's sure what is best. DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 01:58 PM Post #5683854 This is a good link : http://www.sheepandgoat.com/articles/deerworm.html I also had a concern about this with the upcoming move to MI, where the darn deer practically live on the back porch...It is a very serious concern and definitely something to think about when planning pastures for me... I will be checking drainage, and wait for a year after treating the areas before any goats or sheep take up residence...I intend to completely fence the areas, and include electric wire on the outside to deter the deer from trying to breach it...I may have a few meat goats, but I plan on sheep as well for the wool, as well as some angora goats for the hair... Since my income will be fixed, I certainly can't afford to lose stock to this... Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 02:08 PM Post #5683884 Claire i started at the age of 6 sneakin daddys cigarettes and didn't get to really smokin till i was 13 miss cool with her Marlboro's. I only stopped during pregnancy and then in 97 my sister died of a heart attack at 48 and they said smokin probably was a factor . 2 weeks after that i came down with pneumonia sittin in the emergency room and couldn't breath they gave me a breathing treatment and the doctor said well you know this is the first sign your lungs is getting bad. Point blank he said you need to decide you can quit and live or keep smoking and die well true smoker i was i went out under the street light of the emergency room. Lit a long one and looked up it was misty rain and said i want to see my son grow up i finished that last one stepped on it and never touched another one. musicnotes Dunnellon, FL (Zone 9a) October 17, 2008 03:28 PM Post #5684132 Ok, LM Moxon, Sirette, I can either be "chopped liver" or Techie Officer. However, due to my abilities to whip a computer in shape in under 2.3 minutes, I prefer to be referred to as Master Techie Officer, Shan. OR, MTO Shan for short. BTW, I can also whip up a mean batch of Praline Pumpkin Pie to DIE for :) ~music musicnotes Dunnellon, FL (Zone 9a) October 17, 2008 03:34 PM Post #5684148 Harmony~ I believe we were separated at birth! H.R. Puff n Stuff. Who's your friend when things get rough? H.R. Puff N Stuff. You can do a little, when you can't do enough! I loved that show so much (and yes...a Jimmy crush I had, too! And, being a musician, Freddie the flute wasn't too bad, either!) that I would walk 1/2 mile to the library to rent the VHS tape for my son when he was little! Needless to say, he would not know who Witchie Poo was if I hadn't! Funny. ~music Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 04:19 PM Post #5684255 Most people i know never heard of it my sis said it was stupid. Okay help me was it the Bug a Boo's i liked that show too! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 04:53 PM Post #5684385 OK Music, you've been added! grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 05:01 PM Post #5684430 Gah! We didn't get good enough reception to crush on anybody! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 06:07 PM Post #5684612 Lieutenant Major Harmony, you had better get your butt in gear and get the copter returned to General Dusty cuz she is pretty steamed about your having commandeered her 'copter and I told her it was all for the chickens but she's got a bee in her bonnet or maybe her flight boot, so you better get going. She's over in the NE forum lookin' for her 'copter. She's kinda scary when she's mad. silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 06:09 PM Post #5684617 wow, i feel unloved, lol don't forget to name me 2 please! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 06:11 PM Post #5684628 But of course, dear Silkiechick!!! What title would you like? Your choice! Review all the other titles and pick something creative or interesting... By the way, THANK YOU for the AWESOME eggs! They arrived today, every single one in perfect condition. I am thrilled to pieces. Perfect packaging! silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 06:21 PM Post #5684661 lol, i'll have to reread through all the names again see if i can think of something after i make some eats for the kiddos. you r very welcome!! i was worried when ya said most ya get in r broke so i wanted to make sure they made it with enough to hopefully make it. i've sent as many as 52 in a #7 box at once with none broke. awesome, i hope u get lots of babies!!! silkie musicnotes Dunnellon, FL (Zone 9a) October 17, 2008 06:23 PM Post #5684669 hmmmm...bug-a-boos. It sounds familiar, but not sure about the 70's. There were a whole bunch I loved to watch on THE BANANA SPLITS show. H.R. was on there, as well. Ahhh...the good ol' days. :) gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 17, 2008 06:29 PM Post #5684687 Ah HAM! So this is where the covert operations are being hatched! Corrected to plural operations based on public intelligence. This message was edited Oct 17, 2008 5:32 PM DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 06:30 PM Post #5684693 Which one??? There are many hatched here... LOL grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 06:48 PM Post #5684752 Aaaah, our poor puzzled mothers - little did they know what hatchings they were responsible for. giggle. grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 06:53 PM Post #5684763 Silkie's the Queen of Fluffed and Furléd Fowl (our designated QuuFFle) gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 17, 2008 07:06 PM Post #5684804 Ill drink to that! I just made a pot of green tea. grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 07:15 PM Post #5684824 I'm glad it's something healthful like green tea considering what you may be drinking to!! Hey Glor! gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 17, 2008 07:21 PM Post #5684846 I figured I might need green tea as this drama unfolds! Hey grownut. I do believe winter is coming early this year - that's when the northern half of the country gets a little crazy. Batten down the hatches er hatcheries! Oh. I meant down the hatch! grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 07:24 PM Post #5684865 Boy, what's my excuse then I wonder, genetic? hmm. and my hatch needs battened...it's flappin' Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 08:39 PM Post #5685152 LT. Major Harmony #12360 Reporting being soaked to the skin prepareing dove & pigeon cages for flea market in the pouring rain. LT.Harmony is in dire need of hot tea and dry underpants. LT. Major Harmony #12360 cold wet and tired but on call ACHOOO!! i mean "SALUTE" dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 08:45 PM Post #5685190 Sir what in hoot are you doing? Sir can you not do that at dawn's early light when perchance it might be dry? Sir might I suggest a mint julip in order to stave off illness? Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 08:54 PM Post #5685225 I have to be at the flea market at daylight to get a good table theres no time in the morning unless i get up at 3am so i cage them and load them at night and leave around 5am. Couldn't load because of the rain and had to run with the birds so they wouldn't get wet and they are safe under my shed. LT. Major Harmony "SALUTE" grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 08:56 PM Post #5685231 Watcha need is hot buttered rum! Dries from the inside -pantsanall!! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 08:58 PM Post #5685233 Good luck on your mission sir. We will keep the home fires warm for your return. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 09:00 PM Post #5685249 LT. Major Harmony is apreciative of the kindness and it warms her heart. UH HUM LT. Major Harmony #12360 "SALUTE" dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 09:02 PM Post #5685255 Good call grownut. I was gonna suggest Blueberry Tea. A fine Canuck traditional drink combining the Brit influence (tea) with good strong lequers. grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 09:04 PM Post #5685266 whisperwhisper{{I got in trouble once for calling General Dusty sir instead of ma'am}}{{then I really got in trouble by calling her Sir, yes Ma'am!!}} grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 09:06 PM Post #5685272 Ooh, hey! Nuttin' like hot homemade hooch!! I have a bunch of Japanese recipes for plum wine, lemon, strawberry...lllllLikker... dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 17, 2008 09:09 PM Post #5685280 pst perhaps 'The Great and Omnificent Hatcher'. I know I'll get court marshalled but I'm dying to call some one 'Big Bird' shhh I only said that with my inside voice grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 09:14 PM Post #5685297 {{you typed with your inside voice too! how did you do that??}} InnBetween Newton, AL October 17, 2008 09:49 PM Post #5685446 ok, Chief Between. I was a Chief Warrant officer in the army. and now I am Chief nurse, bottlewasher, poop scooper, chief cook etc. etc. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 10:27 PM Post #5685568 OOOOOOH, another **real** titled individual. Dusty is a Colonel but she's a General to us cuz she's got a REAL important title compared to the rest of us slackers. But now we have another REAL title person. I will put you down as Chief Between, but I think you might need a more grand title because you have a real one. Silkiechick - are you OK with Queen of the Fluffed and Furléd Fowl? Let us know! Mmmmm...blueberry tea with maple syrup. YUM!! Instead I'm having a glass of riesling here. Oh well, close enough! silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 10:31 PM Post #5685584 queen of fluff- i love it, rotfl. speaking of fluff u got to see how some of those fluffy butts in the brooder i posted baby pics not long ago for r growing. check out the fluff on this white showgirl baby i just took. Click the image for an enlarged view. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 10:33 PM Post #5685592 KPO Jan and Minister of Pastries Brigidlily - please advise the chicken crew on protocols with sweet potato fries. We are having them at this very moment. I don't want to do anything off the books. In addition, Key Lime Pie was raised on another thread. Protocols? Glad to see there have been no further cupcake incidents - you are truly worthy additions to our team. CPO Moxon CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 10:34 PM Post #5685598 Oh wow, QFFF Silkiechick - that is truly adorable. Did you see my pic of my poor silkie in her awkward stage? Click the image for an enlarged view. InnBetween Newton, AL October 17, 2008 10:36 PM Post #5685612 too cute!!!!! silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 10:37 PM Post #5685613 here the frizzled splash cochin baby too. these r not the last peep pics i posted those r in the other brooder these r the ones i posted pics of about 2 weeks before those so these r the older siblings. Click the image for an enlarged view. silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 17, 2008 10:40 PM Post #5685630 no, how adorable!! mine must be about a week older than urs they r just looseing the last of the down on tips of feathers and the rest of the cristalis is breaking open. QFFF - silkie CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 10:46 PM Post #5685662 Really, you think she is cute? I keep thinking she looks like somebody dragged her through a hedge backwards. Poor thing. I hope in a another week she is coming into a a more attractive phase... MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 10:46 PM Post #5685665 I'm coming over here because I love chickens and who wants to hang out with the N.E. folks come winter. lol I did post some photos of my true chicken love, although I don't own any. I've been lurking here for a good long while. So, although I don't own a single chicken and never have, I do love many breeds and read up on chickens all the time. This is all because I have had a country house for twenty years, but do not live here full time. My hope is, if this becomes a full time residence, the first thing we'll do is add some chickens. I am impulsive that way as I once bought a pony that lived on the deck until DH fenced a pasture. I do get it figured out. :) There are so many wonderful chickens. I thought I knew exactly what I wanted, but you folks here are very enticing. I don't understand how you add all these chickens to your collections. My very limited experience with chickens is they only get along when raised together, chicken sex is not a pretty sight and incubating is not as easy as it seems. I'll learn along the way. I'm sure. Laurel CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 17, 2008 10:53 PM Post #5685679 Hooray Laurel! So pleased that you un-lurked and became a poster! Welcome to our insanity-inducing forum! So if you could have those chickens at your country house, what breed(s) would you want? And do you have a title for yourself? Chief Chicken Dreamer, perhaps? Chicken sex makes me glad I'm not a chicken! ROTFLMBO! Incubating is dead easy when you have a Brinsea R-Com 20. Chief Petty Officer/Commander Moxon grownut Clarkson, KY October 17, 2008 11:44 PM Post #5685843 Most vehemently seconded by COGrow -Unlurk, Unlurk!! -Though yours is beautiful CPOMoxy!!QFFF's provided her perfect Avatar!!! That is JUST how I see you! Maybe Laurel oughtta go for Chicken Coordinating Officer. If she can handle porch ponies she can coordinate chickens?! MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 17, 2008 11:54 PM Post #5685872 Okay, you folks are outrageous enough for me, but I've gotta go to bed, Need to pick collards and beans for friend's chickens in the early a.m.. Also, I've got a bumper load of Maypops for ubber eggs. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 18, 2008 12:00 AM Post #5685881 I accept the CCO position if it's agreed upon by the group. There are a bunch of fowlks here and I do not want to drop in as I admittedly have no fowl experience (except the occasional oral problem). Laurel silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 18, 2008 12:05 AM Post #5685892 i third that, welcome aboard!! yes i love all silkies,lol. nah, that's just their punk look stage and mine r right at the end of it. don't fret mine blossomed over night,lol. they r beautiful in person more than the pics show, they didn't want to hold still but i had to take pics,lol. i'm excited to see how they look once all the feathers open fully!!! u wait ur little one will blossom to in no time!!! lol, i'm not a fluffy chook, plump chic mabe, rotfl here is a family pic taken when i went up by erie, pa to see my elderly family a few weekends ago. we did a 3 car pool to go see them(some even stayed home to), first i've seen them since 97 when my gram died. i'm the blonde on the right 5 of the kid's r mine and 3 r my sisters, she is the blonde in the middle. my youngest brother is on the left. lol, now ya all get to see who silkie is. won't happen often i hate my pic taken, lmbo. Click the image for an enlarged view. silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 18, 2008 12:11 AM Post #5685906 CCO agreed, love to have u join us!! QFFF Catscan Lodi, United States October 18, 2008 12:12 AM Post #5685908 Must join! ZZsBabiez Lodi, CA (Zone 9b) October 18, 2008 12:20 AM Post #5685934 Cool pic Silkiechick! I'm guessing your sister has 2 boys and a girl? I am guessing the others are your younguns.. too cute! Big Giant Welcome to CCO and the porch pony. LOL MotherBirdZZ out silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 18, 2008 12:37 AM Post #5685974 thanks, the girl in pink is my sister's and the boy right behind her is, front row second boy is her's too. and my brothers baby is in the oven with the girl right by him it's his first,lol. i'm going to be an auntie again for the 6th time in about 4mths!! i'm excited, can't wait!!! QFFF-silkie grownut Clarkson, KY October 18, 2008 02:06 AM Post #5686091 backupaminute?! Didn't we get a CB on board too? Chief Between? So subtle I almost missed it...Do we look like subtle people? Don't wanna miss ya, but it might be better to slap-us-upside-the-head with it! luckycharm_1 londonderry, Australia October 18, 2008 08:42 AM Post #5686436 wow we have a lot of followers we should start a religon the first chirch of the holy chickens now we have to go on the hunt for the holy incubator instead of grael or how ever it is spelt LOL CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 09:26 AM Post #5686541 QFFF - a lovely family indeed and you look maaaahvelous! So fun to see you so we have a face to put with your esteemed title. I added Chicken Control Officer MaypopLaurel to the list. Chief Between was already added to the list although I had suggested she might want a more important sounding title, especially since she has a REAL military title. I mean, Dusty became General and all... Josh - I nearly died laughing over the First Church of the Holy Chickens and the Holy Incubator - you are very creative and you crack me up, mate! The Canadian Spelling Police (my second role) would like to report that it's spelled Holy Grail. Off to the PO to pick up eggs! Moxy Catscan Lodi, United States October 18, 2008 09:34 AM Post #5686562 Ha! Gotcha, Canadian-Know-It -All! "Grael" is an alternate and entirely, in fact, possibly more, authentic spelling for the said article. Just because an Australian spelled it, doesn't mean it's wrong. (gotta use spellcheck now, to prevent a "double gotcha" by CPO Moxon) luckycharm_1 londonderry, Australia October 18, 2008 09:49 AM Post #5686591 i am australian every one knows we cant spell it is common knowledge we arent the brightest of folk why do u think we eat our national emblem probably spelled that wrong to LOL This message was edited Oct 19, 2008 12:03 AM DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 18, 2008 10:01 AM Post #5686614 The Chicken Control Officer is known as CWO Between...That's a mighty fine rank in my book... Catscan Lodi, United States October 18, 2008 10:03 AM Post #5686622 Nick Cave is pretty bright. luckycharm_1 londonderry, Australia October 18, 2008 10:04 AM Post #5686627 who is that please dont tell me it is a well know australian that i should know about Catscan Lodi, United States October 18, 2008 10:20 AM Post #5686697 Well, he is an ex-pat. Went to Brazil and England (didn't like the States) in the 80's and terrified the punks--who thought he was a VERY wild colonial boy. But he is a pretty brilliant writer/musician--he wrote and scored the Australian Western "The Proposition". luckycharm_1 londonderry, Australia October 18, 2008 10:22 AM Post #5686707 so he was a one hit wonder some of the best songs are one hit wonders LOL DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 18, 2008 10:42 AM Post #5686782 How goes it down yon way Capt. Josh?? I need to look you up.. I have quite a few friends in, Queensland, Perth and near areas, as well as Dunedin, NZ... By the way...I woke up to Frost warnings from 2am til 9am Sunday, so I guess winter is officially beginning...Fortunately, I snagged the last of my plants that needed to be inside yesterday... I sure do hope I can get moved soon before that white stuff starts falling.. My luck, it will be pouring rain the weekend we move... Have a great day all...I have to go down the hill and collect my paycheck, and run a few errands...You ChickenHeads behave while I am away!! Catscan Lodi, United States October 18, 2008 10:45 AM Post #5686792 No--he's put out a lot of albums that still sell well--just not for everyone. Rollingstone and MTV both tried to give him awards and he refused. He is a bit tempermental and snarky. A lot of people think he is an American Southerner cause he read a lot of Faulkner in his youth and writes very dark and gothic songs--other people compare him to Tom Waites and Leonard Cohen--Johnny Cash did covers of some of his songs--"The Mercy Seat" is one about a crazed murderer preparing to be electrocuted. Sounds dreadful, but it is actually incredible. Uh, oh--inner geek escaping. I'll be quiet now... CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 11:06 AM Post #5686871 Thank you Catscan, for the alternate spelling of grael. I stand corrected, in part. Although grail is still allowed. At least Monty Python says so. General Dusty, with all due respect, Ma'am, you are confusing two troop members. The Chicken Control Officer is CCO MaypopLaurel. InnBetween wanted to be Chief Between. Two different troop members, Ma'am. Salute! Chief Petty Officer Moxon had suggested a more elaborate title for Chief Between, more befitting her status and previous military title of Chief Warrant Officer. She could be Chief Warrant Officer Between. But this has a lack of chicken-ness to it. Of course, so does my title, but it relates to my petty corrections of spellings as the official Chickenhead Spelling Police. What does a Warrant Officer do? Do they put out warrants for arrests? Perhaps Chief Between should be Chief of Errant Chicken Behaviour or Chief of Preventing Chicken Naughtiness or something. Moxy over. musicnotes Dunnellon, FL (Zone 9a) October 18, 2008 11:15 AM Post #5686895 OFF TOPIC AND HAVE TO RUN OUT THE DOOR, BUT HARMONY! I'm so excited...I woke up this morning and remembered BUGALOOS! Yes...another fave of mine. I was getting worried because bugaboos (I THINK) is kind of a racist name? Or something like that..because I work with antiques and remember an old advertising piece that showed a 'white only' bathroom, no bugaboos allowed...something like that. Anyway...bugaloos. My husband reminded me that the creators of all those shows I liked back then, were Sid (or Syd) and Marty Croft. Ahhh...good memories. Anyway..gotta run. MTO Musicnotes is on leave today, singing with her band in the "Hernando Heritage Festival"! buh-bye ~music Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 18, 2008 05:28 PM Post #5687762 So sorry, I'm late!!! (: KPO Jan 112351 reporting: Salute~!! I think I got everything in. lol. I was exhausted trying to catch up on the thread. My brain doesn't work that fast. Reporting - no cupcake dilemmas. The pe-cahns are staying on the cinnamon buns, and the Key Lime pie is still a wishful thought. Hopefully Harmony did well at the fleamarket. Yes, I remember Sid and Marty, but how many remember Spin and Marty from the Mickey Mouse Club Show waaaay back when? DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 18, 2008 05:45 PM Post #5687795 How many remember Amos & Andy???? On the RADIO?? gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 18, 2008 05:48 PM Post #5687805 You are checkin' people's ages? I remember, radio and tv also. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 06:14 PM Post #5687870 Excellent reporting KPO Jan. Glad to hear you have us all under control with our food issues. I am currently enjoying a Bud Light with Lime and some Cherry M&Ms. Talk about all the food groups - fruit, chocolate, sugar, alcohol...excellent snack I'd say! I don't remember any of the TV and radio things. Lieutenant Major Harmony - please give us a report on your flea market adventures. CPO Moxy out. DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 18, 2008 06:34 PM Post #5687957 Yeah but...Do you remember Amos & Andy on the radio, or the Lone Ranger, The Shadow (Only the Shadow Knows) Fibber Mcgee & Molly, Boston Blackie, Cisco Kid, Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Tom Mix, Burns & Allen, Arthur Godfrey, Ted Macks Original Amatur Hour... all on the radio before they hit TV... I remember Liberace and Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye and Red Skelton and Phil Silvers and the Nelsons, and Imogene Cocoa and Sid Ceasar, and Sing Along with Mitch (Miller) when they hit TV...Not to mention the infamous Ed Sullivan...and the Masterpiece Theatre, Innersanctum, Loretta Young Show, Gale Storm Show with Charlie Farrell, ALL of the Westerns, with Dale & Roy, and Hop Along Cassidy, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter... YIKES!!!!!! I am reallllllllllly OLD!!! Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 18, 2008 06:47 PM Post #5688030 Don't remember listening to the radio. I'm sure I did. When Monty Python was mentioned above I started cracking up. My boys loved 'The Quest for the Holy Grail' Most guys love it and the girls don't. But it always cracked me up. I remember some of those shows on TV Gen. Dusty. I guess I'll learn all the names eventually, but for now, I have to go to the top of the thread to put 2 and 2 together. LOL on all the food groups CPO Moxy. In my book, as long as chlockit (as my GKs say) is involved it is balanced. You won't have any issues with this KPO. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 18, 2008 07:02 PM Post #5688088 Off topic, but I spent the morning harvesting more veggies for my chickens (that are not really mine, but I like to pretend they are). I get so excited about seeing them! Forget the kids and even the grand. Gotta have some chicken love. I'm hoping for an official title to be confirmed (is there an official title "conferer"?), and perhaps some perks for having chicken lust (like a title). Maybe I can shop at the PX (that stands for poultry exchange, yes?) I'm worried about possible age discrimination on this forum. There will be no comment from me regarding retro-media. Today was a good day. I got a double yolk for brkfst. The second time in two weeks. Who could ask for anything more? BTW, garlic was left out of the food groups. What's with that? Laurel gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 18, 2008 07:24 PM Post #5688176 Dusty: I remember all of those except Boston Blackie. DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 18, 2008 07:38 PM Post #5688240 MayPop...As Commanding General Chickenhead, I shall promote you to Captain Maypop, CBO (Chicken Borrowing Officer) However this is based upon your revealing your knowlege or lack thereof of the aforementioned Radio programs...There is NO discrimination of any kind amongst the ChickenHead Army...Envy yes... grownut Clarkson, KY October 18, 2008 07:56 PM Post #5688323 Yes, we're entirely indiscriminate here!! I believe Laurel was already confirmed CCO... not sure of the chain of command here, that's why I'm a covert op...avoidance of all standard protocols...also not sure if this was chicken coordinating or chicken control officer... Gen'rul?! Ma'am?! MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 18, 2008 08:12 PM Post #5688384 Woohoo! A promotion after twenty four hours (maybe?)! I might be digging grubs and netting bugs in appreciation. Chicken envy is cause for counsel here. Okay, I confess to being an "Ovaltine" ad girl. Howdy Doody was big. Sky King and Rin Tin Tin too. I cried when Farmer Brown's barn burned and Lassie couldn't get Jeff to understand there was a fire (I cried at every other Lassie crisis too). Roy Rogers was whopping it up with Tonto (going round and round the same set). Trigger was always golden and perfectly palomino-like. Not stuffed. Didn't know they had Mane and Tail back then. Send borrowing chicken photos please. Laurel luckycharm_1 londonderry, Australia October 18, 2008 08:17 PM Post #5688409 yer we should make a list of who is on top to who is on the bottom although that would always change when people go from captain to commander for hatching times Catscan Lodi, United States October 18, 2008 08:28 PM Post #5688443 I never cried AT a Lassie episode--I never got past the opening credits. The music swells, Lassie lifts her paw and I start sobbing and rush out of the room. I think I had a crush on Spin--or was it Marty? I was very young:0) CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 08:30 PM Post #5688453 But nobody's really on the bottom. Of course, General Dusty is on top because she's the General. I still have not heard or seen any of the programs mentioned. I am pop culture ignorant. Catscan Lodi, United States October 18, 2008 08:34 PM Post #5688464 That's okay, Moxie. We like you anyway. I am famous in my family for insisting that my sons "Stop reading those books and go watch TV". They both turned out to be nerds despite my best maternal efforts. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 08:38 PM Post #5688474 Captain Maypop CBO, or Chicken Coordinating Officer Maypop, whichever you actually are, how would you like to do a virtual adoption of my Creme Brabanter Rooster? He is very amusing and quite handsome. Here he is. Click the image for an enlarged view. luckycharm_1 londonderry, Australia October 18, 2008 08:39 PM Post #5688477 nothin wrong with nerds just means u can borrow money of your kids when they get the good jobs luckycharm_1 londonderry, Australia October 18, 2008 08:40 PM Post #5688481 i like the colours ont that rooster they are trippy CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 08:41 PM Post #5688487 Thank you Captain Catscan, I'm glad I'm still acceptable to the troops. I am familiar with the following pop culture things: Boston Legal (love it!) Desperate Housewives Wallace and Grommit Chicken Run Mr. Bean Every movie Hugh Grant ever made (I think) And a few other movies of note. I don't watch much TV but I like Desperate Landscapes on HGTV. CPO Moxy luckycharm_1 londonderry, Australia October 18, 2008 08:43 PM Post #5688497 LOL very modern of you commander CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 08:44 PM Post #5688499 He's my favorite rooster cuz he's so wild looking. And regarding your nerd comment, this is precisely why I didn't have kids, because mine would have undoubtedly been nerdier even than me, and then they might have been mind numbingly clever, and that would have made me nuts. Fortunately I already have a good job so I don't have to borrow off anyone. Of course, in this economy, maybe I won't have it for long! MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 18, 2008 08:50 PM Post #5688516 What a guy! With that "do" the only things missing are tight pants and pointy ankle boots. I'm open for the adoption and thanks. Who are the women in his life (he does look a bit on the young side). L CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 08:57 PM Post #5688546 Well if you're into sewing, I'm sure he'd be willing to model tight pants! ROTFL... His favorite woman is my buff orpington gal. He is very active in his pursuit of her. He is also very attracted to Goldie, and here she is... (I don't have a pic of the buff orpington, but I can take one tomorrow...) Goldie is an Easter Egger barnyard mix kinda gal. Wrong side of the tracks but a heart of gold. Click the image for an enlarged view. grownut Clarkson, KY October 18, 2008 09:13 PM Post #5688618 Ummm. Viz the rankings in this joint...Visualize, if you please, a tight cluster of about 25 frantic chicks. Gen'rul Dusty is tallest. The rest of us are clambering up, down, around, over and under, as we jockey for position. This is a CHICKENy group. We model our ranking system after those we most admire. Noticing that Kelly in Moxee and Galles and a few others have yet to acquire rankings. I nominate Kelly to be Minister of Chicken Defense (civilian advisor) LadyBugs and Patchy (ooli-ooli) are also as yet untitled... Where's the fun in allowing others to be discreet when we're not?!;-) knslwilliams Clarksburg, MO October 18, 2008 09:37 PM Post #5688704 Ya'll just can't stop talking for a day can you. We have been gone all day to a poultry show and then I popped in real quick and back out to feed birds. Just got back in and I will never catch up unless I read for a solid day. Sheila CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 09:55 PM Post #5688793 Sorry Sheila, you see, you leave and all chaos breaks out! How was the show? Did ya buy anything...huh? Didya? Didya? knslwilliams Clarksburg, MO October 18, 2008 10:39 PM Post #5688986 Did not buy anything! I know I am going to the Doctor on Monday, I promise. I know something has to be despartly wrong for us not to by something. Actually I was going to buy, but someone beat me to him. He was the most beautiful Partridge cochin roo to go with our girls and I walked past twice and then finally decided right as the guy was collecting money from someone else. I am thoroughly confused about the poultry showing process. See my new thread. Sheila CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 18, 2008 10:48 PM Post #5689027 I did see your thread but had nothing useful to say cuz I've never shown. I am going to a show on the weekend after Thanksgiving in Iowa City. I am hoping to learn there. The state fair show here was mostly 4H kids so not quite the same. There is a chapter in one of my books on showing. If you want I can scan it and send it your way. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 18, 2008 11:46 PM Post #5689336 Hello all very tired from fleamarket sold all but 6 Doves the pigeons went fast at $20 pair the folks really liked those and the doves sold well. It was a very interesting day people telling me their chicken stories and me listening and commenting some. I didn't get to shop but did sneak over to a man who had chickens and guess what grow he had a leg bar looked just like the picture on hunky roo. Thats the third one i've seen so they are out there. My Biggest deal of the day was a man ask me to trade for some of my doves and when i ask what he had it was something i had been wanting Diamond Doves! He really wanted some of my Ash colored doves and i said i would have to see the Diamonds first and with that he said i will be right back. He drove to his house 50 miles away and brought back 2 pair of the cutest little blue doves but i didn't let on how excited i was (Can't show excitement during a deal). He said you give me the 3 Ash and $20 and you can have both pairs...I countered with no i will give you the 3 ash and 2 peach for both pairs...He said no give me 3 ash and 2 peach and $10...I had him and he was thinkin I said no deal I'll take the dark blue pair and you can have the 3 ash and he began to sweat...He said are you sure you don't want both and i said "NA" don't really need the one...he said okay the 3 ash for the dark blue...He removed them and i put them in one of my cages and he said but i like all these doves and thats when i knew i had him good. So final deal he got 3 ash and 2 peach which i have 0 dollars in cause i hatch them and i got 2 pair of Diamond doves that sell for $35 to $50 a pair. So do yall think i got a good deal and i will get a pic on here soon as i can. But i had a good time and made some money for my vaccine and of course a little extra for me and i met alot of people and several have my number wanting chickens,rabbit's, dove's and pigeon's unfortunately i had to tell them it's off season for breeding anything and i would have plenty of all come spring. So thats my day and it was an adventure as always. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 18, 2008 11:51 PM Post #5689347 Music i meant Bug-a-Boo i know the term you were talking about and it is spelled different. Yes i recall now it being Bug A Loo. silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 19, 2008 01:52 AM Post #5689704 QFFF silkie 032677 reporting: SALUTE! lol, i've been sick forgive my MIA today. i'm still here, boy ya all chatted alot while i was gone. luckycharm_1 londonderry, Australia October 19, 2008 03:56 AM Post #5689782 i say we nominate a leader if we do nominate i would go for dusty i think every oone else would to so mybe there is no point LOL ladybugsabound2 Novinger, MO (Zone 5b) October 19, 2008 07:59 AM Post #5689977 Thanks for thinking of me grow! I don't know what my title would be, but rank PO? Not familiar with all of it. My dh was in the Military, with the Coast Guard, but doesn't talk about it much. (other than all the places he has been) I guess I could be something like MIA often or something...I'm so busy these days I just don't have time to pop by as often as I would like too. Going to school full time, after not being in school for 16 years with a family and working too...whew, I'm still trying to adjust. I keep telling myself that I will get used to it all, it's just taking time. (I'm being naughty now...should be studying and not visiting) You all sure sound like your having a lot of fun with it! Harmony...dang lady...you are one cool customer...errr, seller. I don't think I would have ever been able to pull that off, not showing ANY excitement. Boy, I envy you! Way to go, awesome deal! Christy (off again) CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 08:25 AM Post #5690017 I hereby give Ladybugsabound the title of Coordinator of Missing Chickens, and for short she will be CMC Ladybug. Harmony - what a day for you! I loved reading your stories of the day, and your deal on the diamond doves is fabulous. I can't wait to see the pictures. Maybe you already posted them on a new thread. I have to go look at new threads after I catch up on my reading. One of these days I'm gonna end up with doves or pigeons because of you! CPO Moxy Over. Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 08:48 AM Post #5690079 KPO Jan 112351 reporting: All's quiet on the kitchen front. Will be making banana bread later though. Great haul, Harmony. Looking forward to pics. Isn't it hard not to show eggscitement? Lovely roo you adopted, CCO Laurel or whatever your rank is LOL. He is a dandy!!! Mr. Bean cracks me up. We are supposed to be getting cable (I can't believe it) so maybe I can get reruns on BBC. Shoot, I had a crush on both Spin AND Marty. Lazy_Ladies Vancouver, WA (Zone 8a) October 19, 2008 11:37 AM Post #5690581 Holy chicken you guys! You've been chattin up a storm! Moxon, Just wanted to let you know you're not alone. We dont' watch much TV in this HH. As a matter of fact we haven't had cable for 8 years and since we've lived in our newest house we don't even get some of the basics for free. So there is NO TV except for DVDs. I am totally pop culture challenged as well. ha! gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 19, 2008 01:09 PM Post #5690931 Oh. I thought her responses to Gen Dusty just meant she was to YOUNG to remember Jack Benny and all that. grownut Clarkson, KY October 19, 2008 01:28 PM Post #5690997 Well, I'm too young (slightly) but I've seen more from Gen'rul's list than Moxy's. That's still not much. I stopped watching TV in JR high school. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 01:44 PM Post #5691033 I'm 39 so I don't know what I'm too young or old for, but glad to know I'm not the only pop culture challenged one. (I just typed poop culture challenged...been cleaning the coop!) gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 19, 2008 02:10 PM Post #5691137 Yep. I think you missed that line up on radio and tv by 25 or 30 years. musicnotes Dunnellon, FL (Zone 9a) October 19, 2008 02:29 PM Post #5691178 Claire: Click the image for an enlarged view. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 03:35 PM Post #5691346 I'm a True 70s Girl hip hugger bell bottoms, platform shoe's, earth shoe's , Bee Gee's, Hard Rock ,Slow Gin , Peter Frampton, Band Stand, Z 28s , Trans Ams , Drag race's on country roads and i did not Disco that was for the preps. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 03:50 PM Post #5691398 Oh! I love the Bee Gees! gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 19, 2008 03:55 PM Post #5691414 Im closet cleaning and just found a stash of platform sandals that I wore when I was teaching. How did I ever walk on them? silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 19, 2008 04:02 PM Post #5691436 dang ya all make me feel like a kid,lol i don't know most of those shows listed. i'm 31, am i the youngest in the chook crew?? i hope not,lol i don't wanna be the baby of the crew, pouts... i'll be denounced down to baby fluff, rotfl.. QFFF silkie Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 04:04 PM Post #5691443 I still have my favorite ring i wore on my middle finger back then it was the coolest and it was envied by many. Today it's HID in my closet in a box and only my husband has seen it. It's a big silver ring flat on top like a signet ring and a certain leaf inlaid on it in turquoise and when i look at it today i think i was a bad girl. Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 04:32 PM Post #5691512 HMM... I wonder what that leaf looks like. Well, as you are diggin out old shoes and rings and (probably now yearbooks to see what we did wear..lol) grab yourself a cuppa and enjoy the banana bread - fresh out of the oven. Already had my piece. Thank you very much. I am hoping the cable TV that we get will be able to give us a whole bigger selection of things to watch, cuz there isn't a whole lot on regular TV that is worth its weight in gold. My mom is on hospice care, so watches a lot of TV. Her eyesight isn't good enough to read so we are kinda stuck. I am looking forward to the History Channel and HGTV. If it was just DH and me, we would only have a set for movies on DVD. When the kids were growing up, the set would "break" periodically. Lazy_Ladies Vancouver, WA (Zone 8a) October 19, 2008 04:43 PM Post #5691540 Silkie, I'll be 30 in February and Patchouli is already 30, I believe. So you're not the baby... I am... as always! gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 19, 2008 04:56 PM Post #5691610 If your cable is the same as my cable I wouldn't expect too much. I mostly watch TCM - turner classic movies. Only a few channels are worth wathcing. And there are a lot of technical issues also -- some weeks there is so much intereference you can't see anything. Catscan Lodi, United States October 19, 2008 05:12 PM Post #5691655 I can not hear TV dissed and silently stand by. You should all be ashamed of yourselves! Go to your rooms--and watch TV! Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 06:04 PM Post #5691834 lol CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 06:08 PM Post #5691852 Gee Harmony, did that leaf have 5 distinct leaflets to it? I like the TV for DVD watching. I also watch some HGTV and sometimes DIY network. Very occasionally the Food Network. And BBC America. :-) MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 06:20 PM Post #5691905 That is too funny Gloria. Perhaps you were floating in those platform shoes? I was a child of the sixties. Very intense times. I have been reconnoitering the streets of Atlanta today. Apparently chickens are limited to Costco, Whole Foods, Trader Joes and the like. Atlanta chickens don't have interesting names like the ones here, don't lay pretty colored eggs and have no feet at all (let alone ones with feathers). I'm restocking my mess kit and heading back to the woods. Done chicken checkin' here. Time to check out (with permission of course). Laurel CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 06:43 PM Post #5691987 Permission granted. Chickens don't tend to hang out in large cities. Commander Moxy is envious of your Whole Foods. Grumble... MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 07:26 PM Post #5692151 We have two known pockets of chicken culture in the midst of the city. They are pop culture town centers. The city has turned a pecked eye to Cabbage Town and another spot (Waterworks), dead center in the city. Waterworks is the "decorator" center of the city and chickens with their handsome roos are running around the parking lots and yards of the designer fabric and custom furniture businesses. Hopefully the valet parking attendants are not driving over too many eggs. I wish I knew what kind of chickens they are. Some are Rhode Island Reds and others are black and slightly barred, but smaller than Barred Rocks. I just don't know much about chickens. I'll take photos next time. InnBetween Newton, AL October 19, 2008 08:22 PM Post #5692336 WOW you folks have been really chatty since I last dropped in! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 09:37 PM Post #5692673 Possibly dominiques or cuckoo marans, Laurel! Chief Between - should we shut up? Is that your command? Or permission to keep chattering...? Catscan Lodi, United States October 19, 2008 09:40 PM Post #5692706 Sounds cuckoo to me... Oh, excuse me, Moxon, I didn't see you there! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 09:43 PM Post #5692730 Listen here Major Catscan, that sort of insolence will not be tolerated! You California people think you can just walk all over us little Iowa people, but no, that is not how it is. We will send our raging Iowa pigs after you and they will trample you and steal your chickens and bring them back to Iowa on their backs. We have our ways... What is your report on the ceramic armadillo? Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 09:49 PM Post #5692766 The ring was a ruse and just to impress thats all it was in those days you had to appear to be a certain way i was always looking for something cool and never hung out with the extreme people my group was more just bein teens there was alot of things to do and we were just like the kids on that 70s show i watch it and think hey i lived that. Catscan Lodi, United States October 19, 2008 10:00 PM Post #5692828 The ceramic armadillo levitated and floated across the bedroom last night...there is a strange scratching sound coming from inside...but other than that everything seems fine. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 10:18 PM Post #5692893 Heavens above! Where did it go in its levitational journey? Any hostility noted? silkiechick Reynoldsville, PA (Zone 6a) October 19, 2008 11:00 PM Post #5693064 yeah, for once i'm not the youngest!!! Click the image for an enlarged view. DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 19, 2008 11:04 PM Post #5693085 Yeah but, ... I am the Eldest!!! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 11:07 PM Post #5693092 And I am the Canadianest. :-) Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 11:13 PM Post #5693117 Well I'm 48 and where do's that put me i'm not elder but i'm not a young one either. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 11:20 PM Post #5693143 You're as young as you feel, and your right in the middle, which is a great place to be! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 19, 2008 11:25 PM Post #5693162 My picturesque mind at work i could see me and Claire dancin to that song..."Stuck in the middle with you" Yes i'm stuck in the middle with you and i'm wonderin what is i should do...Clowns to left of me jokers to the right here i'am stuck in the middle with you... This message was edited Oct 19, 2008 9:37 PM CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 19, 2008 11:32 PM Post #5693196 LOL Harmony, you already said what we should do - keep on dancin' daylilydaddy morehead, KY (Zone 6a) October 20, 2008 01:14 AM Post #5693394 I would give anything to have you all in the same room and just watch and listen! gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 08:53 AM Post #5693947 we will send out raging Iowa pigs . . . (to California). I still remember coming to work at Vandenberg AFB. It was a foggy morning (always is on the California coast) and a group of airmen were gathered for revile standing at attention for roll call. At that time they were charged by an Arkansas razorback - pigs imported to kill the rattlesnakes at Vandenberg. They barely got permission to fall out in time to save themselves from the charging pig. Im sure Iowa pigs would be very effective, CMoxon! DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 20, 2008 08:58 AM Post #5693966 Maybe we should make that Happen George!!! A Southern Indiana central location would work!!! frans530 Rankin, IL (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 10:17 AM Post #5694288 which make the rest of us.. "clowns to the left... jokers to the right" Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 10:24 AM Post #5694312 It's a song fran no offense to anyone i guess some have never heard this song. Catscan Lodi, United States October 20, 2008 10:26 AM Post #5694325 I am afraid of clowns...but jokers are all right. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 10:34 AM Post #5694359 Catscan - time to go to the circus. But not the animal abusing kind. Fran - as far as I can tell, we're pretty much all clowns and jokers in here, except for Catscan, because she's too serious to be either. :-) frans530 Rankin, IL (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 10:37 AM Post #5694368 no offense taken.. it is my favorite song.. in fact my theme song.. LOL.. my friend sang it to me one time sitting in the hospital.. a strange man next to her naked in a gown waiting to have one of those stomach test.. and I was just as naked with the same paper gown (well my own) .. the gowns were cheap.. we all three had been waiting for hours.. and the gowns were literaly disinagrating.. and she just started to sing that song... It was pretty funny... Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 10:42 AM Post #5694391 I use to sing in church and one of my kids got hurt playing ball and they were in some pain so i started singing and they forgot about the pain and the nurse came over and said honey everybody got quiet in here when you started singin keep it up. Catscan Lodi, United States October 20, 2008 10:42 AM Post #5694392 Moxon...the world is a wicked, wicked place. See above about disintegrating paper hospital gowns. gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 10:45 AM Post #5694402 I guess a song is about the only appropriate action with three people about to become naked together. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 10:50 AM Post #5694423 Hospital gowns i think it's a conspirecy how come everytime they give me one it's a xsmall and i'm a big girl then want me to walk down the hall to xray and you can just hear the snickers behind you. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 12:10 PM Post #5694757 Interesting, now Harmony hears chocolate bars - she said the Snickers are behind her in the hospital. What are they saying? "Get me outta this vending machine!"? Last time I went for a surgical procedure of sorts (well, okay, among friends, it was a colonoscopy) I had to wear those delightful fabric gowns. They gave me one to put on frontwards and the other to put on backwards, which was very generous of them. Anyway, I am extremely resistant to the woozy meds (versed), so they had to give me the dose of a 400 lb male. I am 5'10" and a size 12 or 14, so nowhere near a 400 lb male. Even that didn't work entirely because I was coming around part way through so they had to re-dose me. Anyway, the point of all this is that afterwards they sent me to get dressed and sent Kelly to help me because by then I was a little woozy. Kelly said (and I do not remember this because I was woozy) that I refused to take the gowns off and was putting on my bra over the top of both gowns and when he tried to help I became belligerent and told him in no uncertain terms that I was not taking the gowns off and that I would put my clothes on over the top of them. I had a little lie-down then and we left later, with my clothes on and no gowns. Sigh...this gets repeated at family gatherings and such now, so it's no secret. You're right Catscan, the world is a wicked place. But sometimes it's delightful. Like this morning, I received 15 welsummer eggs and 15 cuckoo maran eggs and every one of them intact and beautiful. Wheeeeeee!!! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 12:25 PM Post #5694830 Claire how do you get the doctors to listen to you i try to tell them it takes alot for me and they never listen. I also only run a temp of 97.? and they act confused when they take my temp. and i will tell it's always low and they always say okay...but then i know when my temp says normal 98.6 they say oh you don't have a fever and i try to explain yes i do cause...and they never listen. So what do you do? gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 12:26 PM Post #5694835 Wheee. I guess so. That would make a delightful day! gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 12:31 PM Post #5694856 Harmony : I think they just assume you don't know what you are talking about. I told them I didn't tolerate valium, guess what they used valium. I got to watch the whole colonoscopy - my beautiful colon! And it took me 2 weeks to stop grogging around. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 12:33 PM Post #5694874 Is that good? This message was edited Oct 20, 2008 12:15 PM CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 12:58 PM Post #5694956 Harmony - generally they don't listen. My dentist knows now that it takes 4 shots in my mouth for any filling work to be done, but only because he's done it over and over again until he figured it out. The same people who did the colonoscopy did an upper GI tract about 2 weeks before that, so they already knew, but the first time they wouldn't listen and kept saying "are you sleepy yet" and I would say "no, but my arm is really burning" and they would say "well, you should be asleep by now and then you wouldn't feel your arm burning" and I'm saying "Yeah, well then MAKE ME FALL ASLEEP darn it because my arm really hurts! and they would scramble around and dose me up some more. The IV drip into the arm really burns if you don't fall asleep fast enough. And no, I haven't seen the secret CF pics! wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 01:24 PM Post #5695037 Hi I am wren and I wish to be a honorary chicken head. Any suggestions on a title for me? I am a slave to the wild birds around here, special my guard wrens who tell me when they need food, and use me as a tree.. I am also a epiphyllum nut. Love all the chickens y'all have but the city will not allow any chickens. darn darn darn. Wren Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 01:28 PM Post #5695053 Claire or Commander Moxon is in control of titles and she will be along to help you out. DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 20, 2008 02:00 PM Post #5695223 Harmony.. you need to edit your Ewww Post.. You made the whole page widen to where we have to scroll it dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 20, 2008 02:15 PM Post #5695269 wren107 you need to get a chick-a-poo. That's what I'm gonna do. Calgary doesn't allow chickens either. If you get a dog licence and register it as a chick-a-poo how can they 'cluck' about it? wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 02:21 PM Post #5695294 Well there is a couple of problems with that my yard is small and on the corner. And I already have a dog licenced animal. Meet Andre the demon child from h---l He loves every living thing but I think he would accidentally hurt a little chick-a-poo. He is on squirrel patrol. Click the image for an enlarged view. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 20, 2008 02:27 PM Post #5695316 I need a demon child to take out Damien the Spawn of Satan Tree Rat. He's very prettiful too. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 02:31 PM Post #5695322 He has caught 3 so far. He also only goes after the bad birds. Crows, city pigeons and black birds. His favorite pastime besides eating and getting into mischief is to chase the "squills" up the tree and out of the feeders. I think he would like to take care on the chick-a-poos he is a herding dog. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 20, 2008 02:39 PM Post #5695351 My male robins take care of the magpies and crows in the summer but a good herding dog is needed for the time of the cold and the dark. I think a good herding dog is also needed for my chick-a-poo to ensure the rototilling is evenly distributed. What do people use for chicken-herding or do they just free-range at will rototilling willynilly??? CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 02:48 PM Post #5695415 Mine are willy nilly rototillers. They particularly enjoy rototilling in the goat pen. Wren, I hereby title you as Chief of Wild Bird Operations. Please do see to it that you instruct all chicken-heads who forget that wild birds also need feeding. And also please be on hand for chicken hatching missions to provide moral support to those hatching. We do chicken hatching dances with pom poms. If you misbehave, the punishment is usually in the form of coffee-ups. This is where you have to lift a coffee mug to your mouth repeatedly. Tea-ups are also available if you have an aversion to coffee. Since you haven't got any eggs to share, feel free to share baked goods and consult with Kitchen Protocol Officer Jan on any rules regarding baked goods. We have had cupcake slinging incidents in the past. Tsk tsk. Catscan usually starts them. Welcome! CWBO Wren! wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 03:02 PM Post #5695465 thank you thank you I will go in the kitchen a bake up a cranberry upside down cake gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 03:02 PM Post #5695467 Wren: Andre is a beauty. I have a dual patrol of my yard. Roscoe spots em and holds em and Emmagreyhound bites their heads off. Usually the prey is mice. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 03:07 PM Post #5695486 Thank you. He has just am in from squill patrol. Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 03:10 PM Post #5695496 KPO Jan reporting for duty. Just had 2 grands here for their naptime. ( yeah, right) That's why I was AWOL for awhile. Welcome CWBO Wren. Concerning rules regarding baked goods. 1. You must ALWAYS be on the look-out for lurking cupcakes. I understand in the past that there has been a problem. However, since getting my title ,I must say they have been behaving. LKOFC 2. If there are any fresh baked goods you must ALWAYS share with the rest of the flock. 3. I almost forgot. You must NEVER say the word pecan out loud. It makes someone very agitated. lol KPO Jan over and out Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 03:13 PM Post #5695505 CWBO Wren: don't forget to let us know when the cranberry upside-down cake is finished so we can get our cuppa ready. Smiling in anticipation, KPO Jan I love Snickers dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 20, 2008 03:14 PM Post #5695511 pe-cahhhhhhn KPO Jan23. I've been practising my 'southern' for my next mission. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 03:15 PM Post #5695512 AYE. AYE will get Andre the hairy one to keep an eye on lurking cupcakes. I always make to much when I bake so there will always be enough and I will keep the p----n work quite, even I do use them in baking, and in my stuffed celery and have bags of them in the freezer. CWBO wren over and out. Catscan Lodi, United States October 20, 2008 03:17 PM Post #5695521 I request that the record be amended to read: "Catscan usually stops them." It is very important that reports be accurate. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 03:18 PM Post #5695524 Snickers are in the freezer, cranberries are defrosting. And I am a southern as you can get. So y'all come on down and we all will set down to a mass on grits, fried fish,huspuppies and greens. Oh I think I just make my self hungry. CWBO Wren over and out CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 03:32 PM Post #5695579 PECANS...mumblemumblemumble...yumyumyumyum...peeeeccccaaaannnssss... (drool, drool, drool) EMT crew here. Moxon is a pile of jello. WHICH one of you said pecan? Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 03:50 PM Post #5695660 KPO Jan here: That would be me, but it was in a whisper. You could here me all the way from Jersey? Oh, I will have to be careful in the future. My apologies Catscan. Report has been amended to read "Catscan usually stops them" A bit of an aside. I am going to have to print out who has what title and have it in front of me, cuz it will take forever to look it up - that is if I can remember where it is. This peabrain befuddles me sometimes. sigh lol dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 20, 2008 03:57 PM Post #5695679 I hear you Jan23. I'm pretty sure there is no 'Big Cluck' or 'Big Bird' but otherwise I forget. I think as long as you call everyone sir you're pretty safe wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 03:57 PM Post #5695681 MY peabrain gave up remembering years ago. cwbo wren gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 04:05 PM Post #5695716 In Alabama the pecans are coming down right now and Miss Emmagreyhound is on patrol to ensure that no nut comes into the possession of a squill. In Alabama we say pee KAHN, but some people say PUCK uns. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 04:11 PM Post #5695742 I call them pee KAHN also. My pee KAHN protecter is Andre and it is time for another patrol gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 04:24 PM Post #5695802 My former pee KAHN protector was a malamute. When the pecans were falling she would not even come in and go to bed - her watch was 24 hours. You never know when one of those squills will try to sneak a pecan. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 04:26 PM Post #5695811 I can't trust the brat out side at night he likes to guard (visit) the hold neighborhood . CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 04:28 PM Post #5695823 Gloria - what is your title? Do you need a title? Do you have a greyhound? I have Stickley. See pic. Rescued racer of course. Formerly RJ's Elk River. A friend of mine has his littermate, RJs Coeurdalene and his cousin whose racing name escapes me at the moment. Harmony (see secret pictures of CF thread) has been recommended for a promotion to Navy Seal Harmony. All those in favor? Click the image for an enlarged view. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 04:29 PM Post #5695832 AYE! Catscan Lodi, United States October 20, 2008 04:33 PM Post #5695851 My hickory guards eat the hickory nuts...I would never trust them with, you know, the "P" things. I named one of my newest hatchlings "Stickly" because he was stuck in his egg. Oh, yes...Aye! gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 04:39 PM Post #5695874 CMoxon: No I don't need a title. I always leave that space blank! What a beautiful greyhound. I got my greyhound at a rescue shelter. There is a track near here, but I think she has something else mixed in there also. She is not quite as sleek as yours. She does have webbed toes and bad breath. Those are supposed to be greyhound characteristics! wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 04:41 PM Post #5695883 My fuzzy guard has not yet discovered that the "P"nuts can be ate. (SHUUUU! don't say anything but I have bags of the shelled ones in the freezer) CWBO Wren wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 04:43 PM Post #5695903 I think bad breath is a dog characteristic!!!!!!! At time Andre's breath can knock a squill out of a "P" tree at 20 paces. grownut Clarkson, KY October 20, 2008 04:51 PM Post #5695929 I believe Gloria is a Permaculture Diva, and because that is a mouthful, suggest giving her an honorary title something like PeDiva (pah-dee-va) or something similarly abstruse. La Pediva, even. gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 05:47 PM Post #5696096 thanks CMoxon, thanks Grownut, but I prefer to be . . . amorphous, ... anonymous, ...heterogeneus? You know a person whose potential is not yet accomplished? Catscan Lodi, United States October 20, 2008 06:18 PM Post #5696213 Immanent? Imponderable? Latent? Inchoate! This message was edited Oct 20, 2008 6:43 PM dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 20, 2008 06:21 PM Post #5696224 Potluck - a mix of mysterys that are all gooders. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 06:22 PM Post #5696228 We've got an acorn eater here. It's making for multiple emergency exits during the night and maloderous car trips. I'm getting cranky from lack of sleep and car sick as well. Miserable hound photo included. I could use a few days leave, with permission. And by the way, if I am an "anything", was it decided whether I'm a CCO or CWO (what would the dubya be for anyway? Laurel Click the image for an enlarged view. Catscan Lodi, United States October 20, 2008 06:32 PM Post #5696266 Awwww... Why do they do it? Poor thing. gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 06:48 PM Post #5696317 Awwww. He looks like a contented canine to me. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 06:48 PM Post #5696319 Well, I can't speak for all, but this one is just a mess. Part of it is nature (survival beast) and the other is nurture (rescue hound). When she's not eating acorns she's eating copperheads. The vet bills are putting a dent in my future chicken budget. L Click the image for an enlarged view. Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 06:50 PM Post #5696326 AYE!! DS and DDIL in OR. have a rescue greyhound. Yes, her breath is real stinky - so is her other end. But our lab's breath could stink too. He was a seeing eye reject, cuz of his paws. The sweetest, gentlest dog ever, except for your lab, maypop. ( That is a lab in the pic, right?) Still singing " stuck in the middle with you" lol Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 06:53 PM Post #5696339 I just shivered all over - ICK - copperheads. You said hound. What kind? I see lots of gray around the mouth. Looks like a great friend. gloria125 Greensboro, AL October 20, 2008 06:57 PM Post #5696359 He must be old to have a gray beard. I hope he stays away from those copperheads. They are really bad. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 07:35 PM Post #5696495 That is a Plott Hound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plott_Hound. She is only four years old. The breed was just admitted into the AKC (why, I don't know). The AKC allows show Plotts to be branded (cold branded) because they are used for hunting in packs. Ours is not. They must be brindle and often have gray or white muzzles (makes them look old). Her name is Pepper because she has a classic peppered black spots on white chest as well as feet. She really does look like a dog put together by a committee. She is well bred with a white tip on her tail so she can be ID in the brush.They were bred from German blood hounds (by the Plott family) and N. Carolina mountain dogs a few hundred years ago. They are the state dog of N.C., though no one has ever heard of them. They are pack hunters, climb trees to pull down game and will hunt and kill wild boar. Okay, I have rambled. You can see the love... but she is such a pain! Catscan Lodi, United States October 20, 2008 07:41 PM Post #5696518 I have heard of Plott Hounds! All I remember is that they are suppose to be very sweet natured and affectionate. No mention of acorn eating:0) wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 07:55 PM Post #5696578 I know of the Plott Hounds but then I am a dog nut also. Besides I saw Pepper on the pet Forum. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 08:06 PM Post #5696622 I've seen one or two breeders your way Catscan. They were stolen for breeding and never seen outside the Appalachians until a few years ago. You could not get a breeder to sell you a dog unless you could prove a pack hunting lineage. It's like the Hemingway cats that people kidnapped to breed from Key West. She is the bantam of canines. Not so large, but can be very aggressive. Here she is in a tree (after a possum). Not so mellow. Click the image for an enlarged view. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 08:31 PM Post #5696747 Maypop Laurel - you are either Chicken Borrowing Officer (CBO) or Chicken Coordinating Officer (CCO). There was no "W" involved. Which do you want to be? Gloria is AAH (amorphous, anonymous, heterogenous) Our greyhound's breath doesn't stink but his passing gas can clear a room in a hurry. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 09:19 PM Post #5697025 I think that, though I'm very compulsive by nature, I can only aspire to Chicken Borrowing Officer. That would be like grandchildren, yes? lol Coordinating Officer sounds like a position that requires more knowledge of breeds and their requirements than I possess. I would be most happy to "Borrrow" if those of you ranking will share photos for my elucidation and enlightenment. So, If it's okay, and with your permission, may I move up from recruit to CBO? BTW, I do have a previous relationship with Jan, and am willing to assist with KP (I'm a caterer). If I can help General (?) Dusty, I am also a critical care R.N.. Don't know if that helps with pipping. I know Gloria from elsewhere. She is knowing, intellectual and amorphous. Never anonymous to my knowledge. Heterogenous? Okay, yes. L dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 20, 2008 09:22 PM Post #5697038 Another food officer???? Is there chocolate involved??? I'm so luving this forum!!!! wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 09:28 PM Post #5697105 Chocolate is alway involved. I love Dark Dove chocolate. Much better than those pills. LOL dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 20, 2008 09:35 PM Post #5697136 sigh I'm in heaven. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 09:35 PM Post #5697138 I'm more about the garlic personally. To each his own. L Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 09:41 PM Post #5697177 Milk Chocolate with lots of Nuts Yummy! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 20, 2008 09:45 PM Post #5697194 Garlic works for me. I'm a herbie O the many faces of dahlianut. Didn't they make a movie? oops lets not let Sybil-Dahlia out just yet. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 10:02 PM Post #5697291 I have minced garlic in the fridge but it's for my chickens, not me. I am an essential oils junkie. I love lavender oil on my pillow and eucalyptus in my whirlpool tub, and I use a blend of oils called "quiescent" to help me sleep. And I love dark chocolate too, but I am a chocolate snob, and do not buy the "regular" brands...unless I'm making chocolate chip cookies for work, in which case my coworkers do not know the difference. Sigh. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 10:05 PM Post #5697313 I have tried the fancy chocolate and I find that Dove dark chocolate is better. Try peppermint oil, great for sore muscle, and even headaches just do not let the fumes get in you eyes. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 10:10 PM Post #5697343 I buy Valrhona, El Rey, Cafe Tasse, Vosges, Cote d'Or, Callebaut, and occasionally Lindt or Guittard. I usually have to order from http://www.chocosphere.com. Peppermint oil - sounds yummy - I could use it on my muscles after all that bulb planting! wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 20, 2008 10:15 PM Post #5697369 Biofreeze is great too but not as natural of the essental peppermint oil(not food type) I will add that site to my list for when i win the lotto. I have eaten the Lindt MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 10:18 PM Post #5697380 You have good taste in chocolate Moxie. I usually bake with Valrohna and eat the others. We can get Valrhona hacked off of enormous blocks here. I am also fond of Cote d'Or and Callebaut. L Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) October 20, 2008 10:21 PM Post #5697397 I would love to share KP duties with CBO Mapop Laurel. We could serve garlic-flavored chlockit ( a GKs euphemism). Well, maybe not. We want to savor each flavor on its own. Pepper looks like a love despite her paininess. That is one swollen lip. Bad Copperhead. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 20, 2008 10:25 PM Post #5697421 Thanks CBO Maypop! I buy the Valrhona enormous block for my Christmas baking. I think it's 6 lbs. It rocks. And it lasts a lovely long time. Vosges has this chocolate bar, and please don't all go freaky on me, but it's totally awesome, it's the bacon chocolate bar. It is applewood smoked bacon bits in milk chocolate, and it is to DIE for! It is soooo good. Every time I go to Chicago I go to the Vosges store on the Magnificent Mile, and I buy several of them. http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/product/bacon_exotic_candy_ba... Of course, I am also a bacon snob. For a while I was in a bacon-of-the-month club from Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor. Now I am in their Culinary Adventure club instead. jordankittyjo Bessemer, AL (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 07:10 AM Post #5698394 Here is the new pecahn patrol. Cadet Pooh Click the image for an enlarged view. luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) October 21, 2008 08:32 AM Post #5698556 awwwww Kathy, she is adorable jordankittyjo Bessemer, AL (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 08:44 AM Post #5698596 where you been hiding? luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) October 21, 2008 08:52 AM Post #5698624 oh gosh life has taken over my computer time. If it is not one thing it is another. Hoping life will settle down in a few days. jordankittyjo Bessemer, AL (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 08:54 AM Post #5698630 well, it don't seem the same without you luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) October 21, 2008 08:56 AM Post #5698639 awwwwwww thanks. I miss being here also. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 21, 2008 10:38 AM Post #5699041 awwww what a cutieputootie. What flavour is it jordonkitty? Now I want a pe-cahhhn cadet AND a chick-a-poo AND a zebra. A zebra has been on my list for a loooong time. jordankittyjo Bessemer, AL (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 10:52 AM Post #5699087 all crew members report for duty http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/915431/ brigidlily Lumberton, TX (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 12:21 PM Post #5699454 CPO Pastrypuff, 1952, reporting after brief hiatus. Debriefing this brief has not been brief! Y'all have really gotten out of hand here! May I remind all and sundry that all requisitions for baked goods, including but not limited to cranberry upside down cake and all things made with p%*@ns, must be completed in triplicate and filed through the chain of command for approval from the minister of pastries! jordankittyjo Bessemer, AL (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 12:23 PM Post #5699476 CPO PASTRYPUFF, You are ordered to report for duty immediatly brigidlily Lumberton, TX (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 12:26 PM Post #5699483 Reporting for duty, siryessir. I am present and accounted for. Even though my mother always said there was no accounting for me. Hm. jordankittyjo Bessemer, AL (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 12:28 PM Post #5699494 please report here http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/915431/ This message was edited Oct 21, 2008 11:29 AM wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 12:32 PM Post #5699512 Dahlianut you do NOT WANT zebra. They are very very mean and bad tempered. I have never tried putting p-------n in my cranbarry or pineapple upside down cakes, scientific mode one. . Think, think, look in freezer----may have enough for triple ... luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) October 21, 2008 04:38 PM Post #5700506 I guess I was just surprised i wasnt on the list in the 1st place. No worries CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 21, 2008 04:42 PM Post #5700525 You are on the list because you are mentioned right at the top in the 3rd paragraph which says "Some people (Luvs) are still choosing their titles" and we have been waiting for you to choose one!!!! You have been there since the beginning! Catscan Lodi, United States October 21, 2008 04:45 PM Post #5700536 Yes, and I think you were AWOL when CPO Moxon started slinging around titles. (Wait! Moxon has the Penedesenca...better be nice) Edit to say: "When CPO Moxon began generously bestowing titles." luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) October 21, 2008 04:47 PM Post #5700548 oops CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 21, 2008 04:53 PM Post #5700571 You can review the various titles and pick one as a recommendation for yourself and we will approve it, or we can come up with one for you... luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) October 21, 2008 04:53 PM Post #5700574 I guess it did say that, I missed it I am forgetful. So choose my name as you wish. Just remember I have not hatched or been around a hatching eggs. And i will not be due to NO hatching eggs are being laid right now. The CF shows up and everyone stops laying. Except gracie, my andalusian hen. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 21, 2008 04:57 PM Post #5700587 I think we need a Celebration Master Officer. We also probably need a Chicken Communication Specialist. On the other hand, you could be a Special Agent or a Secret Agent or a Samurai Warrior or whatever you want! Hmmmm... luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) October 21, 2008 04:59 PM Post #5700593 At this point in time with what the hell I am going thru Samurai Warrior sounds about right but could be really bad. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 21, 2008 05:02 PM Post #5700619 Very well, Samurai Warrior Luvs. You have been titled and are on the list. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) October 21, 2008 05:02 PM Post #5700621 DanceMaster. We need one. Can I stop tangoing now? I'm a little pooped. This message was edited Oct 21, 2008 3:03 PM CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 21, 2008 05:03 PM Post #5700628 I also added BJ with her updated title. luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) October 21, 2008 05:04 PM Post #5700637 That title could be bad for those that are near by me, I am really ready to get the sword out to a few. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 21, 2008 05:09 PM Post #5700653 It is appropriate for a samurai to be both powerful and gentle at the same time. luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) October 21, 2008 05:32 PM Post #5700736 I guess so. I can be gentle most of the time. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 21, 2008 07:10 PM Post #5701164 CBO (Chief Borrowing Officer) MaypopLaurel reporting. So sorry, sirs/mames. I have been reconnoitering like crazy all over GA. I deployed eighty five miles northward today to get a lay of the land. Way more chickens, but they have names like "F287"s and they go for truck rides every six weeks. The life of a chicken is not all cluck and scratch here. There are those out there who are oppressed!. I'll report when I learn more. Request permission to go covert op for a few days. CBO Laurel wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 07:51 PM Post #5701327 CWBO wren reporting: All wild bird feeders filled and food for the flying squirrels put out. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 21, 2008 10:02 PM Post #5701913 CBO MaypopLaurel. This is excellent recon work. I am very pleased with this progress, and yet distressed at the F287 issue. I think we need to organize an F287 rescue operation. Permission for covert op granted. If you are successful, maybe you can be promoted to Navy Seal MaypopLaurel. Good luck! CWBO Wren - excellent to hear that our wild friends are all accounted for. What about the water bath? Flying squirrels? COOL!!! wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) October 21, 2008 10:11 PM Post #5701951 CWBO Wren reporting that The baths had to be emptied because of to many skeeters, plus a large hairy demon child bit the tubing. Well they are cool except when they play squirrely games across the roof at all hours of the night. DustyDS Franklin, OH (Zone 6a) October 21, 2008 10:11 PM Post #5701955 Good Evening Moxon and Crew!!! I am still watching you !!! Congrats To CDR Jordan on the newest Hatch!!!! Moxon... Could you arrange a new page please?? We are over 300 and hard for Dial-uppers, and slow connects... I am off to my rack... late night and I have to be up at 4am again... Sleep tight all you ChickenHeads and Remember.. The Genrul is watching you !!! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 21, 2008 10:23 PM Post #5702016 Yes General! Right away General! I also will have an update on my goat, General, with the meningeal worm. I will put it in the goat thread. The Crazy Chicken Crew Continues Here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/915698/ MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) October 22, 2008 06:04 PM Post #5705227 A goat? Lordy Lou! DD is lusting for goats (dwarf Nubians) while I lust for chickens. You all are scaring me off a bit with weird chicken afflictions and even headless chickens. Now I'm hearing about a goat with wormyneuro-virus. She is in D.C. in grad school. So sad to be city slicker/wannabe farmers. I will reconnoiter over to the aforementioned thread and take a gander (did someone mention geese?) BTW, does my service branch hit the rack or the sack? Gotta keep these things straight. Dad was Army Air Force and he announced his sack hitting every night. He also made me his specialty, "SOS". LOL Laurel CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) October 22, 2008 06:07 PM Post #5705232 MaypopLaurel - I have 17 goats, many of which are pygmy. But we're supposed to be in the new chicken chat thread, for which I put the link in the post above yours... Jenks Social Circle, GA (Zone 8a) November 30, 2008 06:31 PM Post #5845160 Is there an Office or actually, I'm probably not qualified for Officer yet, but a genetics division? wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) November 30, 2008 06:35 PM Post #5845170 Well I am Chief of wild bird operations. I believe that is a nocom. (I think that is what it is called) CWBO Wren CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) November 30, 2008 06:39 PM Post #5845179 How about Chief Genetics Advisor? Jenks Social Circle, GA (Zone 8a) November 30, 2008 06:46 PM Post #5845195 Ma'am yes Ma'am. I'm not qualified, but I'll sure do my best to get up to speed. CGA Jenks "SALUTE" sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) November 30, 2008 10:00 PM Post #5845875 Me too! Me too! Can I be Special Agent of the Chick Inspector Division???? SACID I want to join too! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) November 30, 2008 10:24 PM Post #5845968 Absolutely! You are now added to the list, and welcome to the insane horde of chicken people. Please try to ensure you are present for hatching threads to provide moral support and assist with chicken hatch dancing when necessary (which is often). The secret password for all crazy chicken crew events is omelet, and the secret handshake isn't a handshake - you have to do a butt wiggle like a chicken and stick your neck out at the same time. Practice makes perfect. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) November 30, 2008 10:34 PM Post #5846002 I wish I had a camcorder!!!!!! We could make a lot of money of funnest video program ----that is if I was not laughing so hard I could not record. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) November 30, 2008 10:58 PM Post #5846062 Ah yes, the entire chicken crew doing the chicken butt wiggle...now that would be a sight to see! sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) November 30, 2008 11:00 PM Post #5846071 wiggle wiggle...am I doing it right???? CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) November 30, 2008 11:03 PM Post #5846085 Very good, steady on...don't lose your balance now... Love the enthusiasm! sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) November 30, 2008 11:06 PM Post #5846095 yes ma'am! awaiting orders in the next covert op! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) November 30, 2008 11:18 PM Post #5846171 Secret info - need to know basis only - Dutch Bantam hatch due to begin Wednesday. Shhhhh! sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) November 30, 2008 11:25 PM Post #5846200 ohhh boy! I mean... yes ma'am! (in my most serious army like secretive voice) hehehe I am off to find out what they look like and learn their behavior as to spot any deviants! Must take my job very serious! I wont let you down. I may mis spell a few (hundred) words but I will be there! Jenks Social Circle, GA (Zone 8a) December 01, 2008 09:14 PM Post #5849077 Oo. Must go check into Dutch Bantams now! Yay! DH is out of town this week too... Ahem, I mean, I'll be ready Ma'am. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 01, 2008 09:38 PM Post #5849191 These are the possible Dutch Bantam life form varieties: Black Tailed Buff Light Brown Black Silver Fla_Chick Citra, FL December 01, 2008 09:51 PM Post #5849241 OMG, the chicken butt wiggle...I tried it and almost fell down...coordination not my strong suit, Im afraid. Having major issues with upcoming Covert Hatches because...nothings hatching. Ive been trying to get some fertile splash rock eggs, I think Ive set around 25 eggs, not a single one fertile. I have a feeling Im going to have to go into Hatching Interruptus Mode...gaahhhhh!!!!!! unless my EE's pick up the slack. If not, it will be the first time since January that Ive not had eggs in the bator. Woe is me...sniff...sniff... Jenks Social Circle, GA (Zone 8a) December 01, 2008 09:56 PM Post #5849259 This site http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Dutch/BRKDutch.html shows "Black, gold and columbian" chicks (descriptions). Silver I think I can recognize? But buff and light brown? Is "Gold" light brown as chicks or the black tailed buffs? OOooo they get into creme there too... Sure you have no chance of creme in there? Catscan Lodi, United States December 01, 2008 10:12 PM Post #5849304 I have a bunch (well 12) Dutch Bantam from a very nice source. Great fertility. And some Millefleur coming. But I haven't got a clue about the colors. If I post a pic--could someone help? Two are light brown...the rest are varying shades of silver and darker brown. Extremely pert and precocious. Moxon--you can practice naming colours on mine, before you have your own! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 01, 2008 10:25 PM Post #5849364 Oh cool! Color practice! I'm all over that! Post the pix! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 01, 2008 11:28 PM Post #5849582 Jenks, Sewincircle, Fla_Chick, Wren, Dahlianut & Any Others!!! If any of our crazy chicken crew members are not aware of the Official Poultry Holiday Swap thread, run over there now and quickly read it. We have a last-minute request from someone to join, and if I can get a couple more participants, we can make it work. It's not a very complicated swap. Take a look and see if you want to join - I'll make this special time limit exception! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/919590/ dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 01, 2008 11:39 PM Post #5849625 Crappola Claire with the border holiday thing if I participated now my buddy would maybe get it by summer (snort). CGA Jenks, I'm all ears about genetics that encourage bad hair in fowls. Special Agent SewinCircle (doesn't that have a luvly ring to it ) Ninja Dahlianut ready to provide assistance. I've been authorized to lock and load blue smarties if anyone one threatens your inspections. Note to all: I believe the regulations require hankies and kneepads for the celebratory butt wiggling chicken dances. From personal experience if you wear bare feets you don't fall down as much when you wiggle. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 01, 2008 11:43 PM Post #5849638 I left a message on the other thread. I will be up in Ga for half of the month-unless I can escape-probable with out a computer. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 01, 2008 11:49 PM Post #5849659 Well it's for New Years, not Christmas, which gives extra time! I haven't sent my parents presents home to Halifax yet. I'd best get my butt in gear! I better watch out for those blue smarties - they sting! By the way, Ninja Dahlianut, here in the US of A, Smarties are not Smarties. You remember at Halloween in Canada how people give out those little rolls of pastel colored candies in a cellophane wrapped tube and we call them "Rockets" in Canada? (at least, we did in NS and ON) Well, here, those are called Smarties. And there are no REAL smarties here. And for the US folks, Smarties in Canada are like M&Ms but slightly flatter and better tasting. For which see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties_(Nestlé) However, the blue ones are of questionable aesthetic quality. LOL over the butt wiggle dance suggestions - excellent - safety first! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 12:05 AM Post #5849690 OMG there are NO REAL SMARTIES in the USA???? ok I just added another load to my suitcase for my trip to AZ and NM this winter( I'm bringing Canadian Rocky rocks for sure ). I will bring the joy of smarties. I will be a Smartie Fairy. ps the blue ones are just plain wrong IMHO as smarties and I will remove them all with tweezers before I come. They do make good ammo though. Well if 'Rockets' are 'Smarties' what are 'Sweet Tarts'. Tell me you have 'Sweet Tarts' otherwise it will be just too sad. Catscan Lodi, United States December 02, 2008 12:13 AM Post #5849709 We have SweetTarts. Once, when I lived in England, we were warned not to attempt to bring Smarties into the US because the red ones had an unapproved dye in them. They told us a whole container load had been impounded in New York and they had picked out the red ones one by one. I cannot verify the truth of the individual removal. Blue in any candy is an abomination. They were introduced in the 70s--as were so many abominations. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 02, 2008 12:23 AM Post #5849732 Indeed, it is the sad truth, Dahlianut. My mother sends me Smarties on a regular basis. She also sends me Wunderbar and Aero and Coffee Crisp bars. :-) Oh, and hickory sticks. I just LOVE hickory sticks, and they are not here. Plus, the kit kat is made with a different chocolate. It is startlingly different if you taste them side-by-side. Then I found an article that explained about it and how the Canadian chocolate palate prefers a darker and slightly more brittle chocolate, while the American palate prefers a milder and more waxy consistency. Go figure. Oh, and Kraft Dinner isn't Kraft Dinner here. It's Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. If you say you ate KD for lunch, nobody knows what you mean. AND, the cheese mix is different. It is WAY milder here. Friends and family send me KD from time to time too. Old habits die hard. The English smarties are best because the orange ones have orange flavored chocolate in them. Yummy! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 12:28 AM Post #5849745 OMG This is the official Smarty Song: ♪♪♪When you eat your Smarties, Do you eat the red ones last? Do you suck them very slowly, Or crunch them very fast? Eat that candy-coated chocolate, But tell me when I ask, When you eat your Smarties, Do you eat the red ones last? ♪♪♪ I'm so relieved you have Sweet Tarts. Obviously there has only been a minor shift in the matrix. I have heard of the red food dye thing though. Apparently it is a serious allergy. ok I will pick out the blue ones AND the red ones. Glad you're with me Catscan on the blue candy thing. It's just plain wrong. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 12:36 AM Post #5849764 I think we should have an International Candy Summit where all the heads of state converge and share candy (except blue candy). The world would be a far better place methinks. hmmmm Note to self: think about becoming a head of state for the international candy tasting factor. Catscan Lodi, United States December 02, 2008 12:46 AM Post #5849780 I will sustain you in your bid for World Wide Candy Supremacy, dahlianut--may I be a minister without portfolio and travel the world in search of candies, sweets, dulce, barfi, for you delectation? You can see I am already fluent in candy in several languages. I've been preparing all my life for this position. In the UK Snickers are Marathon Bars! And Yorkies are for Boys! ( I still don't understand that). dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 01:29 AM Post #5849875 Could I do that? Could I BE the Secretary of Candy? I will admit that I'm very confused over US candy which is why I would so need a Director General (better than Minister cuz then you get funded for candy searching and tasting Catscan whooo hooo) to assist. Is this an apointment? Do I have to run for election? Can I self declaire? ( Note: how I purposely misspelled 'declaire' to get Claire on the Queen spelling thing and then TADA! joining the venture! I'm so brilliant. (probably not but it sounds good)). Catscan Lodi, United States December 02, 2008 02:03 AM Post #5849932 I think that even our redoubtable CPO Moxon is suffering petty fatigue with so many challenges to her authority. I will throw in something here to try to draw her out as well. I, of coarse, will be happy to be whatever you feel would best serve the mission of clarifying world wide candy nomenclature, dahlianut. Why stop there? There is a universe out there. You could be the Supreme Universal Secretary of Candy! If no one knows about the election--I think you can just self-declare. I will second your nomination! I know very little about Australian sweets. Perhaps one of our Antipodean members could clue us in? Arrange a field tour? Now for the Poultry Purists among us: Why are British store bought eggs so much larger than American ones? Our Jumbos are their standard size. Is this a North American phenomenon or just US? This has bothered me for years. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 02:26 AM Post #5849961 Catscan do you think its like the European veggie phenomenom? UNBELIEVABLE tomatos, beans, etc. etc. that we never see the size or taste of in NA. I leave you with artichokes. OMG have you eaten a European artichoke?? I rest my case on the fabby European veggie thing. Perhaps theres also a chicken/egg thing? I will ask my European buds and report pack. Catscan Lodi, United States December 02, 2008 02:30 AM Post #5849966 Yes! An answer in sight! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 02:42 AM Post #5849982 I sent a Dmail to my buds in Ireland and France. I think those guys will have the scoop Catscan Lodi, United States December 02, 2008 03:46 AM Post #5850048 But will they believe we eat such minuscule eggs? And where do their smaller eggs go? I've read that the smallest commercial size egg in the US is the peewee--and that is sold to commercial bakeries. Somewhere we must have a huge national stockpile of super colossal eggs. I will be very interested in your friends' explanations. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 02, 2008 07:12 AM Post #5850208 Lets get the Asian candy in there. The Asian gummys are yummy!!!!!! I will also volunteer as a taste tester. I do not like the waxy chocolate of NA candy. Wren Fla_Chick Citra, FL December 02, 2008 08:08 AM Post #5850266 Fortunately, I am stationed near the Russell Stover outlet store in Wildwood, which I make a periodic stop. OMG...if you are ever near there, you won't believe what you can get. Last time I was there, I got the huge heart shaped boxes of candy that you buy on Valentines day (I mean huge, like put your arms over your head and touch your fingertips...that large...for $2.00) I got some and gave some to all my friends...in Oct. Told them I was just a little late...no one complained. Ill have to try and practise that chicken dance with some padding. I dont have any knee pads, Ill have to just tape some Kotex to my knees and elbows. My butt has plenty of padding already. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 02, 2008 08:21 AM Post #5850289 I know where that Russell Stover outlet is, Also there is a peach orchard near there. Note to self time for a road trip. Sandy dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 11:49 AM Post #5850888 Citra FL has now been entered in the Great Book of Lists under the chocolate catagory. mmmmmmmm chocolate mmmmmmmmm. Rosie from Ireland reports that they have super-chickens but they are grown for meat production not eggs so she has no clue about the big egg thing. There's a dahlianut in the UK I will ask him too. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 02, 2008 11:52 AM Post #5850902 There is another Russel Strover outlet off interstate 95 at I think exit 92!!!! Been there. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 12:28 PM Post #5851008 Here is the scoop from wallaby1 in the UK. Too funky weird about the cucumbers!!! 'I think the 'medium' or standard size egg was 2 ounces here, over that is large and under is small. There are machines for weighing too! [HYPERLINK@www.solwayfeeders.com] The Dept. of Food and Fisheries as I think it's called here has always had strict regulations in place for as long as I know, and the European Union has taken control of many of those Standards so some things have had to change such as weights to Kilos instead of Pounds, even the long green cucumbers had to be straight! I read recently they were changing that so 'bent' ones could be sold, lol. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 02, 2008 12:38 PM Post #5851035 CPO Moxon is completely overwhelmed and stunned by the sudden flurry of information on international food standards and such. And then, CPO Moxon nearly fell off her chair laughing about Fla_Chick with Kotex taped to her knees, doing the butt wiggle dance. This has just about made my morning! Catscan, your ridiculous spelling of coarse instead of course is quite unacceptable. Twenty lashes with a chicken feather. Dahlianut - you made me homesick with the Smarties song. I nearly got a tear. Where do Rosie's 3.2 ounce eggs fall into the scheme of things. I can't close my egg cartons when her eggs are in them. Dahlianut and Catscan - if you wish to change your official titles, please make up your minds and I will approve them . Officially of course. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 12:49 PM Post #5851057 I think the answer lies with the 'large chicken' egg here http://www.solwayfeeders.com/ProductsResultsList1.asp?cat=37 I have sent an email to SolwayFeeders asking for the breeds of super-chickens that make the big eggs. We will get to the bottom of the mystery. grownut Clarkson, KY December 02, 2008 01:07 PM Post #5851111 2.18698 oz = 62 grams?! My,my,my. 90.7184 grams = 3.2oz Hmmmm. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 01:21 PM Post #5851151 ok here's what googleguy knows: US large egg 57 grams in shell, 50 grams without shell. He says that standard eggs are smaller cuz the chickens are kept in small cages (3-7 hens per cage) so there is not enough room for the hens to exercise. That is too sad if it is true :( CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 02, 2008 01:21 PM Post #5851152 She's an egg laying fool, my Rosie! I don't know how she gets those things out of her, but she does it every day! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 01:24 PM Post #5851155 Rosie is obviously a super-chicken. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 02, 2008 01:55 PM Post #5851226 She is indeed. She is my animal rescue league hen. She was picked up downtown wandering about and was taken to city animal control. Then she went to the rescue league. I adopted her from there. She was horribly skinny and missing feathers. She started out on daily cottage cheese, oatmeal, and chopped grapes and tomatoes. She was tremendously coddled and cuddled! Then, about 3 weeks after I got her, she laid her first egg, and I nearly squealed when I saw it. I never even expected her to lay after all she'd been through (including having been debeaked on both top and bottom right back to the nostrils) but she is my best and most consistent layer, and also follows me around like a puppy. Just love her! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 03:13 PM Post #5851406 And this just in from France: "Because the British are weird? Because their chickens are huge? Because eggs are one thing that hasn't been "Big-Gulped"? (Although, since the standard American breakfast consists of eggs with trimmings and the standard European breakfast rarely gas an egg, that would be odd!) Because the British take every chance they can get to fly in the face of EU standards? Because NA chicken factories crowd the birds so closely that they can't produce normal-sized eggs? I've no idea! I have noticed that I usually have to buy "Large" eggs in the States to equate to what I know as "Moyen" (i.e. literally "medium", nut maybe that is UK "standard"). Here you can see a comparison: European Sizes US Sizes "Petit/Small" is 71 g Why is a British/Canadian gallon bigger than a US gallon? Why do so many small men wear big mustaches? Go figure!" Ain't he a hoot? Note ma francais ami is originally from Spokane WA so is an American in disguise. Too funny. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 02, 2008 03:24 PM Post #5851426 Excellent questions, none of which I have answers for. :-) dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 03:27 PM Post #5851434 I gave him back: 'Why do balding people do the comb over?" It's an international phenomenoma and it fools no one. That will keep him pondering for awhile tee hee. sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 02, 2008 03:31 PM Post #5851446 I am back!!! I got logged off and the thing would not let me log back on. I was frustrated! Sooooo, what did I miss, okay egg size, uh huh! Oh holiday exchange...is it too late???? If not sighn me up... cucumbers, UK,... alright! I am all caught up. phew! that was stressfull. Any babies? Oh ya, tomorrow right? ;0! wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 02, 2008 07:22 PM Post #5852174 Boy did I find some good malted milk balls-the ultimate malted milk balls from the Oh nuts web site http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/bulk-chocolate/malted-milk-bal... dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 02, 2008 07:23 PM Post #5852182 O WOW! Good find wren. sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 02, 2008 07:25 PM Post #5852190 Ohhhh, those look yummy! * * 0 wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 02, 2008 07:36 PM Post #5852237 THEY ARE!!! they also have great seed bars and dried veggy chips sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 02, 2008 07:38 PM Post #5852249 I was just browsing! hehehe! grownut Clarkson, KY December 02, 2008 08:58 PM Post #5852512 If yer gonna make me look at stuff THAT hard to resist I may have to stop talking to you ---ssllluuuurrrpp!! wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 02, 2008 09:20 PM Post #5852594 I have more sites!!!!!!! LOL Name your favorite goody and I will go find it. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 02, 2008 09:22 PM Post #5852606 One of my fave sites is chocosphere.com. I have great difficulty visiting their site without buying from it. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 02, 2008 09:24 PM Post #5852615 Thankfully we have a very short season that most candy can be shipped to us down here in hot Florida or I would be a lot heavier than I am. MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) December 02, 2008 10:56 PM Post #5852900 Well, I'm still reconnoitering while you guys are goofing off philosophizing, eating chocolates and trying to figure out how to stuff your big, fat eggs into a small box. Come on troops, I gave you the heads up on the chicken trucks! And speaking of "comb overs", check out the Travel Channel. Andrew Zimmer was noshing cocks combs this very a.m.. It's all in the sauce. Now I'm dreaming of a dim sum with cock's combs and chicken feet. I have not had feet in five years. Why can't we engineer chickens that lay feet and combs along with eggs? That's the real question. Those of us who exist as part of the poultry underground can't depend on normative fare. L Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 02, 2008 11:56 PM Post #5853044 Hello Maypop hows the weather up in cleveland? Did you say feet and combs heard of eating feet but not combs? Philosophizing LOL! MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA (Zone 7b) December 03, 2008 12:15 AM Post #5853111 Hi, Harmony, I'm freezing my feathers off in Atlanta. Will be back in Cleveland this weekend. This is just not normal...twenties nights on and off for weeks with forties days. Ice pellets on the decks after four days of gloom and rain. If I had chickens in the midwest, we'd be talking frozen, starved poultry. I ask DH, "Is it Spring yet?" multiple times a day (and night). lol Combs are awesome and less work than feet. I think the only edible part I've not had is testicles. Since I'm underground, if anyone has access to product or recipes, I'm "game" for the cause. L Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 03, 2008 12:22 AM Post #5853188 Daddy talked of haveing feet and heads at the church home comeings back in the day. Never seen a recipe for those and don't think i want to try them (Wimp) Yea the Weather here is strange it's been cold since oct and we really didn't have the long fall like i love. The frost was so thick this mornin it looked like it had snowed. I love comein to the mountains when it snows it looks like a winter wonderland up there. Catscan Lodi, United States December 03, 2008 03:40 AM Post #5853574 Apparently the British have recently changed their egg size designations so that they are more similar in name to the US. But not the sizes. The weights are in grams. Voila: British Small is 53g and under/US Small is 42.5g (The US gives the weight in ounces by the dozen, so I converted) British Medium is 53-63g/US Medium is 49.6g. British Large is 63-73g/US Large is 56.7g. British Very Large is 73g and up/US Extra Large is 63.8g. The US also has two additional sizes: Jumbo--70.9g and Peewee--35.4g. So a British Medium egg may be nearly as large as a US Extra Large. Shocking! Edited to add EU regulations--same as Brits: http://www.foodlaw.rdg.ac.uk/news/eu-96-6.htm This message was edited Dec 3, 2008 3:48 AM CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 03, 2008 10:40 AM Post #5854099 Rosie says she needs her own egg category please. She laughs in the general direction of so called "jumbo" eggs. US Rosie Size: 80 to 95 grams. Catscan Lodi, United States December 03, 2008 10:58 AM Post #5854165 Rosie, like her human sponsor, is a bit of an overachiever:0) CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 03, 2008 11:10 AM Post #5854201 As my mother always said, any job worth doing is worth doing well. ;-P wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 03, 2008 11:19 AM Post #5854238 Oh can you come down and help me shovel out the back porch?????? Wren CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 03, 2008 11:35 AM Post #5854316 LOL, touché Wren! Well done! Full Crew Alert!! Full Crew Alert!! Mission Dutch has commenced! All crew to your posts! Prepare for silliness! http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/929719/ dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 03, 2008 01:29 PM Post #5854741 Here the the response I got from the British feeder supplier "Good morning, I’m sorry we don’t have that kind of information. You would be better to contact a breeder of hens. A list of breeders is usually available in poultry magazines." I will now rush right out and pick up a local copy of a British poultry magazine (snort). CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 03, 2008 01:46 PM Post #5854799 It is quite clearly a conspiracy. Contact Battery Hen Welfare Trust in England. They ought to know. They rescue battery hens all the time, which are the ones laying eggs for the UK consumer market. Patchouli78 Foley, MO December 24, 2008 12:38 AM Post #5923952 MayPopLaurel, gotta love that Andrew Zimmer and Anthony Bourdain (my personal fave)! By the way, how in the world did I miss the official unofficial title hand outs? I think I originally thought it was reserved only for those with an interest in hatching. That's what I get for being busy. Hippies aren't interested in titles anyways (laughing at own hipocrisy)! ; 0 ) Jenks Social Circle, GA (Zone 8a) December 24, 2008 12:45 AM Post #5923977 Dos anyone know if there is a setting that allows you to go right to the most recently posted, but unread by the user, post? I'd love to stop scrolling down... grownut Clarkson, KY December 24, 2008 02:36 AM Post #5924120 Very top o' the page "skip to new"? Over the 1st post, far right... Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 10:25 AM Post #5924542 I didn't know this DUH! on my part thanks grow♥ sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 24, 2008 10:27 AM Post #5924548 Me either! wow, what a great feature! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 10:41 AM Post #5924591 Don't you feel so Duh! i thought that was to skip to a new thread LOL sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 24, 2008 10:41 AM Post #5924595 Ya, look at all the ease we have been missing! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 10:48 AM Post #5924616 I have almost wore out the wheel on my cordless mouse and all the time there was no need. DUH! takes a while to go away i just scrolled this thread "my goodness" sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 24, 2008 10:50 AM Post #5924625 Its especially good for long ones like this one! yeah! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 10:54 AM Post #5924638 Boy with my DSL and me knowing this i can really post now watch the smoke from my keyboard. sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 24, 2008 10:55 AM Post #5924642 Watch out...dont burn your fingers! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 10:58 AM Post #5924650 Do you ever notice how shiney your keys are on the keyboard where you type so much. sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 24, 2008 11:00 AM Post #5924658 I have kids, so most everything is sticky! hehehe just kidding. Yes they are shiny. Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 12:48 PM Post #5924995 DUH!!! up here in Jersey, too. I can't believe it. You CAN teach an old dog. :) BTW! May your holiday be blessed! Jan Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 01:15 PM Post #5925097 Hey Jan 23!! My birthday is comeing up in Jan on the 23 Yea DUH i could have saved alot of time DUH ZZsBabiez Lodi, CA (Zone 9b) December 24, 2008 01:24 PM Post #5925112 And I was born in NJ.. :) sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 24, 2008 03:49 PM Post #5925455 MY BIRTHDAY IS JAN 22!!! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 24, 2008 03:56 PM Post #5925466 I wasn't born in January at all or in NJ or the US for that matter. I was born on May 17. I just thought I'd drop a little hint now because sometimes it takes presents a bit of time to get over the border Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 03:59 PM Post #5925473 I will mark my calender♥ dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 24, 2008 04:03 PM Post #5925482 Harmony will you have crocus and daffodils up by your birthday? Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 04:12 PM Post #5925500 No we have those around march. sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 24, 2008 04:21 PM Post #5925528 Making note of May/ Dahlianut... Not here (crocus and daffodils) either. Usually March! Sorry! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 24, 2008 04:26 PM Post #5925538 March/April for me. We will have to have a mutual admiration crocus/daffodil celebration Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 04:36 PM Post #5925557 Ours depends on the weather here as to when they actually come up i'll keep you posted. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 24, 2008 05:33 PM Post #5925676 my birthday is January 9 and we will have daffs blooming at the end of Jan. Sandy Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 05:37 PM Post #5925684 Hey Wren "me waveing" again hows the visit going? wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 24, 2008 05:50 PM Post #5925709 Not good, sister has lost her rings plus she and BIL are fighting as usual , Mom forget her blood tester, went get another they did not put testing strip in the box, sister was driving my hair is grayer now. I so love my family!!!!! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 24, 2008 06:34 PM Post #5925783 LOL Hang in there Wren♥ wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 24, 2008 07:20 PM Post #5925854 I am trying, the trash was gone through, the stove was moved,the ice box was moved, and where were the rings found? Under the bread right where they where placed.h dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 24, 2008 07:52 PM Post #5925941 o dear wren familys are such fun ;) I thought you would probably be the first for spring flowers but then you have flowers all year round you lucky, lucky girl. grownut Clarkson, KY December 25, 2008 12:07 AM Post #5926358 (Jost soze you kow -I learned about the 'skip to new' feature about 2 weeks back!! I'm very advanced -lol!!) This message was edited Dec 26, 2008 2:02 PM dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 25, 2008 01:02 AM Post #5926438 Well (she says poofing with pride) I got that from the get go. I say that in a poofing with pride manner cuz I'm a total loser who freezes like a deer in the headlights when it come to plant files, book reviews and deleting dmails that scare you. Also I can't search. Basically I'm a big honkin DG challenged loser so I really, really get excited when I can poof about something. Did I mention that I got that one really, really soon? Luv Dahlianut BIG L LOSER ON TECHIE THINGS FOREVER AND ALWAYS ' Patchouli78 Foley, MO December 25, 2008 01:15 AM Post #5926454 CMoxon!!!!!!!!! I know I don't have the seniority you have, but I believe I've been on here long enough to be considered more than a mere civilian! Actually, I prefer it over here, holding up my sign in protest of...well...whatever! I just like to protest. (Patch chains herself to tree in protest). Oh my, it's soo cold out here! Passive resistance is a lot of work! It's not very passive. (Freezing). Being that it's the holidays, I guess I may be out here for a long time. Maybe it's my fault... Maybe I shouldn't of burned my Crazy Chicken Crew draft card. dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) December 25, 2008 01:27 AM Post #5926475 I'm very confused. I don't understand. I'm just gonna join my cousin Grownut under her rock for a while til you all/ y'all sort this out. Patchouli78 Foley, MO December 25, 2008 01:35 AM Post #5926489 It's ok Dahlia, just protesting till I get a suitable Crazy Chicken Crew title. I was going to have a Bed-In, but I thought this might get more noticed ; ) wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 25, 2008 07:34 AM Post #5926727 hold off on the protest until after holidays-when all brain are back from the holiday madness!!! Sorry I mean people are back, the title giver are freezing their rumps off else were. Patchouli78 Foley, MO December 25, 2008 12:54 PM Post #5927317 Oh no!!! (Looking in pockets for keys to the cuffs). Um... uh-oh: ) Jan23 Salem Cnty, NJ (Zone 7b) December 25, 2008 01:33 PM Post #5927401 ROTFL I just used the 'skip to new' feature. Cool beans. Birthday wishes to all now, whether in January or May, cuz I won't remember. LOL Actually my birthday is in Nov. But the name is Jan. birthdate is 23 as well as anniv. I figured DH would only have to remember one date, but 2 months. LOL We went to an Open House at my niece's yesterday, hence the time lapse of my posts. I was glad mom was able to travel, since it's about an hour and a half away. She made out great. Today was quiet. We slept late and didn't have breakfast til 9:30. Youngest son is coming over for dinner. The grandkids are all out of state at the moment. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 26, 2008 03:18 PM Post #5929917 Patchouli dear, your absence was noted by Grownut on October 18 in Post #5688618, but you never appeared to request a title. Would you like a title? I am more than willing to bestow a title upon you. I think that your title should be something like Chief Resident Hippie or something like that, based on what you have brought up in your posts. Or Chief Hippie Protester? Chicken Protest Protocol Officer? Please, help me out! Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 26, 2008 03:23 PM Post #5929931 Claire due to Daves new rule Patch isn't a subscriber so she can no longer post here...Maybe she will subscribe. I just pulled up my old thread and you were here all along (my face is red) CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 26, 2008 03:26 PM Post #5929940 I didn't know about the new rule. Gee, stuff happens when you take some holiday time off! grownut Clarkson, KY December 26, 2008 04:07 PM Post #5930072 Officer of Essential Essences?? -hopefully she will be back...takes a little while to get through though -Don't know what I would do with an unintentional week without the P&L!! Horrors -not even my rock to console me! *GASP* Yesterday I was merely buried under a magnificent pile of Christmas Cooking too large to allow computer access... Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) December 26, 2008 04:14 PM Post #5930091 Hey Grow how is the world treatin you? I bet the food was fabulous and the company just as good. grownut Clarkson, KY December 26, 2008 04:25 PM Post #5930124 It was wonderful Har, but I fell asleep standing at 8pm. Stayed nominally awake and not quite so functioning til 10 so DD would have the rest of her "Christmas" after everyone went home. I'm somewhat recovered now but !!the piles of food still around here!! I won't be cooking til March!! Patchouli78 Foley, MO December 31, 2008 07:57 PM Post #5949367 WOOHOO! I'm back!!!! This whole suscriber thing couldn't of happened at a worse time! My card went global, and I had to have it canceled. Been waiting here for my new card to arrive so I could become an official suscriber. It was pure horror let me tell you, I almost burst : ) Now, back to the business at hand... I kinda like the Protocol Protest one, I actually do have experience in that area, although protesting isn't my only area of expertise ; ) I do see that Grownut mentioned me (thank you), but unfortunately I was rather busy in Oct. wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) December 31, 2008 07:59 PM Post #5949371 Welcome to the nut farm. sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) December 31, 2008 08:05 PM Post #5949402 Yeah!!!! Patch I am so happy to see you! I am sorry for all your trouble though!! It will indeed be a better NEW YEAR for you! jeanmarie luvs2garden2000 (Tia) Norman, OK (Zone 7a) December 31, 2008 08:08 PM Post #5949410 Welcome back Patch. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) December 31, 2008 10:42 PM Post #5950094 Well, Chief Protest Protocol and Secret Experience Officer? (CPPSEO) Patchouli78 Foley, MO January 01, 2009 05:53 PM Post #5953109 LMAO ; ) sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 05:54 PM Post #5953113 I think its perfect! What do you think patchouli? Patchouli78 Foley, MO January 01, 2009 05:59 PM Post #5953141 Sure, just hope I'll remember it. I can see me reading threads months from now going " I wonder who that is and why they won't respond", lol! Chief Poultry Protest Protocol and Secret Experience Official unofficial Officer of Internal and External Hippie Affairs, Over, Under, and Out. hahahaha! sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 06:10 PM Post #5953186 Oh my, I thought i was a complicated person.!!! hehehe! Good luck remebering that! Gingkoba, is that for memorie? I forget! hehehe dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) January 01, 2009 06:13 PM Post #5953198 I will NEVER remember that sigh. I shall call you the Chicken Whisperer. It will be your super secret code name. sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 06:16 PM Post #5953212 Ohhhh, I like that name! Patchouli78 Foley, MO January 01, 2009 06:40 PM Post #5953303 But everyone that know me, knows I never whisper, lol. sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 06:42 PM Post #5953314 WHATEVER DO YOU MEAN????? Patchouli78 Foley, MO January 01, 2009 07:20 PM Post #5953464 Bwaaahaaahaaaaa! EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 07:34 PM Post #5953521 CPPPSEO Patchouli - you have been added to the list and are official now. Thank you for choosing such a complicated title - we need somebody to keep us on our toes! LOL! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) January 01, 2009 07:42 PM Post #5953587 ok... no peeking back... 'Cool Particularly Prettiful Person Singing Everso Often' Did I get it right? There better not be a test on this one sigh. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 07:49 PM Post #5953636 ROTFL Dahlianut. Good one! I may need the hatching crew in upcoming weeks. Due to the many losses here, I have taken a ridiculous risk and bought some eggs from eggbid. If they don't all freeze, I might have some hatches. We shall see... wren107 Jacksonville, FL (Zone 8b) January 01, 2009 07:57 PM Post #5953683 Good luck Patchouli78 Foley, MO January 01, 2009 08:01 PM Post #5953707 CPPPSEOUOIEHA Patch will be ready CPO CMoxon!!! LMAO!!!! sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 08:09 PM Post #5953759 I will be on alert as well! Specail Agent of the Chick inspection Division will report when needed! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) January 01, 2009 08:16 PM Post #5953798 Ninja Dahlianut has commenced reconn to ensure the perimeters are secure. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 08:23 PM Post #5953839 Commander Moxon is meditating while awaiting egg arrival. I won the following from eggbid: 12 white and buff silkie eggs 12 Rhode Island red eggs 12 Delaware eggs I also bid on 18 mixed breed and 18 buff orpingtons. If any of them make it here without freezing, I will be amazed, but I have to give it my best shot. Also, a friend at work who has chickens is going to bring me a dozen mixed breed eggs next week from her farm. They will be barred rock crosses. sewincircle Elbridge, NY (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 08:27 PM Post #5953868 That is great Claire! Congrats! It is indeed eggciting. I ordered 6 showgirls. They did not come. They are sending out another batch. I think they will be just fine. I can not imagine having all those eggs in the bator at once! hehehe. I panic with 8! dahlianut Calgary, AB (Zone 3a) January 01, 2009 08:40 PM Post #5953945 That IS wonderful news Claire! Won't they be ok if shipped as 'perishable'? Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) January 01, 2009 08:44 PM Post #5953978 Claire remember you Must Thoroughly Clean and disinfect your whole surroundings and equipment. I most certainly would not recommend bringing in any eggs to hatch or chickens. I was going to say concernig your outbreak in some cases of an outbreak the adult chickens that don't get sick can be the carriers of the disease. Loseing that many chickens is a warning that your enviroment is contaminated and that it was brought in from somewhere. It's usually the last chickens that is brought on your property that spread the virus. If i had this happen in my flock and it was as severe as yours i personally would depopulate all adults as suspious carriers. I might even consider putting down the chicks if i thought they could be carriers when well. I would clean an disinfect all waters, feeders, remove all bedding and burn it as well as remove all nest boxs and either disinfect or get new ones. I'm not trying to be harsh just giveing the facts if you bring in more and expose them to this you could well be dealing with more sickness and death. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 08:59 PM Post #5954090 Harmony - good points. None of my indoor chicks are sick now. I think my indoor setting is fine. I am very conscious of washing my hands when I come in, and getting changed too. I will hatch indoors and they won't be going outside until much later (likely March or April) so by then, we will have decontaminated everything. We bought Nolvasan disinfectant which is also a virucide. You have to wear protective gloves and mask to use it, but we don't want to use it until we have a day above freezing, because it is dangerous until it evaporates dry. That won't happen when it's this cold, so we need to wait. Since all my outdoor birds are already exposed, I can't worry about them now. I will have to worry about the introduction phase. What I think I will do is introduce any new chicks in small numbers. For example, if I had 10 chicks, I might put out 2 and see how they do - kind of like what you did with the birds you put with the Spanish. I thought that was a really good idea. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) January 01, 2009 09:12 PM Post #5954165 Sounds good Claire but IMHO i wouldn't hatch or bring in anything until i was sure it was gone. I just couldn't risk it as it has been such a short time since all this has occurred. I would also be suspious of the ones that didn't come down with it at all as being carriers of it. Most chickens will at least show a minimal reaction runny eye or a little droopy. But a carrier will be well and appear healthy because it has already had it and is simply spreading it. I would IMHO still depopulate because if there is a carrier in will only recontaiminate the coop and grounds after you disinfect. If you don't want to depopulate i would sudjest purchaseing some culls chickens you know are healthy but are willing to sacrifice. This will show you if you do have carriers or not before you introduce your chicks. CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) January 01, 2009 10:16 PM Post #5954478 Well, I did some research on it, since I would prefer not to kill the rest of my flock, all of whom have been exposed. There is no information I can find on chickens being carriers of the infectious bronchitis virus. As a rule, viruses run their course and are finished. I mean this from the microbiological standpoint. Vaccinations are available for IB, so I am going to order some. I can vaccinate new birds, but the virus does not last for a long time outside of the bird, so the 3 months should be more than enough that the virus shouldn't be present any more. This is different from Infectious coryza, for instance, which does result in carrier birds. IB doesn't result in carriers. I don't believe it to be coryza because there is no smell to the nasal discharge, which seems to be a key symptom in identifying coryza. I don't know what else it could be. They have: - no facial swelling - no bad odors - no poop problems - gummed shut eyes (frequent) - wheezing/rattling breathing - sneezing (occasional) - nasal discharge (some) - sometimes bubbles in the eyes or eyes watery - good appetite and good water drinking - not lethargic or droopy most of the time Any other thoughts on what it could be are welcomed! brigidlily Lumberton, TX (Zone 8b) January 02, 2009 11:32 AM Post #5956205 WAY too long a thread to look back for it, but are you giving them apple cider vinegar? CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) January 02, 2009 11:47 AM Post #5956254 Not right now. At the moment I am putting erythromycin in the water to prevent secondary bacterial infections. I don't know what effect the vinegar would have with the antibiotic since it might change its effectiveness given the unusual pH level of the water with vinegar in it. Since I am not sure about that, I elected not to combine them. I will use the antibiotic for a week and then switch to ACV. grownut Clarkson, KY January 02, 2009 12:46 PM Post #5956546 No ACV with water based antibio---on a thread somewhere, I think referenced... jordankittyjo Bessemer, AL (Zone 8b) January 02, 2009 12:49 PM Post #5956563 gee claire, i could have given you rhode island red eggs CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) January 02, 2009 12:51 PM Post #5956576 Oh Kathy, you are very kind - you already gave me all those pecans! Did you get your package, by the way? jordankittyjo Bessemer, AL (Zone 8b) January 02, 2009 12:54 PM Post #5956594 yes and thank you so much. i thinks of you everymorning, and whenever i look at my calender. i still have more pecans to send you. hopefully i'll get to the post office next week Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) January 02, 2009 01:34 PM Post #5956763 Claire sounds very hopeful with the vaccine and disinfecting i researched as well and found different opinions on it causeing carriers. Damerow said the survivors become carriers but a link said it produced carriers for up to 4 weeks and still another said a year. I brought up a link that explains things for others here http://www.shagbarkbantams.com/ib.htm Claire i'm still suprised that after all that went on in your flock you have eggs comeing... Hello Jordan glad to see you back at Daves This message was edited Jan 2, 2009 12:52 PM CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) January 02, 2009 03:13 PM Post #5957082 thanks for those other opinions Harmony - I am nervous about the one that said a year. What a huge difference of opinion between 4 weeks and a year! Shows you how you can't believe everything you read because they can't all be right! My first instinct, after all that happened, was to say "I have to rebuild my flock" and that is why I impulsively went and ordered eggs. I felt like it was the thing I had to do. Maybe it was wrong. I guess I will find out. I just know that if I sit around being sad and grumpy about it, I will feel worse, so I try to find the solution to get me back on my feet. I suppose I will be a test case and we will see what happens and everyone can learn from whatever happens. Now that the eggs are coming, I'm not going to just throw them out, so I will incubate and hope for the best. I just can't face killing the rest of my birds now, not when I have just dealt with all these deaths. I like your idea of using some cull birds - ones that I am willing to sacrifice - and see what happens when they are introduced. I think that is what I will try, around the end of April, when things are warming up a bit more. By then it will be four months from the disease time, and better temperatures, and some of the babies from the basement (if any hatch) should be ready to go out. I don't want to get cull birds from an unknown source because then how would I know if they aren't bringing something in. That makes me nervous too. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) January 02, 2009 11:14 PM Post #5959186 Not trying to be a know it all here and i hope you know that I just didn't want a repeat of what has already went on and you suffering further heartache. I know all to well how these chickens pull at our heart strings. I guess i was the test case with the pox and yes those links on pox were different about carriers too. I hope all goes well and if you need advice or help or just want to vent my heart is always open♥ CMoxon Urbandale, IA (Zone 5a) January 02, 2009 11:38 PM Post #5959293 Of course I know you are not being a know-it-all - no worries, it didn't come across that way to me. You are just trying to spare me from having to go through what you went through, and you know that I appreciate that very much. I was nervous every day to check and see how your birds were doing and hoping it was getting better but sometimes it was just getting worse. I hope it isn't like that with mine but who knows what will happen. I am pleased to say that it has now been 5 days with no deaths, and that's pretty good considering where we started. I'm glad to have the ducklings too, they make me laugh. Harmonyplace Chickenville, GA (Zone 7b) January 02, 2009 11:46 PM Post #5959318 I've haven't been up to being on much with this infection But i love the ducks maybe one day i can get me some. 5 Days and no deaths you may be at the end of the outbreak i got my fingers crossed. Well i'm fixin to set my incubater been collecting eggs and wrapping them in plastic wrap. I have 36 and will collect this week then set them it's time for me to get my flock back to produceing. All mine are happy and singing away and i have 9 hens laying but as always with bantams it's every other day. Thats why i'm doing the plastic wrap to extend my egg gathering time so they don't evaporate and become unhatchable. Patchouli78 Foley, MO January 03, 2009 07:54 PM Post #5962425 Well, good luck to both of you ladies!!!