G'day. Just a quick fly-by 'cuz it is getting close to my bed time.

Hey NE f, Google silkies. I only discovered these last week because the Chinese wife of a Canadian friend of mine was eating soup with some black meat in it. She told me it was chicken. I told her that it could not be chicken because chicken meat is not black. She convinced me that there are black chickens. Google it and you will discover that Silkies have silk smooth, pure white feathers, but their skin, meat and even the bones are all black. Apparently this black meat is healthier than a normal chicken because it has medicinal qualities. These chickens are said to make great pets.

Spring has suddenly sprung here. Today for the first time this year I was outside without a jacket. It was even borderline hot.

Outa here. Y'all be nice to one another. If you are in a bad mood, go kick the DTR janitor. He thrives of that because it makes him feel loved. Do NOT mistake the dragon for the janitor. It is an easy mistake to make.

 

G'day eh.
Was in Calgary all wknd. came home last night. zzZZZZzzzZ.
Lil Dog Jason and I had a good gab session!

 

Buying chickens to eat ticks I agree with. Attracting hawks that will eat chickens I can't quite follow. I think a simpler solution would be to send me the money you'd spend on the chickens, that way you won't suffer the heart ache of losing a pet chicken to a hawk and having to clean up all the mess left behind.

Morning all.

 

Yeah that's kinda clucked up.

 

Good chat man, good to see you again.
That was a long haul.. Sorry I couldn't be more help to those folks in Red Deer.

Time for some wrenching on the 12V.

 

Amen to that!!!! It might make some of the kids today rethink their high and mighty status too.

 

From someone whose family used to raise layers, uh no way. We had 4, 400 foot houses with 4 rows of cages each. 3 hens to the cage. The whole family picked eggs twice a day. When they layed out, they went to an un-named soup company. I still don't eat that soup.

However, the neighbors Guinnie's (SP) are welcome anytime to eat ticks.

 

Chaikwa, I meant about the different breeds. White leghorns sound like the best bet, they tend to be flighty, by what info I have found.

I'd like some guineas but man, talk about expensive, about $5 apiece, and a minimum order of 30!

Hawks, eagles, and swallows are the only birds I really care for, but I only want to built nesting structure for the swallows.

I just need something to get rid of ticks. The dog has a bunch on him, Frontline didn't work too well last year, and the stuff I am trying this year is no better. I know where there's about 10 pounds of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, but I'd rather not disturb it!

 

↑↑↑Everyone see this?↑↑↑ Someone agrees with me!

Try 'Revolution'. He'll still get ticks but they'll die as soon as they bite him.

Mornin' all.

Tuesday, May 7th.

1763 - Indian chief Pontiac began all out war on the British in New York.

1800 - The U.S. Congress divided the Northwest Territory into two parts. The western part became the Indiana Territory and the eastern section remained the Northwest Territory.

1847 - The AMA (American Medical Association) was organized in Philadelphia, PA.

1915 - The Lusitania, a civilian ship, was sunk by a German submarine. 1,201 people were killed.

1926 - A U.S. report showed that one-third of the nation's exports were motors.

1939 - Germany and Italy announced a military and political alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.

1940 - Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.

1942 - In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attacked each other with carrier planes. It was the first time in the history of naval warfare where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other.

1943 - The last major German strongholds in North Africa, Tunis and Bizerte, fell to Allied forces.

1945 - Germany signed unconditional surrender ending World War II. It would take effect the next day.

1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corp. was founded. The company was later renamed Sony.

1975 - U.S. President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam War.

1984 - A $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who claimed they had suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant while serving in the armed forces.

1997 - A report released by the U.S. government said that Switzerland provided **** Germany with equipment and credit during World War II. Germany exchanged for gold what had been plundered or stolen. Switzerland did not comply with postwar agreements to return the gold.

1998 - Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler Corp. for close to $40 billion. It was the largest industrial merger on record.

2003 - In Washington, DC, General Motors Corp. delivered six fuel cell vehicles to Capitol Hill for lawmakers and others to test drive during the next two years. Unfortunately, they delivered them using gas guzzling SUV's.

Today's thought:
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

C0ffee & ph00 have been prepared with the utmost of care. Please enjoy!

 

I have agreed with you.
It's not something I post though.

 

A group including Rick Pewe, editor of Peterson's 4-wheel and off-road, recently followed the track of the LRDG (Long Range Desert Group) across the desert. Portions had been run before, but no one had ever tried the whole thing. At least in vintage equipment.
http://www.4wheeloffroad.com/eventco...n_off_roading/

The biggest advantage the Brits had over the Germans was experience. They had fought in the desert before. So they had standards for sanitation and such. The Germans didn't. From what I've read, the German encampments were real crapholes. Literally.

 

According to my wife atleast...

I was listening to music on my ipod classic.
playing a game on my ipod touch
reading emails on my tablet
talking to a buddy in text messages on my android phone
and surfing the web on my laptop.

she claims I have gadget issues...

 

Boss' dad and I caught another calf this evening. Makes the third set of twins, and they aren't taking care of both, so the one they ignore gets to be a bottle baby. Excluding the first-calvers, half the calves we have on the ground are twins so far. Hope they don't keep it up.

Had about 5 or 6 that, I don't know how, still hadn't dropped their calves this morning, on the one pasture. They were really close, one did drop a calf this afternoon.

If we bag a bunch of corn this fall I am going to suggest renting another grain cart. I think in good irrigated corn, the combine could keep two carts busy. I think the boss might put on another cart once his kid's about out of college. He took over a combine last year for wheat.

Should be planting in a few days, but thinking about having to back a Steiger and planter out of, then into, a corner, to plant it all, just doesn't sound too fun to me. It was bad enough with the straight tractor, being able to do a loop in the corner and not doing any backing. And it seems like I always get to plant the fields that have a fence along them, that looks like it was set by a drunk buss turd, it has so many jogs in it.

And we wonder why I can't plant any more acres in a day, even though I am running 4 more rows than the other two planters! At least I won't have to stop for fertilizer as often, moving up from 180 to 250 gallon tanks, should be able to fill twice a day, instead of 4 times a day.

Now, if we could figure out why 6 of my 16 rows plant way less than they are supposed to be planting.........

 

Scotty, sorry we couldn't make a face to face connection.

 

We're doomed as a country because of this...

Yeah, forget that. I've been in a few chicken houses in my day, I've had enough. I may have a few chickens when I grow up, but nothing major.

Mornin. OL's BD is tomorrow, but I took today off to pamper her. I'm getting the kids up for school and such so she can sleep in

Coffee is a little weak this morning, so I ran it back through and put some more grounds in it.

Stay motivated...