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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

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  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  scary21, I love how you solved the "strange" chick problem.

  It is so fascinating to watch the dynamics of animals--that solution you came up with is very thought provoking. Goldie is managing her mothering of her 2-3 day old babies so beautifully. They pop out from under her full breast or from under her wing and "forage" in the flat pan that has finely ground feed in it. they drink so daintily from the shallow water bowl.

  Goldie abandoned the 5 unhatched eggs this afternoon. Of the eggs rescued from the snow, there were 15 when I found them. Two were damaged and Goldie herself broke another whether intentional or not--but it was spoiled and showed no developing chick. Surely some of those eggs had been frozen before she began to set them. and perhaps the transfer to the house harmed some--though ultimately it saved those 7 and perhaps Goldie herself.

  I am glad I am no longer conflicted about spending time with and enjoying animals. My years as a JW so discouraged taking time away from reading and studying and serving in the door-to-door work. and i had kids at home, and my husband who--thank goodness was not a JW-- and often some outside work. It was not a time to enjoy life so much as now.

  O, chickens! Do you have a chance to keep any at all now?
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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

  1. jw
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  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  DONE! the last chick is named!( Feeding the red hens off the fly swat!!!)

  Hortensia, there was the final, 7th chick out yesterday. The others did not hatch, so there's the end of it.

  Yes, Hortensia, chickens are lovely pets!

  I acquired my motley assortment of poultry at the end of the hatching season. Five baby guineas and three unidentified chicks. The woman said she had bantams and also kept Rhode Island Reds. Certainly little Goldie has some RhodeIslandRed in her background. But she is small and obviously broody--her eggs a pale, pale brown. And small.

  Well, folks, I'll take good care of your namesakes.
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  My latest work - A Raven

  by nugget in

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  Beautiful, nugget. Catches that bird perfectly.

  What medium? Ink, etching?

  It would be lovely to see more of your work.

  Maeve
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  Are Men's Rights Laughable?

  by Paralipomenon in

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  reading over the woody allen thread i noticed a couple things but didn't want to side track the "discussion".

  1) woody allen is creepy.

  2) nobody really seemed to care that his ex-wife was abusive towards her children.. an example i think is perfect was the release of twilight where you would see lineups of 30-40 year old women making very inappropriate comments about a 16 year old boy.

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  Justice is justice.

  A man who makes one woman "pay" for his abuse is no better or worse than a woman who makes a man "pay" for a past abuse.

  Let the perpetrator pay for his/her own crime or else justice can never be served to any man or any woman.
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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

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  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  Hello. She is up to at least 5 and one breaking out now. I just peek and pry but don't lift her. So far:

  3 pale yellow, 1 tiny black, 1 black and pale striped.

  Names? When I sort them out--Lisa, Lois, Rip, Bruja, Clare, and Xan-- we'll see who crows later and know how close the matches are ;>)

  The name of this little Ozark Mountain is Chicken Bristle. It is even mapped by that name here in Elkins, Arkansas. I just remembered that this morning.

  I have no idea why it is named that.

  Spring is coming. Here my husband has always been right about this: the spring peepers--little tree frogs--start their songs by the 3rd week of February. Even if it's cold. We'll see...

  Thanks for sharing the day's delights, friends. I hope each of you are having a fine day with at least a warm heart til the days match it.

  Maeve

  p.s. I am so glad that I wasn't "dubbing" out this morning either, clarity. Coffee with husband and son----and chickens.
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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  My son got a picture of Goldie's first success---she had more out this morning. Four and counting! But we can't get the photo to post :(

  O, well. Picture Goldie's red-gold mound with a yellowie head/w beak sticking out under her breast...
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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  That's what my oldest son said when I texted that our little red hen, Goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight. Nearly midnight now and I checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--

  --I put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!

  I had written in Xanthippe's thread "So what are you up to?" about finding Goldie's hidden nest after a long freezing time and then the heavy snow. She had 9 days to go to any possible success, but poor thing was bound to freeze in the wretched subfreezing temps,snow and freezing rains. Rugged little girl--the rooster diddied her and the guineas tweeked her tail as she ate the warm mash I gave her when she mad the dash to the porch after setting her precious eggs through the snowfall.

  We brought her in ,Dick and I did. Put her in near the woodstove. An old woodbox with a lot of saw dust and some straw. She settled down and I noted that Valentine's Day wa s when it was supposed to happen---

  and, by cracky, she did it!

  I'll count my chickens after they hatch and see if my other son can get pictures up.

  Ahhhhh, LIFE!

  Happy Valentine's Day!
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  Now predicting increase of anointed?

  by jgnat in

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  i came across this nugget in the may 2014 issue:.

  "are you moving ahead with jehovah's organization".

  ....at one time, the anointed remnant were like the little one, but their number grew as other spiritual israelites were brought into gods organization.

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  LOL, wasblind!

  Maeve
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  So what are you up to?

  by Xanthippe in

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  anyone else bored with religion versus atheism or is it just me?.

  i'm planning to go to greece in may.. i'm thinking about planting rocket and beetroot in my garden this year because they are getting rather expensive to buy.. this week i want to make chocolate refridgerator cakes.

  some for my daughter who is coming home from uni this weekend and some to take in to work to give away with free tea and coffee because it's national libraries day on saturday.. i just finished reading the humans by matt haig which was brilliant.

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  Happy Valentine's Day!

  GOLDIE HATCHED OUT a BABY CHICK TONIGHT!

  There may be more by morning. Or no more than this. I wish I could send you the sounds she is making as she clucks in her throat to the one little hatchling under her wing. I saw its little beak stick out once then pull back under her.

  I came in late from my caretaking job and looked in on her... Steadfast and alone. I felt sorry for her after setting the eggs for 21 days, some days through the bitterest cold. This was the day...and nothing. Half an hour later stirring up the meal, I heard a peeping and knew what had happened.

  It's a flippin miracle(--see the post about her on page two). She had come staggering in for feed after sitting in her hidden nest for darn near 2 weeks in a briar patch through our last heavy snow. I didn't think there was much a chance she could bring anything through, but we brought her in by the stove after I found her eggs. I had marked when she had first left off roosting with the other poultry and knew it should be valentine's day for a hatch.....

  ................and life found a way!
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  It is because of amazing breakthroughs like these... Awesome to live in 2014!!

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/draco_(antiviral).

  amazing... one drug that could potentially cure any viral disease, including hiv!!.

  being developed since 2011..

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  A non-toxic(read NON-chemical) way to help with apoptosis in certain cancers is being carefully researched: grape seed extract (GSE)

  I know my cancer doctors allowed me to use it during my treatment. I just read that prostate cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer are affected by the use of gse. Two reputable research journals report on the technical findings.

  Online the U.S. National Medical Library National Institutes of Health and the Oxford Journal have information on GSE efficacy.

  When one is burnt out with radiation and chemo, this is will not cause general harm--It just provides cancer cells with an assisted suicide.