You know you live in the country if......

[St. Phatty]

That's funny, can relate somewhat. I've got nine chicks in our living room for their first month or two, in a 6x6 cage we've used before. Don't want them escaping tthe larger area the other eight are living in due to their size. Foxes do their best here to thin the flock.

2 Rhode Island Reds and 2 Snowshoe Silkie.

Some Silkie's have feathers on their head like a white Afro.

Snowshoe Silkies have the feathers on their feet, and maybe extra toes.

The Snowshoe Silkies seem very friendly at first. Now I wonder if their behavior is part of a larger scheme, their way of dealing with a pecking order. They try to crawl underneath much smaller birds. Maybe this is how they get the good food when the scrap bucket arrives, when they're older.

The older birds are much better behaved in terms of house-training. The babies just crap fvcking everywhere. What looks cute at first ends up with curse words, "we have to wash the fvcking sheets. Again."

 

[Spankin' Elvis]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........chicken...nom nom nom

 

[redlaser]

We've had a few silkies, the two we have now are kind of yellow/ brown. They have feathers on their feet and mohawks and they are a bit bigger than a grapefruit.

They are friendlier to an extent, slower to walk away and pretty trusting. They also get scared a lot easier than the other types, like they will run for cover a lot when you walk past them.
They are a lot broodier than the other types, they are trying to hatch eggs 70% of their time. I give them a few golfballs to sit on so when I take the real eggs they aren't so pissed.
Cool pics, our babies are about the same age.

 

[exploziv]

If after a short summer rain feels like you're in heaven. A nice breeze of wind, perfect temp and humidity and clean, dust free fresh air.

 

[St. Phatty]

If after a short summer rain feels like you're in heaven. A nice breeze of wind, perfect temp and humidity and clean, dust free fresh air.

dust free air ... I got so much dust I started saving it to have it chemically analyzed.

It's not lint dust - it's mineral dust. I'm pretty sure it has copper in it.

EVERYTHING in my office is covered with dust. I have to put towels over my file drawers to, well, to collect dust.


I'm learning to anticipate the dust cloud. E.g. if I combine 2 pots of dirt, I hold my breath and stand back 10 feet, while the silent dust cloud does it's thing. Though that's a different kind of dust.

I like to save my lungs for the good stuff

 

[Betterhaff]

Yeehaw.......

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You know you live in the country if...blonds are scarce.

 

[Stoner4Life]

 

[armedoldhippy]

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blacktails or mulies? pretty, either way.

 

[igrowone]

dust free air ... I got so much dust I started saving it to have it chemically analyzed.

It's not lint dust - it's mineral dust. I'm pretty sure it has copper in it.

...

interesting, mineral deposit of some sort?
copper containing minerals are fairly rare
and where you find copper, there is always its twin brothers, gold and silver
usually in low amounts, but sometimes larger
so analyzing might have some further surprises

 

[St. Phatty]

interesting, mineral deposit of some sort?
copper containing minerals are fairly rare
and where you find copper, there is always its twin brothers, gold and silver
usually in low amounts, but sometimes larger
so analyzing might have some further surprises

I read an article about Mercury going airborne in dust form. The article went into more detail, but that's all I remember.

It surprised me cause, you know, Mercury's heavy !

As far as the copper -

I had some fertilizer solution with sand/clay in it. It got cold and I forgot about it. Next time I looked at the bucket, it had these pretty deep blue copper nitrate di-hydrate crystals, similar to these -

They're sort of like that website SNAP - they disappear after 2 weeks and the pretty blue crystal crumbles.


I would love to find the Au and Ag kinds of surprises ! - but I don't expect to find them in the airborne mineral type dust.


Maybe if I lived in the city I could make some Diesel Soot crystals ? /sarc

 

[igrowone]

sounds like a nearby refinery with a smokestack?
which would be small amounts
copper mineral dusts are rarely a problem, the copper tends to bind to outdoor soils
or so i read

 

[Stoner4Life]

 

[St. Phatty]

Got sprayed by a skunk at point blank range 3 times this morning.

Fortunately I was wearing a welding mask and the trap was covered with a tarp.

I feel lucky - because it didn't happen next to the laundry room like a few times ago.

My truck smells like a skunk, the driveway smells like a skunk ... but the inside of my house smells like - well there's skunk but the plant kind.

 

[resin_lung]

Got sprayed by a skunk at point blank range 3 times this morning.

Fortunately I was wearing a welding mask and the trap was covered with a tarp.

I feel lucky - because it didn't happen next to the laundry room like a few times ago.

My truck smells like a skunk, the driveway smells like a skunk ... but the inside of my house smells like - well there's skunk but the plant kind.

I had a family of skunks go ape shit under the house one time. It was uninhabitable for a month!haha

 

[beefalo bill]

An exchange student from Spain got skunked when I was a kid. It blew my mind that he had no idea to stay away from them!

 

[Betterhaff]

Aqui gatito, gatito

 

[kaochiu]

Aqui gatito, gatito

Perfect resume of the situation, Betterhaff.
Only two skunks in Spain, one is the weed and the other Pepe Le Pew. Another scenario is he prolly approached to ask for an autograph.

 

[Stoner4Life]

You know you live in the country if.......

You know you live in the country if.......



Your lady loves her jeep.

 

[exploziv]

When it's easier and faster to "invent"/d.i.y. something out of things u got laying around than it is to go to store and buy it.

P.s. I just realised i like mud!

 

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