I'm thankful for how nicely I've been treated on the site since my debut. Due to personal reasons, I'll leave the site and stop my monthly subscription for the time being. Congrats for Timenspace for winning the recent ingredient challenge and peace and love for everyone.
The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)
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JAS_OH1
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You will be missed. Please stop in and say hello...I wish you'd stay!
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Sending you hugs! Wish you well, you will be missed! ❤
So sorry to here this, but your personal well-being is far more important that this forum. I hope you can come back when you are ready.
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Looks really nice and cozy! Well done!The new house is coming along. I still have a ton of small things to fix around here (the kitchen is a mess, I'm waiting for my new oven to be delivered and I still have the old oven disassembled in the middle of the kitchen, there are a couple tiles missing behind the water cilindre, I'm waiting for the electrician to finish fixing one of the electrical circuits, the bathroom door doesn't close...), but, it's getting better
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Timenspace
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Sounds magical. I will need to budget for that, but it does sound really nice. I have settled with a cheap oldfash one for now...but I do remember your recommendation....I even went into comparing the different models...anyways...one may dream...
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I can't find the original post, just the references...@Hemulen said:..."I'm thankful for how nicely I've been treated on the site since my debut. Due to personal reasons, I'll leave the site and stop my monthly subscription for the time being. Congrats for Timenspace for winning the recent ingredient challenge and peace and love for everyone."
thank you so much, I have not known you long, but it was fun to see your posts, and very inspiring too. I gather it is for health reasons that you are leaving...take care and best wishes!
She might have already left, but...best wishes fly their own way, even over closed forum subscriptions...
thank you so much, I have not known you long, but it was fun to see your posts, and very inspiring too. I gather it is for health reasons that you are leaving...take care and best wishes!
She might have already left, but...best wishes fly their own way, even over closed forum subscriptions...
Timenspace
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Oh there it is, it is strange it appears 5 pages later than the references, anyways...love and good wishes once again!
Timenspace
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Gasoline and diesel prices announced to go up 50% here. How can one cope?
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My chicks have now learnt the layout of the house. They love the mud room (rarely gets hovered, full of muddy shoes, electrics and ask the stuff you don't want them to find and drag out across the floor. It also means that doors to rooms with carpets in them now have to be kept closed. Something we're not used to.
I feel like I'm supervising a nursery full of little dinosaurs.
I feel like I'm supervising a nursery full of little dinosaurs.
JAS_OH1
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Can birds be potty trained? I mean like dogs where they scratch the door to be let out or use a box to do their business, that sort of thing.
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I don't think so! Personally, I couldn't bear to let them in the house. I even hated having a cat litter tray let alone chick poop on the floor.
Mind you, I once knew someone (rather upper class so lived in a mansion with stone and marble floors), who potty trained his kids by simply letting them crawl/toddle naked from the waist down. Apparently they soon got the idea it was better to sit on a pot. I'm not sure if his story was really true.
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You can train them to wear chicken diapers or nappies but only as adult birds. When we were nursing a very badly injured chook back to health after a nasty fox attack, we did train her to wear a chicken nappy, but each one is hand made and custom fit to the bird. It had a liner that you'd just empty periodically. (She wasn't lagging eggs because if the trauma of the injury.) However for chicks they are rather like babies of all types. They eat, they shit, and they grow exceptionally quickly. 4 of the 6 are of a breed that grows exceptionally fast. The other 2 still look like newly hatched chicks compared to these 4. but we can't separate them because they need company and if one of those pair is a cockrel, it will leave a lone pullet by herself if we separate the 2 that are not maturing as quickly.
So all rugs and carpets have been rolled up and we've got the immediate area surrounding the cage covered in puppy trainer liners. Their cage, both levels, is also lined with puppy training liners and the ones up top where they eat and sleep get changed daily. The ones down below get changed every other day and we have a dedicated scrubber sponge for cleaning up the less solid craps (chooks don't urinate). The mud room is usually full of crap that's been trodden into the house anyway so we're not unfamiliar with the routine.
The plan, weather permitting and more importantly the more immature of the 6 chicks permitting, is that they will have longer periods outside (which we've already started with) and at some point this week we'll put their cage into the mud room as the first step to getting them outside permanently. Normally mum would keep them warm for at least the first 6-8 weeks. We're only at week 3. But with the weather forecast, outside overnight might be too cold for them even with a heater in the cage for another couple of weeks.
So we take it in turns as to who cleans up unless hubby has taken the day off and gone into the office.
They are at the stage of managing an hour outside without heat if the temperature is around the 25°C mark. We're not due that temperature again this coming week. In fact having checked the forecast, we're not going to reach 20°C all week with as low as 7°C night time temperatures, so I suspect I'll have to move then to the mud room for a while. It won't deal with the daytime issues but will start to acclimatise them to not having us around all the time.
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I had an eccentric aunt although she was my fave. Her youngest daughter married a businessman I knew. She died of cancer about 10 years ago. It took her hubby years and thousands to unravel her will. She left stuff she never owned to people she barely knew. He described her as bat sh#$ crazy. At her funeral I met her oldest sister who gave me her cell phone. I rang her about a month later as I wanted to catch up. They had recently returned from living in aussie.
I went round and went in the back door to find chickens in their lounge with windows all open. Birds going in and out and aunty jan sitting on a chair as if everything was normal. Took me about a minute and I made an excuse to leave. A family of bat sh#$ !!
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I went round and went in the back door to find chickens in their lounge with windows all open. Birds going in and out and aunty jan sitting on a chair as if everything was normal. Took me about a minute and I made an excuse to leave. A family of bat sh#$ !!
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A couple of Indian women I worked with said they trained their kids the same way, so maybe it was true.
That’s why we’ve never had a cat. I like them just fine, but my wife and I are the only ones who get to go in the house.
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