Justtryingit - don't worry about it! They sometimes imprint on a human because they don't have a real chicken mom. Just make sure it's eating and drinking. Dip its beak in the water (just a little) or poke your finger around in the food to make it eat. It's nice to have a friendly chicken as it gets older!
Greykyttyn....good to know you are corruptible, although I would have thought you would have already been corrupted by all of us old people. Good idea on the raincoat for the silkie! Make sure you use a fabric that won't just absorb the water and hold it to her skin. The fleece is good for resisting water. I want to try some coats for next fall for the hens' backs to stop rooster damage and I plan to make them out of heavy corduroy or something. You could always buy some of that raincoat fabric in the fabric store and make a reversible coat - warm or waterproof!
Omelet and the Hat (i.e. Hattus Horribillis)
Dear Claire I am so luving the chickie coats I might have to have one for myself. They are very swirly. Going to find ZZ.
Good luck on your travels D-nut! I hope you have a luverly time! Say hi to the meece that you meet from me!
I FOUND ZZ! i'm talking to her.. she's in MISSOURI. not too far from me. too bad I can't go see her. :(
I grew up with older people.. my brothers are 50 & 47, my parents were older.. i was around adults more than kids.. :)
Hey everyone! I'm getting my dose of divinity and chicken ness ..... all is well.. Headed to Washington.. tooo far from Haystack too... DANG!!
I am hoping to see Dnut today when she comes thru Kingman... YEA>... Billy and I will meet her for a cup of coffee and milk....
Tomorrow MissJestr for coffee ^_^
I cant wait.... whooo hooooo
Well I'm so envious I could just lay an egg.
I plan on taking the camera with so I have pictures...
Please do lay an egg Cmoxon, then at least I would have eggs.. Oh wait then you would have more.. Drat
I have been unsuccessful thus far in laying the egg, but I will keep trying.
It's that dratted testing getting in your way!! Or maybe one cannot expect to spin and lay?! Surely one of the two...
I think it's the exam. you're right. After tomorrow....cluck cluck...
lol :0) thanks guys... i need to laugh.
If an egg is laid while clearing US customs in Canada does one have to declare it or is it technically an American egg? Can an egg have duel citizenship?
Oooooo, that's a legal question! Let me consult my tomes of knowledge. Hmmmm....I believe the egg has the citizenship of its layer and can choose at the age of majority whether it wants to exercise its dual citizenship option. No declaration is necessary unless egg is known to be fertile and the layer plans on hatching it whilst in the US.
What a peculiar question, Cousin Dahlia! Just what are you intentions?
Ahhhh very sensical. Should the egg be fertile are there incubators on planes or is it like the bring-your-own-baby-seat thing? Do eggs fly for free?
just wonderin in case I lay an egg Cousin Catscan since according to Claire it's doable
lolol
Why do I feel you are not being entirely candid...or is it candied, Dear Dahlianut?
I am afraid Moxon is of very dubious credibility when it comes to her ovulatory abilities...she is a bit of a dreamer.
Moxon! What are you doing here? Return to your studies at once!--or spash cold water in you face and go to bed.
If she's not careful she'll hatch out Jonathon Winters. I'd like to see her perplexity then!
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poor moxon... you get fussed at for not studying all the time.
She would not study--if we did not reprimand her constantly.
It is Our Duty.
grownut...have you taken time to tutor our Dear Moxon in Japanese Poetry?....I fear she is falling behind in the Arts and will never have the feminine graces necessary to trap...errrr...capture ...the affections of a suitable young man.
Indeed, I fear the constant cerebral exertion and rationality of The Law is making her hard and unwomanly.....
Here I go featly to bed and awake to find all manner of nonsense and conumdrums awaiting me here. Hast said maiden not already found her soulmate, so therefore what is thy concern? And what's with the Japanese poetry, anyway????
And art not those concerns exceedingly dated? My dear mother oft warned me not to show my wits when in the company of a prospective lifemate for fear he would be deterred from asking for my hand in marriage; said I, who wants a dolt for a husband?
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Sadly, wise men, in particular, adore pretty idiots....it is a Universal Truth.
Moxon, dear, have you remember to tighten your corset stays appropriately?
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Eggs definitely fly free of charge. There are no incubators on the plane since freshly laid eggs can wait to be incubated until after the flight without affecting their viability. Do mind that you keep it carefully stashed in case of turbulence. The flight attendants hate cleaning up egg messes.
Who is Jonathan Winters?
Catscan, I am preparing to leave for the library wherest I shall study until my exam at 1:30, after which I shall have a short celebration (lasting but seconds) before I get on to the very serious business of knitting. And practicing my haiku and tanku.
Corset stays...snort....
Ah, Dear Moxon...Ladies, dear, do not "snort".
{{{Sigh}}}
They don't? Who says? I thought ladies could do whatever they wished as long as it was in the parlor where they couldn't be seen. I'm sure Miss Moxon was in her parlor when she so very "unlady" like snorted...
corsets can be fun...
Im with Grey, I think a Lady can do anything in the comfort of their own Parlor... Even {Gasp} let off a little puff of air... (ever so Lady Like)
Good luck Cmoxon....
Your poor Mamma, greykyttyn....a lady is a lady where e'er she may be and brings with her those delicate gracess and gentle refinements that bring to this coarse and wicked world a glimpse into the divine sphere.
A lady may, as Moxon has pointed out (although pointing is a trifle vulgar, dear), be a fancier of poultry, or if, over 35, fruit bats...but she does not "keep chickens".
And greykyttyn, child, the parlour is where one entertains company, recites tanku (if one has had the advantage of grownut"s tutelage), and enjoys the wholesome fraternity of ones loved ones--so of course one would never do anything rude or unladylike there....no, indeed.
Now I must go and supervise the ironing of the bed linens....
tan-ka...
a -ku is a phrase and a -ka is a song...ermm...so much blather so little time.
Actually, ladies don't HAVE gas. Poor digestion is for lesser mortals.
She may be indisposed and retire to her chambers...
Thank you, dear grownut. Tanka.
One can easily see that grownut has been beautifully raised as a Lady....her dear mamma and governess are in no way responsible for what has happened since she left their charge.
the inner parlor just off her bedchambers that she entertains ONLY other ladies in is what I was pertaining too. The place where they can twitter about, drinking "tea" & nibbling on those dainty little pastries one now calls cookies. Occasionally casting off extra confining clothing bits that can't be taken off in mixed company... like their tiny black boots.
I, Miss Catscan, was raised in a proper Victorian home. (minus the Victorian style house on the outside, just the inside) It is purely my daddy & my brothers fault i like to dabble in things that get one a bit muddy at times not my mothers. She decked me out in all manners of that icky stiff stuff they call lace with enough ruffles on my skirts to make me resemble a rose. Granted my white ruffly socks had to be degreased, demudded & such in the laundry & I was fully reprimanded for ignoring my duties as hostess, as the only daughter, when the hen party would show up. Seeing as I like to sneak off to spend time in the barn with the animals or (gasp!) down at the river where I could dip my toes in the cool water.
I can still be a proper lady, I just prefer the company in the barn, where they do not proceed to joyfully stab you in the back with their coy little phrases. The boys are so much more fun to be around. So lighthearted & kind. Whereas the Ladies that visit for tea each day can be a bit stuffy & rude at times.
O.. Miss Catscan... don't forget to have them starch the linens. :)
(no really.. the ladies do visit for tea each day here at 3pm & i do live in a Victorian home.)
I could sense, greykyttyn, that you had been properly raised (hence the reference to your "Poor Mamma" in the previous note....but your hoydenish ways are a sure indicator of eventual spinsterhood...Proper young men, however fun-loving and comraderly they seem, do not take seriously as potential wives Young Ladies with mud between their toes. I know you will disagree and point to what you suppose are instances to the contrary...however I assure you that these seeming success are tending toward a Bad End. (See above).
Moreover, at 28 you are already a Spinster (I know because due to a slight stubborness in my character, I was not married until 22, and had to sign "Spinster" on the London marriage license) and must put extra effort into cultivating those gentle graces that will make you some Deserving Man's "Angel of the Hearth"
We must trust that it is not already too late.
I say this for your own good....now I must go supervise the sprinking of the lavender water on the freshly starched linens.
Good heavens, what does that make me at 40, never having been married. Must be far worse than spinster. Or does living with Kelly count?
Exam in 15 minutes. Ugh.
Bon courage, Moxie--give em heck!
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