Thank you everyone, I don't think I have laughed so hard in quite a while.
Red Rosies New Babies!!!
Equilibrium
Sep 01, 2008
Excellent, Agent T--your dedication to duty has been noted and a full report will be forwarded to the appropriate personnel at High Command.
CF in danger of dereliction of duty charges. Anyone with knowledge of her whereabouts should inform her to report to DG immediately.
josh here
wondering how many life forms are yet to arrive
over
josh reporting
CF has been sighted over the east coast of America
over
Roger, josh
Which way was she heading?
Over.
All ground crew. We have a total of 2 hatches from the blue green eggs. We have one blue-green egg that is pipped. We have a 4th blue-green egg that has little noises coming from inside it. Thus, to answer Captain Josh's question, 2 more life forms expected.
Photographic evidence of the two blue-green life-supporting unit hatchlings is attached.
Agent T - best of luck with the hunt for CF. Probably been on an egg binge again and sleeping it off...
I was a little sparse on messages this evening. Here is evidence of why I had a very busy evening. Other new life forms arrived in my yard. Seven of them.
Expert ground crew - please note unusual nature of the comb on the following life form. It is "inverted" and instead of having a raised portion in the middle, it has raised edges and a "cup" portion in the middle. What's up with that?! I think it's name is Dimple.
Josh reporting
she has changed couse and is heading for texa tf must be warned
over
Commander Moxon
life form looks to have a pea comb could be wrong though
over
Remote sensing report:
Taken together with blue green egg color--is it indeed from a blue green egg?-- pea comb indicates probable derivation from Ameraucana line.
Northern Pacific Control Center going off-line for scheduled maintainence. Hand over to Southern Pacific Command.
Josh--are you ready?
Over
shuttle intercepted
Southern Pacific Command has now taken over
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Flight crew reporting after morning wake-up call. Big news to report - we have a variant new life form. Non standard coloration was a significant surprise.
Confirming life form with possible pea comb is from bluish color egg with sort of spotted appearance, as per earlier photo compilation of pipped eggs, post 5494403.
New life form came from similar color egg but lacking spots. Possible alternate original egg production module?
Confirm Ameraucana line part of original flock of adult life forms.
Over.
Agent T reporting
TF is in full swing of CF arrival in TX and will post a command center for reporting duties . Will dispatch any info on CF she can acquire. over.
color of chicken looks good , all systems are on stand by for further news on more new arrival.
Great specimans on your goat invasion , are they friendly ? copy.
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Commander Moxon, we average one non-standard variant life form per hatch, believed to be due to barred gene.
Can't EVEN keep up with you guys.!! copy. over
Agent T - We copy your info on CF. Flight crew on regular work schedule today. Will report on further life form arrival after 5 pm CST.
Goat invasion extremely friendly. Enjoys chewing on flight crew's clothing and rubbing heads on pant legs.
Agent G - We copy your info on barred gene. Good to know the non-standard variant life form is not dangerous. We were worried for a while there! New life forms are always a hazard on the chicken shuttle.
Southern Pacific Command - have you initiated leg straightening procedures? Is all progressing according to standard protocols? Any glitches to report?
Midwest Flight Crew over and out.
Clair can I ask on your goat pen, how tall is that fence, the pic may be deceiving as it looks real short. They can and WILL climb and or jump a fence. What do you have to protect them, as in a dog?
Make sure you start with a high fence. I know many people who start out low and start raising it only to train their goats to jump higher and higher!! lol!
AND they WILL eat all your trees, flowers, plants. They eat everything,
It's an electric fence that they have been trained with at their previous location. They don't go near it. We are putting in more permanent fencing but the owner who gave them to us said they are very wary of the fence. They all stayed in there overnight and this morning with no problems so we are hoping it will be fine for now. That electric fencing is what they were contained in for part of their enclosure at their previous home. There were coyotes in their previous area but no incidents ever with the goats despite the relatively short electric fence. The rest of their former enclosure was cattle panels but we haven't moved those yet. But the cattle panels only surrounded part of their enclosure. The electric fence part had tall grass all along the bottom because they will not eat near it.
Ok that will work.
Ground crew - do you read? Afternoon report from flight crew follows:
All new life forms previously hatched are steady and behaving in normal parameters.
Another deviant color life form hatched today at some point, picture attached. Appears to have some brown coloration.
Another egg is pipped. May be the last one.
One other egg from that batch remains and the air cell is large but I can see a little liquid that moves around in the air cell as I tip the egg, which to me is not a good sign.
Further deviant color life form evidence:
Possible male life form due to head spot?
Space Cadet...errrr...Commander Moxon:
Egg tipping strongly contraindicated. Cease at once.
Color deviancy noted and ground staff finds it highly attractive.
Reports of CF's demise in hurricane related rapid descent incident refuted by secret contact with undercover poultry dissemination agent known as "tf". "tf" refuses to verify actual location of CF, but confirms that the Fairy remains dedicated to world-wide Gallus gallus infiltration.
Recently released government papers have revealed this same program was formerly given the unfortunate sobriquet "A Chicken in Every Pot", by that well-meaning but tactless poultry enthusiast Herbert Hoover.
Carry on with final approach.
Over.
Thank you Captain Crunch...errrrr...Captain Catscan.
Egg tipping was not like completely upside down or anything. Egg "tilting" would have been the proper handbook term. Perhaps less than 30 degrees from central axis, while candling, to get a better view of life forms.
Flight crew must try to stop laughing about government papers now, or else other life forms may come to believe flight crew is incompetent.
Final approach in progress. Flight crew quite exhausted from all this activity.
Over.
Captain Dusty - your inquiry is noted.
Ummmm....errrr....Commander Moxon...As long as I stay out of a rowboat or off of a Navy base...I outrank you...I'm O-6 Bird Colonel...and MY Eagle is landed on my Boonie...
Grudgingly received from Gen Wm. Westmorland...in a mail pouch...
I told him to stuff em in a dark place if he was to chicken to come up to the DMZ and pin em on...and sent em back...2 weeks later he showed up...I'll try to get a pic of my BVD blouse, aka cammie shirt, aka rain soaker upper top that shows the Eagle pinned on over the cloth cammo Oak leaf...I miss that ole booger....He and Gen Swatz em Koff and I used to shoot Skeets together in FL...Dem wuz da gud ole dayz.... :-)
Colonel Dusty....(hangs head)....I am completely clueless regarding REAL ranks, and meant no disrespect. I'm just the commander of this chicken shuttle, and quite grateful to all ground personnel for helping me through this first hatch. :-)
I think for the remainder of this flight you should be General Dusty. Kelly says that is the top rank.
Please don't make me do push ups.
Kelly says Westmorland is important. I had not heard of him but being Canadian and all, I don't know much about the US military. Kelly was in the Gulf on the first go-around on tanks. But we never talk about military stuff.
Still one egg pipped and ready to go...
I have no idea what y'all are talkin' about but it sure is funny.
What an education to see the little new life forms arriving.
gloria
(no rank at all).
Gloria - I have no idea either, but we somehow ended up pretending to be a shuttle crew...
I am completely rankless and clueless to boot!
Glad you like the chicks!
Commander Moxon (a.k.a. space cadet and chicken shuttle pilot)
This really has been fun with the chicken shuttle.
Commander Moxon should be deeply ashamed of herself for starting such nonesense--Her only excuse: She is a Canadian.
Northern Pacific Ground Control should be deeply, deeply ashamed for playing into Moxon's subversive Canadian ploy. Her only excuse? Mea maxima culpa. Total moral bankruptcy: She is a Californian.
Australia, Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Ohio, each responsible for their own contributions--is there anything you feel you need to say to the innocent members of DG forced to watch this travesty? Hmmm?
But we haven't touched down yet, have we?
Ground Control calling Commander Moxon for a status report.
Over.
ROTFLMBO Catscan....
Have you not heard about CWTO Inc? Canadian World Take Over... I am the founding member after all, trust me to have the subversive plots... (snicker)
Put a Canadian and a Californian together and total chaos is bound to result.
Ahem.
Commander Moxon here, reporting for evening duty. Pipped egg is taking its sweet old time in the hatching sequence. Lazy-butt chick suspected.
All other life forms actively peeping. One life form got stuck by exploring its surroundings a little too rambunctiously, and got itself wedged between the cozy-brooder lamp cover and the side wall of the enclosure. Much peeping alerted flight crew who ran to the basement to find the unfortunate victim on its back, feet waving in the air, completely unable to correct its vertical position. Rescue operation commenced immediately with great success. Brooder now slightly away from enclosure wall to prevent repeat incidents.
Hoping for new chick by o-dark-thirty, or at least by morning.
Salute to General Dusty.
Moxon over and out.
Sergeant Taynors. This chicken shuttle flying is serious business. I hear you laughing and I know you think it's just all fun and games up here. But let me tell you, this is precision work. We can't just have ground crew members giggling on the job. So you just keep your giggles to yourself or we'll have you do 20 chin-ups. Or splatter you with wet spaghetti noodles. Or make you waddle like a chick just out of the egg. Or something.
(giggle giggle...)
:-) :-) :-P
Oh gosh she needs the spaghetti bath, she will for sure have chickens flocking to her.
NOOOOOO ........NOT THE WET NOODLE TORTURE !!! and please don't make me do the stupid chicken dance ( the ones they do at weddings ) daa da dadadaaa dadaaaadadadada clap clap clap daaadadadaadadaaaadddda
RUN RUN RUN AWAY .
Eye Eye Commander Moxon
Agent T is back on duty with serious business attitude . No chick shall get scathed by my watch, Ma'am. Yes Ma'am.
General Dusty will get a full report in morning at 0600 hrs. ( i think )
over
:P lol