A pretty rooster for a dull day

It rained last night and the air is cool and damp. Yesterday was a good warm day except the wind was blowin'. I feel bad when the sun doesn't shine so I feel down today.
Betty says she feels better already. I am so glad. it is about time she felt good.
I am washing bed quilts. I revised my bed a couple of days ago and I am making a effort to clean my room. not much fun.
I hope the sun is shinning on you today.

Britian egg prices

Supermarket eggs are creeping up in price and now cost more than 30p each, research shows.

A box of six free range eggs costs an average of £1.80 at many major stores, and is likely to rise further.

Farmers’ groups have warned that the industry is in crisis as prices are failing to keep pace with spiralling overheads.

This is partly down to a steep rise in the cost of chicken feed.

It is 70 per cent wheat and about 12.5 per cent soya and makes up 60 per cent of the cost of producing eggs.

Prices rose by 70 per cent last year after Russia introduced an export ban on homegrown wheat after a series of droughts.

Poultry farmers are also being forced to end the practice of rearing hens in battery cages, ahead of an EU ban that comes into force in 2012, and are required to use only non-GM feed by supermarkets. These factors mean producing eggs costs more.

Supermarkets are now passing the rising prices on to customers and many own-brand eggs cost 30p each.

A box of six Sainsbury’s mixed woodland free range large eggs works out at 33p an egg, while six Tesco happy egg free range large eggs cost 30p each. Waitrose sells six Columbian Blacktail free range large eggs for 30p each and six Burford Brown free range eggs for 33p each.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361272/Eggs-cost-30p-each.html#ixzz1FDbjylQq

turkey in the straw

My niece and her husband, Lutricia and Henry brought me one of his yard ornaments. This is a turkey in the straw. Henry makes the most amazing decorations for his Yard and now I have one of his turkeys.

Happy birthday Tony

Today is my son's birthday. He was born 1961 on February 27, he has provide me with joy over the years. no one could have a better off spring.
I am posting the bantam pictures for Betty if she is able to be on the computer.

Betty's pet stones

I have never seen stones like this and I am a member of a gallstone family.

Earth quake 1811

Monday, December 16, 1811
At 2:30 A.M. the earth shook.
It could happen again.

In the south of Canada, in the villages of the Iroquois, Ottawa, Chippewa and Huron, it came as a deep and terrifying rumble. Creek banks caved in and huge trees toppled in a continuous crash of snapping branches.

In all of the Great Lakes, but especially Lake Michigan and Lake Erie, the waters danced and great waves broke erratically on the shores, though there was no wind.

In the western plains, there was a fierce grinding sound and a shuddering, which jarred the bones and set teeth on edge. Earthen vessels split apart and great herds of bison staggered to their feet and stampeded in abject panic.

To the south and west, tremendous boulders broke loose on hills and cut swaths through the trees and brush to the bottoms. Rapidly running streams stopped and eddied, and some of them abruptly went dry and the fish that had lived in them flopped away their lives on the muddy or rocky beds.

To the south, whole forests fell in incredible tangles. New streams sprang up where none had been before. In the Upper Creek village of Tuckabatchee, every dwelling shuddered and shook, and then collapsed upon itself and its inhabitants.

To the south and east, palm trees lashed about like whips, and lakes emptied of their waters, while ponds appeared in huge declivities which suddenly dented the surface of the earth.

All over the land, birds were roused from their roosting places with scream of fright and flapping wings. Cattle bellowed and kicked, lost their footing, and were thrown to the ground where they rolled about, unable to regain their balance.

In Kentucky, Tennessee and the Indiana Territory, settlers were thrown from their beds, heard the timbers of their cabins wrench apart, and watched the bricks crumble into heaps of debris masked in choking clouds of dust. Bridges snapped and tumbled into rivers and creeks. Glass shattered, fences and barns collapsed and fires broke out. Along steep ravines, the cliffside slipped and filled their chasms, and the country was blanketing with a deafening roar.
Have you seen the earth quake photos in New Zealand? It could happen here.

In the center of all this, in that area where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi, where Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois come together, fantastic splits appeared in the ground and huge tracts of land were swallowed up. A few miles from the Mississippi, near the Kentucky-Tennessee border, a monstrous section of ground sank as if some gigantic foot had stepped on the soft earth and mashed it down. Water gushed forth in fantastic volume and the depression became filled and turned into a large lake, to become known as Reelfoot Lake. The whole midsection of the Mississippi writhed and heaved and tremendous bluffs toppled into the muddy waters. Entire sections of land were inundated, and others that had been riverbed were left high in the air. The Mississippi itself turned and flowed backwards for a time. It swirled and eddied, hissed and gurgled, and at length, when it settled down, the face of the land had changed. New Madrid was destroyed and the tens of thousands of acres of land, including virtually all that was owned by Simon Kenton, vanished forever; that which remained was ugly and austere.

Betty jean

Fleta called said Betty was doing fine, she had a thousand gallstones. My sister has suffered with this for 30 years. I don't know how she stood the pain for so long. . I am glad it is over.

squirrel proof NOT

squirrel proof bird feeder.

frog legs and strawberries

A woman preparing last night's dinner lost her appetite when she went to the fridge and found a... tropical tree FROG.
Donna Hunt, 32, screamed as the creature leapt onto the kitchen floor and hopped about as her husband Steve, 46, scrambled around trying to catch it.

It is believed the frog was concealed among the groceries she had bought earlier in the day from Tesco's and put in the fridge.
Donna, from Tuffley, Gloucester, said: 'I saw what I thought was a mouldy strawberry at the bottom of the fridge. I went to get it and it was all slimy and was moving about.
'I screamed and got my husband to come and check it and then found out it was a frog.
'He realised straight away that it wasn't native to Britain because it had big pads on its feet. My husband was very excited, he loves animals. But I was absolutely terrified.'
The couple believe the frog had been hiding in either the strawberries, mixed salad or celery which they had bought at Tesco in Quedgeley.

what I would do

If I had my life to live over
It would be just the same
If faults grew like clover
I would have my share
with out finding blame
with many to spare.
Betty wants to wear purple when she is old and I suppose that means she has lived with restrains in her life.
Helen wouldn't spank and would take the kiddies to church but she doesn't say what church she also would see Elvis.
me I would just go plodding along making mistakes and doing sin until my Lord takes me home and then I will walk streets of gold, wear a crown and purple robes singing a happy tune at the foot of his throne.

me and my sisters

Betty is going to have surgery Friday for gallstone. She has suffered for years with this aliment and I am glad she is going to get some relief soon. I wish I was able to go be with her but I can't she always comes to see me when I am in the hospital. I think Fleta should take off and go or Clayton they both are young and strong.
I suppose the red headed girl will be with her and that is a great comfort. Erin might but she has her hands full at this time with 2 babies and a job.
The gas man showed up here yesterday without me calling, remember in January when I called them out on Sunday because I looked at the wrong gage? I guess they decided they had better come before I read the gage again. The price was a little cheaper. !199.99.
Helen is up no doubt and fleta has gone to work by now. Betty is up and probably wishing she could drink her coffee, I am setting here sipping on a glass of water instead of coffee. I am making a effort to drink more water and less coffee and pop.

Maricopa housing

Maricopa price is right 34,900. monthly payment of 158. 53. the price is right for a bacheloret home. 3 bedroom 2 bath. 54293 W. Bowlin RD. Maricopa Az.
Starting a new life with a new family , this is just the place, room for a young family on the go. see it now. Setting on 1.66 acres. you have room to grow. Get it now while you can.

For Helen

Helen he finished the race !!!
A top cyclist who crashed as he raced behind British champion Sir Chris Hoy was skewered with a 20cm splinter - but got back on his bike to finish an amazing THIRD.
Azizulhasni Awang was in the final bend of a world title race yesterday, when four of the six riders crashed in a scene of carnage behind Sir Chris, the winner.

The 23-year-old's calf was skewered by a shard of Siberian pine from the track, but he recovered to remount his bike and take third place, behind Sir Chris and Jason Niblett in the men's Keirin final at the Track World Cup.

egg in an egg

Finding a double yolk at breakfast is considered lucky - but one pensioner was amazed when he cracked open an egg only to find a complete miniature one inside.

Retired farmer John Fellows, 68, had been making scrambled eggs when he cracked open the large outer shell of the ordinary chicken egg.

But when he put it aside to clean up, he spotted the a smaller egg the size of a marble inside.
Mr Fellows said it was the first egg within an egg he had ever seen and that he would be keeping the mini-egg for posterity.

Experts say the rare phenomenon is just a quirk of nature and can occur if the chicken receives a shock during egg production.

goverment shut down

If President Obama and congressional Republicans do not reach an agreement on how to fund the final seven months of the fiscal year, some military veterans might not receive benefits checks and other Americans would be unable to apply for Social Security. The State Department might not issue new passports, unemployment statistics would not publish as scheduled, museums and national parks would close, and worse - piles of elephant manure might pile up in a National Zoo parking lot because workers can't ship it away for composting.


The manure from the elephants could be dumped on John Boehner's front lawn. since he said if people were with out because of his cut, tuff luck.

We saw riots in Egypt last week that will be nothing compared to what happens in the U. S. if the social security checks are not sent out on time. The law would not be of help because they will not get paid either and we can't call out the army cause they are in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Sammy's bantams

Sammy's bantams are Japanese bantams , the white hens with black tails are Japanese bantams and the red hen is a pekin bantam. The pekin breed originally was from china. The pekin has feathered legs. He had a pekin rooster but we culled him yesterday. He had 7 roosters and that would never work so he gave 5 roosters to Donnie his cousin. He kept 2 rooster in the pen and even though he doesn't realize it one will have to be culled soon as for the hens I believe other than the one pekin they are all Japanese bantam hens.
The Japanese Bantam, also known in many parts of the world as Chabo, is a breed of chicken originating in Japan. They are a bantam breed, with large upright tails that often reach over the chicken's head. The wings angle down and to the back along the sides.
The Pekin is a breed of bantam chicken. Shorter than the ordinary bantam, they are often only 20-30 centimeters tall (with head upright) and their feet and legs are completely covered by their feathers

The Chabo has graced the gardens of the Japanese aristocracy for well over 350 years. Historical evidence suggests that the Japanese Bantam originated in Southeast Asia, where it is still raised today. They enjoy a high degree of popularity in Malaysia, and are very common in Java, which is now part of Indonesia.

Japanese Bantams began to appear in Japanese art around the year 1635, right about the time Japan closed its shores to outside trade. It also appears in Dutch art of the same era. This suggests that Dutch spice traders probably carried the Chabo as gifts to the Japanese from the Asian spice ports, such as Hoi An (Vietnam) and likely from Java, which part of Dutch colonial area on that time. The very word "chabo" originates in Java as chabol (Cebol) , where it means "dwarf" and applies both to humans, and to the short-legged Chabo chicken. In Japan, the word would drop the "L," as no speaker of Japanese would be inclined to pronounce it.

Arizona has big wind

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MARANA - A gust of wind picked up a bounce house with two girls playing inside Saturday, dumping one girl in the yard but carrying the other girl two houses away and dropping her onto a roof.

The incident in the town of Marana left a 10-year-old with serious head lacerations and other injuries. She was taken to a trauma center in Tucson after firefighters got her off the roof.

Northwest Fire District spokesman Adam Goldberg says the two girls were at birthday party when what family members called a "microburst" picked up the bounce house.

The 10-year-old was carried more than 100 feet before falling out onto the house. Her 7-year-old friend had minor injuries.

About two dozen roof tiles were shattered by the impact

Ladies man

Fleta's grandson is just like his daddy, a ladies man.

"B" Maples

He was call "B" Maples ,he was my great grandfather. He peddle what ever around the country traveling with a wagon and team. he was my grandma Powell's father and she told many stories about B Maples. She sang his praises high.

One time he went with a group of men to fish on white river she said. The men went up the river into the wilds and fished and salting down the fish. They were noodling for fish and one of the men reached under a rock for a fish and brought his hand back with a water moccasin snake on his thump. Grandpa had the fellow lay his thumb on a stump and with one swift blow with a hatchet the man was minus his thumb and lived to tell the tale.

Grandma said one time B Maples gave her a gallon bucket of whipper will peas and told her to plant them in the corn patch. The peas would vine up the corn and be food for the family and the animals that winter.

Grandma planted peas for ever she thought and still had a good amount of peas to go. grandma could hear her sisters running and playing and she wished to go play with them. She raised this big flat rock and dumped the peas under the rock and dropped the rock over her sins.

Grandma told her father she had finished her chore and was allowed to go play with her sisters.10 day later those peas started to sprout and "B" Maples was checking on his peas crop in the corn field when he came to the rock with sprouting peas coming from under the rock. Gertie heard her father yell, "Gertie" deep in the corn and knew the jigg was up. Grandma said she started to run with "B" chasing her and she thought I CAN"T RUN FOREVER! so she stopped and took her whipping.

Grandma said "B" died from pneumonia and that all the Maples had weak lungs. Daddy told another tale he said "B" had been out with his peddling wagon peddling apples and he got drunk laying down to sleep beside his camp fire and as happens often here in the fall a cold rain fell during the night. "B" made it home with a fever and died from pneumonia.

new chicks

Sammy sold his big white hens yesterday. he didn't make much money on them 50 cent each on 9 of them and 5 sold for 6 dollars each but they are gone and i am glad. They ate like hogs. If I had been able I would have butchered them they would have been good eating.

He spent as much as he got. He bought bantams. 6 or 7 roosters and the rest are hens. One chick is so young I am not sure what it is, rooster or hen.

We had a lot of crowing this morning when the day light arrived. I think he has 14 bantams chickens. I told him the hens would all be setting by April.

no trucking fee for thee

Perhaps he thought he looked cool.
But this cyclist probably just seemed strange to fellow travellers on the A1307 in Cambridgeshire as he pedalled along... with a massive fridge on the back of his bike.

The domestic appliance was balanced upright on the pannier rack and held on by straps.

inquireing minds want to know

Fertile egg
Fertile egg
unfertilized egg

Thought you'd like to see this since so many have asked how to tell if their eggs are fertilized. The first picture is an INfertile egg. The next two are fertile eggs at slightly different stages, but both freshly laid. Usually, you look for the bullseye/donut appearance, but there are different stages of development of even freshly laid eggs and the two last pictures demonstrate that. This is caused by cells in the center of the blastoderm dying off and leaving a cleared out area, making that bullseye appearance

Grey Junglefowl

The Grey Junglefowl, Gallus sonneratii also known as Sonnerat's Junglefowl is a wild relative of domestic fowl found in India. They are closely related to the Red Junglefowl but their ranges are largely non-overlapping. They are found in deciduous forest and at the edges of moist deciduous forests. They are threatened by hunting for food.

The Grey Junglefowl is found in most of Peninsular India, while the Red Junglefowl is found more along the foothills of the Himalayas. A region of overlap occurs in the Aravalli range. The species has been isolated by a variety of mechanisms including behavioural differences and genic incompatibility. Phylogenetic studies of Junglefowl show that this species is closely related to the Ceylon Junglefowl Gallus lafayetii and more distantly to the Red Junglefowl, Gallus gallus.

The species name is after the French explorer Pierre Sonnerat and they are sometimes also called Sonnerat's Junglefowl.

NEBRASKEY BOUND

I LOADED MY HORSES IN THE OLD TRAILER
MY WOMAN BESIDE ME IN THE OLD TRUCK
WE KISSED THE WIND OF ARKANSAS GOOD BYE
WE ARE ON THE ROAD TO NEBRASKEY
WITH A LOAD OF HORSES AND AN OLD TRUCK.
GOOD BYE BOONE COUNTY
WE WERE BORN TO BE FREE.

powell

Powell, Rita Helen
Date of Birth: 12-23-1954
Charge(s): Cruelty to Animals
Date Warrant Issued: 01-27-2011
Bond Amount: $2,500.00

King to stand among greats

A dream come true for black Americans as Martin Luther King statue to sit between Lincoln and Jefferson on National Mall is unveiled.
Dedication of the memorial will take place on August 28 this year, the 48th anniversary of the historic speech

Twenty-five years in the making, King's memorial will be the first memorial on the National Mall to honour a non-U.S. President.
It will contain excerpts of his sermons and public addresses to serve as living testaments of his vision of America.
Its centrepiece, the towering Stone of Hope, will feature a 30-foot likeness of Dr King.

A replica was yesterday unveiled at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.

It was a donation from the General Motors Foundation, General Motors and Chevrolet - who received the replica from the Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Foundation to thank them for being major contributors to the charity,

Red Jungle Fowl

OriginsThe domestic chicken is descended primarily from the Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) and is scientifically classified as the same species.[18] As such it can and does freely interbreed with populations of red jungle fowl.[18] Recent genetic analysis has revealed that at least the gene for yellow skin was incorporated into domestic birds through hybridization with the Grey Junglefowl (G. sonneratii).[19] It is believed by some that a single domestication event occurring in the region of modern Thailand created the modern chicken with minor transitions separating the modern breeds.[2] Others believe that the intensive interbreeding which occurred in the past gave the modern chicken multiple origins in the jungles of South and Southeast Asia.[20]

Researchers have found chickens' bones in unusual amounts and out of natural jungle range, thus denoting a breeding place. Bones of domestic chickens from about 6000-4000 BC have been found in Yangshao and Peiligan, China, from a time when the Holocene climate was not naturally suitable for the Gallus species.[21] Archaeological data is lacking for Thailand and southeast Asia.

Later traces are found about 3000-2000 BC in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan,[22] and -according to linguistic researchers- in Austronesian populations traveling across southeast Asia and Oceania. A northern road spread chicken to the Tarim basin of central Asia, modern day Iran. The chicken reached Europe (Romania, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine) about 3000BC, and the Indus Valley about 2500 BC.[23] Introduction into Western Europe came far later, about the 1st millennium BC. Phoenicians spread chickens along the Mediterranean coasts, to Iberia. Breeding increased under the Roman Empire, and was reduced in the Middle Ages.[23] Middle East traces of chicken go back to a little earlier than 2000 BC, in Syria; chicken went southward only in the 1st millennium BC. The chicken reached Egypt for purposes of cock fighting about 1400BC, and became widely bred only in Ptolemaic Egypt (about 300 BC).[23] Little is known about the chicken's introduction into Africa. Three possible ways of introduction in about the early first millennium AD could have been through the Egyptian Nile Valley, the East Africa Roman-Greek or Indian trade, or from Carthage and the Berbers, across the Sahara. The earliest known remains are from Mali, Nubia, East Coast, and South Africa and date back to the middle of the first millennium AD.[23] Domestic chicken in the Americas before Western conquest is still an ongoing discussion, but blue-egged chicken, found only in the Americas and Asia, suggest an Asian origin for early American chickens.[23]

A lack of data from Thailand, Russia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa makes it difficult to lay out a clear map of the spread of chickens in these areas; better description and genetic analysis of local breeds threatened by extinction may also help with research into this area.[23]

Wild Burmese Chickens in Fitzgerald, Georgia

wild chickens

FITZGERALD, Ga. — At the end of the day in Fitzgerald, when shop owners hang up "closed" signs and the fierce heat fades, chickens come out of the shadows. They hop across Main Street. They scratch on lawns, with one ropy foot cocked in the air. Roosters, their wattles electric red, chase hens around azaleas.
It's been 30 years since wild chickens began roaming the town's streets, the unintended result of an experiment by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. People learned to accommodate and even appreciate them: Traffic stops while rows of fluffy chicks cross to safety and hop up on the curb. "Love Dem Wild Chickens," reads a bumper sticker.

A government biologist named Gardiner Bump in the late 1960s asked to use a nearby fish hatchery to introduce an exotic bird to the Georgia forest — one that he thought might become a craze among hunters, like the runaway success of the ringneck pheasant, a bird from China that was propagated in North Dakota.

The bird in question was the Burmese red jungle fowl, native to central India. The ancient progenitor of all breeds of domestic chickens
Under the Raj in India, British colonial officers had considered them prime hunting birds. When flushed, they "blasted into the air with a flurry of wings," said I. Lehr Brisbin Jr., a professor of biology at the University of Georgia who is an authority on the bird.

The experiment, however, was disastrous. When released, the birds exploded into the air as expected — but they perished in the woods, and their chicks were gobbled up by raccoons and foxes.

By the mid-1970s, the results were so discouraging that employees killed the remaining birds, destroyed their eggs and shut the experiment down, said Frank Parrish, 74, who spent 30 years with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Not all the birds died — that much is clear. Parrish offers a commonly accepted explanation: A well-connected Fitzgerald man — whose name has remained a secret — persuaded the hatchery superintendent to give him a few jungle-fowl eggs, which he slipped under a bantam hen. The chicks bonded with their adoptive mother and went on to breed with bantams, and were allowed to roam free, Parrish said.

Descendants settled on the west side, among the stately houses of the city's leading families. They wake before dawn and spend the day hopping from one yard to another, scratching for bugs. They have little apparent fear of humans or other animals.

That is the story of the wild chickens of Georgia. This was a article in 2004 and if they still roam in spite of efforts to rid the town of them I know not.

out of Africa

Mama's DNA says we are Haplogroup T. out of east Africa upward and finally in northern Europe. We walked along side Kings in time past...
The last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, has been shown to be of Haplogroup T, specifically subclade T2.[9] This was established when genetic testing was done on his remains to authenticate his identity. Assuming all relevant pedigrees are correct, this includes all female-line descendants of his female line ancestor Barbara of Celje (1390-1451), wife of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor. This includes a great number of European nobles, including George I of Great Britain and Frederick William I of Prussia (through the Electress Sophia of Hanover), Charles I of England, George III of the United Kingdom, George V of the United Kingdom, Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, Olav V of Norway, and George I of Greece. Many European royals have been found to be of this mtDNA Haplogroup, in addition to Haplogroup H (mtDNA)
According to the theory of recent African origin of modern humans, the mainstream position held within the scientific community, all humans originate from East Africa.[23] Some of the earliest fossilized hominid remains have been found in East Africa, including those found in Awash Valley of Ethiopia, Koobi Fora in Kenya and Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
Gifts in our DNA from mama...
Some studies have shown Haplogroup T to be associated with increased risk for coronary artery disease.[4] However, some studies have also shown that people of Haplogroup T are less prone to diabetes.[5]

A few tentative medical studies have demonstrated that Haplogroup T may offer some resistance to both Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

new project

I think I will give up chickens and raise Emus after all they would provide natural colored Easter eggs and plenty of meat. Can you just imagine Thanksgiving dinner on the table?

34 degrees and chilly

It is a chilly 34 degrees here this morning and the chicken are having their breakfast.

poultry grower and turkeys

my son raises turkeys for a living. They have standing room only soon he will have to put them in new housing for grow out. I have never seen these. He took my camera and took the photos. I am not allowed in the house because I raise chickens and the chickens carry disease that wont hurt them but will kill turkeys.

Happy valentine day

47 degrees here . it is 5:10 on 14th of February. Valentine day and Tony Poor's wedding anniversary.

Yesterday was so warm in the house I was uncomfortable in the evening hours. Needless to say the snow is but a memory.

yummm!

wal-mart products sold in china. yummmmm!

scratching good time

The hens are going after the hay this morning and I was able to get to the feed pan with out getting mud or chicken poo on my feet. thank you George.

Hey, Hay

Fleta's husband dropped off a bale of hay The chickens will have a scratching good time tomorrow. When we have a lot of snow or rain the chicken pen get to be a muddy mess and George's hay is most welcome by me ands the chickens.

morning work

29 degrees here with snow cover still . It is 8:40 in the am. I have been busy. I cleaned the cook stove, burnt trash and feed and watered the poultry. I would like to go to wal-mart but the road is snow covered so I guess not.