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This is why I live far, far away from the south. :oops:

Not great... hope you recover well.

Nice looking birds.

Some Polish lines (okay, most of them) seem to have issues with hardiness. I hear a lot of stories about high fatality rates among them. I've had similar issues with a line of another breed.

Have I ever mentioned how I hate scraping windows at 6 in the morning? Because I do. Hi, MNers.

Lucky duck. Didn't make it to 5 without rain here. Frost tonight... again. Expecting that the water bowls will start freezing over soon. Been a bit of a late start to winter, but I'm not complaining. 40* weather is perfect for getting stuff done.

I often wait until they're fully filled out, which takes close to a year. Partly because I want to make sure I don't accidentally eat a keeper, and partly because I don't feel like going to all that effort just to get a quail sized bird. I'd rather max my effort-to-meat ratio even if it does...

I've really been enjoying the under-40 weather. I keep garnering pissed-off looks in the morning from family members that think windows should be closed once it hits 50, because I refuse to take the fans out of the window.

Or here... I am worried about losing my tomatoes before I get to harvest them. O.o

:( So sorry.

I suggest shouting "DIBS" as loud as you can when you find a particularly nice one amongst your growouts next year...

Heh, as long as it doesn't get on their feathers, it's fine.

No, they can get it if they have diarrhea, which provides an ideal breeding location for flies (and can easily go unnoticed by humans.)

It's been 60 above recently! It's definitely more prevalent down south, but I've had it happen to my birds twice now. And yes, it does seem to happen due to underlying issues. My rooster had been acting weird for the last month before he got it.

Sorry BC. I lost my best rooster to fly strike recently... it was just too late when I found him.

Hmmm... I could live with that. My chickens would appreciate it. Maybe I'll be among the huge rush of residents to Togo after that new sewer system is installed.

I think he is biased against non-residents of Minnesota... which makes no sense, because Icelanders are way cooler. :cool:

Poor girl. :fl He's mean. Maybe we should ignore him and win anyway, eh?

Morning. I win.

Holms, I suggest doing the direct opposite of whatever Ralphie says to you.