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[Jeff Wrangler]

good morning everyone!

some evil person has left a jar of chocolate adn toffee covered macadamia nuts for everyone to pick at.

 

"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from chocolate and toffee-covered macadamia nuts."

[CellarDweller]

"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from chocolate and toffee-covered macadamia nuts."

 

[Artiste]

Bonjour à toutes et tous !!

Good thing that you talk about chocolate which seems to help health, for the good of it!

But there are now many buts, since some of it now has something like increased milk in it which can kill you; that element I forget (was it anti-freeze?) which was added in China and which many chocolate cos. in Europe, USA, etc., I think, used with chocolate, unfortunately, even big well knowed cos!  There was a warning Holloween that even the chocolate money was poison with that - that given often to children then!

Be safe... that way you are healthy !

Au revoir,
hugs!  Anyone has chickens in their yard ?

[Front-Ranger]

My daughter plans to install chickens in our yard next spring, but I'm not sure the homeowner's association will allow it. Only two pets are permitted, and we're at our quota now! She also asked if she could repurpose the doghouse for a coop. The dog is getting a little old to spend his days outside, so now he sleeps in the sunroom, especially last night when we had 10 inches of snow.

[Jeff Wrangler]

My daughter plans to install chickens in our yard next spring, but I'm not sure the homeowner's association will allow it. Only two pets are permitted, and we're at our quota now! She also asked if she could repurpose the doghouse for a coop. The dog is getting a little old to spend his days outside, so now he sleeps in the sunroom, especially last night when we had 10 inches of snow.

Why does your daughter want to raise chickens?

[Front-Ranger]

Why does your daughter want to raise chickens?

I'm not sure but she came home from Ireland last year on a self-sufficiency kick, and I wouldn't be surprised if she started an egg farm, stuffed mattresses full of feathers, had a thriving chick hatchery, and sold Sunday roasters!! I think she would probably find a use for the manure too!! Here she her and I me are am:

[Artiste]

Merci Front-Ranger !

I think that she has a wonderful idea !

I want to do that too!
But those new so-called neighbours would never allow that,
since they killed all the squirrels !

Why are you allow only 2 animals ?

Here an article on raising chickens in the city:
http://www.pathtofreedom.com/pathproject/simpleliving/chickens.shtml


Au revoir,
hugs!

[Jeff Wrangler]

I'm not sure but she came home from Ireland last year on a self-sufficiency kick, and I wouldn't be surprised if she started an egg farm, stuffed mattresses full of feathers, had a thriving chick hatchery, and sold Sunday roasters!! I think she would probably find a use for the manure too!! Here she her and I me are am:

Couldn't you get her to raise sheep instead of chickens? 

[Ellemeno]

Chickens in the backyard are getting to be a big thing here in Seattle.  I've never been a chicken person. 

[Brown Eyes]

Parents of a friend of mine started raising chickens a few years ago.  They initially got their inaugural batch of chickens from an organization dedicated to preserving rare breeds of chickens.  So, when they requested however many "normal" chickens and roosters, the organization gave them 4 extra, free unusual-breed chickens.  Those four had really pretty and very different feathers.  Her parents did (or do) treat the chickens more or less like pets.  They use the eggs, but I don't think they would ever use their chickens for meat.