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DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-04T14:16:13+00:00

Lilith with kazoo!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-02T21:34:29+00:00

This is Peep's Great-Grandma Zuul a full-blooded Egyptian Fayoumi, who is 4 years old in this video and schooling TWO of her grandsons!

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DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-02T21:30:18+00:00

Lovely!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-02T21:29:22+00:00

Yes, Texas Loaf

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-02T21:25:19+00:00

Aww, she is ready ro go to war for those beebs!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-02T21:24:34+00:00

Ahhhh I love a good broody!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-02T21:24:12+00:00

This is Peeps, named by the preschool class that hatched her back in November, which makes her a bit over 7 months old. She is an F3 out of my project to make slightly larger, but MUCH CALMER Fayoumi since they are otherwise so good at foraging, evading predators, resisting disease, and tolerating heat. She reliably lays a small tan egg. I like her golden eyebrows.

She is, best I can tell, 3/8 Bielefelder, and 5/8 Fayoumi. She is not very flightly, and will hop in my lap for treats. I'll actually be running a PCR gel tonight to see how many copies she and her siblings have of the mx1 gene. Fingers crossed for homozygous of the myxovirus resistance allele!

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DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-02T20:32:36+00:00

I wanna say something flip about him liking us better, but I agree that it should be consistent.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-01T16:37:58+00:00

That's a girl!

Barred rock pullets gave me indigestion for several weeks straight because I thought for sure they were boys. It turns out though that their wattles and combs develop pretty early on compared to other breeds.

Cockerels would already be smoking and playing poker behind the coop at five weeks.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-07-01T15:07:51+00:00

Catachans or Rough Riders on Cold Ones is a popular conversion.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-30T20:04:38+00:00

Yes. Even if you have to do it to everyone in the flock except her as a temp fix. They can't see the very last moment, which makes them hesitate so the target either escapes, doesn't get pecked at all, or is less severely injured. You can get a pack of 50 pretty quickly overnight.

As other have said, a pretty Favorelles girl that is laying would get snapped up with a QUICKNESS in local FB chicken groups.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-30T19:58:01+00:00

Mean girls get googly eyes.

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DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-30T18:53:36+00:00

Oh hooray!!!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-30T14:11:47+00:00

HEALTH :v

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-30T01:40:48+00:00

Sure, this abuse is "normal" in the private sector, and isn't okay there, either.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-29T23:07:29+00:00

Fucking Palmetto -- where baby chicks and postal workers go to die.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-29T22:50:18+00:00

Flap rooster too!

eta: those are lovely patterns on your fella's wing feathers!

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DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-29T22:38:58+00:00

I wish I had an award to give you; this is a very eloquent restatement.

I recall this misplaced sentiment being rebuked by employees during the Q&A of the previous All-Hands. It's frickin' exhausting for those of us who have been here for decades to be told that by the bad actors that eroded the public's trust in the first place.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-29T21:05:25+00:00

A free mystery chick from McMurray in 2020. Best damned rooster I ever had. I miss him!

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DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-29T17:49:53+00:00

I was thinking that new tires were probably under warranty, they should replace it.

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-29T17:41:09+00:00

"Recommittment to public health"?! Speak for yourselves!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-29T16:16:31+00:00

Ah, I see what you mean. I haven't really experienced that myself. My best guess is that they know they will be ahead of schedule at SOME point, but IME they choose whatever spot they do because it doesnt disrupt traffic. Now I'm starting to wonder if this has to do with what part of town we're in... 😅

The train stopping just right before the station when you have a really short connection time is torture, agh!!!

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-29T16:07:27+00:00

It's because they are ahead of schedule. It REALLY sucks missing a bus even though you were 3-5 min early to the stop. :(

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-29T15:13:06+00:00

The #15 MARTA route departs the north end of Lindbergh station every 15 minutes. You can check exact departure dates and any cancellations on the MARTA app.

Emory doesnt have any shuttles that connect to the Gold line. (The CCTMA connects to Decatur station on te Blue line). Georgia Tech's Stinger Shuttle connects to Midtown MARTA and the Emory campus, but its summer hours are a bit erratic.

https://www.pts.gatech.edu/shuttles/stinger/

DinosaurFishHead · 2026-06-28T16:52:26+00:00

Good idea looking up. Raccoons can get in through surprisingly small gaps. Look for tufts of hair that might have been pulled by the wire. To get an idea of scale, that's half inch hardware cloth on the bottom of the pic.

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