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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today - 2024

    •Fed cats & guineafowl at 7am •filled my 8-gallon gas tank at 8am •worked in pharmacy from 0830 to 2200 and am still behind!!!!!!!
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    That reminds me of the technical writing class I took, where we were taught to construct resumes/CVs with attractive tables. Then, applicant tracking systems arrived And the software can’t understand bullet points or tables.
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    Howdy from N. Idaho

    :welcome Thanks for choosing to be official! We’re excited to get to know you and your flock.
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today - 2024

    •Worked in pharmacy 8:30-20:30 :th •Bought some kombucha because I’m not as cool as @Sally PB •Visited my guineas tonight & saw my 11.5-month-old cockerel “Junior” (in pfp) with a bruise over his left ear? What has the world come to?
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today - 2024

    Oh yes, back on topic: 1. Did laundry 2. Spent time with guinea fowl, who are infinitely perplexing 3. Made dinner with spinach & onion & mushrooms & celery & carrots & cumin/cayenne/black pepper & a few guinea eggs* *Sometime in the seemingly near future, I will be almost all the way vegan...
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today - 2024

    Goof people also make typos. :p
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Mini-Fret! 😍 :love ETA: I zoomed in on that 1st photo and fell in love with the baby on the feeder.
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    Just wait until you learn about cooperative binding of oxygen to hemoglobin! ⛓️ This article could be presented more effectively https://earth.callutheran.edu/Academic_Programs/Departments/BioDev/omm/jsmolnew/hemo/cooperative.html “Percent oxygen saturation as a function of oxygen partial...
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    🩸 👹
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today - 2024

    1. I got hissed 🐍 at by my adopted 5-year-old lavender guinea hen, who decided in the past week to be broody. 2. Picked some cilantro for cooking… 3. Cracked open the first double-yolk guinea egg I’ve seen! 66g when it was collected in April.
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    Today I broke it open.

    Today I broke it open.
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    Except a certain egg was very unusual: it weighed 66 grams, when the typical weight ranges from...

    Except a certain egg was very unusual: it weighed 66 grams, when the typical weight ranges from 35 to 48g. I set it aside in a certain carton with plans to bake with it, since reading that successful incubation of double-yolk eggs is very rare (hesitate to say ‘impossible’).
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    For lack of a relevant place to post this: On April 19, I collected 7 eggs and my 3-y/o hen...

    For lack of a relevant place to post this: On April 19, I collected 7 eggs and my 3-y/o hen Melba released what may classify as a lash egg. There were 8 female guineas of laying age, and 8 egg-like formations (all but one being proper in form).
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    Cape Town wild Guinea Fowl

    This was the day (in March ‘24) that I feared I would lose “Almost” forever. She was named based on the state of her egg at final candling: dark @ tip, but angle of air cell not quite ready. She did fly safely down, and probably laid a few of her own eggs in the collective nest before abruptly...
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