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I'm going to be away from BYC for a good while and didn't want to just disappear without saying anything. I've disabled all my email notifications other than for PM, but you can PM me if you'd like my personal email address. I don't want to post it here since there are a lot of bots on the...

Thank you, Julie, and yes, her name was where my nick came from many years ago, 16 or 17 years ago. Jade hadn't been herself for a while, months. She couldn't keep her balance, and she had a hard time eating until we adjusted her feeding situation. The vet thought it was possible she'd had a...

It makes complete sense. I've had Persian cats most of my adult life. The reason I was off BYC for the first week was that work went crazy, and the reason I was away after that on the very day I intended to come back is that my sweet blue Persian kitty Jade that I'd had for more than 18 years...

LOL. So what do you do with those? (When you say "bulls," I'm assuming you mean the bovine type.)

Beautiful stuff, and I thought we were talking only about ducks. It doesn't really matter if it's also chickens. Cousins are usually okay, but you really need to get another line mixed in if you're going to breed. Next year in a first generation should be fine.

I LOVE JULIE!!! (But so does everyone.) It does in the ones that survive it. There really isn't such a thing as good line breeding over many generations. You get less and less vitality in the lines because of the undesirable recessives, and that's the least of what can go wrong. It's the...

Later on down the line, you will have issues. How much later is up for grabs. People do line breeding in many animals to bring out the best of the traits, but don't forget it will also be more likely to bring out the worst. If you're going to do line breeding, it's best to do it with...

Nothing other than life happened. Work messes, death in the family, just life stuff.

Rumors of my demise were somewhat exaggerated, btw.

Then please let me know if you have hatching eggs for sale.

Hey, Pyxis! I need some of those! Are you selling eggs?

My KCs were never nervous. You could also consider Pekins and Runners.

Oh dear. I'm really sorry, but those don't look viable. Were those the last two?

Amiga answered the part about the bleach, so I just wanted to throw in a comment about the hay/alfalfa. Those shouldn't be used for bedding, only for feed. Hay molds very quickly when it gets wet and develops spores that can cause respiratory issues.

You mean it was at that range in the first 25 days, right? Not during lockdown?

Dear, sweet Pyxis. If you can manage it, I hope they can finally have a great home.

Yes, and this is very similar to the phenomenon of how the things in a woman's purse will accumulate to fill all available space. Don't ask me how I know that.

Umm, yeah, sometimes I do when I see an earwig. I never see many anymore. Maybe I scared them all off!

Yep, my grandmother reared me and she and I watched Night Gallery, Twilight Zone, all that stuff every week. Horror shows back then were much less gory and much more scary than they are now, and I still very vividly remember some of the episodes. Do you happen to remember the one about serving...

Umm, hello. How do you think I found out about earwigs and brain eating? It was from that episode back when I was like 8 years old. IMDB doesn't explain it quite right for the ending. At the very end of the episode, the doctor tells the guy that he retrieved the earwig after it ate its way...