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Apparently the cowboy hat didn’t work. He should have been wearing a ‘hoodie’, and a Guy Fawkes mask.

I hope you know that chickens are a gateway livestock.
The Hazards of Backyard Hens

Funny video, SusanG.

Cluck cluck, cluck cluck. All hail our new Chicken overlords! May their reign be long and just. And here I was worried it would be the robots.

…” the guards wife MaryAnn”? Like on Gilligans Island? What was she doing hanging around with those guys? Where was Ginger?

But yeah, it was so great of Obama to let the Doctor get arrested and sent to prison. Great message to send to anyone else wanting to help the US.

Just been reading a bit of light poetry.

This p-shop would make for excellent target practice.

One L in Marshal, Stoatie. You should know better.

Too bad the worthless bastard couldn’t have met a more classic western end. Trampled to death by a herd of cattle, strung up from a water tower by a lynch mob, tortured to death by a group of squaws, etc. Then again, having his brains blown out by a SEAL works for me too. As long as he saw it coming.

You should all put giant metal chickens in your front yards.

Yeah! Like Beyonce the Chicken 🙂
http://thebloggess.com/2011/06/and-thats-why-you-should-learn-to-pick-your-battles/

(though I think Beyonce the Chicken has appeared at the Weasel Times & Stoat Intelligencer before)

I am not so sure I would be enthusiastic if I were a chicken farmer, and a weasel said she wanted to help comfort the chickens.

Geez, Dave, you’re right.

The real Osama died in 2002 .. renal failure.

All the rest is media hog-wash.

Supposedly, Dillon was a US Marshal, but he spent ALL his time (well, except for vacay, mebbe) in Dodge City, Kansas.

Right. And Miss Kitty was a virgin.

I just want to know if he was wearing his cowboy hat when he got his speeding ticket in Pakistan. (Cowboy hats do seem to make their wearers press down a little harder on that pickup-truck gas pedal…)

Okay, serious question. How hard are chickens? I mean in terms of social interaction, how do they stack up to toddlers, or dogs, or elderly relative?

Mrs. Cat has decided she wants to become a chicken lady, which is all well and good but as a telecommuter, I know I’m gonna get sucked into the work.. what am I in for ?

Mew

I cannot recommend Pekin bantams enough. They have bags of personality, they’re beautiful, they’re much less destructive than the big birds and they make comparatively tiny shits. Much easier to clean up after. Not the greatest layers in the world, but their tiny eggs are almost all yolk. Crack one into a bowl with a full-size hen’s egg and you can’t tell the yolks apart. So, delicious.

You need to clean out their run and house periodically. Less often when it’s dry, more when it’s wet. Food is cheap. Predators can be a heartache, depending on where you are.

I’m not sure they always call them Pekin bantams in the States. At any rate, it’s the bantams with the feathery feet and spherical tail feathers.

Wikipedia: grain of salt

“The first Pekins are alleged to have been looted from the private collection of the Emperor of China at Peking (former name of Beijing) towards the end of the Opium Wars around 1860. However, some sources suggest that a consignment of birds from China around 1835 were given to Queen Victoria, assuming the name of ‘Shanghais’ and that these birds were bred with further imports and were developed into the breed we know today as Pekin Bantams.”

Per wikipedia:

They are known in America and Canada as Cochins. This is the subject of some debate within the pekin/cochin breeders community.

Made me giggle.

CUTE ALERT!!!:

http://www.kval.com/news/offbeat/Baby-deer-from-endangered-species-born-in-NYC-214699201.html

Americans are used to seeing manifestations for fun of exotic cultures here.

It’s a bit hard for us to get our heads around the idea that American culture can be exotic fun for foreigners. E.g. an Arab in a cowboy hat.

Americans have culture?
That’s the funniest statement I’ve heard in a while!

My dear old mum always called small men with big man delusions banty rosters.

This is a really good tip especially to those new to the blogosphere.

Simple but very precise information… Thank you for sharing this one.
A must read article!