Be Excellent To Each Other

At least have some common decency and put some asterisks in.

The plastic bottles were covering them already.

On a local Facebook page, people sometimes moan about their recycling not being collected. The solution seems to be to put a naked woman in with it.

Then plaster a big 6 on her (though I'm sure Mali would say she's a 10).

I meant to post this a while ago - saw it in Changi airport.

And then BANG! WANG!

We are chicken herders, or whatever the term is!

A Rhode Rock, a Bluebell and a Ranger that we've called Wattle, Daub and Thatch.

Herding chickens is awesome, but three eggs a day is something we weren't prepared for after a week, a first egg on the very first day in their new home was surprising enough.

I’m please to announce that the swifts have just arrived.

We've been seeing them for a couple of weeks. Everything else is a month late, the swifts were a month early.

The weather is properly fucked.

Yes, they’re a couple of days later than last year, but they ARE pretty consistent.

They must be happy! Well done!

They lay every day as long as they've got food.

Title

I'll take it.

They were only 18 weeks old when we got them, barely into the start of laying window. None of the three breeds is expected to lay more then 300 a year, but opinion does seem to be that they need to be reasonably happy on top of being fed.

Sorry, I was doing a Stardew Valley joke

I spent the morning reading about chicken husbandry

I need chickens. With my increased workouts and thus need for cheap protein I'm getting through 3-4 eggs a day.

We had hard-boiled eggs for breakfast in the office pantry today. It was like fucking Cool Hand Luke down there, with people strolling off with bowls piled with 7-8 eggs. What are they going to do with that many eggs?

That's impressive. I can't eat more than 3 in one go.

Try putting them in one at a time

I doubt they ate them all. I suspect they left some on their desk to eat at lunch. Mmm, sweaty, room temperature eggs.

Honestly this just reminded me of a weird porn thing I watched once.

Teach their Grandma's to suck them.

Teach their Grandma's to suck them.

Teach their Grandma's what to suck them?

Yes.

Sorry, get their flight attendants to teach your Grandma to suck them.

What does it say about soft shell eggs? Because we've had two, one of which we can't even figure out a day of arrival for, and they're pretty gross.

"No egg" is better than soft shell egg.

Not sure if you’re actually asking a question seriously, but if you are, I grew up on a smallholding with lots o’ hens and ducks.
Soft shells are usually just part of the laying cycle for either a very young hen just getting used to laying eggs, or very old hen at the end of egg production, but it can also be due to a move and new environment, or stress from a predator in the area over a period of time.

If none of those apply it could be diet related, and you can get calcium additives to put into the feed. Often, though, especially if young or recently moved, they’ll gradually rectify to a standard eggs, though you’ll likely get a few long or oddly shaped ones whilst the shell starts to form properly.

Thanks Mimi. It wasn't particularly serious as they're all young and we've bought a different mash which they don't seem to like so they might not have been eating enough (we're adding more than half the original mash again along with some pellets and they're demolishing the combination).

Today has seen 3 normal eggs again, which is good because ew.

Yeah, they’re a bit odd to handle, aren’t they? We had a funny (probably local) name for them when I was young, but I can’t renenber what it was!

Zardoz.

I don't really know what emoji to use for that.

I had never heard of a soft shell egg. They look a bit weird (thanks google images)

Aren't they a delicacy like softshell crab?

Fewer legs and pincers.

I didn’t think I could possibly care less than I do about the Harry royal wedding, but it turns out that there is a whole level of caring less, and that is what I feel about the pages of news stories on the BBC news website as to whether his fiancées dad is going to the wedding.

Just bizarre.

Time to pre-emptively mute a few keywords on Twitter I guess as well.

Do you really follow anyone who’s likely to be tweeting about it, though?

I can never predict these things

HOLLA!

You’re already muted, Mali.

It's sad that the fucking press attention has stopped an apparently shy and reclusive man from going to his daughter's wedding though. Fucking vultures.

The photos he apparently paid for to be taken of him?

The whole thing. From start to finish, the whole industry is like a swarm of locusts that descend on anything or anybody until they're picked clean. Must be even worse when it's not because of something that you've done, but someone related to you.

Yeah. I think it's fair enough that Megan gets press attention - she would have know it was part of the deal and she'll be used to it anyway, what with being a famous and everything.

But her dad isn't doing anything by choice, poor fucker.

Apart from agreeing to stage the photos that were sold.

It's pretty easy to think that comes at the end of a pile of pressure, though, and that they had to offer to pay in order to get anything from him. And he then, foolishly, thought that would be it.