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Before contemplating farm animals, you need to get a dog and a couple of cats.
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And chickens!
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May 28, 2012 10:45
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fork bomb posted:Before contemplating farm animals, you need to get a dog and a couple of cats. If he gets any cats there will be no more birdnests in his lawn. For someone advocating not playing eugenics with the eggs its pretty hypocritical to advocate bringing on a ground nesting bird apocalypse.
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May 28, 2012 13:36
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Careful with that cowbird egg:Wikipedia posted:It seems that Brown-headed Cowbirds periodically check on their eggs and young after they have deposited them. Removal of the parasitic egg may trigger a retaliatory reaction termed "mafia behavior". According to a study by the Florida Museum of Natural History published in 1983, the cowbird returned to ransack the nests of a range of host species 56% of the time when their egg was removed. In addition, the cowbird also destroyed nests in a type of "farming behavior" to force the hosts to build new ones. The cowbirds then laid their eggs in the new nests 85% of the time
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May 28, 2012 15:36
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echomadman posted:If he gets any cats there will be no more birdnests in his lawn. For someone advocating not playing eugenics with the eggs its pretty hypocritical to advocate bringing on a ground nesting bird apocalypse. Back home when I was growing up we always had cats because of the farm. One was a killing machine. He made a pile of dead mice. It was a totem of variously decomposing rodents.
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May 28, 2012 15:54
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Cowbirds are great at keeping mosquitoes down so I'd be willing to give them whatever comforts they want.
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May 28, 2012 20:29
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I personally think you should get a wife as your first farm animal. I'm free all summer.
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May 28, 2012 21:12
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madlilnerd posted:I personally think you should get a wife as your first farm animal. There's a line, sister.  I do think chickens might be a good idea. Just think of the fresh eggs!
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May 28, 2012 21:17
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Wandering Knitter posted:There's a line, sister. Are you accusing madlilnerd of being so old her ovaries have turned to dust?
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May 28, 2012 21:46
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Wandering Knitter posted:There's a line, sister. Especially if he gets sheep/alpaca - everyone in the spinning/knitting threads will queue up.
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Jun 6, 2012 20:14
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Buy a ton of emus and become "that guy with the emus"
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Jun 7, 2012 00:48
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So between 56 and 18 emus. 1429 to 1111 if you just get eggs. Get the eggs. You'll have an army of lethal birds. Dumb as bricks probably but really cool.
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Jun 7, 2012 09:25
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hayden. posted:Buy a ton of emus and become "that guy with the emus" Emus are so passé. Get an army of cassowaries!
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Jun 7, 2012 11:49
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Can I train 2-4 Emus to pull a chariot as a team?
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Jun 7, 2012 17:06
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Slung Blade posted:Can I train 2-4 Emus to pull a chariot as a team? I don't know... CAN you?
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Jun 7, 2012 17:23
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You can train ostriches!
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Jun 7, 2012 17:31
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Use doves. The trick is to get a lot of them. Then you'll need to install a large lamp behind you so every time you ride your chariot, you'll have a beacon shining your way.
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Jun 7, 2012 17:59
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Iskariot posted:A lot of dogs will do the same. Not as evil psychopaths as cats but they'll mess up a nest in most cases. Upside with cats is getting rid of rodents that may damage your house. My dog catches snakes all summer long. She absolutely is obsessed with hunting them as soon as warm weather comes a long. She's gotten a rabbit and mouse which was ok, but chased all the deer away as well as roaming cats which I'm not so thrilled about. http://youtu.be/yL0uZ3pvRDU Video is boring, but shows her attempting to find snakes.
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Jun 7, 2012 21:31
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The cat I spoke of shot off after a loving moose once. Both the moose and I was fairly shocked. He lumbered off once he noticed the cat didn't seem to stop. He also fought foxes for sport. We only heard cries from the woods and then the cat turned up proud as a motherfucker and torn to shreds. He fought our dogs all the time and mauled me a couple of times as well. Saw him sprint towards a ram once as well but he stopped when the ram looked like he was going to charge. He was bat-poo poo crazy but I loved him for it.
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hayden. posted:Buy a ton of emus and become "that guy with the emus" I would not raise them again, even though emu steaks are amazing. They're big, dumb, hostile birds. When my dad and I were out camping and they escaped during a thunderstorm while my mom was home alone, my dad just told her over the phone to shoot them in the head so she wouldn't get hurt. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jun 10, 2012 |
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Jun 10, 2012 17:43
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coyo7e posted:Emus taste great but they can and will leap a 10 foot fence if they get scared by a storm or dogs barking at their enclosure, etc. They also have huge loving spurs and can kick in almost any direction (except for straight backward), and they will eviscerate you if they catch you with them. I almost ended up in the ER with a torn open femoral artery, catching our escaped emus with my family. I was behind the bird with my hands on its neck, and it twisted sideways and kicked back at me, laying open my Carhartts from groin to kneecap and leaving a really nasty scratch the entire way. So they're basically super turkeys?
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Jun 10, 2012 21:20
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Ozmiander posted:So they're basically super turkeys? Get emus.
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Jun 11, 2012 00:35
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Velociraptors with feathers (velociraptors had feathers as well actually). So basically they're just velociraptors' bigger, heavier cousins.
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Jun 11, 2012 08:19
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Leperflesh posted:So basically they're just velociraptors' bigger, heavier cousins. I guess even dinosaurs hated their family reunions.
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Jun 11, 2012 13:27
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Leperflesh posted:Velociraptors with feathers (velociraptors had feathers as well actually). So basically they're just velociraptors' bigger, heavier cousins.
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Jun 11, 2012 15:59
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I got nothing to report except holy gently caress it's hot right now. Garden's growing weeds like crazy, and I am trying to fight them back. Bushes doing well. Also today is my 10th anniversary on the forums. Jesus christ.
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Jul 10, 2012 18:45
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How hot is holy gently caress hot up where you are?
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Jul 10, 2012 18:47
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Splizwarf posted:How hot is holy gently caress hot up where you are? 30-35 degrees Celsius. Which, I know, is nothing to a lot of the more southerly types here.
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Jul 10, 2012 19:05
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That works out to 95F, on the low end of holy gently caress hot but definitely acceptable. Especially if that's the actual heat and not the "feels like" heat index temp. I had no idea it got that drat hot that far north; truly, there is nowhere safe. 
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Jul 10, 2012 19:16
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We're getting the same in On, but it's actually going down to 20 or under at night. Almost chilly, and good heat relief when it finally comes around.
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Splizwarf posted:That works out to 95F, on the low end of holy gently caress hot but definitely acceptable. Especially if that's the actual heat and not the "feels like" heat index temp. I had no idea it got that drat hot that far north; truly, there is nowhere safe. I had to figure out what the humidex was, and then what humidity was. It be dry here. It has always been dry here. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jul 10, 2012 |
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Jul 10, 2012 21:32
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Yesterday they issued a warning saying that it felt more like 40'C with the humidity. Usually, yeah. Also all the swamps and sloughs out here are starting to smell pretty bad. Methane production is way up I guess. The wetland out back of my place seems untouched by that so far though, not sure why.
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We're only a couple degrees C hotter here (just south of you in Northern Idaho), and I totally agree. It's melt your balls off hot right now.
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Jul 11, 2012 06:15
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Yeah, Alberta's usually really dry. I was shocked to see you guys actually compete with Southern ON for "welp, time to curl up and die".
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Jul 11, 2012 07:12
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We've been getting 105F/100% humidity days for the past month or so until this (rainy) week, in Virginia.  It's "gently caress everything" weather.
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Jul 11, 2012 13:37
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100% humidity means you are literally submerged in a lake. You guys are exaggerating
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Jul 11, 2012 20:11
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Leperflesh posted:100% humidity means you are literally submerged in a lake. You guys are exaggerating No, 100% humidity means something a little more boring, that the air can't hold any more water vapor at that temperature.
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Jul 11, 2012 21:24
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You're both right. A humid day at 100F is probably only 20-30% relative humidity but there is probably as much water in the air as 60F @ 100% humidity 
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It is 1am, I've been reading this thread all afternoon/evening, and I am so inspired that I want to get up and start sanding the walls in our entry so I can get to painting. Because Slung Blade is a Badass. We need to be friends so you can keep me motivated. We bought a house on a corner lot in the city (it's not quite inner-city, but it's a ghetto neighborhood for sure) and it needs so much work that it's overwhelming, but as long as this thread is here I may actually want to work on my house! Thank you, SB. Never stop doing cool stuff!
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This sounds crazy, but this thread and Slung's work and love for his house is what finally pushed my wife and I to take the plunge.
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