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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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having to sort out an administrative clusterfuck this week, thank you government

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Going pretty well so far! A friend reached out this morning to see if I would be interested in receiving some plants from her (yes) so in the near future I'll get to go hang out with an amazing person, and will get to grow some new plants with which I have no experience.

And I'm giving an introductory talk about biochar at my town library this evening, which will hopefully be a bunch of fun for everyone. I couldn't come up with as many biochar puns as I did for my compost presentation, so I'm leaning on memeing for levity:

I have no idea how attendees will react to these, as most of them are retirees.

Our solo duckling is still solo, which is concerning at this stage. That said, there has been a lot of co-nesting and additional shuffling of eggs between hens which likely impacted incubation. I'll keep my eyes peeled for more chances to shove pictures of ducklings in y'all's feeds

Have a great week everybody!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Not a retiree but I approve this meme

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you haven't encountered it yet: bad eggs really do explode. I haven't seen them explode any distance nor into tiny pieces, but we did have a nest with an egg that was turning color and I didn't think to remove it. A day or so later, I heard a muffled POP and looked to see the mama with a look of stiff panic as she sat incredibly erect on her nest. I shooed her off and found a horrible , stinky mess. Mama got a bath, we put the whole next in tripled garbage bags, and wrote off the clutch as potentially infected. Mama was not happy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup, been there. I've been getting bitten this week while removing the suspect eggs. Sometimes the girls will get off of them for enough time for me to inspect but sometimes they come back quickly and angry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

hooray for broody girls! We can't get mad when they are being such good guardians. :-)