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| Catherine Jemma |
 Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:06 am |
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Hey Jill, I DID ask you to wait a couple of weeks before sending more rain
Then just earlier today, we gets ANOTHER 8 mm of rain
Oh yeah but ya didn't send it to 1 pm, after I'd spent hours this mornin'
waterin' stuff,
Hey here's a comment about extremely hot conditions
In past years I've sometimes had broody hens raise a clutch of eggs
If the mother started sitting around late Spring then we might then
encounter some days in the high 30's Celcius
Even in the shade of the large and well ventilated corrugated iron shed,
which is their coop
On very hot days what looks really weird to me, but quite curious.......
.......is seeing mother hen sitting on her "nest" (in the dirt floor area)
and she has the eggs arranged in a ring around her, but not actually
underneath her at all. Obviously she knows the air temp is enough to keep
the eggs at the right temperature
Then go back in the evening and she'll have rolled all the eggs back
underneath her again
I just think it's so cute
Hey for all the non-Aussies out there, here's another curious case
There's an Australian native bird, sorry I can't recall it's exact name, but
it's native throughout much of Australia, and like a chicken it's mostly a
ground-dweller but can fly if it has to
The birds make a big compost heap about 2 metres diameter and the female
bird lays the eggs inside the heap. The heat of decay processes incubates
the eggs as the female bird buggers off as soon as all the eggs are laid.
The male bird has a very temperature sensitive beak area. And he maintains
watch over the compost heap, regularly probing it to check it's temperature,
adding and taking away material as required to maintain a stable egg
incubation temperature
Don't even get me talking about the small-chicken sized New Zealand "Kiwi"
which lays Emu-egg sized eggs, weighing one third the hens
weight........also the only bird to have nostrils at the tip of it's beak
Yep there's a bunch of weird birdy sorta things out there eh.
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| Jill |
| Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:39 am |
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Catherine Jemma wrote:
Quote: Hey Jill, I DID ask you to wait a couple of weeks before sending more
rain
Then just earlier today, we gets ANOTHER 8 mm of rain
oh - sorry, that must have been some of yesterdays got lost on route
<grin>
Quote:
Oh yeah but ya didn't send it to 1 pm, after I'd spent hours this
mornin' waterin' stuff,
ouch
Quote:
Hey here's a comment about extremely hot conditions
In past years I've sometimes had broody hens raise a clutch of eggs
If the mother started sitting around late Spring then we might then
encounter some days in the high 30's Celcius
Even in the shade of the large and well ventilated corrugated iron
shed, which is their coop
On very hot days what looks really weird to me, but quite
curious.......
......is seeing mother hen sitting on her "nest" (in the dirt floor
area) and she has the eggs arranged in a ring around her, but not
actually underneath her at all. Obviously she knows the air temp is
enough to keep the eggs at the right temperature
Then go back in the evening and she'll have rolled all the eggs back
underneath her again
I just think it's so cute
aw bless
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regards
Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk |
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| Mary Fisher |
| Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:58 am |
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"Jill" <news@NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4587cf80$0$8752$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
Quote: Catherine Jemma wrote:
Hey Jill, I DID ask you to wait a couple of weeks before sending more
rain
Then just earlier today, we gets ANOTHER 8 mm of rain
oh - sorry, that must have been some of yesterdays got lost on route
grin
Can't have been, the lost stuff came here!
Mary |
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| Jill |
| Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:34 am |
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Mary Fisher wrote:
Quote: "Jill" <news@NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4587cf80$0$8752$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
Catherine Jemma wrote:
Hey Jill, I DID ask you to wait a couple of weeks before sending
more rain
Then just earlier today, we gets ANOTHER 8 mm of rain
oh - sorry, that must have been some of yesterdays got lost on route
grin
Can't have been, the lost stuff came here!
Mary
There was plenty to go around I can assure you !!!
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regards
Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk |
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| Farm1 |
| Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:11 pm |
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"Catherine Jemma" <xena@agn.net.auREMOVEthis> wrote in message
Quote: Hey for all the non-Aussies out there, here's another curious case
There's an Australian native bird, sorry I can't recall it's exact
name,
Mallee Fowl
http://www2.mdbc.gov.au/education/encyclopedia/wildlife/birds/mallee_f
owl.htm
Gald you got some rain, we should get some coming over to the eastern
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