5/13/13
11:27pm
Okay so this post is dedicated to seven things. 2 of them are humans, the other five are chicks....could've been chicks?....were chicks? Anyways, the first two are my lovely parents.
Thank you guys soooooo much. I really just couldn't have done all that I've done so far without you guys! You guys watch over my chicks while I'm out, help set things up, help monitor cages and temperatures and humidities, and give me great ideas over all. You guys are the main reason I was able to do this project and successfully see it through, and now we have 5 chicks!:) I'm so thankful and grateful for you guys!
The next topic is not as happy though, and I kind of feel bad combining these posts together. But today I took the remaining 5 eggs out of the incubator. After I candled them to see if I could see anything in the egg...well I could see in there. And it wasn't all that I wanted to see. None of the chicks made it:( there were no veins in some, and some just stopped developing a while ago. One egg I saw a foot and a wing in it, but they were very underdeveloped and it was really sad :( so RIP to Edward, Ron, Larry, Harry, and Katniss:(
Monday, May 13, 2013
Entry #42: Jacob's Bootaaayy
5/13/13
11:13pm
So the last little guy to hatch was Jacob. And he had a very hard time coming out of his shell as you guys remember. So my parents had to help him out quite a bit. And as you guys read last post, poooor whittle Jacob has a deformed foot :( his toes curl inwards instead of spreading out flat.
Well taaadaaaa
He's healed!!!....sorta. We made him a little bootie, just like in the link I posted last time! He's kind of pissed at me though..as shown in the picture. He's just rockin' the new style is all. It's just the sticky part of a bandaid folded over. It was kind of a struggle actually, getting that thing on. It literally took me and my mom and my dad. And all the while, Jacob is screaming bloody murder. You'd actually think we were torturing him by the way he peeped! For their size they make sooo much noise when they want to! We spread his toes out so they would be normal, if he could walk normally, and then just folded it over. Now he walks kind of funny..and looks even funnier! But it's better than before! I'm not sure why his foot is deformed. It's really not that bad actually, it just seems like he has no muscles in his toes or something. I'm not 100% sure. It didn't seem to hurt him when I touched his foot or anything so thats a good sign!
I tried putting him in the other cage with the other chicks but they were way too interested in his sweet kicks and would just peck at it! Jacob just doesn't really have the strength to be in a cage with four of his siblings just constantly pecking at his poor little foot:( So I decided to keep him in the incubator for a little more time.
My mom is going to contact someone at Cornell who has another heat lamp so I can put Jacob in his own cage. That way I can properly teach him how to eat and drink! So far he'll only take water droplets from the tips of my fingers which is just wayyyy too cute :) my mom saw him take some water from my finger and she almost cried hahaha.
He's adorable. He's the runt of the family and he's by far my favorite of them all. Maybe it's because the other little chickies are more agressive...or maybe it's because I'm the runt of the family in my family, so I sympathize with him.
11:13pm
So the last little guy to hatch was Jacob. And he had a very hard time coming out of his shell as you guys remember. So my parents had to help him out quite a bit. And as you guys read last post, poooor whittle Jacob has a deformed foot :( his toes curl inwards instead of spreading out flat.
Well taaadaaaa
I tried putting him in the other cage with the other chicks but they were way too interested in his sweet kicks and would just peck at it! Jacob just doesn't really have the strength to be in a cage with four of his siblings just constantly pecking at his poor little foot:( So I decided to keep him in the incubator for a little more time.
My mom is going to contact someone at Cornell who has another heat lamp so I can put Jacob in his own cage. That way I can properly teach him how to eat and drink! So far he'll only take water droplets from the tips of my fingers which is just wayyyy too cute :) my mom saw him take some water from my finger and she almost cried hahaha.
He's adorable. He's the runt of the family and he's by far my favorite of them all. Maybe it's because the other little chickies are more agressive...or maybe it's because I'm the runt of the family in my family, so I sympathize with him.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Entry #41: So Many More
5/12/13
11:50 pm
Sorry I haven't posted again! Sooo much has been happening this weekend it's so hard to keep up!(it was prom weekend)
So since Bella hatched on Friday I've had 3 more chicks hatch!! Now there is Moe, Bella, Hermione, Peeta, and Jacob! They're all sooo adorable! Jacob actually just hatched this morning while I was still at my friends house. My parents and I had to really help out with his hatching though.
He made a pip in his shell Friday night, late at night, and Hermione was pipping too. (Pipping is basically when the chick begins to make cracks in the shell, starting to come out.) So I went to bed and in the morning I woke up to find two chicks had hatched! But it wasn't Hermione and Jacob like I had expected. It was Hermione and Peeta! This was startling because none of us had seen a crack on him. But Jacob had made no progress, and in fact, in the tiny little hole where he had pipped, it had turned a dark yellow color. So I went about my prom business, stopping in to see any kind of progress...and there was none. So my dad and I did a lot of research about helping chicks getting out of their shells and when to do it and then we proceeded to help little Jacob.
I took a q-tip and wet it with water and starting wetting the membrane that was showing. Then I peeled off a little of the shell will some tweezers. I wrapped the egg with some warm, wet paper towel so that the rest of the membrane would be easily broken by the chicks beak when it was time to come out.
Then I had to go to prom:( so I couldn't do anything more to help the little guy out. Luckily my parents helped him hatch, and now he's doing alright.
But then today I noticed one of his feet all his toes curl inward, instead of straight, so he has a hard time walking. I looked it up and I found that you can make them little cardboard booties to fix this problem.
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/51112/chick-with-curled-toes
That's the link with a picture of the booties, if you scroll down.
Then there's Peeta who I'm worried about as well. He won't open his eyes anymore, I'm afraid that the others may have pecked his eyes, or I found that some chicks have conjunctivitis. Because his eyes aren't open I worry that he doesn't find water or food. And since he can't find water or food, his energy levels are way down. Every time I look in on the cage, he's always always always asleep on the ground. When he gets bothered by the other chicks or I try to pick him up he always gets very feisty. I'm not sure what this means but it breaks my heart :( I feel so bad for my little guys.
Poor Peeta and Jacob! I just want them to be okay. The thought of either of them dying is just way too sad :(
11:50 pm
Sorry I haven't posted again! Sooo much has been happening this weekend it's so hard to keep up!(it was prom weekend)
So since Bella hatched on Friday I've had 3 more chicks hatch!! Now there is Moe, Bella, Hermione, Peeta, and Jacob! They're all sooo adorable! Jacob actually just hatched this morning while I was still at my friends house. My parents and I had to really help out with his hatching though.
He made a pip in his shell Friday night, late at night, and Hermione was pipping too. (Pipping is basically when the chick begins to make cracks in the shell, starting to come out.) So I went to bed and in the morning I woke up to find two chicks had hatched! But it wasn't Hermione and Jacob like I had expected. It was Hermione and Peeta! This was startling because none of us had seen a crack on him. But Jacob had made no progress, and in fact, in the tiny little hole where he had pipped, it had turned a dark yellow color. So I went about my prom business, stopping in to see any kind of progress...and there was none. So my dad and I did a lot of research about helping chicks getting out of their shells and when to do it and then we proceeded to help little Jacob.
I took a q-tip and wet it with water and starting wetting the membrane that was showing. Then I peeled off a little of the shell will some tweezers. I wrapped the egg with some warm, wet paper towel so that the rest of the membrane would be easily broken by the chicks beak when it was time to come out.
Then I had to go to prom:( so I couldn't do anything more to help the little guy out. Luckily my parents helped him hatch, and now he's doing alright.
But then today I noticed one of his feet all his toes curl inward, instead of straight, so he has a hard time walking. I looked it up and I found that you can make them little cardboard booties to fix this problem.
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/51112/chick-with-curled-toes
That's the link with a picture of the booties, if you scroll down.
Then there's Peeta who I'm worried about as well. He won't open his eyes anymore, I'm afraid that the others may have pecked his eyes, or I found that some chicks have conjunctivitis. Because his eyes aren't open I worry that he doesn't find water or food. And since he can't find water or food, his energy levels are way down. Every time I look in on the cage, he's always always always asleep on the ground. When he gets bothered by the other chicks or I try to pick him up he always gets very feisty. I'm not sure what this means but it breaks my heart :( I feel so bad for my little guys.
Poor Peeta and Jacob! I just want them to be okay. The thought of either of them dying is just way too sad :(
Friday, May 10, 2013
Entry #40: My Little Babiessss
5/10/13
4:03pm
It's here!!! THEY'RE here!
My little chickiesss:) :) :) well only two so far, but I'm really really hoping for some more (fingers crossed).
Moe hatched last night, and Bella hatched this afternoon!
So last night I came home from school and watched my peeping little eggs for a long time, but still no movement, no cracks in the shells....nothing! I was disappointed but I knew that they would be coming within a few days..I just never thought a few hours!
Anyways, after having watched them for sooo long, I decided, nothing is gonna happen, they're not hatching until tomorrow or the next day. (Side note: chicks are supposed to hatch at exactly 21 days after fertilization, but that's only with perfect humidity and temperature. Since both of those fluctuated in my incubators, the chicks can come out sooner or later than 21 days.) So I left to go to my boyfriend's house to do some dinner and catch up on homework. We had dinner, I reviewed for a test, and I was about to get some water when I decided to check my phone. And oddly my mom was calling at that exact moment. And this was pretty much how our phone call went:
Me: Hey mom what's u-
Mom: OH MY GOD GABI THERE IS A CHICK YOU HAVE TO GET HERE RIGHT NOW
Me: Wait.....like a chick, as in, chicken?!?!
Mom: YES OH MY GOD IT'S JUST THERE IN THE INCUBATOR
Me: Wait REALLY?!?!?!?
Mom: YES OH MY GOD COME HERE NOW.
And that was the first phone call.
So I uprooted Gareth (my boyfriend) from his comfy spot and I swear he was moving at sloth pace. All I wanted to do was race home and see my first little guy and I was out the door in no time.
But then I waited. And I stood out there and it seemed like 92837589273 hours had gone by and then I looked inside and Gareth is filling up his water bottle. And he's putting on his shoes. And I felt like he was writing a novel inside or something but man he was wayy less excited than I was. I was smiling so hard that I had to pull my cheeks down because it hurt (just got all 4 wisdom teeth out remember).
So the car ride seemed like we were taking a trip to Narnia. We hit both red lights and all I could think was: man this car ride is so much shorter usually...right?
We got home and I think I opened the door before we actually came to a full stop and I Usain Bolted into the house into my room and sure enough there was my little guy.
Moe:)
4:03pm
It's here!!! THEY'RE here!
My little chickiesss:) :) :) well only two so far, but I'm really really hoping for some more (fingers crossed).
Moe hatched last night, and Bella hatched this afternoon!
So last night I came home from school and watched my peeping little eggs for a long time, but still no movement, no cracks in the shells....nothing! I was disappointed but I knew that they would be coming within a few days..I just never thought a few hours!
Anyways, after having watched them for sooo long, I decided, nothing is gonna happen, they're not hatching until tomorrow or the next day. (Side note: chicks are supposed to hatch at exactly 21 days after fertilization, but that's only with perfect humidity and temperature. Since both of those fluctuated in my incubators, the chicks can come out sooner or later than 21 days.) So I left to go to my boyfriend's house to do some dinner and catch up on homework. We had dinner, I reviewed for a test, and I was about to get some water when I decided to check my phone. And oddly my mom was calling at that exact moment. And this was pretty much how our phone call went:
Me: Hey mom what's u-
Mom: OH MY GOD GABI THERE IS A CHICK YOU HAVE TO GET HERE RIGHT NOW
Me: Wait.....like a chick, as in, chicken?!?!
Mom: YES OH MY GOD IT'S JUST THERE IN THE INCUBATOR
Me: Wait REALLY?!?!?!?
Mom: YES OH MY GOD COME HERE NOW.
And that was the first phone call.
So I uprooted Gareth (my boyfriend) from his comfy spot and I swear he was moving at sloth pace. All I wanted to do was race home and see my first little guy and I was out the door in no time.
But then I waited. And I stood out there and it seemed like 92837589273 hours had gone by and then I looked inside and Gareth is filling up his water bottle. And he's putting on his shoes. And I felt like he was writing a novel inside or something but man he was wayy less excited than I was. I was smiling so hard that I had to pull my cheeks down because it hurt (just got all 4 wisdom teeth out remember).
So the car ride seemed like we were taking a trip to Narnia. We hit both red lights and all I could think was: man this car ride is so much shorter usually...right?
We got home and I think I opened the door before we actually came to a full stop and I Usain Bolted into the house into my room and sure enough there was my little guy.
Moe:)
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It's kinda hard to see what he really looks like since it was through the incubator but that's number one:)
So the next chicky to come out was Bella. And that was today! I noticed that she had a crack in her shell this morning, really small, but noticeably there. So I watcher over her for collectively, I'd say about 2 hours, because I wanted to get her hatching on film, and it's a very long process let me tell you. I took all the videos on my phone, and when I went back to look at all the little clips I had taken there were about 60-70 videos. I went through each and every one of them and I'm going to combine them all for my final project to show beginning to end of a chick hatching. This is the last video of Bella hatching.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Entry #39: JEEPERS CREEPERS. WHERE'D YA GET THOSE PEEPERS?!
5/8/13
11:09 pm
YEAH SORRY I'M SO EXCITED.
I'll stop with the caps now but OH MY GOD. (okay there's gonna be lots of caps) My chicks started peeping tonight!! :) :) :)
I was laying on my bed minding my own business, and my mom had guests in the house so she put the dogs in her room. And the doorway to her room is right across the hall from mine. So the dogs had been there for a little and they started whimpering. And their whimpers sound like peeping so I jumped up with a start and start at the incubators, which are across the room, and I heard nothing. Then I heard my doggies whimpering again and I got sooo disappointed.
And I realized a huge knot had formed in my stomach of excitement because guys...I've been working on this project for 3 weeks now! How can I not get excited?! Answer: I can't not get excited. You follow?
So I'm sitting there all disappointed and glum and wah :( my chicks weren't peeping yet.
WRONG.
I hear a faint peep, just as I hear my mom say "byyye thanks for coming!" to the last guests of the party she had.
I don't even know how fast I lept across the room, but it was a straight leap. Not even several steps. Just a huge leap across my room. And I press my ear up against the incubator and I listen. And all I could hear was my mom doing the dishes in the kitchen, and the wind blowing outside.
And I listen.
AND THEN BAM WHAM SLAM. No actually it was just the faintest little peep ever.
But it was there!!! Right there! Right in that little box that I'd had in my room for yes, 19 days now. And then peep peep peep peep peep. And I swear my face looked like a fat child who had just walked into a candy shop. My jaw dropped in disbelief. I could feel the tears welling up in the corners of my eyes from sheer joy, and my heart just melt at all the little peepers I heard in that incubator. All my little peepers in there.
Because yes guys. They are peeping. And yes guys. They are alllll mine :)
Welllll...for the remainder of this WISE project that is:( (we'll cross that bridge when we get there though.)
Anyways! The very first thing I did after I knew they were peeping? What any sensible person does when they have such big and exciting my-eggs-peep kind of news....I tell my mom of course!
"Mooommmmmy we have new guests in our house!" and I can just feel myself smirking and grinning and beaming and everything in between.
"OH MY GOD NO WAY!!!!" Was my moms appropriate reaction as she sped down the hallway from my kitchen into my room and on the floor right next to the incubator within seconds. Watch out Usain Bolt.
So she sat and listened until......peep. And then she dropped from being on all fours to laying on her back on my floor in disbelief. It was pretty funny to watch. She couldn't even speak she was so flabbergasted (what a word huh?) and so luckily my 21st century, technologically addicted teenage girl, role came into play, and I whipped out my iPhone and recorded her reaction, so all of the internet can behold (sorry mom!)
11:09 pm
YEAH SORRY I'M SO EXCITED.
I'll stop with the caps now but OH MY GOD. (okay there's gonna be lots of caps) My chicks started peeping tonight!! :) :) :)
I was laying on my bed minding my own business, and my mom had guests in the house so she put the dogs in her room. And the doorway to her room is right across the hall from mine. So the dogs had been there for a little and they started whimpering. And their whimpers sound like peeping so I jumped up with a start and start at the incubators, which are across the room, and I heard nothing. Then I heard my doggies whimpering again and I got sooo disappointed.
And I realized a huge knot had formed in my stomach of excitement because guys...I've been working on this project for 3 weeks now! How can I not get excited?! Answer: I can't not get excited. You follow?
So I'm sitting there all disappointed and glum and wah :( my chicks weren't peeping yet.
WRONG.
I hear a faint peep, just as I hear my mom say "byyye thanks for coming!" to the last guests of the party she had.
I don't even know how fast I lept across the room, but it was a straight leap. Not even several steps. Just a huge leap across my room. And I press my ear up against the incubator and I listen. And all I could hear was my mom doing the dishes in the kitchen, and the wind blowing outside.
And I listen.
AND THEN BAM WHAM SLAM. No actually it was just the faintest little peep ever.
But it was there!!! Right there! Right in that little box that I'd had in my room for yes, 19 days now. And then peep peep peep peep peep. And I swear my face looked like a fat child who had just walked into a candy shop. My jaw dropped in disbelief. I could feel the tears welling up in the corners of my eyes from sheer joy, and my heart just melt at all the little peepers I heard in that incubator. All my little peepers in there.
Because yes guys. They are peeping. And yes guys. They are alllll mine :)
Welllll...for the remainder of this WISE project that is:( (we'll cross that bridge when we get there though.)
Anyways! The very first thing I did after I knew they were peeping? What any sensible person does when they have such big and exciting my-eggs-peep kind of news....I tell my mom of course!
"Mooommmmmy we have new guests in our house!" and I can just feel myself smirking and grinning and beaming and everything in between.
"OH MY GOD NO WAY!!!!" Was my moms appropriate reaction as she sped down the hallway from my kitchen into my room and on the floor right next to the incubator within seconds. Watch out Usain Bolt.
So she sat and listened until......peep. And then she dropped from being on all fours to laying on her back on my floor in disbelief. It was pretty funny to watch. She couldn't even speak she was so flabbergasted (what a word huh?) and so luckily my 21st century, technologically addicted teenage girl, role came into play, and I whipped out my iPhone and recorded her reaction, so all of the internet can behold (sorry mom!)
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Entry #38: Approaching the Hatching!
5/7/13
10:12pm
So my eggs should be hatching this week:) Friday...hopefully not Saturday that's prom! If they hatch Friday I'll be able to come home and help them hatch and stuff. My teachers are not gonna be pleased with me since I had to miss 3 days of school to get my wisdom teeth out.....yikes.
So according to research I've done the chicks should be peeping in their eggs soon! That's the final step before they hatch! They're gonna be soooo cute:) I can't wait!
I've upped the humidity from 50% to around 70% so that they have an easier time coming out of their shells! The egg shells soak up the moisture from the air and when the chicks hatch the shell will be much easier to break through!
I'm verrrry excited:)
10:12pm
So my eggs should be hatching this week:) Friday...hopefully not Saturday that's prom! If they hatch Friday I'll be able to come home and help them hatch and stuff. My teachers are not gonna be pleased with me since I had to miss 3 days of school to get my wisdom teeth out.....yikes.
So according to research I've done the chicks should be peeping in their eggs soon! That's the final step before they hatch! They're gonna be soooo cute:) I can't wait!
I've upped the humidity from 50% to around 70% so that they have an easier time coming out of their shells! The egg shells soak up the moisture from the air and when the chicks hatch the shell will be much easier to break through!
I'm verrrry excited:)
Entry #37: Remembering those we lost
5/7/13
9:15pm
Hi guys!
Sorry my posts are a little irregular. I had my wisdom teeth a few days ago and I've been pretty under the weather:(
Anyways I have some pictures of Curly and Dumbledore
So that's Curly as you can see. I tried to do my best in the picture to show you guys, but he has a lot of spotting or discoloration happening all over his shell. I'm not sure if that's related to the fact that he died or not, but I'm seeing it on a few of the eggs that are currently in the incubator, so I'm a little worried.
This is Curly and Dumbledore side by side, and something I found interesting about them was the fact that Curly's egg seems to be quite a bit bigger than Dumbledore. As I mentioned before Dumbledore is the egg that just didn't get fertilized at all. So I'm wondering...do eggs grow with the embryo? Because I thought that the egg just stayed the same size the whole time!
Interesting.....
9:15pm
Hi guys!
Sorry my posts are a little irregular. I had my wisdom teeth a few days ago and I've been pretty under the weather:(
Anyways I have some pictures of Curly and Dumbledore
Interesting.....
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Entry #36: Catch Up
5/5/13
8:39pm
WOW. This final project date is creeping up really really fast! It's May 30th for those of you who didn't know, which seems like it's far away......it isn't. I gotta get cracking.
Tonight I'm going to make a list of what things I need from Lowe's and then tomorrow I hope my dad and I will go down and get the materials to make the pen for the little chicks, which shouldn't be too hard to make.
On another side note, Curly has passed away. Over the weekend we started smelling a foul smell from the incubator and my parents concluded one of the eggs was rotting. At first we all thought it was Dumbledore, but it was actually Curly:( I'm not sure what happened at all but when I carefully sniffed (and resniffed) every single egg, it was definitely Curly.
I really didn't think I could muster up the courage to just toss Dumbledore and Curly away, but the smell was so overwhelming I had to shut up my motherly instinct, to never give up, over the eggs, and I placed them in an egg carton and then left a note with them telling my parents that I didn't know what to do with them.
Thank god for parents because if I had been the one who had to "dispose" of the eggs I probably would've had a little funeral for them and made my parents and maybe my friends gather around my two lost souls:(
Now maybe I'm going a little overboard? But I'm not. It's not easy just being like "oh hey sorry ya didn't make it little guy next time around!" no. It doesn't work like that. You feel sad! I feel sad! So yeah, thank goodness that I could just leave them on the counter and have them be gone the next morning because I just don't have the heart yet:(
8:39pm
WOW. This final project date is creeping up really really fast! It's May 30th for those of you who didn't know, which seems like it's far away......it isn't. I gotta get cracking.
Tonight I'm going to make a list of what things I need from Lowe's and then tomorrow I hope my dad and I will go down and get the materials to make the pen for the little chicks, which shouldn't be too hard to make.
On another side note, Curly has passed away. Over the weekend we started smelling a foul smell from the incubator and my parents concluded one of the eggs was rotting. At first we all thought it was Dumbledore, but it was actually Curly:( I'm not sure what happened at all but when I carefully sniffed (and resniffed) every single egg, it was definitely Curly.
I really didn't think I could muster up the courage to just toss Dumbledore and Curly away, but the smell was so overwhelming I had to shut up my motherly instinct, to never give up, over the eggs, and I placed them in an egg carton and then left a note with them telling my parents that I didn't know what to do with them.
Thank god for parents because if I had been the one who had to "dispose" of the eggs I probably would've had a little funeral for them and made my parents and maybe my friends gather around my two lost souls:(
Now maybe I'm going a little overboard? But I'm not. It's not easy just being like "oh hey sorry ya didn't make it little guy next time around!" no. It doesn't work like that. You feel sad! I feel sad! So yeah, thank goodness that I could just leave them on the counter and have them be gone the next morning because I just don't have the heart yet:(
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Entry #34: Macro research and Warning Graphic Photo!!
4/30/13
1:25pm
So I've been doing some research about how chickens are raised around the world, and in the many different ways that they are raised, and some w
ays are pretty gruesome. It makes me want to be vegetarian actually. I went onto PETA's site, and saw some really horrific pictures and read some awful facts about chickens and chicks, which made me really sad :(
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/chickens.aspx
That's the URL of the site that I visited of PETA's. I learned that male chicks are useless to chicken factories because they don't produce eggs, and they're too small to produce any meat, so every year millions of them are tossed into trash bags and suffocated or thrown (while still alive) into a high speed grinder called a macerator.
This is a picture of chicks in a macerator. It's very very upsetting. At least it was to me.
It's so saddening :(
As well as this Mr. Reiff
1:25pm
So I've been doing some research about how chickens are raised around the world, and in the many different ways that they are raised, and some w
ays are pretty gruesome. It makes me want to be vegetarian actually. I went onto PETA's site, and saw some really horrific pictures and read some awful facts about chickens and chicks, which made me really sad :(
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/chickens.aspx
That's the URL of the site that I visited of PETA's. I learned that male chicks are useless to chicken factories because they don't produce eggs, and they're too small to produce any meat, so every year millions of them are tossed into trash bags and suffocated or thrown (while still alive) into a high speed grinder called a macerator.
It's so saddening :(
As well as this Mr. Reiff
Entry #35: Chickens at Sea
5/1/13
1:38pm
Right now I feel so dedicated to my Wise project. It's currently sunny, not a cloud in the sky, and warm out (rare weather for Ithaca) annnd I'm sitting in the library in the computer lab with a guy complaining how he has no love life, another screaming at a computer game, and 3 very studious silent kids. And all I want to do is go outside and lay in the sun.
But I'm here.
So this is my macroresearch for today! I tried to find something about raising chickens on a boat, and I actually found a girls Nature Diary online. She lives on a yacht called Yacht Mollymawk, and she tried to raise chickens on a boat...unsuccessfully. Her friend gave her live chicks, but two turned out to be roosters, which the family didn't want, and the other one was very agressive. It's a very interesting piece, sort of a story, and I enjoyed reading it.
http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2009/10/chickens/
There's the link to the website I found it on. Safe to say this method of chicken raising, although not as successful, is much easier to read about than yesterday.
On that note: Yesterday my dad and I went to Wegman's to get some chinese food for dinner...and I stood in front of the General Tso's chicken for a while and just stared. You guys probably don't know that I absolutely LOVE General Tso's chicken.....but I couldn't eat it. It's not that I didn't want it, because I wanted it trust me, I just couldn't do it. Its the first time in my life where I just could NOT eat something. Besides beets. I just really cannot eat beets either, but that's a different story. Anyways...I don't know how long it will be but I showed my dad the video and he said we should start getting free range chickens instead of the regular ones in the supermarket. So that's a nice change, but I just don't know when I'll be able to eat chicken again.
So I guess I'm vegetarian? Thanks for that video Mr. Reiff :(
1:38pm
Right now I feel so dedicated to my Wise project. It's currently sunny, not a cloud in the sky, and warm out (rare weather for Ithaca) annnd I'm sitting in the library in the computer lab with a guy complaining how he has no love life, another screaming at a computer game, and 3 very studious silent kids. And all I want to do is go outside and lay in the sun.
But I'm here.
So this is my macroresearch for today! I tried to find something about raising chickens on a boat, and I actually found a girls Nature Diary online. She lives on a yacht called Yacht Mollymawk, and she tried to raise chickens on a boat...unsuccessfully. Her friend gave her live chicks, but two turned out to be roosters, which the family didn't want, and the other one was very agressive. It's a very interesting piece, sort of a story, and I enjoyed reading it.
http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2009/10/chickens/
There's the link to the website I found it on. Safe to say this method of chicken raising, although not as successful, is much easier to read about than yesterday.
On that note: Yesterday my dad and I went to Wegman's to get some chinese food for dinner...and I stood in front of the General Tso's chicken for a while and just stared. You guys probably don't know that I absolutely LOVE General Tso's chicken.....but I couldn't eat it. It's not that I didn't want it, because I wanted it trust me, I just couldn't do it. Its the first time in my life where I just could NOT eat something. Besides beets. I just really cannot eat beets either, but that's a different story. Anyways...I don't know how long it will be but I showed my dad the video and he said we should start getting free range chickens instead of the regular ones in the supermarket. So that's a nice change, but I just don't know when I'll be able to eat chicken again.
So I guess I'm vegetarian? Thanks for that video Mr. Reiff :(
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