😁 I heard yesterday that a growing number of internet articles are now AI. That includes many names that are well known in media. Even they have jumped on the AI band wagon to help with their writing. Well you can rest assured that isn't me! 😉. Can you tell?
Full disclosure; I recently started asking Chatgpt some questions. I see the attraction. Chatgpt helped me decide what colors to paint my living room and dining room. It helped me in repairing a vinyl dolls eyes. Which is great, since I'm teaching myself to restore vintage and antique dolls. It helped me fix our sliding glass door. You get my drift. The one thing I haven't used it for is my writing. Good or bad grammar; it's all mine. Not giving that up. I don't care if it might make it sound better. It isn't me. So know when you come here all the thoughts, information, antics, mistakes, etc. are all my own. I will be your contact with reality!
Okay, so now, back to reality:
I finally got around to taking the 12 roosters to the processor. One of those twelve got a last minute stay of execution because the processors wife needed a rooster. She choose from the lighter of the 12. So he now has 10 ladies of his own. I'm happy he got to get a reprieve. I'd reprieve all of them if it wasn't for the fact that I had 15 roosters crowing at 5 a.m. every morning. My neighbors can only take so much. The two roosters we kept were the low man on the totem pole so never put on enough weight. In fact he almost starved. I had to remove him from the roosters and feed him alone in order for him to come back. The second, miraculously was the one who laid his head on my shoulder a couple of weeks ago. He'd been lost in the crowd of identical roosters until I picked him up to load him in the truck. When I went to carry him to the truck, he once again laid his head on my chest. Of all of the roosters, he's the only one that did that. I've named him Swanson, and I think I'll name the second one Sanders.
We learned a lesson with these guys. These were meat birds and we should have been feeding them a high protein 24% feed at the point of hatching. We didn't. We fed them chick feed according to the directions on the chick feed bag. Had we done that one thing they would have been ready for processing weeks ago. Instead we had to wait longer, and therefore pay more in feed over time to get them to a decent weight. We did change feed a few weeks ago, but we've still lost time and money. Now we know. In fact we're switching to the high protein feed for everyone, layers included moving forward. This will help the layers during molting, and can increase egg production. We hope!
My house looks like a tornado struck because of the painting process. I'm hopeful I can get it all together soon. I have to say Chat did a great job with his paint recommendations. I choose from the options he offered, but he gave me some good option. I'm loving the colors so far. I will post the finished pics later.
Thought I'd include a few of my past projects. These were done before I met Chat. The top two are circa 1940's total composition dolls. The last one with the long hair is a 1955 EeGee Susan Stroller doll.
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