Watching the drama unfold this morning. Clyde is ready for the morning snuggles. Bonnie is giving him the pecking of a lifetime. She does not look like she has another egg.
And now she has gone back into the nest
Please tell me 4 is all there is…
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Ugh, there goes the economy! 
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We used to raise parrots.
Typically they only successfully raise 2 because the strongest always overpower the smaller ones to get fed which leads to the littlest ones never surviving.
We usually would remove the smaller ones & hand rear them, which is a messy & time consuming chore but quite rewarding. Once the naturally reared ones got to a certain size we would remove them as well & hand rear them the rest of the way with their siblings. This makes for extremely tame pets.
Once Bonnie’s been sitting for about 2 weeks you can ‘candle’ the eggs to see if there is a chick growing inside. If you aren’t sure what I’m on about give Google a go. There’s bound to be tons of info. Remove any ‘clear’ eggs, that way there is less chance of a breakage & a fouled* nest. That’s a smell I don’t fondly remember.
*pun not intended. Well… maybe a little 
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Yes. I am familiar with it. I will use my flashlight on my phone and give them an X ray look. She started incubating on Saturday.
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Go Birds!!!
Good multi-purpose line.
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Oh nice 
All going well, three weeks from now you might have the delightful screaming & hissing of baby birds 
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Officers contacted Waymo to report what they called a “glitch,” and in the post, they said they hope reprogramming will deter more illegal moves.
They can’t be serious about that. You don’t discourage traffic offences by filing bug reports, god dammit! Regions with self-driving cars need a procedure to fine the operating company ASAP, or the operators are just going to do whatever they want without any accountability. Are they really so naive that they think this will stay an isolated incident?
What astonishes me is that they can’t just use the same procedures as for speeding tickets, where the fine just gets sent to the address the number plate is registered to. Shouldn’t be that big of a deal… ?
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Yeah, for me as a layperson, it sounds incredible. A country added laws to allow autonomous vehicles, but forgot to include rules about who is responsible for this exception? Really? Even work horses and cattle have owners that are responsible for what the animals do while they are not controlled by a human. The cab company owner can then argue the problem is due to programming, that’s like a court case for selling a shoddy product, like selling cars whose brakes are unreliable. Then the car manufacturer can counter-argue the company didn’t install the latest “don’t embarrass us in front of police” patch.
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The problem seems to be due to rapid developments in self-driving vehicle technology not being sufficiently accounted for in legislation. This is compounded by self-driving vehicle legislation being enacted piecemeal, both at State and Federal levels, often with confusing, or even contradictory, results.
Until self-driving technology settles on some kind of defined standard, it seems likely legislators will struggle to keep up with changes.
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Almost enough for an omlette 
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So far, only 1 egg has blood vessels. But one was just laid yesterday…
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Your birds are multiplying like rabbits! 
Does that happen often/regularly with birds? (E.g. larger pets get neutred or are only kept in single-sex groups.)
Watcha gonna do with the chicks, keep them or find a new home for them? 
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Well, I provided a nesting box. The conditions need to be right. I am sure nothing is 100% though.
After this brood, I will remove the box and any nesting materials. You can place a divider in the cage and seperate them. I will see how it goes.
At least most of these eggs do not appear to be fertilized.
What I do with them depends on how many actually hatch and survive.
Unfortunately, with indoor birds, mating season can come around any time of the year. But too often is not good for the female.
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Smiling Friends is back for a third season and first episode guest stars one of my favourite comedians, Conner O’Malley <3
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After at least a month of singing, dancing and a lot of loud showing off, Clyde is much calmer now. Bonnie is staying mostly in the nesting box. I think we are done with egg-laying and are in the home stretch to the first hatchling.
I am wondering about the duds. Maybe next time she is out of the box I will start making some decisions. The duds need to go.
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Yes.
It will.
All things do.
My dad was born and raised in a town that no longer exists. I can’t even find reference to it. He lived in a house on the main street. People would get off the train and his mother would offer them lemonade. Her first husband got off that train on returning home from WW1 and he fell dead on the platform from a ruptured appendix.
They ran a farm. At the back of the farm land is a Native American mound made by the Caddo. They once had a thriving community there. Then they walked the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.
But the railroad was replaced by a highway. The highway was miles from the town. No jobs. No life. And now, it is just a mound of land running in a straight line where metal and wood once formed a track.
It often floods. Even the ground they walked on has left for parts unknown.
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