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Rep. Thomas Massie just INVENTED something (in his spare time)
twitter ^ | May 26 | Thomas Massie

Posted on 05/26/2023 5:54:17 AM PDT by RandFan

@RepThomasMassie

(1/3) I got back from DC and checked on a few of my farm experiments this am.

Here’s an automated chicken tractor I invented to pasture raise and protect meat chickens while I am away. They look more crowded than they are because they’re bunched up on the sunny side.

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The man is a genius probably wasted in Congress?
1 posted on 05/26/2023 5:54:17 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Too funny. We always say that government workers are, by definition, non-productive when it comes to the economy. Well, here’s one exception!


2 posted on 05/26/2023 5:58:03 AM PDT by BobL
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To: RandFan

good entertainment


3 posted on 05/26/2023 5:59:30 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: RandFan

Does anyone else think there is something odd about the photo showing a supposedly free range hen laying a white egg rather than a brown egg?


4 posted on 05/26/2023 6:03:07 AM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: ptsal

Yet another actor. Guess who voted for h1-b Indians.
H.R. 1044: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2019/h437


5 posted on 05/26/2023 6:10:30 AM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: TonyM

Free ranging hens has nothing to do with egg color. Egg color is determined by breed.


6 posted on 05/26/2023 6:10:54 AM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: RandFan

What fun! Have built my share of Chicken tractors and coops but never an automated one!


7 posted on 05/26/2023 6:11:18 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: TonyM

The photo is not odd, but rather proof of White Supremacy that exists throughout the animal kingdom


8 posted on 05/26/2023 6:12:18 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: TonyM; RandFan; metmom
TonyM :" Does anyone else think there is something odd about the photo
showing a supposedly free range hen laying a white egg rather than a brown egg? "

The color of the egg shell is pretty much determined by the breed, not just what they are eating
Rhode Island Reds will lay brown eggs, and are generally found in New England, and are regionally preferred .
Leghorn breeds will lay only white shelled eggs.
There are other breeds which will lay only blue eggs, which generally are smaller size, again, according to the breed.

9 posted on 05/26/2023 6:16:13 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: TonyM

“Does anyone else think there is something odd about the photo showing a supposedly free range hen laying a white egg rather than a brown egg?”


Nope. My hens are free-range and lay white eggs. Only occasionally have I ever gotten a brown egg from them.


10 posted on 05/26/2023 6:21:39 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: RandFan

I was thinking about building a chicken tractor so they could do stuff when I am at work.

I am concerned they might drive it through my fence or something. They’re pretty dumb.


11 posted on 05/26/2023 6:26:18 AM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: RandFan

So, it’s a weed eater and fertilizer spreader combo!................


12 posted on 05/26/2023 6:30:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: TonyM

No..............


13 posted on 05/26/2023 6:31:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: TonyM

The Ameraucana chicken breed lays blue eggs.................


14 posted on 05/26/2023 6:32:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: TonyM

15 posted on 05/26/2023 6:35:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: RandFan

Sounds like Jefferson.


16 posted on 05/26/2023 8:32:10 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: Red Badger

No other Easter decorations than dyeing them?


17 posted on 05/26/2023 8:59:55 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: 17th Miss Regt

The hen decorated them herself................


18 posted on 05/26/2023 9:05:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: RandFan

Genius! I want one! (Is that Electric fence around the bottom? That would teach the foxes that got my last chickens,).


19 posted on 05/26/2023 12:15:24 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: RandFan
Chicken tractor? It's just a half-open coop that gets dragged along the ground..?

Also:

20 posted on 05/28/2023 11:45:43 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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