What kind of jobs do you have?

[FR8TRAIN]

when I'm not I consider myself retired...

at least for THIS year!

BA, you are way too young to be retired!!! Tired, yes. Hey wait, I'm retired and you're only a few years younger than me.  OK, never mind. I would still love to see some of your work though.

Naw...I'm a person that really thinks it's important to follow through with all the life ideas that cross your mind...you know no regrets...

well, I had made an off the cuff remark that I wanted to retire at 40...well in a way I stuck to it...haven't been working for anyone for the past year and have survived!!!

I'm enjoying our new son (which I think the early years are SOOO important) and I'm able to get off the "merry-go-round" that is all our lives...a good time to take a breath and reflect and see what I want the next 20 years to be like..

don't know and don't know when I'll have to work...

but to my word...I retired when I was 40!!!!....

at least for one full year!

No regrets!

Excellent!!!

[Robmeister]

Financial / Investment / Retirement Planning

http://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?topic=5501.0

[Mike]

I am the manager at the feed store and I took a second job at the hardware store. At home we breed show poultry and goats. We also do about 200 acres in hay total, al of my jobs are ag related.

[Razor X]

I am the manager at the feed store and I took a second job at the hardware store. At home we breed show poultry and goats. We also do about 200 acres in hay total, al of my jobs are ag related.

Poultry is shown?  Is it like a dog show for chickens?

[FR8TRAIN]

I am the manager at the feed store and I took a second job at the hardware store. At home we breed show poultry and goats. We also do about 200 acres in hay total, al of my jobs are ag related.

That's great Mike!

I grew up on an 800 acre crop farm in Mid-Michigan. We also had hogs and some chickens (mainly for eggs). we grew corn, winter wheat, soy beans, kidney beans, buckwheat and oats. Though I do remeber a crop of cucumbers one year.

And yeah X, like a dog show for chickens.

[Razor X]

And yeah X, like a dog show for chickens.

So what does one look for when judging chickens?

[Paul]

Working on my second career and second retirement as a high school teacher of special ed.    I work predominantly with students with behavioral and emotional problems.    Where in Michigan did you grow up fr8train?   Spent every summer of my childhood on uncles farm outside of St. John.

[Mike]

When you show a chicken, it is similar to showing dogs as far as the breed standards. We wash them and pull any off feathers and stick them in a cage to stay clean. When you take them to a show you put them in a cage which is where they stay until the end of the show. When the judge judges a chicken they go by a breed standard from the American Poultry Association Standard of Perfection. Things they judge are the shape of the bird, then color. An example would be the Rhode Island Red chicken. The males are supposed to look like a brick with a short neck, a meduim single comb (upright 'mohawk'), a short well spread tail that is at a 10* angle. They are supposed to have medium length legs with 4 toes on each foot. The female is the same but with a 20* tail angle. The color is supposed to be a dark dark red, almost black is preffered, the tail and hackle (neck feathers) are supposed to be black with a glossy red lacing (edging). The comb, face, wattles, and earlobes are supposed to be bright red. The beak is supposed to be golden yellow with horn color showing on the top. The legs are supposed to be bright yellow, some red shading is permissable.
  That is an easy breed to judge. There are also several disqualifications such as broken or twisted feathers, stubs on the legs, crooked toes, crooked breast bone, white in the earlobes, any comb other than single, any white in the feathers, wrong leg color, there are many others. So, actually showing the chicken is easy, it sits in a cage, its the judging that gets hard. Once you pick a best of sex (cockerel, pullet, cock, hen, old trio, young trio) variety then you pick a best of breed, then a best of class, then the best largefowl, bantam, duck, goose, turkey, and other galliformes. Once they have the best of species then it is best in show. Eventually I want to get my judging lisence, I already have the standard memorized, all that is needed is 200 hours of apprenticeship and a written test and I will be a poultry judge.
 
 That is how you show a chicke, lol.

[Razor X]

That's interesting.  Thanks for the info.  I never knew that there was such a thing as poultry shows.  Not that I ever really thought about it. 

[BaldBen]

Financial / Investment / Retirement Planning

http://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?topic=5501.0

The dude is rich. 
Maybe he can help me attain the same level of financial freedom.
13 week T-Bills are paying a mere 2.089%.
What do you suggest I do with a maturing tender?

[Jer]

13 week T-Bills are paying a mere 2.089%.
What do you suggest I do with a maturing tender?

The good thing about Treasury Bills is that they are an ANCHOR to a diversified fund/portfolio.

The BAD thing about Treasury Bills......

....is that they are an ANCHOR to a diversified fund/portfolio.

Who can tell me what I mean by this?

Ummm, anchors are heavy and weigh you down?

[Mikekoz13]

I design printed circuit boards for the military and aerospace industry.

[Nick912]

Air Force Active duty.

currently a recruiter

[GASlick]

X-Ray Tech and small business owner.

[BlackJamesRackham]

I'm an accountant/consultant