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theramseyloft · 4 years

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Pigeon rescue being shut down for “Keeping nuisance animals” needs help finding homes for their birds.

From Tutu.Pigeon’s instagram;

https://www.instagram.com/tutu.pigeon/

Hi everyone, I don't even know how to write this post and my heart aches saying this. Our next door neighbors complained about the availability in our backyard and the Garfield NJ health department came to shut us down.

We have a week to re-home our beautiful rescues and I've been working night and day to find them new homes.

I've been summoned to court for the following violations: 1. Keeping of animals considered a public nuisance, 2. Having a coop that's too close to my home and the neighbor (needs to be 25 feet or more away), and 3. Having a wild bird feeder that is open.

Apparently, we needed a permit to have the pigeons and the city is not allowing me to remedy the situation and apply for a permit.

We do not have enough room in the yard to move the aviary (it has to be taken down) and as renters, our landlord would not be happy about all the pigeons in the home. We are cornered, and it is another reminder that people really do not understand or appreciate pigeons.

How can animals inside their cage bother anyone? We are heartbroken and will do whatever possible to keep Tutu as a pet.

We have been blessed to have people step up to help us, and we are arranging to drive all over the United States to find the birds placement in sanctuaries.

If you would like to support us in any way, please donate to our fundraiser (link in bio) so we can make the necessary trips to Vermont, Oklahoma, and other neighboring states. It will be multiple days of driving but our beautiful rescues deserve another chance.

Thank you all for the love you've shown us and we will continue to run this page as best we can. I think there is much work to be done to fix people's perception about pigeons and so so many innocent animals that need saving.

Our disabled pigeons have been granted temporary asylum upstate NY while they find forever homes. As I write this, Beaker, Doll, Minion, Slate, Ally, Dove, and Farble (our disabled pigeons) are on their way to a new life.

10/3/20

Hi everyone, I wanted to update you on our situation. We are still actively re-homing our beautiful birds. Yesterday, 7 of our disabled/sick pigeons (Beaker, Ally, Slate, Dove, Minion, Farble, Doll) were transported upstate NY to a safe haven while we find permanent placement. The wonderful Sue from @themiafoundation is taking care of "The Jersey Seven" and set them up in their own beautiful room where they are comfortable (pic 9 and video 10). You probably already know of Sue, her pigeon and puppy combo have won the hearts of many! (picture 8). Yesterday were able to find a great home for our beautiful one-eyed Grover with @pidgey.fred. Grover immediately went on her new mommy's shoulder and I believe she's probably still sitting there 😆 We have lined up more permanent homes for our pigeons but still have 16 pigeons that need placement. We are planning our multi-state trip and need your support to make this happen. There are people interested in adopting our birds in California, Washington, Florida and Oklahoma. If you can support us, please donate to our link in our Bio. We appreciate everyone's help and support thus far. You have been so very kind to us. The GoFundMe link is new, specifically for re-homing, so I can share updates on there about our trip. If we can make this happen, you will be able to see pics and videos of our destinations and the Pigeon's new homes. ♥️

10/5/20

Today we say goodbye to our aviary, and the so many beautiful moments we have captured. I'm blessed to have crossed paths with these beautiful creatures and been able to save them. I will keep fighting to secure them a good life, we will not give up on them. Our babies have struggled enough in their early lives and I can only hope they will all find loving homes. Thank you for your donations, it means the world to us. Please continue to support us on our GoFundMe (link in Bio). We are also blessed to have a friend who is taking the aviary and our babies until we can adopt everyone out. This buys us some time. You have all been so generous with us. Even though at moments it doesn't feel like it- the world does have good people and when we stick together we achieve the impossible.

10/15/20

Hi everyone, just wanted to update you all on the aviary takedown and this entire situation. We have successfully relocated the aviary to our friend's home a few hours away. It took us two days of taking it apart, getting some help with the lifting and then reassembling it at it's new location. It was a stressful time for the birds as they spent most of this time in their boxes and carriers. Their new safe haven is quiet and beautiful with lots of other animals such as chicken and ducks roaming in a private yard. If you recall, this is the place we rehomed Sophie (renamed Quinn) when Tutu couldn't get along with him. The last pics and videos show the aviary that Quinn lives in with friends. Our birds are being kept at this location while we secure safe homes for them. Our friend is very kind and is making updates to the aviary to make it more spacious, since the birds are a bit cramped. Here, we had an indoor room that they used as well. In the video you can see that we installed a smaller cage to the end of the aviary which the birds seem to be enjoying. With regards to adoptions, we have secured a handful of new homes and even found a great person in CA willing to adopt most of our babies. Our special needs birds such as Beaker remain upstate and have vet appointments coming up. Dove (the beautiful white wedding release bird) has been successfully rehomed after recovering from her sickness. This week we are planning to rehome in NC and GA and are driving down from NJ. Next week we will rehome in CT. Finally, we still need to raise enough money to take the week long trip to CA.

10/16/20

Hi friends, our babies are being pampered in their foster home. We've installed an extra flight cage to make them more comfortable since they've been a bit cramped in the aviary without their indoor room. Look how everyone is settling in. We estimate that it will be a few weeks before we can make our CA trip where almost all of our remaining birds are being rehomed. We still have 6 birds upstate recovering and not yet ready for adoption. Recently Dove (the wedding release pigeon) was adopted out! For us to make the Cali trip, we need to reserve an RV since it's roughly 5 days of driving each way. It will be quite impossible to check into a hotel with our birds. 😅 We will also need the room for several cages and to be able to clean the cages and keep everyone happy and fed. We need to purchase more cages and pads. The rental costs $200 a day, plus gas/tolls. We have donations saved but estimate we need another $1,700 to make this trip happen. Please help us by donating or sharing our GoFundMe campaign (link in Bio).

10/17/20

Rehoming Trip Day 1: We are driving South to North Carolina today and rehoming some of our turtles in a beautiful pond setup (we've rescued 13 turtles through the years). @tani.turtle. We will then continue down to South Carolina where we should arrive by midnight. We are driving 12 hour days this weekend. Tomorrow we plan to rehome another turtle and also our pigeons in Georgia before heading back up to SC again for the night. Day 3 will consist of driving back home. In the meantime, we have tons of cameras set up so we can keep an eye on everyone at home and so we can talk to Tutu through the monitor. Thank you all for chipping in and help us fund our trip down South. We plan to make a couple trips to rehome more locally in Connecticut and keep saving up for our Cali trip which should conclude our rehoming. From there we will continue to place our special needs birds as they complete their recovery.

We have quarantine spaces open here at The Ramsey Loft, if needed, but they seem to have fosters covered and, understandably, they would prefer their remaining pigeons to go straight to their adoptive homes.

If any one is looking to adopt a pigeon, please contact them via Facebook messenger (https://m.me/yazmin.feliz) instagram page (@tutu.pigeon), or text 646-705-8047

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easyfoodnetwork · 4 years

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How Coronavirus Could Change the Way You Get Your Favorite Craft Beer

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Competition is fierce for cans, labels, and customers as breweries rush to package their beer for home drinking

It’s been a rough couple of months for craft beer. Like the coffee and wine industries, the entire beer ecosystem was upended as the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered breweries, closed bars, and scared people away from beer shops. “March was kind of a bloodbath, financially speaking,” says Josh Stylman, co-founder of Threes Brewing in Brooklyn. “If you had asked me two months ago, I would have said I don’t know if our company is going to make it.” And that’s coming from a well-known, award-winning brewery in a huge market.

The pandemic has forced some breweries to close, and while COVID-19 has certainly pummeled the beer business, recent data from the Brewers Association shows many brewers are optimistic about their chances of survival. Operations that remained open the last few months found new ways to serve customers; others are now reopening alongside bars in some states.

Still, the crisis has forced breweries to completely reimagine operations. While bars and taprooms were forced to close, demand for beer remained through the darkest hours of lockdowns (plenty of socially distanced people still want to drink at home). Instead, the major disruptions were in distribution. According to Bart Watson of the Brewers Association, before the pandemic, 10 percent of an average American brewery’s output went into kegs, and that beer would go on to be sold on draft at bars, restaurants, and breweries’ own taprooms. For craft brewers, that number was much higher, nearly 40 percent, and they especially relied on in-house taprooms and brewpubs.

The rest went into off-premise sales like cans and bottles. But as on-premise sales dried up completely, brewers had to repackage their beer any way they could. “As soon as we closed, we decided any drop of liquid that can go in a can needs to go in a can,” Stylman says. While Threes had already been canning its beer for a few years, the shift required recalculating the brewery’s entire operation, costing time and money. “We just ordered a million different kinds of boxes to find the best one. We never did this before. We’re inventing a supply chain from nothing.”

“We never did this before. We’re inventing a supply chain from nothing.”

Some breweries that were forced to pivot to repacking use growlers or crowlers, relatively affordable entries into packaging for many small breweries. Crowler machines or other manual can seamers only cost a few thousand dollars, but they’re labor intensive, they’re usually filled and sold directly from taprooms (not at retail), and their DIY packaging doesn’t provide the best shelf life. Other brewers that never canned before have partnered with mobile canning companies like Codi Manufacturing or Mobile Canning, some of which have provided discounts or donated labor to help the struggling industry keep afloat. A few brewers, unable to redirect their entire stock into packages, had to dump beer that couldn’t be moved.

Pivoting may be more difficult depending on how a brewery’s business was spread across sales channels before the pandemic. Brewmaster Ben Edmunds of Breakside Brewery in Portland, Oregon, for instance, says pre-COVID-19, the brewery put 70 percent of its beer in kegs. Shifting to packaging has “softened the blow, but hasn’t allowed us to grow back to where we were,” he says. “We’re operating at about 50 percent.”

Even as alarmist headlines declare Americans are drinking shocking amounts of alcohol at home, for many breweries, off-premise sales can’t make up for the loss of on-premise sales. Part of the trouble is that once the beer is in cans, breweries still have to find ways to get their products into drinkers’ hands.

Greater placement in mainstream grocery chains may seem like an attractive way to reach customers, but it’s an uphill battle. Chains typically refresh their lineups twice a year, in spring and fall. “Even though the total volume of packaged beer is up, the market for packaged beer has actually tightened. When there are such good sales going through grocery stores, they’re loath to add new items. They don’t need to,” Edmunds explains. “If you’re in there and you have those chain placements, things are going gangbuster right now. But if you don’t, it’s hard to crack into it.”

Luckily for small operations like Denver’s Lady Justice Brewing, a wave of localism has risen to support community brewers that may not have the ability (or interest) to access widespread distribution. Kate Power, Betsy Lay, and Jen Cuesta used a fundraiser to launch the one-barrel brewery as a philanthropic project in 2016. It was one of, if not the first to introduce membership beer sales to Colorado through its Community-Supported Beer (CSB) program. Customers paid ahead of time to provide funds to brew the beer, and all profits went to local organizations benefiting women and girls.

The trio grew into a new taproom in March, but when Denver locked down, they revived the CSB concept and immediately saw record demand. “People feel good when they buy our beer because they know it’s going to help their own communities. It’s a way to help people stay connected,” Lay says. “The neighborhood has really been investing in us.”

Beer delivery has also seen a huge jump, with 30.5 percent more breweries saying they are delivering beer locally, 3.8 percent newly partnering with third-party delivery platforms, and 4.8 percent adding direct-to-consumer shipping, according to the Brewers Association. Loosened alcohol delivery laws have allowed brewers to list products on services like Doordash and UberEats. Stylman, who has seen how restaurants have struggled with those platforms, says Threes launched direct-to-consumer delivery in-house in order to avoid fees, rehire furloughed taproom workers, and offer subscriptions for cases of its flagship beers.

Online beer retailer Tavour has also seen a bump in business. Once mostly a platform for craft geeks to drop big money on rare brews, lately Tavour has welcomed more casual customers who typically shop at brick-and-mortar retail. The online market usually adds seven new breweries a month, but 47 have joined since March. Megan Birch, director of marketing for Tavour, says about half of those entirely self-distributed before partnering with the service, and a handful only sold through their own taprooms. Big names like Mikkeller and cult brands like Parish Brewing have listed beers that may have never appeared on such a site under ordinary circumstances. “You’re definitely seeing breweries that never wanted to work with us because they never really needed to,” Birch says.

Even as brewers adapt to the new normal, new challenges appear all the time. In April, brewers worried about a shortage of CO2, a byproduct of ethanol production used to carbonate beer. Demand for ethanol, which is mixed with gasoline, dropped during the pandemic, and plants halted production. While plummeting ethanol sales didn’t end up harming breweries as much as expected, the episode illustrated how supply remains extremely vulnerable to global developments. More recently, with nearly every brewery transitioning to packaged beer, more pressure has fallen on supply chains for raw materials. “All of the glass suppliers, all of the label suppliers, all of the can suppliers in particular have seen increased lead time,” Edmunds says.

Looking ahead, as the nation officially experiences a recession, Edmunds expects financially cautious drinkers may dampen the explosive growth the craft industry has seen over the last decade, both in beer prices and product availability. “Five years ago the $16 six-pack was the outlier. Now it’s routine to see beers go for $20 or even $25 for a four-pack,” he says. “I don’t think we’ll see beer prices fall like crazy for your average six-pack, but more for that super-premium tier.” He also expects the market to curb “SKUmaggedon,” the proliferation of brands and niche releases. Both at retail and bars, Edmunds says, owners may eschew the constant churn of new products for surefire sellers. “Wholesalers but also retailers have wanted to have a reset on that, to go back to a more controlled method for getting beer out,” he adds.

The pandemic has also united breweries across regions to call for a reset on another aspect of distribution: local regulations that have limited or complicated alcohol delivery. The pandemic has inspired legislators in some areas to relax those rules temporarily, but changes could become permanent if brewers get their way.

“The temporary orders and the demonstrated ability of state regulators to enforce them have … shown that beer to go can be done responsibly,” Brewers Association president and CEO Bob Pease says. Consumer caution could choke on-premise sales for years to come; Pease emphasizes that responsible, flexible distribution will help save countless businesses and jobs. Long-term policy changes could provide a silver lining to the economic crisis.

The COVID-19 pandemic may last months or years, but it has also permanently changed how some brewers do business. “I was talking to another brewer who said, this is great, we’re selling stuff on our website, but we can’t wait until it goes back to the way things were. That is decidedly not our approach,” Stylman says. Digital sales and delivery will remain “connective tissue” for the brewery long into recovery.

That may be wise, as the pandemic could affect consumer demand for a long time to come. “There are a lot of people who have really gotten used to staying at home,” Birch says, “and when everything does open up, they’re not really going to want to go out. It’s so much easier to just get beer delivered to their house.”

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almostafantasia · 7 years

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apartment wars

Clexa Week Day 1 - Enemies To Lovers

Summary: When Lexa ends up snatching the apartment that Clarke wants from right under her nose, she becomes Clarke’s sworn archenemy. Not that Lexa is actually aware of this, but Clarke’s decided that things have to be that way. The last thing that Clarke expects is the series of events that lead up to her being asked to move into that very same apartment months later.

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The news that Clarke gets upon arrival at the real estate office, while probably not as disastrously tragic as she makes it out to be, feels like she’s just had her heart ripped out from her chest by the clawed hand of Satan himself.

“We lost the apartment,” Clarke announces to Raven mournfully, as if Raven hadn’t been standing right beside her when the real estate agent gave them the bad news. “Some other bitch signed it earlier today.”

Raven’s eyes flicker up briefly, giving Clarke a look, then her gaze returns to the phone in her hands, her thumbs dancing with effortless ease across the screen as she taps out a message.

“There are other apartments,” Raven replies indifferently.

“But this was my dream apartment,” whines Clarke.

“Half an hour ago you were telling me how you weren’t sure if we should take it or not,” Raven scoffs, finally slipping her phone back into the pocket of her jacket and leaning on the polished marble counter of the reception desk with her elbows.

“It was within our budget and only a little bit shitty,” Clarke reminds her, while her insides make an unsettling dip at the realisation that they’re going to have to start viewing some more apartments as they hunt for the perfect place for when they graduate collage in just a few weeks’ time.

The receptionist stares wide-eyed at their polar opposite reactions to the news that the two bedroom apartment they’ve had their eye on has been snatched from their grasp by another person.

“We’ll find somewhere else,” Raven tells Clarke. “Somewhere even less shitty and maybe only a tiny bit out of our budget.”

“I can find some information about other apartments similar to that one if you like,” suggests the receptionist.

As Raven nods and enters a discussion with the woman behind the desk, Clarke’s attention is drawn to the previously unnoticed girl standing to her left, a thick pile of official looking paperwork on the counter in front of her and a pen in her hand.

“I’m sorry you didn’t get the apartment,” she says to Clarke, lifting a hand up to tuck her sweeping brown hair behind her ear so that it tumbles over her shoulder instead of obstructing the side of her face.

“Wait, who are you?” Clarke frowns across at her.

“I’m ‘some other bitch’,” she tells Clarke, an amused expression on her face as she parrots Clarke’s earlier words right back at her. “But you can call me Lexa.”

Clarke only lets herself blush for a couple of seconds at the realisation that Lexa has been eavesdropping on her complaints about the loss of the apartment, her frustration quickly taking over to dispel all other emotions as she becomes aware of just how small of a margin they missed out on this apartment.

“You’re the one who stole our apartment,” she gasps, a bitter contempt starting to bubble up deep inside her, the tiniest hint of jealousy at what this girl has that Clarke so desperately wants.

“Stole?” scoffs Lexa. She gestures to the paperwork in her hand and continues, “I think it’s more accurate to say that I simply signed the contract first.”

Scowling, Clarke reaches across to one of the paper specifications that Raven has been given by the receptionist and says, “Are you sure you can’t be persuaded to change your mind? Look, there’s plenty of other places to live. How about this two-bed in…” Clarke pauses and frowns as she glances down at the paper in the hand, skimming the information about that particular apartment. “No, you probably shouldn’t live in that part of town. No wonder the rent on this place is so cheap.”

“Hey,” says Lexa, reaching out and resting one of her hands over Clarke’s in a gesture that would perhaps be comforting, had Clarke not decided thirty seconds ago that this girl is her new mortal enemy. “I’m genuinely sorry for getting to this apartment first. But it really is the most cost-effective option with the best transport links to get into the city centre for work.”

“I know,” Clarke pouts like a small child who has just been denied a new toy. “That’s why we wanted it.”

“Come on, Clarke,” says Raven, grabbing Clarke by the hand not holding the newly acquired information papers. “We didn’t get the apartment. There are plenty of others here for us to consider.”

As she leaves the real estate office, Clarke calls back over her shoulder at the girl who has shattered all of her apartment-hunting dreams.

“Thanks for ruining my weekend!”

They do find another apartment, but only after two and a half months of searching and a few weeks of crashing on Octavia’s living room floor after the lease runs out on their old student accommodation. And as much as Clarke is happy that they’ve finally found somewhere to live (her life as a new graduate isn’t a complete disaster now that she actually has her own bed), she can’t help but compare it to the apartment that so nearly became hers.

Because the rent on the new place is just a little bit higher, the bedrooms just a little bit smaller, the journey into the city centre just that little bit longer. And the difference might only be small, but it all adds up to a lot of resentment.

A lot of resentment directed at the girl that Clarke bumps into in the hallway outside Octavia and Lincoln’s apartment.

“Oh my god, it’s you.”

Lexa startles when she hears Clarke’s exclamation that is full of contempt, and there are a good five or so seconds of her just frowning at Clarke, until the recognition washes over her face when she realises who she’s bumped into.

“Oh, hello! You’re the one whose weekend I ruined a while back, right?”

Her forehead knitting into a tight frown, Clarke’s scowl only intensifies with the light tone of Lexa’s voice, as if it is all nothing more than a joke to her.

“You’re the one who stole my apartment,” Clarke grumbles bitterly.

“I signed the contract first,” comes Lexa’s response, her answer reminiscent of their first conversation back in the real estate office a couple of months earlier. “What are you doing in this building?”

“My old college roommate lives here,” Clarke says, gesturing over her shoulder with her thumb at Octavia’s front door just a few feet behind her. “One of the many reasons I wanted to move into this building was the proximity to her boyfriend’s impressive collection of liquor.”

Lexa smiles softly in amusement, then reaches out to lightly touch Clarke’s forearm with her hand.

“Speaking of alcohol, we’re throwing a party this weekend,” she tells Clarke. “A celebration of finally unpacking the last box. You should come.”

Clarke’s eyes widen and the unexpected invitation from a girl that she doesn’t even know, and she stumbles over her answer, “What? Is this so you can, like, rub it in my face that you got the apartment that I wanted?”

“No!” Lexa is quick to protest. “No, I didn’t mean it like that! I was just trying to be friendly. An olive branch. My sister is the one hosting the party. She’s invited a whole load of her friends because she wants the party to be “banging”.” Lexa accompanies this last word with air quotes and a roll of her eyes, then continues, “Her words, not mine. There’s going to be a lot of people there and I don’t know many of them but the invitation is open to you too. Bring your old roommate and her boyfriend, and the girl you were with when we met. The more the merrier.”

Clarke takes a couple of steps back towards Octavia’s front door.

“I’ll think about it.”

“I wouldn’t have put a couch there.”

Clarke yelps in pain as the knuckles of Raven’s right fist collide with her upper arm with far more force than necessary.

“This is weird enough without you commenting on their placement of furniture,” Raven complains, her voice barely audible over the thumping music that reverberates off every wall. “Why did we get invited to this party again? We don’t even know them.”

“A peace offering after stealing our apartment,” Clarke shrugs, staring around at the room of complete strangers crammed in the small living space.

“I think it was just a gesture, I’m not sure we were actually supposed to accept the invitation.”

Clarke spots a familiar flash of curly brunette hair in the crowd and lets her eyes linger on Lexa, who is talking to two other girls over by the far wall with a drink in her hand.

“She’s my nemesis, Raven,” Clarke says, her forehead furrowing into a frown. “I’m here to find out more about her so that I know how to take her out.”

“Or maybe you want to take her out,” Raven grins mischievously, nudging Clarke with her elbow, “because you’ve got a huge ladyboner for her. Speaking of ladyboners, I’m going to introduce myself to the hottie by the fridge. Don’t do anything stupid while I’m gone.”

And with that, Raven gently pushes her way through the crowds of people in the direction of the kitchen, leaving Clarke alone and feeling rather stupid about the fact that she decided to come to this party at all.

That is, until company arrives in the form of the only other person that Clarke knows in this room, her sworn archenemy, and Clarke doesn’t know whether to be relieved that she’s no longer alone, or frustrated that Lexa is here to rub her new living situation into Clarke’s face.

“You made it,” says Lexa, seeming genuinely surprised at Clarke’s presence, though she wears a smile on her face as she speaks.

“I did,” nods Clarke. “And I’m not at all impressed with the layout.” Cocking her head to the side, Clarke gestures to the other side of the room and asks, “Why would you put the couch against that wall?”

“It’s temporary. We wanted more space in the middle of the room for the party. The couch normally goes over there.”

With the hand not curled around a bottle of beer, Lexa gestures with her hand to show where the couch usually sits.

“Oh,” Clarke says a little stupidly. “Yeah. That’s where I’d put it too.”

Smirking, Lexa crosses her legs at the ankles as she leans against the wall just to Clarke’s left and mockingly asks, “Do you want a tour of the place? Maybe you can critique the furniture in the other rooms too.”

“Nah I’m good.”

“Then can I at least get you a drink?”

Lexa’s offer is genuine this time, eyes wide in anticipation of Clarke’s answer.

“Sure,” Clarke nods. Pointing at the bottle in Lexa’s hand, she elaborates, “Beer is good.”

Lexa is gone for just a minute, effortlessly navigating her way through the room to where a giant bucket of ice houses a selection of bottles and cans. She returns with one in her empty hand, an identical one to the one that she is drinking herself, and passes it across to Clarke who accept the chilled bottle with a mumble of thanks.

“So, Clarke,” Lexa starts, her eyes bright with intrigue. “Tell me something about yourself so that I have more to go on than the fact that you hold insane grudges for things that aren’t even that big of a deal.”

“Not that big of a deal?” Clarke parrots back with a snort. “I …”

Upon seeing the little smirk of amusement written on Lexa’s face, Clarke realises that she’s being mocked and trails off. She takes a long swig of the beer in her hand and then folds her arms across her chest indignantly

“Fine. I’m twenty-two, I’ve just graduated college, and I’m an artist. Which, by the way, means that I am both unemployed and unemployable.”

“Impressive,” Lexa teases.

“What about you?” Clarke bounces the question back to the girl in front of her, adding drily, “Besides your passion for destroying dreams.”

“Let’s think. I’m Lexa, though you already know that, I’m twenty-three, I live here with my sister – she’s the one that your friend is shamelessly flirting with over there. And besides snatching apartments, my passions include scented candles, yoga, and eating sushi.”

“Yoga?” Clarke screws her face up in disgust. “I should have known you were one of those.”

“What’s the supposed to mean?” Lexa exclaims, half-laughing and half confused.

“One of those people who does yoga and drinks green smoothies and goes for morning runs,” Clarke elaborates. “Tell me I’m not wrong about any of those assumptions.”

“You’ve got me!” Lexa shrugs, a little smile crossing her face as she raises the hand not holding her drink in a mock surrender. She looks up at Clarke, a mischievous glint flashing across her green eyes, then says, “Oh, and one other thing - I’ve got a bit of a thing for pretty blondes who get this cute little crinkle in their forehead when they get mad about the stupidest of things. See you later, Clarke.”

She takes a couple of steps backward with a smirk on her face, then turns away to walk into the crowd, leaving Clarke with a dumfounded expression on her face as she tries to wrap her brain around Lexa’s parting words.

And when it hits her, it properly hits her, like she’s been standing on a railway track and a cargo train has just collided into her at high speed.

“Oh, shit.”

Clarke realises that maybe, despite it all, she has a little bit of a thing for infuriating brunettes who steal apartments and do yoga in their free time.

“What was it you were saying earlier about how celebrating every month anniversary is pointless?”

Lexa’s voice is a little husky but there’s a hint of satisfaction in her gloat. She crawls up Clarke’s body, wiping her mouth on the back of her hand and pressing kisses up the planes of Clarke’s stomach and across the curves of her breasts until she can settle her head against Clarke’s shoulder, one of her legs slung lazily over Clarke’s hips.

It might have been six months since Lexa asked her out, but Clarke doesn’t think she’s ever going to tire of the things that Lexa does with her mouth. Each time they have sex feels like the first time all over again, except now Lexa knows her well enough to know just how to frustrate her to the point where she’s begging for release. And each time Lexa indulges her, the reward is just that little bit sweeter when it courses through her body and leaves her a writhing mess on the mattress.

Or on the couch.

Or up against the wall next to the front door of the apartment that Clarke is still adamant that Lexa stole from her.

“I take it back, I take it all back,” Clarke says breathlessly, her chest rising and falling rapidly, even under Lexa’s weight, as she tries to catch her breath back. Nudging Lexa with her hand, she adds suggestively, “Hey, tomorrow is our six months and one day anniversary, can we celebrate that in the same way?”

Clarke feels Lexa’s mouth turn up into a smile against the skin of her shoulder as she replies, “Sure.”

They fall into a momentary silence, basking in the afterglow that can only come from consecutive orgasms. Clarke’s fingers trace delicate patterns across Lexa’s tattooed back, and she breathes in the scent of Lexa’s shampoo – a mixed berry flavour that Clarke loves to borrow whenever she’s over at Lexa’s for the sole reason that it reminds her of her girlfriend whenever she gets a waft of it from her own hair later in the day.

“I’ve got something serious to say,” Lexa mumbles, lifting her head and propping herself up on one elbow.

The view is tantalising, her body still half draped over Clarke’s but now in a way so that the arch of her back emphasises the curve of her butt. It takes all of Clarke’s willpower to let Lexa continue instead of rolling her onto her back and taking her again.

“So this all happened because I signed the contract on this apartment before you did,” Lexa says.

“You stole my apartment,” Clarke teases, deliberately letting her fingers brush across the sensitive spot on Lexa’s side that she just knows drives her girlfriend mad. “When are you just going to admit that?”

“Never,” Lexa grins back. “Because I want it to become our apartment.”

The comment is so off-handed, so completely out of the blue that Clarke almost misses it completely. And before Clarke has time to fully understand the intention behind Lexa’s words herself, Lexa launches into an elaborate monologue to explain what she means.

“Yes, this place is a little crappy,” Lexa gestures at the bedroom around them. “And you’ve got some commissions coming in and I’m about to be promoted so pretty soon we’ll be able to afford the rent on somewhere a little less crappy. But on account of today being six months since you agreed to be my girlfriend and eight months and twenty four days – yes, I counted – since you threw a tantrum in a real estate office while I signed the papers for this place, I want to ask you to move in with me.” Lexa pauses, her green eyes wide and looking up at Clarke with absolute honesty, before she concludes, “To move in here, for a little bit, and then to somewhere better that we can call ours.”

Tilting her head to the side and trying her best not to combust from pure delight at Lexa’s offer, Clarke teases, “Moving in together at six months? Are we not moving a little fast?”

“I’m a lesbian, Clarke,” Lexa grins. “You have no idea how much self-restraint it has taken to wait this long. I nearly rented a U-Haul to take us home from the real estate office.”

“Idiot,” Clarke shakes her head, even as she leans in for a kiss to meet Lexa’s smiling lips with her own. “Of course I’ll move in with you.”

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The faithful chicken is a common choice for preppers and homesteaders. Once the bird bug bites, talk regularly turns to breeding and natural rearing, the dual frustrations that can be a broody bird, and the back-and-forth debate about whether we’ve “bred out broodiness”.

The genetics we choose – and allow – is important. Our husbandry practices, common wants from birds, and changing society has affected poultry’s traits, some of which would have immediately gotten birds a glass-jar coop even in pretty recent decades.

One of those now-inherited traits is clutch abandonment by the fake-broody bird. There’s also an age factor that affects our livestock’s brood-rearing reputations, none so much as chickens. In other cases, we set our birds up for failure with their brooder boxes and our keeper practices.

Understanding the genetic selection and dynamics at play will help increase our successes as we move into breeding our birds.

Standard reminder: I don’t actually like chickens (but do fully appreciate their well-earned place in backyard and big-spread production). I have no problem whatsoever buying that particular species butcher-paper blankets for trips to Polar Camp. However, they are living creatures that deserve respectful treatment in life and death. Know what you’re getting into with multiple-source research, start small-scale to avoid overpopulations problems if you can’t actual kill and butcher something you raised, and be prepared to put ill and injured animals out of their misery rather than prolonging their suffering for hours, days, and weeks.

Broodiness

A broody hen is one that’s ready to sit a nest. Some hens want nothing else from an early age, but mostly it’s mature hens and typically the desire peaks and ebbs by breed, season and individual.

Breeding-In Traits

We’ve repeatedly selected even dual-purpose homestead and long-storied heritage breeds for a focus on laying, not necessarily raising young. It makes sense if you think about it, backyards to big operations, now and all the way back in history.

“A chicken in every pot” was a promise of prosperity, not sustenance. We eat way, way more chicken meat in the last 5-6 decades than ever before. Worldwide, it’s always been eggs that make our chickens such effective, efficient livestock.

For most of modern history, keepers big and small have only needed a small fraction of hens to raise chicks for some meat-grow-outs and adding young-blood laying rates to the flock.

We don’t want all of them to stubbornly insist on raising a family.

While that hen raises her clutch, we’re losing her productivity for a month – up to a quarter or third of the year if she’s inclined to keep nannying for 12+ weeks. Hens also regularly lose some condition while they’re sitting and-or throughout the span they’re raising a clutch. Recovery time adds to lost egg production.

Mail-order chicks and affordable incubators and brooders means we don’t even need a hen to raise new birds now. That makes a broody-prone hen even less desirable for many.

Skewing the Bell Curve

Most hens don’t successfully go broody until they’re 3+ years old. The best mothers tend to be secure, upper-echelon birds hitting 4-6 years old.

However, due to laying drop-offs of 10-15% per year, many keepers *ahem* transition their laying hens after the second or third production year. So the average age of most birds out there is pretty young. That skews some of the general expectations, like broodiness.

Even allowing for altered averages, there’s still a hefty percentage of hens that betray just how much we’ve affected broodiness in our chickens.

Fakers & Schitzo Sitters – 20-50%

If you have 10-20 hens 3+ years old, at some point 2-5 if not 8-12 of them are probably going to cost you either eggs or aggravation with fake-outs or schitzo-sitting.

That’s a pretty huge failure rate. We wouldn’t accept it for ammo, canning-jar lids, batteries, milking teats/animals, emails, garden plants, or tires. Our great-greats and grandparents wouldn’t have accepted it from hens. But we just shrug it off now, far too commonly.

So what are they, exactly?

Faking is when a hen starts accruing her eggs and then breaks off, abandoning the partial clutch. It’s also when, after she’s counted and is pleased with her number, after she starts to actively sit without further laying, she abandons the clutch partway through incubation.

She’s signaled that she’s broody, but she’s not really.

(Days Five and Twelve are way better than the Steel-Tent-bound hen that gets to Day Seventeen-Eighteen before changing her mind about motherhood.)

Maybe she just isn’t actually ready (first 1-2 times, a young hen 9-months to 2-3 years old) and will come around in time. Maybe she had good cause. Mostly, though, she’s faking, and we’re losing days/weeks of her production and possibly that clutch because of it.

*Older birds aren’t making an egg every 24-36 hours like when they were young. Aging hens also take “weekends/holidays” (temporary breaks in laying), longer and more frequently as they go. That’s not faking or schitzo. That’s just bodily function slowing, just like us. Make sure she’s not being wrongfully accused, but also crunch her feed-waste-destruction versus her value – including potential broodiness.

Especially for smaller flocks, fakers need to be discounted when they show the broody cues. If she’s young, sure, give it 1-2 years and let her try again if you like, but if it’s a 4-6 y/o, persistent, and insistent … the Big Steel Tent isn’t unreasonable.

Then there’s the hen that seems to be sitting her clutch with dedication, but somewhere in there, she’s heading off for normal daily activities, nest ignored for hours or even days at a time.

*Sitting hens need food and water readily available; they usually can’t forage enough and maintain the clutch.

If she’s pushing stubborn broody behavior for 5-14 days, takes her vacay, then pulls the broody card again, and again, or defends her box but leaves it for hours or the day, Schitzo Sitter needs a glass-jar coop.

Fakers and schitzo’s regularly aren’t worth it in normal “today” soft times.

Unless you’re mid-crisis, down to just a few hens, and need every egg and chance to make more birds that you can get (weighed against providing litter and feed/forage for repeat freeloaders), fakers and schitzos are even less worth the aggravations *later*.

We for-sure don’t want to keep their eggs for the next generation, further perpetuating that failure rate.

Due Diligence

There’s some chance a hen had a good reason to abandon her partial or full clutch. Once she’s sitting in a box 24/7, a canny hen might have started seeing something (activity, a previously unnoticed drip, drafts) that she didn’t while she was popping in and out, and is cutting her losses early. Usually, it’s one of four things if she’s not a faker.

1 – Too much human interest and handling. We have to get in there some, but we do not need to get in there even daily once she’s sitting.

*Even if she’s going to be a surrogate, don’t bug her daily. Match her laying cycle when adding eggs. We can maintain interaction by delivering goodies (while the layers are elsewhere or distracted – chickens are smart and vicious).

2- Insufficient laying boxes or a popular/preferred laying box, with other hens forcing in to lay.

*It’s the very rare hen that can manage a full incubation cycle on an active community laying box; she’ll almost 100% need a nursery/brooding pen for the chicks if she does.

3 – Even with sufficient boxes, a more-dominant broody-prone bird may be harassing her, trying to take the clutch for herself.

4 – By the time you have 10-20 hens, chances are good that one of them is a broomstick-riding … uhm, Character. The Character doesn’t even want the clutch or box. She’s just being a Character.

In my world, it’s the problem bird that visits lovely Camp Kettle.

If a bird is abandoning partial or full clutches, she’s usually a faker. However, relocating and immediately resuming laying with broody cues intact is also a warning sign about box activity/placements, wanna-mothers, or Characters, so we have to do some watching.

Breed Expectations

We haven’t completely bred broodiness out of chickens, but we have selected for less of it, especially from high-production breeds.

From backyards to big operations, we also aren’t removing some of the birds/traits from the genepool. Allowing behaviors that wouldn’t have been tolerated in a Renaissance through 1950s farmhouse also changes the capability of our birds, with dedicated, reliable broodiness high on the list of affected traits.

Average age may skew a breed’s broodiness rating, but use general breed reviews to set your expectations. It’ll get you pretty close.

If you want hens laying and sitting lots of nests to raise out for meat, “high/yes, very broody prone” works.

If you’re mostly after the eggs and maybe a replacement clutch or two every so often, “high” is likely to be a problem.

“High” usually means one way or another, you’ll fight broodiness often. Especially if descriptions mention “persistence”, possibly often enough to impact the eggs-per-week or eggs-per-year numbers listed somewhere nearby that rating (stressors reduce laying).

“High” also tends to mean you’re going to be dealing with cranky hens less willing to quietly let you take their eggs, more likely to find places other than the box to lay, and more likely to get huffy with each other.

“Low/not prone” is not always the answer, though. It’s really not the answer if you’re only going to have one breed and <3-5 keeper hens per person/dog.

“Low” means you’re going to have fewer birds willing and able, they’ll be willing less often, and you’ll usually be further into the old, slow-laying ages before hens truly go broody.

Mostly, if you’re mostly looking for eggs but you do want hens to periodically raise a clutch or serve as a surrogate, aim for the middle-road “occasional”-average listings.

Many sources only give a yes-no broodiness rating, so read the reviews and consider contacting the suppliers to ask for recommendations.

There are a ton of aspects that go into breeding and flocks, some of which you can find here http://www.theprepperjournal.com/2016/11/22/dont-know-can-hurt-us-livestock-edition/.

Make sure reliable broodiness is one of the factors that gets weighed when picking breeds, as well as deciding which hens to keep or kettle.

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Mihai_Andritoiu/Shutterstock Competition is fierce for cans, labels, and customers as breweries rush to package their beer for home drinking It’s been a rough couple of months for craft beer. Like the coffee and wine industries, the entire beer ecosystem was upended as the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered breweries, closed bars, and scared people away from beer shops. “March was kind of a bloodbath, financially speaking,” says Josh Stylman, co-founder of Threes Brewing in Brooklyn. “If you had asked me two months ago, I would have said I don’t know if our company is going to make it.” And that’s coming from a well-known, award-winning brewery in a huge market. The pandemic has forced some breweries to close, and while COVID-19 has certainly pummeled the beer business, recent data from the Brewers Association shows many brewers are optimistic about their chances of survival. 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It’s a way to help people stay connected,” Lay says. “The neighborhood has really been investing in us.” Beer delivery has also seen a huge jump, with 30.5 percent more breweries saying they are delivering beer locally, 3.8 percent newly partnering with third-party delivery platforms, and 4.8 percent adding direct-to-consumer shipping, according to the Brewers Association. Loosened alcohol delivery laws have allowed brewers to list products on services like Doordash and UberEats. Stylman, who has seen how restaurants have struggled with those platforms, says Threes launched direct-to-consumer delivery in-house in order to avoid fees, rehire furloughed taproom workers, and offer subscriptions for cases of its flagship beers. Online beer retailer Tavour has also seen a bump in business. Once mostly a platform for craft geeks to drop big money on rare brews, lately Tavour has welcomed more casual customers who typically shop at brick-and-mortar retail. The online market usually adds seven new breweries a month, but 47 have joined since March. Megan Birch, director of marketing for Tavour, says about half of those entirely self-distributed before partnering with the service, and a handful only sold through their own taprooms. Big names like Mikkeller and cult brands like Parish Brewing have listed beers that may have never appeared on such a site under ordinary circumstances. “You’re definitely seeing breweries that never wanted to work with us because they never really needed to,” Birch says. Even as brewers adapt to the new normal, new challenges appear all the time. In April, brewers worried about a shortage of CO2, a byproduct of ethanol production used to carbonate beer. Demand for ethanol, which is mixed with gasoline, dropped during the pandemic, and plants halted production. While plummeting ethanol sales didn’t end up harming breweries as much as expected, the episode illustrated how supply remains extremely vulnerable to global developments. More recently, with nearly every brewery transitioning to packaged beer, more pressure has fallen on supply chains for raw materials. “All of the glass suppliers, all of the label suppliers, all of the can suppliers in particular have seen increased lead time,” Edmunds says. Looking ahead, as the nation officially experiences a recession, Edmunds expects financially cautious drinkers may dampen the explosive growth the craft industry has seen over the last decade, both in beer prices and product availability. “Five years ago the $16 six-pack was the outlier. Now it’s routine to see beers go for $20 or even $25 for a four-pack,” he says. “I don’t think we’ll see beer prices fall like crazy for your average six-pack, but more for that super-premium tier.” He also expects the market to curb “SKUmaggedon,” the proliferation of brands and niche releases. Both at retail and bars, Edmunds says, owners may eschew the constant churn of new products for surefire sellers. “Wholesalers but also retailers have wanted to have a reset on that, to go back to a more controlled method for getting beer out,” he adds. The pandemic has also united breweries across regions to call for a reset on another aspect of distribution: local regulations that have limited or complicated alcohol delivery. The pandemic has inspired legislators in some areas to relax those rules temporarily, but changes could become permanent if brewers get their way. “The temporary orders and the demonstrated ability of state regulators to enforce them have … shown that beer to go can be done responsibly,” Brewers Association president and CEO Bob Pease says. Consumer caution could choke on-premise sales for years to come; Pease emphasizes that responsible, flexible distribution will help save countless businesses and jobs. Long-term policy changes could provide a silver lining to the economic crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic may last months or years, but it has also permanently changed how some brewers do business. “I was talking to another brewer who said, this is great, we’re selling stuff on our website, but we can’t wait until it goes back to the way things were. That is decidedly not our approach,” Stylman says. Digital sales and delivery will remain “connective tissue” for the brewery long into recovery. That may be wise, as the pandemic could affect consumer demand for a long time to come. “There are a lot of people who have really gotten used to staying at home,” Birch says, “and when everything does open up, they’re not really going to want to go out. It’s so much easier to just get beer delivered to their house.” from Eater - All https://ift.tt/2N5sxDb

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