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truckhole:

My stepmom’s brother just passed away unexpectedly and the family has no money to spare for a funeral service or really for much of anything else.

Please share and donate if you can for his funeral expenses and so that his three daughters can afford school clothes and other necessities!

jenniferrpovey:

maplepancake:

nerdgul:

shenicealisha:

casual-sarcasm:

can we, as a society, start to realize that having a phone does NOT mean you HAVE TO BE accsessible to anyone and everyone at ALL times??

My mom threw a fit at me for not answering my phone while i was at my friends place. Kinda hypocritical too, given how much she complains that “youth these days spend to much time on their phones”

My boss was very CLEARLY not satisfied that i only got back to his text hours after he sent it. My friend didnt speak to me for weeks once bc she thought we were having a FIGHT??? bc i didnt reply to her message on facebook? till the day after she sent it??

i HAVE a phone, that doesnt mean i HAVE TO BE availiable whenever ANYONE decides they want me to be???

what the fuck

can people stop assuming they are entiteled to my attention 24/7??

this is so important. people need their alone time & their space. & it doesn’t matter if you see them active on social media, sometimes people just like to scroll through their timeline without talking to anyone for a while. you really can’t expect to have someone’s attention every second of the day, it’s not realistic at all.

Honestly, this. My family has a codeword set up to indicate ‘this is an emergency you need to answer now’ which we text if someone doesn’t answer a phone call. And, obviously, if someone is doing something with you (like picking you up to drive you to work or something) then they’d expect an answer if they call. But outside of that? Shit can wait.

This is why I still have a landline. That is the number clients get. Period. My cell number is for friends and family only. The one exception is con programming because they may need to be able to track me down during the con.

I only give my personal number out to a few people, precisely because of too much experience with boundary issues like that.

Why do fledgling peeps have those lil white stringy feathers? When do they lose them?

theramseyloft:

mad-hare:

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mad-hare:

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tinysaurus-rex:

theramseyloft:

That’s how all feathers grown in.

Elvis will be our illustration of feather development.

Peeps hatch covered in chick down, which is actually going to end up being the tip of each of their juvenile feathers.

You see the first hints of feathers at coming in at 6 days. Look really closely at his nubby little wing tips.

Pins are highly vascularized tissue wrapped in a protein sheath.

Here he is at day later at 1 week old, and you can more clearly see the yellow down tipping each shaft.

At 10 days, the barbs at the tips of the feather have formed fully.
The blood vessels shrink away, and the sheath at the tip of the shaft starts to dry up in preparation to flake off.

One day later (11 days), you can already see the tips of the feathers revealed as the dead portion of the protein sheath dries up and flakes off.

A day later (12 days), you can see more feather, but the shaft is not fully frown in yet, by any means.

13 days, and the shafts are still growing in, with more of the sheath drying up to be preened off.

14 days.

15 days

16 days.

Here he is at 3 weeks and those same feathers still aren’t all the way in yet, but you can still see some of the down on his wing shield.

It starts getting brittle about now, and in the act of preening off the sheath, the down gets sheared off of the tips of the feathers.

Feathers are almost fully grown in at 4 weeks, and you can see he’s preened off most of the down.

There is not much difference in length between 4 and 5 week old feathers, but the down is fully preened off by now.

Fun fact: not all peeps have down! It’s dependent on breed.

Down length actually depends on the color, rather than the breed.

These most recent COF, for example:

This one will be Blue.

This one is gonna be brown. Dilute colors usually have less down.

This Ash Red from 2015 is even more downy. ^v^

I had a nasty little baldy

Thank you!

I haven’t had any of the right sort of dilutes to throw completely bald peeps.

Recessive yellow?

Yes yellow and red… so even though the babies both were mainly white the fluff all over depends on what colour they are?

Yep!

The more dilutes, the less down, generally speaking, both in pigeons and ringneck doves.