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I have a wild Mallard hen nesting 10 feet from my pool next to a retaining wall that’s covered in Ivy. She hid it well. Since she’s sitting on the eggs for 18-20 hours a day is getting her some food a bad idea? If not what should I get her have a store close by that has all kinds of animal feed, chicken, pig, horse, I’ve never looked for duck food before. My mind says let nature take its course, but my heart says help mamma out so she isn’t all that hungry. But also don’t want to attract unwanted critters to her nest.

It’s the 1st time in 14 years a duck has laid eggs that I’m aware of on my 20 acres. There is a dry creek bed 300 yards from her nest that currently has water in it.

Also, if anyone has a a link for an in ground pool ramp as I’m sure she’ll be having them swim in it before they walk to the creek.

I don’t believe any local pool stores do a safety mesh cover with pre-existing anchors. Who has advice whether it’s drill my own anchors or measuring for current specs? Ease, proper fit ent, measuring, price.

My anchors around the sides are roughly 50”. It’s a roughly 20 X 40 Oval, concrete all around. The pool is 50 years old, no tags on the cover, a previous owner had bought the cover.

I’ve seen mailing in the old one (seems the most likely to be an exact fit, but may be the priciest) saw measure a & b points ( that I need to investigate more on) as well as install new anchors.

It’d be just 1 person, so not sure how easy it’d be to properly drill the new anchor holes into the proper location.

Would pictures, graphic paper with measurements of anchor points, and size of the current cover be enough? In Missouri and looking for a mesh that will drain the rain, sleet, and snow. I think a 90% weave.

Who’s got a great company that they used, or maybe some to stay away from.

Thanks

Since the level 10 announcement of animals came out, would it not make sense to use the gems on the animals now if not on 3.12, or a non green egg for those that are on/above 3.12. Since the animal count has increased once 3.12 is installed? This way for the maxed animals heart gems are returned but the count does increase?

Was just thinking that since it took someone over 1.6 million gems to max out the green egg animals.

Anyone here try the product MyBacon from https://myforestfoods.com/mybacon
I was poking around the subreddit r/vegetarian and stumbled upon it. It’s mainly mushroom based products.
They do list natural flavor as an ingredient, I just emailed them asking for clarification if it’s AlphaGal safe. Bone char, carrageen, etc free. Waiting on a response, will delete if they don’t confirm it’s AlphaGal safe and will add an edit to this if they confirm it’s safe.

The bacon is a little pricey $9.49 at a local grocery store in St Louis. They do have a store locator on their site and believe I read at all Whole Foods.

Nothing hits better than a BLT in the summer. The people on the vegetarian subreddit said it tastes like bacon, but that’s kind of like getting the best directions from someone who just arrived in that city, versus someone whose lived and spent all kinds of time in that city.

Has anyone tried the MyBacon? They do warn to only cook on stove top and flip consistently.

I have a craving for a Whopper, but the allergic reactions that may be possible eating beef isn’t worth the risk.

Has anyone eaten a real whopper then a bite of the impossible whopper? Could you tell the difference?

Is there an aftertaste of the impossible whopper?

I don’t think Im reactive to cross contamination, but does anyone know if they are made in/on a different surface than the beef burgers? Thanks

I believe I’ve had Alpha-gal for years, but never narrowed it down. Every so often I’d get full body itches, sometime mild to medium anaphylaxis and always GI issues. And until simultaneously the GI issues would be relieved would the most often hour long itching would go away immediately.

After Friday nights porterhouse issue did I put 2 and 2 together. Today I researched Dr.’s I. The area and found a group where the head of the department is doing clinical research. Unfortunately she’s booked until the end of September. But a Dr on her team had an appointment open next Monday which I grabbed.

I’ve been thinking of any questions or responses I may need. But if they are doing clinical research I probably just need to focus on what questions they may have.

So far this year I’ve had at least 5 ticks on me, can’t tell you how long at least 13 hours for 1 of them.

I’ve brought up my symptoms to at least 6 different doctors and not one thought of AGS.

I’d have to believe if I do have AGS, going to the group where the head Doc is Doing active research on it is going to be valuable for me, even though I would be a guinea pig, and just hope they aren’t on a double blind study. I’d rather be on an experimental than a 50/50 chance of some placebo.