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However bad your day is going -- It could be worse.

My wife just texted me from her hospital job that she is helping prepare a guy for surgery who is having a Penectomy -- and yes, that is exactly what it sounds like. No details beyond that. Not sure I want to know...
 
However bad your day is going -- It could be worse.

My wife just texted me from her hospital job that she is helping prepare a guy for surgery who is having a Penectomy -- and yes, that is exactly what it sounds like. No details beyond that. Not sure I want to kWnow...
With all the trans crap, confused wacho thinking going on these days.........
Wouldn't surprise me, but I have no idea what a Penectomy is. Like you don't want to know.
 
These guys eat carrion of the side of a road.......they don't eat fresh meat.....they roost on tall power poles a lot......they sit there in the morning and hold their wings up to warm up........once they start flying they pretty much stay on wing all day......sometimes they will roost over a carcass once they have their belly full.......this is a turkey vulture in the picture........black buzzards have reportedly been killing young calves......I guess they see them laying and start eating........
I've observed over 200 vulture in a single committee. Most folks don't realize that the Turkey vultures forage by smell. They can see other vultures several miles distant. Their primary foraging strategy is to spread out as a scattered flock sniffing their way across the land scape. When they smell carrion they circle the odor. Seeing this other animals are then attracted. That is significant for several reasons. A committee is more efficient locating the food. Our testing showed that they could locate a buried carcass buried as deep as 10 inches and dig it up. Additionally the TV has a relatively weak beak leaving the nutrition of larger animals with tough hides unavailable. The circling also serves to attract more powerful scavengers capable of opening the carcass allowing access. In western rangelands, it might be Coyotes, bears or golden eagles. Avian scavengers will circle thousands of feet over the foraging vultures in dense jungle environs. The King vulture depends on the this to locate food. A case of interspecific cooperation.
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The Red Tail and the Red shouldered hawks are hell around here........I know they were after my ducks and rabbits until I caged them back up........they don't pose any problems for my pigeons like the Cooper hawk and Falcon does.........they are vicious......I have watched falcons kill for practice..........
Me too, that practice is important for falcon survival. An error at 200 mph likely to result in fatality. Mortality among raptor fledglings approach 80%. Accipiters (being true hawks) on the other hand are more efficient hunters and content as fearless hunters not afraid of a fight. Just as hazardous. Still not as vicious as weasels.
 
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However bad your day is going -- It could be worse.

My wife just texted me from her hospital job that she is helping prepare a guy for surgery who is having a Penectomy -- and yes, that is exactly what it sounds like. No details beyond that. Not sure I want to know...

Self-inflicted stupid if it means what I think it means...

But, I guess if the your hand offends you, cut it off mentality is in play in this case. (Of course I do not know the reasons or the cause, just typing from face-value..)
 
I've observed over 200 vulture in a single committee. Most folks don't realize that the Turkey vultures forage by smell. They can see other vultures several miles distant. Their primary foraging strategy is to spread out as a scattered flock sniffing their way across the land scape. When they smell carrion they circle the odor. Seeing this other animals are then attracted. That was significant for several reasons. A committee is more efficient locating the food. Our testing showed that they could locate a buried carcass buried as deep as 10 inches and dig it up. Additionally the TV has a relatively week beak leaving the nutrition of larger animals with tough hides unavailable. The circling also serves to attract more powerful scavengers capable of opening the carcass allowing access. In western rangelands, it might be Coyotes, bears or golden eagles. Avian scavenger will circle thousands of feet over the foraging vultures dense jungle environs. The King vulture depends on the this to locate food. A case of interspecific cooperation.
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Me too, that practice is important for falcon survival. An error at 200 mph likely to result in fatality. Mortality amoung most rapters approaches 805 of first year birs. There is aForaging food the Accipiters (true hawks) on the other hand are more efficient hunter and content as fearless hunters and not afraid of a fight.
From what I have seen, where ever they roost, everything dies underneath it!!!!
 
My FIL told me that when he was a child that...........sugar was a rare item......it was too expensive.....refined sugar was replaced by home made molasses and honey............so when they did get a dope on special occasion....... they would be bouncing off of the walls.........like they was on dope........
Tapping maple trees was popular in KY during WW2 due to lack of refined sugar.
 
That was a likely scenario, Colonel, but in this case the poor guy would have rather held onto his male equipment but didn't have the choice.
A rather famous local case when I lived in the Atlanta area (I imagine it's happened elsewhere too), a doctor made a rather large mistake when he was circumcising a young male baby. They had to, or maybe the parents wanted it done seeing no good choice, basically do a sex change operation. As I recall, could be wrong, but I think they kept the name of the family out of the news.
 
However bad your day is going -- It could be worse.

My wife just texted me from her hospital job that she is helping prepare a guy for surgery who is having a Penectomy -- and yes, that is exactly what it sounds like. No details beyond that. Not sure I want to know...

Covid got it? Lol... if that was a symptom, they'd not only have a vaccine but a cure 10 mos ago.

He may have gotten in a fight with a penal colony. Never know. Don't wanna know.
 
I've observed over 200 vulture in a single committee. Most folks don't realize that the Turkey vultures forage by smell. They can see other vultures several miles distant. Their primary foraging strategy is to spread out as a scattered flock sniffing their way across the land scape. When they smell carrion they circle the odor. Seeing this other animals are then attracted. That is significant for several reasons. A committee is more efficient locating the food. Our testing showed that they could locate a buried carcass buried as deep as 10 inches and dig it up. Additionally the TV has a relatively weak beak leaving the nutrition of larger animals with tough hides unavailable. The circling also serves to attract more powerful scavengers capable of opening the carcass allowing access. In western rangelands, it might be Coyotes, bears or golden eagles. Avian scavengers will circle thousands of feet over the foraging vultures in dense jungle environs. The King vulture depends on the this to locate food. A case of interspecific cooperation.
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Me too, that practice is important for falcon survival. An error at 200 mph likely to result in fatality. Mortality among raptor fledglings approach 80%. Accipiters (being true hawks) on the other hand are more efficient hunters and content as fearless hunters not afraid of a fight. Just as hazardous. Still not as vicious as weasels.
That's some fascinating stuff! Thank you for enlightening me on this. Always wondered how they worked things and why they did what they did.
 
If you find yourself with nothing to do, or, if you find yourself in need of some blues, then check out this deal on Youtube. It's called Whiskey Blues.


Really miss it now, but it's been gone for decades. Y'all ever catch a gig at Blues on Broadway in Lexington? Saw some great acts in that place. No idea where to go hear good blues now and nearby
 
Been looking to plant some good maples for this very thing. Anyone know much about varieties of maple trees and where best to plant, soil and water requirements?
Definitely contact UK Department of Horticulture regarding sugar maple cultivation. They've assisted several farmers in eastern KY repurpose land into maple syrup production.
 
D,I wish you would pray for this guy, he's 51, busted his right shoulder, broke his right collar bone, broke 3 ribs on the right side, punctured a lung and they had to stitch up some bad cuts, happened on a gravel road, so you know they had to dig the gravel out too!!!
o_O

Prayers sent.
 
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