Also the goats got new grass. Yay happy goats!<\/p>
I should definitely go do some weeding before it gets even hotter but ugh it's really hot already...<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117021539060291430","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-01:objectType=thread:nonce=a67d78c7f3300d2e","notice_info":{"local_id":"12979854","source":"ActivityPub","repeat_of":"12978937"}},"published":"2026-08-02T00:05:02+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"title":"steter repeated a notice by sundogplanets","verb":"share","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.stevesworld.co\/users\/steter\/statuses\/117022981549832903\/activity"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-original-tmp20240112143125.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-48-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-24-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"16889"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","note":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media."}},"content":"
Chickies are still cute! And a couple more hatched!<\/p>
Pretty terrible hatch rate, though better than last time. Looking like it'll be something like 12 out of 45 rather than 7 out of 60 like the first round. Could be that fertility is just lower right now than in the spring (it's HOT and the day length is getting shorter). Or maybe I need to bump the temperature slightly lower next time.<\/p>
Who knows. Astrophysics is easy compared to biology. Too many variables!<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117022700193018649","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117022700193018649","objectType":"note","content":"
Chickies are still cute! And a couple more hatched!<\/p>
Pretty terrible hatch rate, though better than last time. Looking like it'll be something like 12 out of 45 rather than 7 out of 60 like the first round. Could be that fertility is just lower right now than in the spring (it's HOT and the day length is getting shorter). Or maybe I need to bump the temperature slightly lower next time.<\/p>
Who knows. Astrophysics is easy compared to biology. Too many variables!<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117022700193018649","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117021539060291430","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117021539060291430"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-01:objectType=thread:nonce=a67d78c7f3300d2e","notice_info":{"local_id":"12979853","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-02T00:05:02+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117022700193018649"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.stevesworld.co\/users\/steter","displayName":"Steve's Place","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-original-tmp20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-96-20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-48-20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-24-20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"182810"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-96-20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"ASCAP member. Once was in R&D at Apple & Compaq. One NASA launch. Designed stuff. Made things go. Made things stop. Collected data. Sysadmin. Musician. Lead guitarist. Songwriter. Oregonian again after many stops.Profile picture: Head of a man in a hazmat suit from an album.Header picture: Colors of Ukraine.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.stevesworld.co\/@steter","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"steter","displayName":"Steve's Place","note":"ASCAP member. Once was in R&D at Apple & Compaq. One NASA launch. Designed stuff. Made things go. Made things stop. Collected data. Sysadmin. Musician. Lead guitarist. Songwriter. Oregonian again after many stops.Profile picture: Head of a man in a hazmat suit from an album.Header picture: Colors of Ukraine."}},"content":"RT @steter Also the goats got new grass. Yay happy goats!I should definitely go do some weeding before it gets even hotter but ugh it's really hot already...","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.stevesworld.co\/users\/steter\/statuses\/117021750452890573\/activity","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117021518398019666","objectType":"note","content":"
9 chicks! Looks like a few more eggs may still hatch.<\/p>
At first I put them in with the bigger, 3 week old chicks. But it looked like there was going to be some bullying. <\/p>
So the bigger chicks have now moved in with the mama hen and her babies. Very chill mama, and we watched carefully for a while. She definitely knows they are not her chicks, and doesn't want them closer to her, but the space they are in is large and it doesn't look like she's going to be mean to them.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117021518398019666","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-01:objectType=thread:nonce=a67d78c7f3300d2e","notice_info":{"local_id":"12978938","source":"ActivityPub","repeat_of":"12978934"}},"published":"2026-08-01T18:50:37+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"title":"steter repeated a notice by sundogplanets","verb":"share","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.stevesworld.co\/users\/steter\/statuses\/117021750452890573\/activity"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-original-tmp20240112143125.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-48-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-24-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"16889"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","note":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media."}},"content":"
Also the goats got new grass. Yay happy goats!<\/p>
I should definitely go do some weeding before it gets even hotter but ugh it's really hot already...<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117021539060291430","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117021539060291430","objectType":"note","content":"
Also the goats got new grass. Yay happy goats!<\/p>
I should definitely go do some weeding before it gets even hotter but ugh it's really hot already...<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117021539060291430","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117021518398019666","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117021518398019666"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-01:objectType=thread:nonce=a67d78c7f3300d2e","notice_info":{"local_id":"12978937","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-01T18:50:37+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117021539060291430"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-original-tmp20240112143125.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-48-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-24-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"16889"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","note":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media."}},"content":"
When I peeked into the incubator earlier, there were 6 hatched chicks and several more pipped eggs! Hooray! I'll take them out of the incubator and have some cute floofball pictures to share later today. <\/p>
Chicks can easily go without eating or drinking for ~48 hours after hatching (that's why you can mail-order chicks), and I don't want to open the incubator and drop the humidity while other eggs are hatching. But I'm also very impatient...<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117020984169519583","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117020984169519583","objectType":"note","content":"
When I peeked into the incubator earlier, there were 6 hatched chicks and several more pipped eggs! Hooray! I'll take them out of the incubator and have some cute floofball pictures to share later today. <\/p>
Chicks can easily go without eating or drinking for ~48 hours after hatching (that's why you can mail-order chicks), and I don't want to open the incubator and drop the humidity while other eggs are hatching. But I'm also very impatient...<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117020984169519583","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117017879261596403","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117017879261596403"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-01:objectType=thread:nonce=a67d78c7f3300d2e","notice_info":{"local_id":"12978933","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-01T18:50:13+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117020984169519583"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-original-tmp20240112143125.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-48-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-24-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"16889"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","note":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media."}},"content":"
2 chicks have now hatched! Hopefully a few more will hatch overnight.<\/p>
And happy first tomato day!! Just barely squeaked that in before the end of July.<\/p>
And happy... apocalyptic sky day....?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117017879261596403","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117017879261596403","objectType":"note","content":"
2 chicks have now hatched! Hopefully a few more will hatch overnight.<\/p>
And happy first tomato day!! Just barely squeaked that in before the end of July.<\/p>
And happy... apocalyptic sky day....?<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117017879261596403","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117017097508843406","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117017097508843406"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-01:objectType=thread:nonce=a67d78c7f3300d2e","notice_info":{"local_id":"12978932","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-01T18:50:13+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117017879261596403"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-original-tmp20240112143125.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-48-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-24-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"16889"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","note":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media."}},"content":"
One chick has hatched in the second batch of eggs. Hm. Not sure if there is a bunch more coming, or if this incubator is not as good as I hoped, or if this is a terrible time of year for hatching eggs (the 3rd option is almost certainly true... I usually only hatch eggs in the spring. But I didn't get the fancy incubator until summer, so... oh well.)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117017097508843406","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117017097508843406","objectType":"note","content":"
One chick has hatched in the second batch of eggs. Hm. Not sure if there is a bunch more coming, or if this incubator is not as good as I hoped, or if this is a terrible time of year for hatching eggs (the 3rd option is almost certainly true... I usually only hatch eggs in the spring. But I didn't get the fancy incubator until summer, so... oh well.)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117017097508843406","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-01:objectType=thread:nonce=a67d78c7f3300d2e","notice_info":{"local_id":"12978931","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-01T18:50:13+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117017097508843406"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-original-tmp20240112143125.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-48-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-24-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"16889"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/16889-96-20240112143200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"sundogplanets","displayName":"Prof. Sam Lawler","note":"Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She\/her. Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media."}},"content":"
9 chicks! Looks like a few more eggs may still hatch.<\/p>
At first I put them in with the bigger, 3 week old chicks. But it looked like there was going to be some bullying. <\/p>
So the bigger chicks have now moved in with the mama hen and her babies. Very chill mama, and we watched carefully for a while. She definitely knows they are not her chicks, and doesn't want them closer to her, but the space they are in is large and it doesn't look like she's going to be mean to them.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117021518398019666","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117021518398019666","objectType":"note","content":"
9 chicks! Looks like a few more eggs may still hatch.<\/p>
At first I put them in with the bigger, 3 week old chicks. But it looked like there was going to be some bullying. <\/p>
So the bigger chicks have now moved in with the mama hen and her babies. Very chill mama, and we watched carefully for a while. She definitely knows they are not her chicks, and doesn't want them closer to her, but the space they are in is large and it doesn't look like she's going to be mean to them.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117021518398019666","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/sundogplanets\/statuses\/117020984169519583","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117020984169519583"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-01:objectType=thread:nonce=a67d78c7f3300d2e","notice_info":{"local_id":"12978934","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-08-01T18:50:12+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sundogplanets\/117021518398019666"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6592803","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}