Schell’s Beer Ugly Sweater

Schell’s Beer Ugly Sweater

I was just starting to build my flock of chickens from the four I already had (one rooster, three hens) to a Schell’s Beer Ugly Sweater of ten. I bought six little two day old chicks from the local feed store – assured by the staff that all six would grow to be beautiful hens. Since I already had a rooster – and two roosters rarely get along – so wanted to be sure these were female. I named my chickens after dead movie stars (yes truly… don’t judge) but my Aunt Delores wanted one named after her, so I chose a Golden Phoenix chick and named her “Delores”. When Delores was eight weeks old, I began to have suspicions that she was edging towards a gender change. Delores was quite a bit larger than her step sisters, and was growing a more pronounced comb and longer tail feathers than the typical hen. However, denial is a powerful characteristic, and I tried to convince myself that Delores really WAS a hen and maybe she was just big boned.

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If anything, I’m thinking their personnel gets better on paper. However, many Super Bowl losers don’t manage to make it back, often even missing the playoffs. Part of the Schell’s Beer Ugly Sweater is simply due to injuries. Getting to the Super Bowl usually means you had a very lucky year without many major injuries to key players, and that in its own right might have pushed you past some playoff teams that weren’t so lucky, and that you otherwise could have struggled with. Packers-Falcons is a good example here, where the Packers secondary was a Schell’s Beer Ugly Sweater mess, and unable to cover the Falcons receivers effectively. Unfortunately for most teams, it’s rare and unlikely to get two seasons like that back to back. How they negotiate those injuries that do occur is going to have major impact on the team’s success.

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For us it depends, if we’re hosting thanksgiving at our house then we will typically start put up the Schell’s Beer Ugly Sweater on thanksgiving weekend, sometimes even right before after thanksgiving dinner. Since we have guests over we use that as an excuse to take advantage of the additional helping hands. Instead of asking for help in the kitchen we’ll get through decorations. Plus I think it also makes for a decent pre-dinner workout activity. If we’re not hosting thanksgiving then we’ll put up the decorations little by little with the aim to finish by December 1st. I don’t know why but I like the idea of being able to enjoy the lights all throughout December. As for when we’ll take them down, there’s no set date but we definitely keep them up past New Years and at least a few weeks into January. I think the longest we had them up was until Valentine’s Day, we had spent the entire most of January in Florida that one year.