First I am not a professional, I just have a fair amount of experience in this area as I was both a High School and College athlete as well as having taken several classes on the subject (required).
You also have to remember that not everyone is capable of obtaining those perfectly defined 6...
Is anyone else planning on attending the Oregon Small Farms Conference in Corvallis Oregon this weekend at OSU? I registered and am hopeful that the weather holds out and I can make it. Several of the seminars, particularly the one cover cropping looks very exciting. I am really looking forward...
Well I got a couple cool things for the holiday The Extraordinary Pigeon, flowers, chocolate covered strawberries, and a couple Porcelain D'Uccle chicks; all in all a very good Anna Howard Shaw day. Im not a big Valentines Day person!!
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She looks great! is she alright on size or is she smaller than the Chantecler standard?
Jim-
Her size is alright. She meets the standard for the breed, although I would like to push her size up a litte towards the heigher end of the standard.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_organism
(GMO) or genetically engineered organism (GEO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. These techniques, generally known as recombinant DNA technology, use DNA molecules...
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That is true! A high corn diet can cause all sorts of issues with cattle. Not only digestive but neurological, take a Beef Production Stocker Operations class and you get to learn all about it. Cattle evolved to digest grass, which is why range cattle produce very little salmonella but...
I find football to be very boring, although I love to both watch and play soccer! I also really enjoy polo (on horses, not in a pool), I played for my college!
We feed our birds Payback which is what our locally owned feed store carries. They always keep Turkey Starter and Grower in stock for us. We also keep free feed cracked corn available for our birds.
Its always a learning experience! We have a livingroom full of clean birds drying off in kennels for a show next weekend right now. I cant wait for this upcoming show and to go to Stevenson!
GE alfalfa has been around for a while, I sort of feel like that ship has sailed at this point. I know of a farm down that road from us that has several hundred acers of Monsanto GMO alfalfa thats atleast a two year old stand. If you are buying non organic alfalfa at your local feed store there...
The rule at our house is if you get caught drinking out of the container you had better finish it then. So dont get caught drinking out of a full one, or you are going to be relieving a high school pep-rally!
We are planning on going. It is only about a 3 hour drive for us, to close to miss. We will be bringing a couple Dominiques, Buff Chanteclers, and Saxony Ducks.