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Quote: And don't forget week 22 when you don't have any eggs, yet. You'll be looking at the chickens thinking, 'If I squeeze them like a tube of toothpaste...." Speaking of which, I have 11 not-quite 18-week-old Red Stars, and got seven eggs from them today. This is the second day this week...

So, does anybody buy feed straight from a mill? Where? And what do they charge? I'm looking to buy a little more in-bulk.

Quote: My wife is already wearing her Packer sweatshirt AND pants. With any hope, she won't have to pull out the cheesehead and face paint.

Hello, Terri O, and welcome to the thread. Quote: I was talking about chickens. I was able to hatch two of our Buff Orp eggs last spring. Maybe next spring when I integrated the Orps and Reds, I might try again. Quote: That's my wife's plan, too. We got married in September 2008...

Happy New Year! Hope you had a Merry Christmas, too. We made the loop around Lake Michigan... To Detroit to visit my family, then to Chicago to visit my wife's. I just got a call from her saying I'm (potentially) a grandpa, again. I bought a dozen Red Stars from MyPetChicken in September...

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Quote: And now you know the source of the term "hen-pecked".

Quote: I just did that today with a six-month-old cockerel. We had eaten most of the meet last weekend, but there was still more than enough to make delicious, dark, silky stock.

I was in St. Louis over the weekend for a nephew's baptism. We came home Monday. On 39, going north through Mad-City a little after 4pm, I saw a reddish Honda Accord (if I dismember correctly) with a BYC bumper sticker. Hi, to whomever it was.

Quote: In case you don't know, or somebody else reading this doesn't know, unless there are no other varieties of apple trees within a mile, growing seeds is quite a gamble. If pollen from one variety gets to the flower of another variety, then the seeds could produce a tree like either...

I planted four apple trees last year in the spring. They haven't produced any fruit, yet, of course, so a friend from church gave me two boxes full of a mix of types from their orchard... Macs, Winesaps, Wolf Rivers, and some unknown yellow. The Wolf are HUGE! I made one batch of sauce...