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It sounds as if your work is finally starting to pay off! Congratulations!

I would really love to add some BCMs to my backyard flock next year. It's quite possible that I will be in a new place next year by setting time, and I will off all my production reds if that's the case. I will then have the freedom to build a flock of what I want, for my own enjoyment...

Refrigeration, especially in a fridge set to food preservation temps (32-35F) definitely impacts viability. I intended to turn the eggs into pasta, so I am rather surprised any were viable with extended deep chilling and no turning and no humidity control. Some of the air cells were already...

I set 24 turkey eggs on August 11, all but 1 had been refrigerated for a couple of days to a few weeks. I ended up with 7 viable. I added a few more during the first week, and of those one has a hole in the air cell end that I sealed. I pulled the clears Sunday. I added two more this week...

My cousin and aunt each have two little dogs. Not sure what they are, but they are little. And they torment my lab mix, circling him and nipping his heels. He always ends up sleeping on top of the picnic table where it's safe. One on one, most larger dogs could easily take down a small dog...

One of my ex-landladies had a Bichon Frise. It was probably a repackaged puppy mill dog, but she spent a fortune on it. Mean as a rattlesnake, soiled in the house, would run out from under the furniture and bite her husband as soon as he dozed off on the couch, and tried to bite me when I'd...

Once you taste Gibson's, you'll know why. But you have to get across the border first, or at least as far as my house.

And I can't get my whisky without crossing the border, so I play nice since they won't mail it to me.

Well, you have a point...but I want to be able to go BACK to Canada, since it's only 40 minutes from home.

Not in Canada...

I'm in. I'll pick up Gibson's after we cross the border. That's my Canadian Whisky of choice.

By our property up north, there is a site shown on maps as "Kirkland". An overgrown road goes in that direction, but it's scarcely wide enough to take a dirt bike down and has deep peat bogs where the road bed is expected to be. Then a rather deep stream crosses it. I hope to be able to...

Here in Michigan, we can go from Hell to Paradise and back in 10 1/2 hours.

I've spent quite a lot of time in Ontario, been a regular visitor to Goderich and Niagara Falls for 30+ years, but never did I know that Hell's Half Acre was actually the name of a place. If I'd have seen it on a map I'd have been compelled to go there...yet a half acre is half the size of my...

With all the craziness on this and the other thread, this is the first time I actually knocked my keyboard off my desk laughing. The visuals on the last day's chatter is just too funny to be real.

Here is an Australian FAQ that answers many questions. http://www.rawlearning.com/rawfaq.html If I had a fenced yard that my dog could access at will, I would probably continue to try as I have a lot of venison, chicken and turkey available as well as beef trim. But you can't just replace...

I don't, but there is a big market for it here. My dog coughs up boneballs when given a raw diet and odorizes the house so much a skunk would be fresh air. So I don't feed him a raw diet. But there is a big market for it here, people advertise on Craigslist ISO freezer burned or surplus or...

We do all out flock replacements of our production layers every 18 months or so. I've had batches of excellent RSL pullets that lay in excess of 90% rate of lay at 7 months. On the other hand, the batch I have now, from a new source much closer, has never topped 50%. I want to cut my losses...

Yes, pullets will sell as meat birds just as well as cockerels. But you'd probably get more for them as backyard layers.