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16.6 lb maitake mushroom harvested this morning with 16 oz water bottle for reference

Been a while since I checked in. Got caught up last night reading. Saw some bad news (sorry t hear) and some good (congrats). My news is that I received my Porters order this morning. 3 Bourbon red, 2 Oregon Gray,2 Pencilled Palm, 2 Red Slate, 2 Silver Dapple, 2 Tiger Bronze (1 is a little...

15 eggs moved to hatcher this morning. I am now thinking those yellow poults I posted pic of are possible royal palm from my tri color palm and sweetgrass hens.

I gave $20 for my pig and cost $70 to butcher

I like head cheese but decided it was to much work to make since I just had 1 head from a 250# pig (hanging weight). Plus the new butcher I went to skinned the pig. I opted for soaking in an apple juice, acv mix over night and smoked it for 8 hours with pecan wood. Was still very tasty.

I have never seen a blood ring like that either. How are you incubating them? on side manually turning or upright in an automatic turner? What day are they on?

I usually just follow along. Here is what I found yesterday. Last Monday I filled a walmart bag

Memphis I have no idea on color. For some reason I did not mark this batch of eggs for what pen they were from. I am just hoping they are not going to be white. If they are then that means my slate tom is carrying a white gene since I have him with a white hen and 2 black hens.

nap time. 4 dried enough to pull from incubator. 6 still drying and a few more pipped in incubator

happy birthday I saw the contest but my broodies are not due until after mothers day

I have a lot of varieties. Toms are red bronze and semi pencilled tri color palm, hens are narrangansett, sweetgrass, red bronze, oregon gray. The barrel may work fine. I have boxes with straw that are tall enough for hen to get into but not tall enough for a tom to climb in on top of her about...

sent. was not a good hatch, but since it was eggs bought at auction I did ok

Turkeys since ducks like to have water to get into.

I would go with 8-10 hens for 2 toms. 1 tom can take care of 10 hens for breeding but 4-5 hens per tom works well. They can go broody and hatch their own poults. I have 9 hens with 2 toms. 5 went broody and are setting on eggs right now. Just be aware when they go broody the toms will take a...

yes overhead lines throw you off