Recent content by MoSo

  1. MoSo

    Mosos Page

    The chicks arrive! The local grange store had them all in one bin, unfortunately, so what I THINK I have here is a Gold Sex-Linked, a Black Sex-Linked, a Silver Wyandotte, an Ameraucana and ... maybe two other Ameraucanas. Who knows? The store didn't and neither did I. Since these are my first...
  2. MoSo

    Hen defeathering self

    Yep, no roosters here either. The Barred Rock is the worst, but I do have an EE that is missing several feathers right at the base of her tail - just down showing, like the picture someone else posted above.
  3. MoSo

    Hen defeathering self

    I have a Naked Butt Barred Rock - she's defeathering herself to line the nest box (her favored nest box is full of her distinctive feathers) and she's 2nd of 5 in the pecking order, so I'm pretty sure it's not the other chickens. I've tried adding material to her favorite nest box (straw...
  4. MoSo

    New Irish pup!!!

    Taking a dog because it's the "last available" is a bad idea, IMO. Not addressing show or conformation issues because I know nothing about them (and don't care to), but it sounds like other people have already been by and picked the dogs they wanted - maybe they were picking for temperament and...
  5. MoSo

    dog and cat nutrition. To believe vets or not

    Both of my dogs are single coat short-hair, and on cheaper foods they both have eczema and other skin/hair problems. What they eat definitely contributes to those skin/hair problems and we've completely fixed one dog and vastly improved the other by switching to better foods with fewer fillers...
  6. MoSo

    Who laid the egg? Do I have a brown laying EE?

    I've 3 EEs and all 3 of them lay brownish eggs (one is sort of pale pink-brown and the other two are just regular brown).
  7. MoSo

    Not my first egg but my first green egg of the bunch

    Alas, all 3 of my EEs lay brown eggs. One of them has yet to lay a hard-shelled egg (but she's only laid about 3 eggs so far).
  8. MoSo

    The Pre and Post Egg Song

    I think your privacy setting are either set to "Friends" or "Friends of friends" so that the world at large can't hear these...
  9. MoSo

    Shade Netting for Chicken Runs

    Can you do edge fold-over and install grommets?
  10. MoSo

    Homemade Ice Cream anyone?

    Quote: yes, otherwise There Will Be Whining. For my strawberry ice cream, I cut up at least a pound of strawberries, keep not quite half back to be added as chunks very near the end and then let the rest soak about 2 days in a bit of sugar and Grand Marnier - then I pour it in, liquid and all....
  11. MoSo

    Homemade Ice Cream anyone?

    I got one of these from my neighbor: http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-ICE-30BC-Indulgence-2-Quart-Automatic/dp/B0006ONQOC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1280072710&sr=8-2 Makes pretty good ice cream, frozen yogurt and sorbets (it's VERY loud). The final texture tends to be either...
  12. MoSo

    Supermarket Rotisserie Chickens

    Gotta say that the grocery store pre-cooked chickens (the ones in the hot case at Kroger-owned, Costco or Safeway stores) that I've ever had are just nasty. Waaaaay overcooked, too much salt and brine and every bite has an artificial aftertaste. My favorite recipe is a modified version of the...
  13. MoSo

    Insulation in roof doesn't seem to help.

    Our coop is built in SIPs (a sandwich made of plywood, 2" foam, interior plywood). This applies to walls, roof and base. It hasn't been terribly hot here (max 91 and very low humidity), but the coop is always a few degrees cooler during the hot part of the day. It cools off at night (down into...
  14. MoSo

    those of you in the middle of nowhere with internet...

    We actually have DSL, but it's so slow (1Mbps down with a seriously throttled up) and unreliable that I'm considering switching. Frustratingly, there is a major fiber cable that runs right through this area, but we can't get access to it. My Verizon cell gets 3 bars here, my iPad gets 3 bars of...
  15. MoSo

    Not so scientific study - honeybees... who has lost them? POLL

    Oregon, the south west corner of the dry side of the Cascades. Bumblebees and sweat bees (I'd never seen them before we moved here, but now we keep a cut bank dug with the tractor for them to dig nests in). Once the shop is done and I plant my orchard trees on the other side of it, I was...
See more
Back
Top Bottom