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  1. biddyboo

    calling any one from missouri

    Here is mid-Mo, the bottom dropped out of the thermometer early this am, -7, but the hens in their indoor pen in the barn were doing fine. Yesterday we shoved an 8' area from in front of their outdoor coop which has a pop door underneath that joins the outdoors and the indoor pen. Hens do...
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    Coop in snowstorm 2/11, how's yours holding up?

    After yesterday's daylong blizzard, we woke this morning to bright sun, deep blue skies, and gobs of snow. Luckily today's forecast was wrong, and we're not suffering another day of blizzard winds and blowing snow. Officially we received 17.5 inches, a record single snowfall for this date, but...
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    Quilt Pounce?

    I'm unfamiliar. Will you explain? Thanks, ~G
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    Confused.......how can you afford to feed your chickens

    Another source of feed for your flock comes from your local grocery store or farmers' market. This is especially helpful in winter when your own garden is fallow. Our grocers hail us when we come in if they have "old" produce to share. We'll leave the store with boxes or bags of various...
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    Used coop, OCD cleaning help needed!

    I'm with beekissed and mgw: a little scraping and adding to a new compost heap, and your chickens will be happy as can be. Your coop is roomy, ventilated, enclosed. Add a thick layer of pine bedding chips and bring your girls home. I really believe that anything more appeals to your sense of...
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    Homemade GUMP Bread - best I've found! **New pics added on pg. 5**

    Maisie, how did you make your panetonne? I'd love a good recipe for this since I adore it at holiday time, and probably would ALL the time if it were available:) I'm assuming you used the Gump's recipe? What and how did you add the nuts and fruits? What did you bake it in? How long? Thanks...
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    WTB Cherokee Speckled Butterbeans

    I suggest Baker's Seeds out of Marshfield, Missouri. They have a wide range of heirloom seeds and a gorgeous catalog as well. You'll want even more than your Speckled Butterbeans if you receive the catalog! ~G
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    Eating eggs from your own chickens?

    You have a peach tree, you eat the peaches produced, even though that peach could become another tree if the seed is planted and nurtured. You have a laying hen, you eat the eggs she produces, even though IF fertilized, that egg could hatch into a chick. Understanding and accepting the sources...
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    Butcher Time - Hogs

    Are you a reader of the Foxfire books? I'm thinking there is a chapter in one of those that describes with pictures old time hog butchering. Probably much like you remember from your parents. Just an idea. ~G
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    Grandmothers Table

    Absolutely beautiful story. You gave many of us our smiles for the day:) Enjoy all the new memories you make 'round your Nono's table while you share your stories of this marvelous lady. ~G
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    So...My fears.

    Okay, more true confessions...I am terrified of cicadas, those shiny green hard cased bugeyed creatures that crawl out of the ground in August into trees and screech and scream and...well, you get the picture. When I was a 13-year-old teen carhop at an A&W rootbeer stand, the cicadas would be...
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    Cookie Tin water heater

    Like others here, I'm struck by what I have paid for waterers that have not lasted well and cost dearly, when I could have been feasting on butter cookies and recycling the tins for my hens. I'm shopping for cookies tomorrow and, if we eat them fast enough, I can get new heated waterers ready...
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    Please Post Pictures of Your Creative Nesting Boxes

    We don't have pictures, but in our indoor barn pen, we use blue plastic storage crates for egg boxes. I roughly line these with light cardboard or brown paper sacks to keep pine bedding from falling out the holey frame of the boxes. We have some of ours hung from framing on the barn wall...
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    Hen trilling

    I've heard "trilling" from my silkies when they are settled in snuggy roosting or when they have scratch and BOSS to find in their litter. Trilling is a happy contented sign at our place. ~G
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    Speckledhen!!! Frontal pic of the babe

    Is she a Calfornia White (hybrid)? Ours were white with black "specks" like this one has.
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    Clotheslines - Who has one?

    The last time I had a clothesline was 45 years ago when my first baby was born. I was washing with my mom's old wringer washer, and I still remember bringing frozen diapers, towels, sheets, and shirts into the basement to final dry down there. You'd think I'd hate to imagine line drying again...
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    What are some good ways to lower the cost of having chickens?

    Free ranging allows your hens to browse for seeds, greens, and insects to supplement their diet and lessen the amount of purchased feed you give them. I thought this would only be for warm months, but our hens are out scavenging every day unless we're having a deluge or the ground is covered...
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    How many of you are Fisherman or Fisherwoman?

    Yes, we like fishing. Locally, we love Bennett Springs State Park for trout fishing, both fly and casting. We have been thrilled fly fishing in some of the mountain rivers of Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Idaho. ~G
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    If you sell eggs are the hens paying for themselves?

    Ha! Around here, with all the treats they demand, our hens don't pay for themselves even with good egg production, but they surely do make up for that in their entertainment value:) Fewer trips to town to movies and such, more back porch sittin' and laughing. ~G But in a more serious...
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    Who all is having corn beef and cabbage for New Years Day?

    Blackeyed peas with onions and Country Style ham shank for seasoning went on the cooktop this morning, to simmer all day. Hmmm, the aroma just speaks of New Year's Day. This along with greens will be the tradition in our NY's Day dinner with grilled strip steak, roasted sweet/yukon gold...
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