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  1. WTCH Ho Dog

    Goodbye Old Girl

    When she didn’t greet me this morning, I just knew. She was in her sleep box, but she was not sleeping, not in this world anyway. When I lifted her off the box, there was a single, perfect egg, the first in many months, and the last. Her gift to me in parting. I buried her in a garden bed. She...
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    Winter is almost upon us, you know what that means!

    So, I did pay attention this morning. The first egg into the measuring cup (with a splash of heavy cream, room temperature) was out of the fridge, because I had taken it out of the lime last night and didn’t use it, but it couldn’t go back into the lime. The other 3 were room temperature...
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    Winter is almost upon us, you know what that means!

    I honestly don’t pay attention, because I’m usually using them in baking, so I just smack ‘em and drop them in. I’ll try some for breakfast in the next few days, see how they hold up. We always scramble or beat for omelettes, but I’ll pay attention 😁
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    Winter is almost upon us, you know what that means!

    Just bear in mind - the eggs MUST be unwashed, clean and fresh as possible. Store bought eggs WILL NOT WORK.
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    Winter is almost upon us, you know what that means!

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    Winter is almost upon us, you know what that means!

    It works very well. I mix up 1 ounce Mrs. Wages pickling lime per quart of water in a pitcher, CAREFULLY lay fresh, unwashed, CLEAN eggs in a container, cover completely with lime solution, cap and date. I’ve used eggs from this spring preserved that way in the most exquisite French silk pie for...
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    Saving Money

    Are you near any oyster farms? We pick up free bags of shells from a local oyster farm and run them over with the tractor to crush.
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    Best personality and laying chicken for begginner chicken owners

    Good point about regulations. Oregon does have a requirement for egg handling that many backyard producers ignore. That works, until it doesn’t and then it can get ugly quick. One person complains or gets sick is all it would take. I’m in Benton county, south of Corvallis, and I am aware of one...
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    Bobcat finally crossed the line

    That’s how we dispatch the small predators here as well. Works quick, safe and clean, no danger to anyone even though no one is in the shooting lane. Hope you are successful!
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    Hay: Pros and Cons?

    We feed our cattle and sheep large round bales of mixed bent grass and Timothy/orchard. They average 700++++ pounds, depending on the year. We haul them out of fields where they have sat and been rained on (it’s Oregon, it rains sometimes). IF they are properly baled, very tight, the only mold...
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    Should I build a new run???!!!

    Hi sweetie, and here’s where to start - Craigslist. We built our original tractor with a rolling base that was in perfect shape that we got for $50, then helped tear down an old barn for the wood (basically free), found plenty of hardware and the wire at a farm auction for $15.
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    Is this even possible?!?!

    True. The point was to try to give a better understanding of GMO‘s, and try to show why it’s highly unlikely that any sort of surreptitious lab produced your girl. I’m going with the thought that you know your girls, and even if it turns out that she doesn’t live as long as your other girls...
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    Is this even possible?!?!

    So, actually, all tomatoes that are different from the ‘mother’ tomato are, technically, GMO. There are tomatoes that are modified, termed ‘transgenic’, developed to ship and store longer (the Flavor Savr variety, if I’m not mistaken) - back in 1994. It was a flop, and didn’t go anywhere...
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    Should I get a goose?

    One chicken farmer out here in rural Oregon runs a pair (Tom and hen) of turkeys with her flock, and swears by that.
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    Hunchback Roo

    Figured it was that, thanks. He was weird from day 1, smaller, odd color, and pretty sure the person I got the eggs from just runs a big group together, only into producing eggs and chicks, which is fine. I‘ve been calling him Scar, because he reminds me of the character from “The Lion King”...
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    Hunchback Roo

    In the clutch just hatched in August, there were 6 chicks, 4 pullets and 2 cockerels. Sent one of the Roos home the other night, but the other one….yeah. He’s slated for the pot anyway, as I don’t need a roo, don’t want a roo, and one of my neighbour’s makes awesome chicken tacos, but still...
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    Cockerel? Or Still Too Early?

    It would seem that to me as well. Just hard to tell with the color8ng and current level of fluff:)
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    Cockerel? Or Still Too Early?

    Thanks everyone for weighing in. I am glad that I feel like I got it right, and my neighbor is glad to have one of each to round out her flock:thumbsup
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    Cockerel? Or Still Too Early?

    There are 6 total, but these two are the only ones with combs/wattles, so I’m fairly sure the other 4 are hens. I’ve tried to use hackles and saddle feathers to ID, but I don’t know how you do that with mini velociraptors who are a uniform color and will not cooperate
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    Cockerel? Or Still Too Early?

    Hatched 19 August, 12 eggs under a broody hen. 6 hatched, 4 didn’t and 2 just disappeared. Figure I’ve got 2 boys but open to comments
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