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I love the raw baby okra right off the plant and yes it grows that tall here too. But I itch just thinking about picking the stuff. Love it! And the idea about the plastic barrels is great! Another suggestion: I have one of those round plastic pans that are supposed to go under a water heater...

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Once those fortex pans get a little age on them, mine don't mind water or whatever out of them at all. But at first, they do keep away from them. I guess they do smell at first a make whatever is in them a little "off." But later, even with a green slime coating they just drink away. yuk. Yeah...

:lau Sort of makes you wonder what would eventually have happened if you hadn't walked up, doesn't it?

It does. Mother taught me how Cheap lasts not at all and Quality lasts. Not the way she intended, but she did nonetheless.

Got to frame this.

Lovely! The name Butterfields kind of made me chuckle because I didn't remember you'd named him that and a few weeks ago I started calling my pullets "The Butterbutts"

I have used colored velcro cable ties on juveniles. Works pretty well but only for a few months. After that they get so dirty they all look the same color. But they don't get too tight and for those few months, they're great. Anyhow just throwing that out there as an idea. But because of the...

Whether or not you believe food grade DE really works by scratching the bugs, it's real value is only as a drying agent. Second paragraph: http://cals.arizona.edu/urbanipm/pest_press/2006/september.pdf I was unable to find the study showing this and proving that it doesn't really scratch...

If you do use DE, make SURE it's food grade. But all it does is dry things out. Unless you're in a humid climate. If that's the case, the stuff will soak up moisture from the air and be rendered useless. The kind with the sharp edges is the pool grade stuff. This is very dangerous to use...

There is no withdrawl time for Ivermectin but I tell my egg customers about it anyway and give them the choice. Some are very "organic" minded and I think they should be given the choice to refuse them just after a treatment even if it is considered harmless. Ivermectin is used in Africa to kill...

Ivermectin is really a poor wormer, I've used it and that's why I think this. But if it works for you, then that's good! I too dont' hold much stock with "natural" wormers. Thing is, without a fecal test you don't know if they have worms or not unless they are so horribly overloaded with worms...

LOL and then to cry like a baby when we have to off a favorite. :rolleyes: Like someone I consider a good friend said, "They're chickens! People make sandwiches out of them!" :lau

And a huge OOPS I mean Walt not Bob.

Personally I think the less we hear about Bob and chickensnaturally's differences the better the thread is. Just my 2 cents being a lurker lately. Trying to learn. Thanks for all of your input. Food for thought. The kind I love.

:lau And I know exactly what you mean. No slams, it's just funny.

I dont' know the terminology but I do know that my buff orps have lots of these type of feathers mainly on their undersides.

Almost everyone that uses the toe punches does it right after hatch. Personally I wonder how you get two punches in one webbing. Course I'm new to it and only have done it once but my strain has such a tiny bit of webbing for such a big chick that I doubt it could even get two holes there unless...

What Fred says makes complete sense. I agree. So far as breeds, I think what works best is to get and have a breed you like. Maybe after getting what you think you want you find you don't really care for that breed after all. Try another. The breeds are all different in ways and some are just...

I don't have the slightest idea. But I'm betting money that the answer is.. Then look at the underfluff.