➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[RUNuts]

Really? You actually need justification? I am enjoying my homemade wine and my only justification is that it is good..

I've been tempted. Raising kids and high stress jobs limited a lot of my "hobbies". Both have almost resolved.

Tell me about the wine. What is your specialty? Easier than beer? I've heard about the same. Better in glass? or plastic works? Future in-law brews and has offered lessons. His is tasty.

 

[R2elk]

I've been tempted. Raising kids and high stress jobs limited a lot of my "hobbies". Both have almost resolved.

Tell me about the wine. What is your specialty? Easier than beer? I've heard about the same. Better in glass? or plastic works? Future in-law brews and has offered lessons. His is tasty.

No specialty here. I used to make wine years ago but too many hours working didn't leave much ambition for side ventures.

This year I got an urge to do something with all the American plums that were ripe. Some went into various mixtures of jams and were wonderful. One batch went into a batch of plum wine with one peach included. It was started in a 6 1/2 gallon plastic bucket and decanted into a 3 gallon glass bottle after one week. It was good at the one week transfer but was really good at the 9 week bottling. I have not tried it since bottling.

Menards had a sale on Ocean Spray CranApple which I started with a White Wine yeast. I bottled it after one month and have recently started drinking it. I really like it.

I have another batch of CranApple that was started with a Champagne yeast. It is really slow acting and at 2 weeks only had 3.5% alcohol. I am planning on checking it again at 8 weeks. It may need to go 6 months before bottling. When using the Champagne yeast it is recommended to leave the bottled wine for a year before drinking it.

I haven't made beer but once upon a time did get to try some Michelob made from a kit that was the best beer I had tried at the time.

 

[The Beeps Mama]

I used to get spent grains from my sister's neighbor... ALL the critters loved it. Then, she moved

That’s no good!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Is it just me or do this ones legs look kind of weird/bony? And she's scrawny which is a little weird if she's in a foster home but she could just be the runt. But I feel like the early spay/neuter is really going to mess up her development; she already looks weird enough.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156392847593451&id=47771038450

Amd these two... I don't get how they could be sisters or how one ad says German Shepherd mix and the other says Bassett/Bulldog mix and they look nothing alike. So either they are not biological sisters and have just lived together or they are and they just changed the description based on their looks? Which seems kind of odd and deceptive. It says they are the same age so I guess they must be bio sisters as I doubt they would have bought two puppies from two litters/different people at the same exact time. But then why change the description?

https://www.facebook.com/47771038450/posts/10156397243338451/

https://www.facebook.com/47771038450/posts/10156393425428451/

 

[Tesumph]

Is it just me or do this ones legs look kind of weird/bony? And she's scrawny which is a little weird if she's in a foster home but she could just be the runt. But I feel like the early spay/neuter is really going to mess up her development; she already looks weird enough.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156392847593451&id=47771038450

Amd these two... I don't get how they could be sisters or how one ad says German Shepherd mix and the other says Bassett/Bulldog mix and they look nothing alike. So either they are not biological sisters and have just lived together or they are and they just changed the description based on their looks? Which seems kind of odd and deceptive. It says they are the same age so I guess they must be bio sisters as I doubt they would have bought two puppies from two litters/different people at the same exact time. But then why change the description?

https://www.facebook.com/47771038450/posts/10156397243338451/

https://www.facebook.com/posts/10156393425428451/

Birth dates are estimated for rescues of unknown origin. “Sister/brother” is often used when talking about two animals that came from the same home.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Birth dates are estimated for rescues of unknown origin. “Sister/brother” is often used when talking about two animals that came from the same home.

That's true but that date seems very specific and they have the mom I'm pretty sure so they may have been born in a foster home? And yeah I know and have heard that term used a lot so that's what I thought at first and would have just assumed they meant that if they were different ages but they're the same exact age.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Also for the early spaying one, well, I just can't stand how rescues spay and neuter little tiny puppies now, especially large/giant breeds, and mess up their development/health just for the sake of "reducing overpopulation" or whatever they tell themselves. But of course I have no control over it and they will likely not change their minds so I've accepted it but it's just ridiculous.

 

[ShrekDawg]

We’re all thinking we might have to put Gator down very soon.

 

[Missyblue]

Speaking of goats, I had 3 and I adored them, especially our Weather Valentine, the 2 girls were mini Nubian and he was a cross with boher. Unfortunately the girls were escape artists and took themselves on several field trips including one overnight trip thru several people’s gardens. Husband said rehome or we are eating.....We now keep sheep as lawnmowers and they give us tasty babies

 

[dpenning]

That stinks. Just know while it is a difficult decision it is often the kind decision.

We’re all thinking we might have to put Gator down very soon.