Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

JWB, I think it was something resembling a crabapple tree growing in my grandmothers yard. The thing had to be at least 50-60 years old, it was about 30-40 feet tall, and the crown was as wide. It produced these tiny, slightly smaller than golfball sized apples that shifted from green to red, and were very sour. They tasted horrible, but when you pressed them and made wine from them, it was delicious. We found around ten bottles of that stuff maybe 8 years after making it, it had been bottled with some oak chips in it and forgotten in a closet. That stuff was really good, it could have stood up to good wines even.

Jem, I got this wonderful book for my birthday about different meats, called the Ginger Pig Meat Book. I haven't gotten to the recipes yet, but the pictures and explanation about what to look for when raising and buying meat are great. It's a British book, and focuses on the traditional British breeds, the writer/farmer is all about quality, and letting animals grow slowly. He doesn't process cattle before 30 months, and the pigs were a lot slower growing than supermarket stuff too. The pictures of all the cool breeds are making me want to get pigs.

lil pot bellied pig would be super easy! and you could build it an awesome enclosure!

 

[vehve]

I'd like to free range pigs sometime in the future, but this place isn't suited for that.

 

[Amberjem]

price... The horse needs substantial fence. With at least Hot wire on top because shes a leaner and a scratcher. If you look at the total area its probably a quarter of my land Ideally I should fence the whole parimeter with Field fence and Hot wire.... Then subdivide with just hot wire.... But the land is sooo dry standard hot wire doesnt work. I have to use a bi polar setup.... two wires run parallel just an inch apart one pos one neg...

The area I have drawn for pasture is the flattest I have... Stuff I can actually walk my self If I need to. The canyon west of the fence is just that a long narrow chute that leads to the Border patrol road... Mountain lions sometimes hang out there... I have heard them scream... with a bark at the end. but that part would be incredibly hard to fence for a horse but a nightmare for the goats.... Anywhere there is a boulder is an escape point or potential escape point.

The area above the house is loaded with Cholla cactus and herbals... But once the goats and horse clear it It will be about ten times the size of her corral. The long narrow aisles behind the house are a way to exercise a horse.... Those areas are very rugged with passage ways between rocks that a human can barely traverse. HOrses can go any where a person can go without having to put down their hands.

The time she got loose she went around the house and between some rocks that I didnt have a clue she was capable of going through.... Shes a nimble girl.

deb

so much work getting fencuing in also we didnt have nearly that much fenced area we needed to do 15 miles makes my head spin!

 

[vehve]

200 feet of fence was already enough of work... Although mine is supposed to be dachshund proof, I think horse proof would be slightly less tiresome.

 

[Amberjem]

200 feet of fence was already enough of work... Although mine is supposed to be dachshund proof, I think horse proof would be slightly less tiresome.

good point!! I still have about 150 feet to do but it's more of a property line fencing then a need to pen or seperate anything in kinda thing

 

[Amberjem]

hey @bamadude can you share the chick pictures of the chicks that @draye hatched?

 

[Amberjem]

today I really need to plant some squash, purple basil regular basil some blue and white corn I want to plant along the side in front of where the shop is it gets crazy sun over there all day and morning long and will help create a barrier between neighbors

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Can not find it.
A man posted pics of him putting his hen's gead in a killing cone, dunking in hot water, plucking, gutting and cutting up the chicken. I can. I can not find it anywhere now. It was not too long ago. It was just in the past several months. Anyone know what I am talking about? If you know where I can find it on this site please direct. I have spent the morning on this iphone searching the site for that information.

 

[BriardChickens]

After the first winter on our 4 acre property we fenced with page wire. It keeps the sheep in, our dog in and the neighbours dog out.

It was quite a task, page wire was heavy to roll through our forest and the auger just got heavy after a while. It did go considerably fast though... mind you, a bear could probably take it down.

We then cross fenced with electrical wire for the sheep. Our sheep clear the brush in the forest, they don't have much grass at all, they are fat and do a fantastic job at clearing. Honestly I don't think we'll have a lot of brush growing back this spring.

 

[vehve]

Haven't seen that one, but if you're just looking for good processing instructions, here's the one I started with.

http://ramblingredneckmom.blogspot.fi/2011/04/how-to-process-chickens-at-home.html?m=1

She just cuts the jugular, but how you go about the first step is really up to preference. I say the axe is probably the easiest method. Once you have a dead chicken that's been drained of blood, it's pretty straight forward. Those instructions were pretty okay from that point on. I don't see a need for the cone though, the lasso on legs does the same.