Dixie Chicks

[BriardChickens]

Beer those starter things I've never had success in. Especially those that claim you can just put in the ground when the seedling is large enough. Could be me and my black thumb tho..

In other good news: my aloe vera plant has survived me for over a year now!

 

[vehve]

My peat pots are roughly the size of an egg, so it should work. Egg residue might promote bacterial growth though. And crushing the shell when planting would be an important step. The peat pots should be torn too.

 

[Alaskan]

dang

youngest has been given the task of taking care of a set of chickens... the ones in the vegetable garden living under a table..


he came back this morning saying that he didn't see the rooster anywhere (dark brown rose comb leghorn)...


found the leghorn rooster in with the chickens in the shed, but not the rooster that is supposed to be in the shed (Dominique)

Asked older kids to count the chickens in the vegetable garden... came back with not as many as there should be:
3 single comb white leghorns
2 golden comets
1 dominique
1 golden penciled hamburg

oldest kids are sent back out.... to look again and see what is where...


kid #2 is bummed said "does this mean no more Dominiques?" (all of the kids like that breed a GREAT deal because of personality), I said well, maybe not for a while... I would have to order more in...

 

[Alaskan]

OK... they just came back ...

found BOTH roosters...

no idea how the one rooster changed location... at least he isn't dead.

Last year we killed a rooster by lack of feed.... I was worried that that had happened again, ...

 

[Alaskan]

My peat pots are roughly the size of an egg, so it should work. Egg residue might promote bacterial growth though. And crushing the shell when planting would be an important step. The peat pots should be torn too.

I don;t see how it would do anything except help feed the seedling....


not like you are leaving the entire egg in there

 

[BriardChickens]

Yay for the roosters Alaskan. Where were they hiding?

 

[Beer can]

I guess there is three breeds of chinchilla rabbits, the chinchilla named because it's fur resebles that of the rodent and was bred for its fur. This one was imported from France. The American chinchilla, selectively bred for larger size for more of a meat rabbit, these are the only heritage rabbit labeled as critically endangered. And then they took oversized American chinchilla and crossed them with white flemish giants. They have been purebreed for over 45yrs. All three look the same , just different sizes. Giants they say "have no competition when it comes to producing meat fast and cost efficiently." Unfortunately it looks like they are now rare. I'm going to keep looking but so far I've only found show quality ones from breeders in the $60-$80 price range. Seems like a lot of $$ doesn't it?

 

[minihorse927]

.. working on this post and added by accident

 

[perchie.girl]

Giant Chinchilla Rabbit
"Kaninchen3". Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaninchen3.jpg#/media/File:Kaninchen3.jpg

these are the ones that get to 12-16 Lbs.

Pretty pretty.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

.. working on this post and added by accident

I got your accidental post by email.... Good start....

deb