Dixie Chicks

[seminolewind]

LOL. I think NY was easy, it was just a matter of finding full sun. I think it's a little trickier here for me . I have to compensate for the heat by shaving a few hours of sun off the plants. Like I planted roses on the side that gets 1/2 day of sun and they flourished- keep getting taller than the house. Then, I live on sugar sand. I had a horse at home 5 years ago, but she's been boarded so I don't have that manure factory in the back.

 

[Austinspoultry]

what kinda cows do you have @Austinspoultry
 

well in our area you can get about $1500 to $2000 for an Angus Hereford X so we have Hereford bulls on mostly Angus cows with some heifers thrown in. Most of the calf crop are black baldies which make the most profit. Around here it takes 49 acres to feed a single mother cow. The ranch has a total of about 15,000 acres and the ranch is feeding three generations and still making enough for a new truck every year for each generation.

 

[chickisoup]

morning everyone.

Another stormy morning so I'm trying to get caught up with all my chatty chickie friends. Whew! Can't keep up with all the topic changes!!!

@Alaskan - thank you for answering the garlic questions for me.

One clarification I can add. The garlic varieties I referenced are for northern gardeners. There are two types, soft neck and hard neck. The soft neck (short day) grows well in the south, the hard neck (long day) grows for us northern folks. For someone who asked, yep, us northerners plant our garlic in the fall, trying our best to time it so they are in the ground 4 to 6 weeks before the ground freezes solid. I put in around 150 plants a year so there are 100 or so for us and allowing 30 or so of the biggest as seed for next year's crop. (my garlic generally has 5 cloves to a bulb).
All this being said, I may not have any garlic this year if it doesn't quit raining every other day REAL soon! Once garlic starts to set the bulbs, (aka ripen) too much rain will cause the bulbs to split open and there goes your crop. the only way you can salvage then is to turn everything into dehydrated garlic or garlic powder. You can still salvage your re-plant cloves if you are lucky but it's tricky. Be a worse loss for me because my German strain was getting too old so I had sprung for new organic seed bulbs last fall.

 

[BriardChickens]

I know it doesn't make sense looking at them, does it? Lol. The tri color duck is genetically ee, completely lacking the extended black gene to turn the duck solid. A over marked solid colored duck is genetically EE. When you combine and EE and a ee, it evens out the expression of the extended black and lightens them up.

Also a duck that is well marked and genetically Ee (carrying 1 copy of extended black) can get a random feather or a whole patch of leakage. The leakage will look like the tri color, or wild type, pattern leaking through the solid feathers.

I am going to have to read that a few times over, so the "perfect" black duck would be Ee?

BC, ducks are looking very cute.

Thanks! Hi Vehve

Hi Felix

you need to pop in more often! How is the chicken selection coming along?

well in our area you can get about $1500 to $2000 for an Angus Hereford X so we have Hereford bulls on mostly Angus cows with some heifers thrown in. Most of the calf crop are black baldies which make the most profit. Around here it takes 49 acres to feed a single mother cow. The ranch has a total of about 15,000 acres and the ranch is feeding three generations and still making enough for a new truck every year for each generation.

Wow, in our area cattle goes for about double that.. Actually I've seen some bulls being sold for up to $6000 just in the last few days.

 

[Austinspoultry]

I am going to have to read that a few times over, so the "perfect" black duck would be Ee?

Thanks! Hi Vehve

you need to pop in more often! How is the chicken selection coming along?

Wow, in our area cattle goes for about double that.. Actually I've seen some bulls being sold for up to $6000 just in the last few days.

yah I was saying that price just for a 900 pound steer

 

[Amberjem]

in short, I had an ohiki pullet get completely caked in mud and was stuck on her side in it, almost dead, she's alive and well. We had a discussion after some quail pictures were posted about how some would and some wouldn't eat them. Jem posted a bunch of awesome garden pictures and explained what her composter was to my garden illiterate self. Everyone discussed with seminolewind about the change. Cold Canadian said they're too jealous of your green houses to post their own gardening pictures.

Not all necessarily happened in that order or was said in the exact words.

hahah yep about right

yah I was saying that price just for a 900 pound steer

mmm cow meat


@vehve we need some garden pictures? I just picked my first blueberrys the other day that ripened looks like I did good noticed one of the other blueberrys just starting to put out flowers...if all goes right I should beable to harvest vblueberrys over several months with the different ripening varieties I selected..

 

[Amberjem]

@hennible did you get the greenhouses all moved ok?


@bamadude we need some pictures

 

[bamadude]

@hennible
  did you get the greenhouses all moved ok?


@bamadude
 we need some pictures

What type of pics do u want? I have some baby (ladycat) wheaten Marans, (Kytinpusher) Isbars, (junibutt) cream legbars, and welsummer x isbar F1.
I have a bator full of ice cream bars, isabel leghorns, (hopefully) ayam cemani.

 

[vehve]

Pictures you say? I just snapped these (at 22:05, gotta love the Finnish summer).










Uploading the photos to my computer seems to be taking a while, I'll post some more in a bit.

 

[Amberjem]

What type of pics do u want? I have some baby (ladycat) wheaten Marans, (Kytinpusher) Isbars, (junibutt) cream legbars, and welsummer x isbar F1.
I have a bator full of ice cream bars, isabel leghorns, (hopefully) ayam cemani.

ohh we need chicken and garden pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pictures you say? I just snapped these (at 22:05, gotta love the Finnish summer).










Uploading the photos to my computer seems to be taking a while, I'll post some more in a bit.

awesome!! and looks like you can use the bunny tractor as a chick tractor when growing out and no bunnies in it