Dixie Chicks

[Ravynscroft]

hmmm wonder when or if she will start laying....I sure do enjoy the heck out of the turkeys.... These guys have been fairly low maintenance feed wise also except this month they really started picking up feed consumption.  I think it's because they are packing on the weight now........ they kinda  maintained as they were growing into size now they are filling out....


these guys are much more flighty though.... I don't trust em at all to not fly off somewhere unsupervised...or perhaps it's just the madcap adventure of  calling left over down from the garage roof lol thank goodness they come when called.soooooooooooooo do you have eggs incubating?

Glad you are happy with them! I love mine!

Yeah, they are like mischievous children in their adventures, but they listen really well... I can get mine to come when I whistle too... they never go too far, but if they started following something interesting think they might accidentally get a ways off, lol...

I can't remember when yours hatched, she might not start til spring... we didn't expect ours to until then either, guess they just wanted to prove us wrong...

I don't have any in the bator yet, but a friend set 13 I think, and all are developing... she just wants a couple of bronzes for eating and we'll get any gray poults back after they hatch...

Our girls...

Our boy...

Their eggs...

And a double yolker one laid the other day, lol...

 

[WVduckchick]

Glad you are happy with them! I love mine!

Yeah, they are like mischievous children in their adventures, but they listen really well... I can get mine to come when I whistle too... they never go too far, but if they started following something interesting think they might accidentally get a ways off, lol...

I can't remember when yours hatched, she might not start til spring... we didn't expect ours to until then either, guess they just wanted to prove us wrong...

I don't have any in the bator yet, but a friend set 13 I think, and all are developing... she just wants a couple of bronzes for eating and we'll get any gray poults back after they hatch...



Our girls...



Our boy...



Their eggs...



And a double yolker one laid the other day, lol...

Wow, they are really pretty! And the eggs are also!

Tell Walnut

from me, next time you talk to her.

 

[Amberjem]

welp chicken access door for the free range it set up yippy.......

everyone is molting like mad atm, totally raked and cleaned everything up yesterday came out this morning and feathers everywhere again!

so now I have three different fenced off area's they can be allowed into without any ONE area needing to be overly chickenafied!

 

[Amberjem]

Glad you are happy with them! I love mine!

Yeah, they are like mischievous children in their adventures, but they listen really well... I can get mine to come when I whistle too... they never go too far, but if they started following something interesting think they might accidentally get a ways off, lol...

I can't remember when yours hatched, she might not start til spring... we didn't expect ours to until then either, guess they just wanted to prove us wrong...

I don't have any in the bator yet, but a friend set 13 I think, and all are developing... she just wants a couple of bronzes for eating and we'll get any gray poults back after they hatch...



Our girls...



Our boy...



Their eggs...



And a double yolker one laid the other day, lol...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Wow, they are really pretty!  And the eggs are also!

Tell Walnut  from me, next time you talk to her.  

Will do... need to send her a text...




Thanks... you gonna keep a pair for breeding?
Nice chicken areas...

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

Pop in quick like...snow, there is snow making the season white!

So I did the tater harvest in the nick of time...past two days in a row, me be spudder every evening...spud washer the next day and out to dry off and get ready to store up.

Food potatoes and seed for next season. Biggest harvest for us...ever!

​

Bud the Spud...Stompin' Tom would be plum proud, eh!

Sep 23 2016
You'd figure I was holding the most desirable item in the world...two tiny taters for dogs!!!​

But now that I dun dug the whole plot...thar are some as big as...as big as cow dog skulls...???

Oct 5 2016
Meet the MRS.'s potato heads...

​

Have a great Thanksgiving...off to son's fur that, and yes, bringing the turkey bird...should be fun. Gotta fly...snow, snow, white season upon us now! May 22 to Oct 7...that was the GREEN season...bring on the best season of them all...

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Beer can]

Nice! @CanuckBock your going to make me go with many multi-colored potatoes and tomatoes next yr!!!!
Don't like your mention of that cold four lettered word though

be here eventually whether I like it or not though I guess.....

Something, grubs, I'm not sure, saw no evidence of what it was, FIL said probably voles but saw no holes or tunnels, something ate up and ruined about 50 pounds of our taters, wasn't happy about that.
Still had a nice harvest though. We grow mostly Kennebec and Red Pontiac prefer late maturing on taters for better winter storage.
Have grown purple/blue taters yrs ago, not sure the variety, FIL gave us some. Just remember they were super creamy yummy (made pasty gray mashed potatoes though Lol!)

I'm not big on other than red tomatoes but I did plant a variety pack of cherry tomatoes this yr from 'Totally Tomatoes' catalog. Didn't get any black ones that were supposed to be in it but the white ones did great, had yellow and red also. Also tried from them early maturing open pollinated 'bloody butcher' and 'alaskan fancy', wasn't too impressed, the bloody butcher wasn't dark blood red and cracked when mature, neither had impressive yields compared to my favorite 'early girl' hybrid which produced ten times what they did.
Usually stay away from other than early maturing varieties here but gave their 'american original red beefsteak' a try, super impressed, huge bushes and tons of big tomatoes, and they actually started ripening a couple weeks ago! Had to cover them a couple times for light frosts.
Also planted some big pink tomatoes younger DD insisted on when she saw a packet in the store...NO.., I have enough tomatoes to plant...ohh well, they did good and actually matured pink.

Think we are going to have to get back into canning them, big chest freezer is stuffed between chickens and vegis. Only things we canned this yr was green beans. Well, cold packed pickles also in gallon, half gallon, and quarts, in our xtra fridge but not canned really.

Tomorrow I'm stopping up to FIL's to borrow his kraut cutter and shred some cabbage!!! Can't put it off any longer, had one split yesterday....

 

[Amberjem]

Heel low:

Pop in quick like...snow, there is snow making the season white!

So I did the tater harvest in the nick of time...past two days in a row, me be spudder every evening...spud washer the next day and out to dry off and get ready to store up.

Food potatoes and seed for next season. Biggest harvest for us...ever!

​

Bud the Spud...Stompin' Tom would be plum proud, eh!

Sep 23 2016
You'd figure I was holding the most desirable item in the world...two tiny taters for dogs!!!​

But now that I dun dug the whole plot...thar are some as big as...as big as cow dog skulls...???

Oct 5 2016
Meet the MRS.'s potato heads...

​

Have a great Thanksgiving...off to son's fur that, and yes, bringing the turkey bird...should be fun. Gotta fly...snow, snow, white season upon us now! May 22 to Oct 7...that was the GREEN season...bring on the best season of them all...

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

looks good stay warm

 

[Amberjem]

Nice! @CanuckBock your going to make me go with many multi-colored potatoes and tomatoes next yr!!!!
Don't like your mention of that cold four lettered word though

be here eventually whether I like it or not though I guess.....

Something, grubs, I'm not sure, saw no evidence of what it was, FIL said probably voles but saw no holes or tunnels, something ate up and ruined about 50 pounds of our taters, wasn't happy about that.
Still had a nice harvest though. We grow mostly Kennebec and Red Pontiac prefer late maturing on taters for better winter storage.
Have grown purple/blue taters yrs ago, not sure the variety, FIL gave us some. Just remember they were super creamy yummy (made pasty gray mashed potatoes though Lol!)

I'm not big on other than red tomatoes but I did plant a variety pack of cherry tomatoes this yr from 'Totally Tomatoes' catalog. Didn't get any black ones that were supposed to be in it but the white ones did great, had yellow and red also. Also tried from them early maturing open pollinated 'bloody butcher' and 'alaskan fancy', wasn't too impressed, the bloody butcher wasn't dark blood red and cracked when mature, neither had impressive yields compared to my favorite 'early girl' hybrid which produced ten times what they did.
Usually stay away from other than early maturing varieties here but gave their 'american original red beefsteak' a try, super impressed, huge bushes and tons of big tomatoes, and they actually started ripening a couple weeks ago! Had to cover them a couple times for light frosts.
Also planted some big pink tomatoes younger DD insisted on when she saw a packet in the store...NO.., I have enough tomatoes to plant...ohh well, they did good and actually matured pink.

Think we are going to have to get back into canning them, big chest freezer is stuffed between chickens and vegis. Only things we canned this yr was green beans. Well, cold packed pickles also in gallon, half gallon, and quarts, in our xtra fridge but not canned really.

Tomorrow I'm stopping up to FIL's to borrow his kraut cutter and shred some cabbage!!! Can't put it off any longer, had one split yesterday....

hey I kept meaning to tell you I made some cantaloupe jam

 

[Beer can]

hey I kept meaning to tell you I made some cantaloupe jam

That's different. Not a big fan of watermelon but I absolutely love cantaloupe. How'd it turn out?