Dixie Chicks

[vehve]

JWB, how cold temps do you breed your bunnies in? And congrats on finding the birds and bunnies.

 

[hennible]

Well I forget to buy coffee the other day so vehve I'll send out your seeds today...
Good morning everyone.

 

[vehve]

Yay Sam, I'll be waiting impatiently. Your chocolate might already be in the country. The airport the package should leave from is pretty close, so I'm guessing it should make the flight over there withing a few days, if it hasn't left already. Then it's up to the Canadian postal workers to get it home to you. I mailed it as a letter, so it might even be taken all the way home to you. How big is your mail box?

 

[hennible]

It'll fit in the parcel box at the rural mailboxes by my house... There is one whole Apache pepper in your package that you'll have to take apart and take seeds from yourself, and I just couldn't find enough red tomato seeds, I wasn't willing to part with any... you will have to wait for more tomato varieties until next year...
Once 9 o'clock comes here I should phones some contractors price out all this **** work around here... Sorry using chicken book as a note to self...

@BriardChickens you asked how long the 20 gallons of the FF lasted my flock a while ago, two weeks for almost 30 birds, but they had access to dry pellets as well which they definitely ate. When it's warm and all they have available is FF I bet it would only last week or so.

 

[Outpost JWB]

Chocolate for seed trade? Good deal. Both sides!

The rabbits I have been getting, I have traded eggs and butchered roosters for them

@vehve , Not sure about the breeding process yet. I still have to get an unrelated buck and sex the ones I have. I am hoping to get a good buck by this spring and then I will introduce him to the ladies (if they are old enough). I will find out the age tonight from the rabbit breeder. Keep forgetting to ask him. The buck will be a "floater" because I don't want a bunch of boys. Boys go to freezer camp. After I start breeding them, the gestation period is 31 days. Then I wait 6-8weeks and breed them again. My freezer should be STUFFED next winter. The breeder originally got into the business to sell them, but he has had so many people back out on deals that he said he is done with it.

 

[hennible]

@Outpost JWBdo you butcher them yourself? The rabbits.

 

[vehve]

Okay Sam, I better remember to get some soil to start in, I don't want my compost indoors, it's a bit too choppy and might attract the dogs.

 

[hennible]

6 to 8 weeks before the last frost for your squash and 4 to 6 weeks for the tomatoes and peppers don't try and transplant peas, or beans... There's also some herbs in there for you.

 

[vehve]

JWB, I'm wondering how early we dare keep a doe outside with a litter. I'm not going to provide extra heat for her, so I think it will need to be above freezing before we get little ones.

 

[hennible]

Newborn rabbits are ugly!