EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kwhites634]

I might set some aside, wax the ends and do some lathe work with some of it. Need some practice, about all I can make with it is a mess really fast!

Everything become an ashtray?

 

[mlm Mike]

Thanks. I think it's a predator. I've got a duck in the barn who appears to have been attacked by something and had Ms crawling all over her she's doing much better now and doesn't have Ms on her anymore.

That stinks, any ideas on what it might be, raccoon?

 

[mlm Mike]

Everything become an ashtray?

I'm not that good.

 

[dan26552]

That stinks, any ideas on what it might be, raccoon?

Possibly, my brother trapped one a couple months ago. We had a fox problem last year so it could be either but I can't find anything, no feather no carcass no nothing.

 

[kwhites634]

Hi Whites! Ready for your trip?



You betcha! At the house and the cottage.

Ready as I'm liable to get 'til just before blast-off. Wish we were on the other end.

 

[duluthralphie]

The earthworms get the lions share of the leftovers, veggies that is. Meat scraps and bones are frozen and when I get enough I make bone soup for the chickens.

I have no earthworms, I life in a sand dunes, literally. I am surrounded by the Sand Dunes State Forest.

 

[duluthralphie]

The wood splitting is actually at the lake cottage, so there is a bit more humidity than at home. No interesting grain, the maple has been real straight, and splitting nicely.





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You have a lake cabin and go to it???

WOW, how lucky. I have a cabin on a lake and have not been there since Oct 2015. I assume it is still there, I get an electric bill every month an pay taxes on it.

It is a tad remote and takes 5-6 hours to get to it.

 

[duluthralphie]

I smoked half a turkey breast (just over 13 pounds). Turned out pretty good, going to do the other half breast and leg/thigh quarter soon.

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That deserve 4 likes...

 

[Pensmaster]

I might set some aside, wax the ends and do some lathe work with some of it. Need some practice, about all I can make with it is a mess really fast!

The cherry sounds good.

We're in good shape, for now, but we'll need some soon

Clouds have all passed.

Your wife won't eat smoked meat?

I smoke a lot of meat, love making it, love eating it. I cheat sometimes now, a couple of years ago I bought a Bradley smoker, but now that I have a seemingly unlimited supply of cherry, I'll get to use the stick burner some.

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She would but it gives her headaches

I have no earthworms, I life in a sand dunes, literally. I am surrounded by the Sand Dunes State Forest.

These earthworms wouldn't live too well in the garden I'm told. They thrive on rotting vegetables etc. they don't do to well in regular soil unless you add vegetables to a spot in your garden. They do however need some soil or grit mixed in with their veggies or it becomes a stinking mess real quick.

 

[duluthralphie]

Don't know that I've ever had any maple that split easily; usually a twisty, snarly mess that doesn't stack worth beans.

Really? Our maple is one of the easiest to split straight grain with very few bad pieces..