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

[daxigait]

I thought so too

Omigosh...that's beautiful!

I thought so too.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I told you I am a lousy farmer! ​

Nope. Not at all, Benny. Some of those things work very well in some places.

You couldn't pluck me from here and drop me in Ohio or California. It would be a huge vastly different with how they do things there; different varieties, different everything. Even farming here since 2011 has been a huge learning curve to adapt to being flooded. It's completely different than the 25 years we farmed prior to that...lol.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

How many alfalfa cuttings do you get per season? Guys here routinely get 3 in a good year. Mainly Holstein here; largest county in the state, & largest (but dwindling) dairy county.

Usually one. We sound like Ralphie, it's normally been very wet in June when we need to cut so there has been no second cuts. The first field is almost done blooming. I wanted to cut it, but DH felt it was not enough to warrant taking the equipment out and since we're harvesting...we don't have enough people/equipment to do it. If it was just going bloom I'd press the matter, but it won't be the highest quality now that it's bloomed.
It's straight alfalfa...so it'll be getting coarse.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Fresh Alfalfa is a grate bonus to your chickens! Give them everytime you find it.

My husband did 50 square bales for the rabbits. The chickens will see some of that too....lol.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Whites, you must live way down south, Up here we get one sure cutting a year and most years a small second cutting.

Lol...yep.
Good to see you sir!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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So - we got this new dog! He was rescued from a shelter by a working dog rescue thing, they evaluated him and he has no ball drive, so he washed out. They adopted him out to a family, who returned him in a week saying he was going to eat their cat.

We've had him with all our animals, and he hasn't tried to eat anything. The only thing I can see him doing is being an escape artist, and it's probably how he ended up in the shelter to begin with. He climbed out of our dog kennel's, with 8 foot walls and we had to put a top on it if we ever wanted to kennel him.

He's fine in the house with our cats, he's got zero interests in the birds, the bunny and the goats look like fun play toys - but you can get him to leave them alone pretty easily.

He's about 1 years old, untrained, needs leash manners, and taught how to take treats gently, he's.... gung ho over treats and I tried to warn the toddlers (after I'd been nipped by him) not to give him food, so they learned the hard way that he wasn't gentle yet.

Our first goal : Leash/house manners (including not nipping so rough when getting treats.)

Second goal, off leash listening skills, so he can be in the yard and won't jump the fence. We're using a shock collar on him until he can be trusted.

He's very sweet, and non-environmentally reactive. We were also told he wasn't a fan of male dogs, but he likes all 3 of our male dogs, and we've had no issues with him. All of our dogs liked him from the start.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Hi

I saw you sneak in there...hi Beer!

 

[Akrnaf2]

How about the leaves from the hay?

Here's wishing you a great school year with inquisitive students.

Thank you very much!
Alfalfa is richer in protein and nutrition.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Hey guys I missed a good one on my phone this is the Grand canyon of Yellowstone.
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And there are a bunch of elk on the ridge if you can see them that I saw on my hike. Better pictures with my camera with 30x optical zoom, but I have not figured out the wifi feature yet
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Beutiful!!

 

[Beer can]

Three cuttings here for the most part. Depends on how early they can get in the fields for the first one. Was wet so it was late, stuff was waist high when they chopped it. Then for a third same thing in the fall sometimes can't get equipment into the fields without sinking. A lot of them chop and fill bunkers and wrap bales green so it makes it easier not having to dry it for bales.