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[RockerHen]

Some of my sunflowers are starting to come up.





I'm sure proud of my little Charlie Brown shade trees I planted awhile back! Grow little trees, grow...lol. Just planted some more Maple trees that makes these look like Giant Sequoia trees though.

Great photos, love the seed hat. What kind is it? I love sunflowers too, I scatter extra seeds wherever there is an open sunny spot. This year I have a whole section of our main garden devoted to about 20 American Giant sunflowers--the mega huge and tall ones. They don't get as big a flower head as the Mammoths (I planted those 2 years back) but they get taller, around 15 feet. Last year I planted a mixture of medium sized varieties all together along the edge of our yard, but I always seem to be drawn back to the giants. I love huge sunflowers

 

[Sanna]

Thanks, Sanna! This is my first year raising sunflowers...I thought it was funny how they come out of the ground wearing the seed I planted as a hat like that.

I enjoyed your hens raising the newly hatched babies! Real neat! I've seen you mentioned quite a bit that you give things you hatch out to your broody Silkie hens. Can you just give them babies at any time that you hatch in the bator and they just go to taking care of them?

Anytime you give a hen chicks, you want to make sure they've been broody for awhile to make sure they'll take the chicks. I've never tried giving chicks to a hen that wasn't broody....but I have one hen that probably would go into mommy mode if I put some chicks in the coop. Other hens...not so sure about them. I'd be worried about the hens hurting the chicks.
But a broody Silkie will take care of anything! lol They raised my peachicks. I've heard of people giving them ducklings to raise also.

 

[RockerHen]

Some pictures I snapped today while strolling around the pond/pastures. Insects were apparently my fascination today.












Here's some farm related ones, though. This is Sugar, a 'horse' who is more like a dog than anything else. She was a bottle baby as her mother died soon after birth, and as a result has a mentality very different from your average horse. She's 9 now. Even though she's never been more than green broke, I love her to death. She's our pasture pet who simply completes our farm (yes, she's also fat) Everyone who visits loves our sweet Sugar.


Penny (on the left) is more of a sterner, proper horse who keeps Sugar in line and is the one I ride. She's 16. Aurora, on the right, is my cousin's horse, she is 4 and she has been staying in our pastures while my cousin moves. She's a sweetheart and a character like Sugar, they're two peas in a pod.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

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hahaha, ok.
Well thank you anyway for replying and being honest.lol.

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[Sanna]

Here's some farm related ones, though. This is Sugar, a 'horse' who is more like a dog than anything else. She was a bottle baby as her mother died soon after birth, and as a result has a mentality very different from your average horse. She's 9 now. Even though she's never been more than green broke, I love her to death. She's our pasture pet who simply completes our farm (yes, she's also fat) Everyone who visits loves our sweet Sugar.


Penny (on the left) is more of a sterner, proper horse who keeps Sugar in line and is the one I ride. She's 16. Aurora, on the right, is my cousin's horse, she is 4 and she has been staying in our pastures while my cousin moves. She's a sweetheart and a character like Sugar, they're two peas in a pod.

Looks like you have a herd full of character there!! Look at those faces.

What breed of horse is Sugar? She's a cutie. We had a bottle fed colt here on the farm once. He had been fed cream soda from a bottle by the owners. And every once in awhile they threw a bag of sweet feed out there for him and he was allowed to eat the feed however he wanted. He lived tied to a barn with really no shelter...24/7, all year long.

Apparently the horse was given to the daughter by god only knows who. Daughter went out to college and just left the horse for the parents who knew absolutely nothing about horses. Apparently that's why he got cream soda and sweet feed. I guess he got some hay every once in awhile too and whatever grass he could reach. He was said to be 2 years old when the daughter brought the horse home, but when the horse came to us, he was barely 2 years old. The family had already had the colt for over a year...maybe year and a half. I have no idea how this little guy survived out there. He came to us in spring and the winter before that, was one of the WORST winters we had had here on the East Coast. Poor guy had a very bad injury to his right stifle and some other minor issues, he was underweight and needed to be gelded. He turned out healthy with lots of care, but he never could figure out how to be a real horse and live in a herd. He also didn't understand any kind of boundaries no matter how much time we spent working with him. He started charging people for no apparent reason. He ended up going to live with one of our instructors because we simply couldn't keep him here on the farm due to his behavior.
It's so sad to see cases like this.. And it's not the horses fault. It was the people that bred him and raised him that are to blame.

I would be any amount of money that the colt was taken away from his mother very, very early, because he had not learned any sort of proper horse behavior. Our vet even thought me could have been a twin. Maybe there were twins and the mother died at birth, we'll never know.

Sorry for blabbing..! lol

 

[3acres]

Toughen up you flowers... what are you, a bunch of pansies???....

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[Chickenfan4life]

Quote: I have a Lumix 12x optical zoom. I want to upgrade to a new camera this year, especially one that can take lense attachments. Do you have any suggestions for me.. ?

 

[3acres]

Great photos, love the seed hat. What kind is it? I love sunflowers too, I scatter extra seeds wherever there is an open sunny spot. This year I have a whole section of our main garden devoted to about 20 American Giant sunflowers--the mega huge and tall ones. They don't get as big a flower head as the Mammoths (I planted those 2 years back) but they get taller, around 15 feet. Last year I planted a mixture of medium sized varieties all together along the edge of our yard, but I always seem to be drawn back to the giants. I love huge sunflowers

Thanks! Yeah, I'm excited to have some sunflowers of my own this year! I am fascinated by them. There's a couple places south of me that plant huge fields of them....it's real neat to see when the sun is shining on them. ...and then the ones I see at people's places when I drive by and the pics I've seen in this thread and on the computer, etc....I'll have my own this year!!! These sunflowers coming up that I took pics of are the Skyscraper variety. I'll have all kinds and colors this year. I too am planting them in all the extra sunny spots out there....and the north sides of smaller produce gardens. I have not heard of the American Giant ones...I'll have to see if I can get them. I grabbed a packet of Mammoth ones but some how it didn't make it home???...had a bunch of heavily discounted landscaping trees and bushes and seeds and all kinds of stuff in my truck that day and no Mammoth sunflower seeds when I got home??? I'll have to get them again here real soon. I'm getting a little crazy this year with all the extra stuff....like sunflowers, indian corn, all kinds of gourds and decorating type stuff. Fun,fun!!!

Real neat photos you just added and have added! Neat how close you get to the small stuff! That turkey flying down a ways back was really cool!

 

[3acres]

Anytime you give a hen chicks, you want to make sure they've been broody for awhile to make sure they'll take the chicks. I've never tried giving chicks to a hen that wasn't broody....but I have one hen that probably would go into mommy mode if I put some chicks in the coop. Other hens...not so sure about them. I'd be worried about the hens hurting the chicks.
But a broody Silkie will take care of anything! lol They raised my peachicks. I've heard of people giving them ducklings to raise also.

I don't know anything about Silkies and was wondering by broody if you meant already raising chicks or if they would just take anything at any given time. I just had 4 turkeys all hatch out babies. I mixed and matched some of them because of how they hatched from under each one. They seem like they would take about anything and raise it up according to how they acted to new babies they didn't hatch. That is funny Silkies raising up your peafowl...

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[3acres]

I have a Lumix 12x optical zoom. I want to upgrade to a new camera this year, especially one that can take lense attachments. Do you have any suggestions for me.. ?

Not sure if this is directed to me or not???...lol.....but I needed a new camera last year. I went to a big place that sold tons of cameras and had lots of staff. Every person I talked to said to get a Sony. They are buying up all kinds of technology and inviting new top of the line stuff...so I got a Sony. I really like it. Almost too user friendly. Was told by all those people that megapixels aren't as important as resolution or something like that, but I went from a 8 megapixel Canon camera to this Sony that has 20 something megapixels. I resize all the photos I put on here smaller because I don't like to wait for them to load the way they are...lol. I suppose it depends on what you want to spend??? I'll probably never be a good photographer...lol....all the specific stuff, techno stuff, extra stuff, hurts my head. I like to have a camera....by far put the absolute most stock in what's going to be in the background of the photo, then the subject and then resizing/editing. I just don't know anything about cameras!