FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

[Tikkijane]

Yep we are night people.....   Crazy to try  to do anything midday.  Up to about twelve oclock and your good to go but from about one till  about four the earth has absorbed all the heat it can for the day and begins radiating it back up....  I used to live in San Bernardino, then 
Roswell NM.  Then Vegas now the mildest of all San Diego.  and just recently up by the Mexcian border.  Best climate of them all....  Mild summers mild winters some snow some monsoon.....  Forever wind sometimes the screens on the windows would scream so loud you coudnt have a conversation on the phone.      

I have faimily that lives near Ridgecrest CA....  The mojave is one area I wouldnt want to live long term...  

deb

So you lived in our slice of hell, then. Noon is too late- easily im the 90s by 9 am; lows upper 70s at night. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

 

[Beekissed]

And I just want to say....WHAT?? No comments on my street sausage??

Street sausage..... I can only imagine why that was there but then I wiped it from my mind...quickly. I've seen it rain frogs before, so maybe you had a light shower of kielbasa in your area.

Stranger things have happened!

 

[Tikkijane]

I would melt in that heat...fat girls don't do heat so well.  Humidity is even worse, so maybe the lack of humidity would help me tolerate the heat..but I doubt it.  I've always wanted to see NM...I've heard it's very pretty! 

I don't know what I would do without my four seasons...I love that changing that is so predictable that you can set your life activities around it.  I like the rhythm of life that revolves around the awakening of the land in the spring, anticipating growing things in the garden and all the planning that goes into it as well as the labor...it's cleansing after a winter of sitting by the fire.  New babies, new leaves and pink flower buds drifting to the ground in a breeze so soft it feels like a baby's kiss. 

I like the summer months when things are growing, bees are working and flowers are so bright they make you pause in your day, with a harvest time of beautiful vegetables at the end.  What a bounty and a blessing to see colorful jars all in a row!  Honeysuckle so heavy on the air you can almost taste it and thunderstorms that vibrate down your spine in a warm tingle....bliss! 

Fall is my favorite time of all! Crisp mornings that smell like the first day on Earth, skies so blue and clouds so white it hurts your eyes, and the fruit harvest overflowing.  The colder weather rejuvenates me to doing all the chores we do to prepare for winter, the harvest of meat continues and the battening down and tucking in of animal quarters and the home makes me feel like the giving of love. 

Then winter...a time of rest, of learning, of fellowship and stillness with the Lord, crisp nights filled with diamonds in a velvet sky, monochromatic landscapes of crisp white and stark trees accented with red birds, and the blessing of a warm house after being out in the cold.  Wood smoke on the air, my breath smoking out in front of me, a warm dog jumping around in the soft powder like he's on springs. 

I love them all!  e

Me too! Northern NM is gorgeous and I'd live in the San Juans in a heartbeat. We didn't have that, though. No water; no real seasons. Yes, it's dry, but my oven is dry and it cooks a turkey just the same.

Fall is also my favorite, and I LOVE snow. (And now you know all my craziness, lol.)

 

[perchie.girl]

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Oh my Gawd thats a very hot place.... Hotter than the Mojave in my opinion. Yep you got desert fox... the monsoons build here some and we get the last fringes as they pass on overhead. We get about half our rain fall from them. In small downpours of about ten fifteen minutes. Big ole splats the size of your fists. Like someone dropping water baloons. Just enough to clear the dust. Soaks right in and within about two hours no evidence except on paved road.
deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: Those are temps that I shrug off as long as I am out working already. When it gets around 105 in the day thats when I lay low. Its usually in the nineties by 8 am on those days..... Thankfully they are few and far between. And its very dry.

We have some of the widest temp swings from night to day in my little slice of heaven sometimes as much as thirty degrees. Especially when day time temps are low like 95 or so.... in the summer time it is not un common to have 70s in the evening dipping down to the high sixties by morning. I use a swamp cooler most of the summer and it does a fine job, but I have one foot thick walls on my house so it stays pretty darn cool comparatively.

deb

 

[Tikkijane]

Those are temps that I shrug off as long as I am out working already.  When it gets around 105 in the day thats when I lay low.  Its usually in the nineties by 8 am on those days.....   Thankfully they are few and far between.  And its very dry.  

We have some of the widest temp swings from night to day in my little slice of heaven sometimes as much as thirty degrees.  Especially when day time temps are low like 95 or so.... in the summer time it is not un common to have 70s in the evening dipping down to the high sixties by morning.  I use a swamp cooler most of the summer and it does a fine job, but I have one foot thick walls on my house so it stays pretty darn cool comparatively.

deb

50 degree temp swings are nothing. High temps usually after 4 pm. Hundreds plus for more than a quarter of a year; ~hot~ dragon wind that scalds- NOT my cup of tea. I kept reminding myself it could be worse like Tuscon, but darn. I was never so glad to move.....

 

[niqueie]

I lived in wet, humid and very seasonal OH till I was 18 then lived in dry, high UT for 5 years then in coastal California for 15. I miss seasons and occasionally I miss snow, but it's hard to be unhappy with temps consisting of 50*-85* all year long. San Diego is pretty delightful. It's funny with kids that don't know what normal temps are. They have no clue.

I thought the sausage was crazy. I can't believe nothing picked that up. At least a skunk or a neighboring cat.

 

[Beekissed]

I lived in wet, humid and very seasonal OH till I was 18 then lived in dry, high UT for 5 years then in coastal California for 15. I miss seasons and occasionally I miss snow, but it's hard to be unhappy with temps consisting of 50*-85* all year long. San Diego is pretty delightful. It's funny with kids that don't know what normal temps are. They have no clue.

I thought the sausage was crazy. I can't believe nothing picked that up. At least a skunk or a neighboring cat.

Maybe it was poisoned to attract those very things? Or the neighborhood dog that is always running loose?

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Beekissed is the Bee's Knees!

I've got two batches of fermented feed going, and have "replenished" each a few times as I'm slowly introducing it to the flock and figuring out how to do it. This time, I decided to mix one of the batches as dry as I could ... and WOW is that easier to deal with! I just didn't add as much water when I added fresh feed to replenish it. The drier batch is fermenting just fine ... it burps when I scoop it, it smells "right," etc. Also nothing "bad" is happening on top.

Easier is better.

 

[niqueie]

Yea!! I felt the same way when I finally realized that you don't need to have water over the top to ferment.