Granny's gone and done it again

[CSolis]

ok, I do have one question. Bruiser is a 17 week old BSL cockerel.. and he's a 'bruiser' (quite large) already. Is he too big for those hens? They are all in the one year range according to the one banded. (L 8-4-2019)

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I love wisteria.. got some started at the old place from seeds I stole from a neighbor. Brought some here with me, but for some reason couldn't get them started. Here we have trumpet vine, muscadine vine, virginia creeper, japanese honeysuckle, green briar, and kudzu.. the kudzu is driving me nuts.. keep having to go out with the sprayer and brush tox and smacking it back down.
I dug up quite a few of the green briar tubers and they are monstrous. https://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/08/greenbriar.html
Also have poke berrys growing in some dirt that was hauled in here at some point just east of the shed. Those tubers can get danged big too!

I fed my chickens polk . I took the berrys off , snapped the cane about a ft from the ground and they loved them. Polk is good eating if you pick it young. You can fry the stem like okra just stay away from the roots and berrys. Muscadine makes really good jelly and I also have the wild honeysuckle

 

[CSolis]

I fed my chickens polk . I took the berrys off , snapped the cane about a ft from the ground and they loved them. Polk is good eating if you pick it young. You can fry the stem like okra just stay away from the roots and berrys. Muscadine makes really good jelly and I also have the wild honeysuckle

I'm trying to get rid of what's here, but now that you said that... I might think it over. What about the leaves?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

ok, I do have one question. Bruiser is a 17 week old BSL cockerel.. and he's a 'bruiser' (quite large) already. Is he too big for those hens? They are all in the one year range according to the one banded. (L 8-4-2019)

aww they didnt play. I think he is ok. Keep an eye on his nails and spurs and trim them if needed. I put a concrete block in my runs for them to sharpen their beaks on.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I'm trying to get rid of what's here, but now that you said that... I might think it over. What about the leaves?

chickens eat the leaves and you can too if its young.

 

[CSolis]

aww they didnt play. I think he is ok. Keep an eye on his nails and spurs and trim them if needed. I put a concrete block in my runs for them to sharpen their beaks on.

there are several cinder blocks in the coop.. I'm going to have to learn about nail trimming though.
One thing I notice is, Bruiser always eats first, then allows his favorite lady to come eat with him.. then when they are done, the two other ladies get to eat. I've got multiple pans out there and divi the food up, but the two that eat last won't even leave the roost until they have gotten some kind of signal that it's okay to do so.

 

[CapricornFarm]

What part of Florida did you live in? Was it below the frost line? I know we had snow one year in Ocala when I was working at a huge Peruvian Paso farm.

We lived in Bradenton FL. Near Sarasota.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

We lived in Bradenton FL. Near Sarasota.

And I did too ! And palmetto next door. There was a bridge going out of palmetto going the other way called the humpback bridge we jumped off of into the river below. I fished the Bradenton bridge.

 

[h2oratt]

Maybe it was a very large breed.

It is a pit cross.

 

[h2oratt]

Best exercise in the universe is walking, or so I've found. Gator and I walked 2 miles each morning and I got fit fast.
BTW, I have an uncle (dad's younger brother) who lives in Modesto. He's a retired school teacher. Both his boys live around your area.

Walking won’t build up any muscle. I have been walking since March 15. 1.5 miles. Should up it 2. I never had muscle. Maybe since you did walking helped.