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[casportpony]

message my pet chicken about how almost all their eggs are infertile and have not even heard anything back from them

Did you crack all of them open to see if they are infertile? You can't know for sure unless you crack them open and look very closely.

-Kathy

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Yes

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Does anyone know a good show quality splash bearded Silkie breeder thanks

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Try WallyWorld...decent plants, & not near $15

Won't give them a dime.
Seeds are much cheaper.

I only heave tetracycline powder and oxytetracycline powder (yeah, I know, kind of redundant - it was all I could get in my feed store antibiotic run when stocking up a while ago - I need to order some other stuff online). He's sleeping. 'Bout the same. Yeah, weird about the legs/feet...

Taking a break from yard work - finished mowing for now - some of it was just mowing already cleared areas, other areas I'm trying to clear and are thigh high. I'm slowly "reclaiming" my property (in the past it wasn't fenced and untended, and sometimes delinquents would hang out back there, mostly before my time - totally overgrown). In addition to a very old rusted out spray paint can, I found:





And I ran the mower right over this - it was in a depression and all eggs intact (it's one of the SS girls getting out every day to hide her nest, the little stinker):


I also got nice shots of Tank and his girls among the wildflowers in their paddock (not mown):





OK, gotta get something to eat, then blackberry planting...

- Ant Farm

Large Fowl

Why wouldn't rubber feed bowls or tubs work?

They work great. Especially for fermented feed.

Quote: I just came from Lowe's and I wish I had my camera. They had tomato plants. They were large but they were $15 ea.. How does one get $15 of tomatoes off of a single plant?
I thought $4 was high for single plants.
Don't people know what seeds are?

reply: These days with the "instant gratification" mode, folks DON'T know what seeds are, or even what to do with them. They want to buy it all on Saturday morning, stick it in the ground, be done by noon, and expect a crop with no further work. They even sell CORN seedlings now.

X2. I'm amazed at how little my apprentices know about seeds. One is a horticulture student.
I'm glad I'm here to save her life.

this is the price of grafted tomatoes last year don't think Lowes would have them but they might.

Not worth the price. Consider the labor on top of the math.
You still can't get more tomatoes from a $15 plant than you can buy organic ones from Whole Foods Market (i.e. Whole Paycheck).
If a plant fails, that's $15 down the tubes. The super root stock can't overcome that.
Perhaps some parts of the country have pricey tomatoes but not in the Midwest.

ChickenCanoe does NOT support Wal-Mart

(And I dont blame em)

I'm surprised you remember that.

I have seen walmart stores be the demise of small town America, putting mom and pop shops out of business. Now that there is no alternative, they shut down stores that aren't profitable enough with no one left with enough money to start a business. That was before their antics wiped out $4,000 worth of my chickens.

I'd probably do it every 3-4 hours. Will it still sip a little water?

-Kathy

I mean no offense and your advice is golden but at some point, are these birds worth saving?
They wouldn't live on their own and maybe they shouldn't.

Corn seedlings

Freaking ridiculous

People are getting very lazy

Corn seedlings don't even transplant well.

Thank goodness I'm teaching people how to plant.

Suckers a Bantam EE

Ain't got no meat to speak of.

Hopefully the farmer will let me throw him in a mixed coop.

There are a coupla seramas in there , and some other small fowl

A raccoon can find meat on them. So can you.

message my pet chicken about how almost all their eggs are infertile and have not even heard anything back from them

It is the weekend. Talk to them on Monday.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Lucky there want any chicks in there

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

The breeder can be in any state

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Does anyone know a good show quality splash bearded Silkie breeder thanks

Cackle and C&G poultry in MO have them. As for breeders, Darrel Bell. Holly McKenzie, Cindy Rusk , S & S Farms , Shannon Smith and Sunfaris Farms.
http://agriculture.mo.gov/animals/pdf/poultry_yearbook.pdf

 

[BullChick]

Have some coffee with me. I don't want to be alone.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Java cheers!

 

[BullChick]

You too, Banti