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[kwhites634]

That does not get the meaty out of the doorway. I guess I have to break that first.

I have a couple of 'blockers' too. They'll eventually move out of the way, or the late comers finally bull their way in. If I happen to be in the run & don't eel like waiting on them, I just lift/push them out of the way & the others waltz right in.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I used to have a hoe axe before someone stole it from me. It was marvelous at cutting brush down flush with the ground. and it looked exactly like it sounds. Just like a hoe but with a heavier and chiseled head.

Is it like a mattock?

You can still buy these from that famous Amish general store in the Mid-West. They do mail order.

Thanks. I guess they would still have to use them.
I found this picture once I discovered the shaft was called a snath.
Ours was pretty similar to the top one.

Good for you. Have a great time, and most of all, enjoy yourself.

There's a little flock of Llamas near me. Suppose they'd rent one of them out???

Quote:

The IRS stated that the answer he gave was unacceptable.

The man responded back, "Who did I leave out?"

How very true. It's so very true, that it's funny. A lot of the time, when I get frustrated, I laugh instead of cry.
The part that bugs me most is the 650 idiots in Washington. They're well paid, do next to nothing except fight each other and fund raise for the next election.
Let's get the money out of elections.

Note to self: I will never, never, never break open an egg after hatch completion to check to see why they didn't hatch until 48 hours after last hatch. I killed a chick today.

Oh, that's painful. I've done it. I opened an egg I was sure was on day 24 and there was a live chick about to hatch. From that point on, they stay till about day 25 or so. I can't see into them anyway.

I will put that in my mental file along with keeping me separate during quarantine since I killed my favorite hen and got my whole flock sick by not doing the quarantined birds last and washing and changing. So sorry.

That too.

People pay for manure! Chicken manure makes great fertilizer if you let it age for a year; otherwise, it's too "hot" to use. Rabbit manure can be used right out of the rabbit. I've known of people that built rabbit hutches in their garden

You can put virtually any kind of manure directly on asparagus beds. That's about it though.

 

[flocktastic]

My Great-Grandma Henson was a retired school teacher from Arkansas. She used to tell us great-grandkids that your brain is a muscle and if you don't use it daily it will get limp and weak. Everyday she would work the New York Times crossword puzzle. She died at 96 and it wasn't until her health failed her at 95 that she lost her edge. I run into people that I grew up with and find myself wondering when did they check their brain? They can only converse about football and laundry soap (just the women) and clothes or the most boring (to my mind) TV shows in existence. Some of them were A and B students in high school. They have no curiosity left. No desire to learn a new thing. I have to work to control myself and not scream and run from the room.

I don't watch much TV and when I do, I like watching educational documentaries and the like. (In fact hubs and I have been watching that newer Morgan Freeman one "The Story of God" and it's really interesting!)

Anyway, I encourage our kids to always be learning - when they ask something I don't have the answer for, we look it up and often times it might be YouTube so we can get an explanation and a visual (we do have a ton of books in our house too but some don't cover things like what my daughter asked recently..."How do jellyfish poop??" ) LOL...we watched a video about jellyfish and read an article online about how jellyfish are the kinds of organisms which they eat and also excrete waste through the same orifice...(now you know if you didn't - you're welcome!

)

And on Sunday we watched some videos about killer whales vs great whites because my son didn't think anything could kill a great white. I love learning with them...I think it should never stop!

 

[HenHoneyGirl]

Hey guys! How's life? The babies I got from cackle are all doing great. I went ahead and got a small bag of medicated feed that was supposed to help with coccidiosis for them after two turkey chicks and two hicken chicks died for no apparent reason. I think in the future if I get more hatchery chicks I'll use medicated feed for the first week or two. The babies got moved outside yesterday and they love it! And so far the integration between my 7 week old chicks and my ten weekers is going okay! Only some chases and some roosting squabbles have occurred. Spot the injured.chick is back with his flock too and doing fine! My spitzhauben chicks are so cute!!!! I think I'm gonna love having chrested chicks around! I just hope my pens are escape proof enough for them, I hear they're great fliers.

 

[Akrnaf2]

My Great-Grandma Henson was a retired school teacher from Arkansas. She used to tell us great-grandkids that your brain is a muscle and if you don't use it daily it will get limp and weak. Everyday she would work the New York Times crossword puzzle. She died at 96 and it wasn't until her health failed her at 95 that she lost her edge. I run into people that I grew up with and find myself wondering when did they check their brain? They can only converse about football and laundry soap (just the women) and clothes or the most boring (to my mind) TV shows in existence. Some of them were A and B students in high school. They have no curiosity left. No desire to learn a new thing. I have to work to control myself and not scream and run from the room.

I don't watch much TV and when I do, I like watching educational documentaries and the like. (In fact hubs and I have been watching that newer Morgan Freeman one "The Story of God" and it's really interesting!)

Anyway, I encourage our kids to always be learning - when they ask something I don't have the answer for, we look it up and often times it might be YouTube so we can get an explanation and a visual (we do have a ton of books in our house too but some don't cover things like what my daughter asked recently..."How do jellyfish poop??" ) LOL...we watched a video about jellyfish and read an article online about how jellyfish are the kinds of organisms which they eat and also excrete waste through the same orifice...(now you know if you didn't - you're welcome!

)

And on Sunday we watched some videos about killer whales vs great whites because my son didn't think anything could kill a great white. I love learning with them...I think it should never stop!

We also got it in National geographic chanel.
The first animals class that have a 2 opening digestive tract are the Echinodermata the see urchin, star ect. Wich are considered the predecessor of vertebrae.
All the other primitive class have one opening. ( sponges, cnidaria ect.)
( my students call me Bennipedia )
I belive that a day that passed without learning a new thing is a wasted day!
Today I learned from were the word "mile" came from, do you know?don't Google it!

 

[flocktastic]

We also got it in National geographic chanel.

Yes! I love that channel...& Discovery too!

 

[HenHoneyGirl]

People pay for manure! Chicken manure makes great fertilizer if you let it age for a year; otherwise, it's too "hot" to use. Rabbit manure can be used right out of the rabbit. I've known of people that built rabbit hutches in their garden

That's what I'm hoping! I'm composting some right now I hope I can sell some next year. Another way for the chickens to pay for their upkeep!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Hey guys! How's life? The babies I got from cackle are all doing great. I went ahead and got a small bag of medicated feed that was supposed to help with coccidiosis for them after two turkey chicks and two hicken chicks died for no apparent reason. I think in the future if I get more hatchery chicks I'll use medicated feed for the first week or two. The babies got moved outside yesterday and they love it! And so far the integration between my 7 week old chicks and my ten weekers is going okay! Only some chases and some roosting squabbles have occurred. Spot the injured.chick is back with his flock too and doing fine! My spitzhauben chicks are so cute!!!! I think I'm gonna love having chrested chicks around! I just hope my pens are escape proof enough for them, I hear they're great fliers.

Coccidia is a protozoa that chickens can't pick up till they have contact with the soil. Medicated feed, if used, shouldn't be necessary while the chicks are still in an indoor brooder. The effect of amprolium in medicated feed is only while the coccidia is in the digestive tract. It is a thiamine blocker that mimics thiamine. The coccidia ingest the amprolium and starve from malnutrition. Using it for the first week or 2 won't help.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

I like animal planet

 

[Akrnaf2]

We also got it in National geographic chanel.

Yes! I love that channel...& Discovery too!

Yes, and all their derived, like NG wild, ect.